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*Editor’s
note: Substitute the name of a well-known brand of children’s
interlocking blocks whenever you see the word “L*go”. It’s better to not
use a trademarked name without the owner’s permission.
Whenever the corporate media fails to take stock
of how much the public knows already—it’s time to watch the L*go blocks.
Videos which entertain while revealing very real things
happening in the world today and the consequences they bring.
How can something as simple as children’s stacking bricks
bring about such damning revelations and make these horrors stick
in the minds of oh-so-many folks from oh-so-many backgrounds
when our Zionist masters own almost every media outlet around?
Well, you and I know that truth is truth and nothing else can shock
we genocide-hardened influencers who’ve been working ‘round the clock
exposing the oligarchs’ control of oil fields and wanting us all dead
because we recognize their evil greed and want their profit margins turned red.
So, it’s time to watch another video—one that makes those bastards sick
because we make good fun of them by transforming them into L*go brick
while we tell everyone around the world that it’s not too hard on our part
to build tyrants out of plastic blocks because both have nothing close to a heart.
The moral of this story then isn’t something you can mock
if you know our world works only for those who own tons of corporate stock
as well as every prince and president and their infernal war machines, too
because the world according to L*go bricks was always built for them—not you.
I
really enjoy watching these trending videos populated with L*go brick
characters who are instantly recognizable by their well-known traits and
actions. Long ago, I was a film student, and I wrote a paper on how the
moving image was first used successfully as a propaganda medium during
World War I. Little did I know then that the moving image (now in the
form of short AI-animated videos) would become such an effective way to
spread an anti-war message worldwide.
These
videos are possibly the best method ever devised to reach
Americans/Westerners at a level that most can understand—and yet they
don’t talk down to their audience. Their powerful images and very
singable songs get to the heart of the matter while opening the mind to
the possibility that everything we’ve been taught about our society is
wrong, totally wrong.
Amazingly,
these short L*go animations expose the evils of the capitalist system
and its endless war machine that generate profits for our ruling masters
(a.k.a. billionaires or oligarchs), and they do so in a way that is
both enlightening and frightening. They reveal what’s been going on
behind the scenes for decades (if not centuries) in regard to how our
rulers really see us, the workers, the peasants or peons. It’s scary how
much the super-wealthy don’t give a sh*t about how their actions are
destroying our planet and our children’s futures.
I like these L*go videos (and other related videos) so much that I started a page of video links for ease of sharing. Here are a rundown of a few of my favorite videos and the lessons they can teach us...
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Farmer A owned a lovely apple tree that stood a couple of feet away from the edge of Farmer B’s land. Sometimes fruit would fall from the tree’s branches and land on Farmer B’s property. Farmer A was okay with Farmer B keeping the apples and told him so, but Farmer B didn’t want them. Farmer B secretly hated apples and despised how they rolled into his field, and he became jealous of how other farmers admired the quality of Farmer A’s apples.
One day when Farmer A was away Farmer B took an ax and crossed over to Farmer A’s field. He chopped down the apple tree and carted away all the fruit and wood. When Farmer A returned home, he was shocked and saddened to see his apple tree gone. When he asked Farmer B what had happened to the tree, Farmer B told him, “You must have chopped down your own apple tree so you could blame it on me. You’re trying to make me look bad.” Farmer A simply bowed his head sadly and said, “Yeah, right.”
No other farmer in the area believed Farmer A would ever do such a terrible thing, especially because what appeared to be Farmer B’s footprints were found in the mud near the apple tree's stump. But Farmer B kept insisting and insisting that Farmer A was to blame for his tree's demise. Farmer B even talked to the local press about how crazy Farmer A was and how he chopped down his own apple tree to make Farmer B appear to be a liar. Eventually everyone believed Farmer B’s story because it was too hard to argue with him, and they were afraid he’d cross over into their fields and chop down their apple trees as well.
This
silly parable is my way to illustrate how the US government believes how We the Little People, the workers,
think.
We’re pretty stupid in
their opinion.
We’re supposed to believe incredible statements
as “Putin blew up his
own Nord Stream pipelines!” and
“Nuclear war is winnable!”
The
US government thinks we’re not
smart
enough to
look at the evidence
and come to our own logical conclusions.
Working class Americans are not without intelligence. That's why the mainstream media is running propaganda puff pieces night and day. So, in order to exercise your brains, here
are some facts for
your consideration:
On
February 7, two and a half weeks before Russia launched its
intervention in Ukraine, President Biden told a news
conference at the White House, “If Russia invades,
then there will be no longer a Nord Stream II.” An ABC News
reporter asked in response, “But how will you do that, exactly,
since the project is in Germany’s control?” Biden stumbled
briefly before replying, “I promise you, we will be able to do
that.”
We
cannot yet claim any certainty as to who is responsible for the four
undersea explosions near Bornholm, a Danish island hard by Germany’s
Baltic Sea coast. Let us not forget this. But we have a motive, a
beneficiary, and a very considerable gathering of persuasive
circumstantial evidence indicating that the operation, which
required sophisticated undersea technology and involved devices with
the explosive power of 1,100 pounds of dynamite, was the work of the
US. in apparent collaboration with Denmark, if not also Germany.
Numerous
reports detailing this evidence, all of them carried in independent
media, indicate that the US. Navy was active in the area of the
explosions shortly before they occurred. This fleet reportedly
included the U.S.S. Kearsarge, which carries unmanned submarines
capable of planting undersea explosives. Satellite tracking
indicates the presence, shortly before the explosions, of US.
military helicopters over the zones where the devices detonated.
So
the
US
has
the means, the motive, and our president even gave the
world
a hint back
in February
that the US might shut down the Nord Stream pipelines at
some point.
Yet, the mainstream media is running stories about how “crazy Putin”
blew up these
very expensive LNG pipelines instead of simply switching them off and stopping
all sales to the EU.
Even more damning evidence is that a newpipeline
from Norway to
Denmark
to Poland
has just opened, and
it’s ready
to send LNG throughout
Europe from
American-friendly
fossil
fuel corporations (who’ll
probably charge more than the
Russians
did).
These
suspicious attacks came mere hours before NATO members Norway,
Denmark, and Poland officially opened their own natural gas
pipeline, called the
Baltic Pipe, which was built with European Union funding in
order to compete with Nord Stream.
The
timing of
this new Baltic
pipeline
opening is
so coincidental to be laughable. They
must really think
we’re missing a few brain cells not to put two and two together and
come up with five. When
you can’t compete on prices for natural gas, you simply blow up
your competitor’s pipeline or so it
seems.
And the American military-industrial-Congressional complex has been
itching to stick it to Putin from day one of this proxy war, haven’t
they? What better way to make your point and make a lot of profits for fossil fuel stock holders?
“Gaslighting”
is a
term for this game
oftrying
to put a falsehood over on another. When
you are being gaslighted, you're told not to trust the evidence of your own eyes. Just like
Farmer B insisting Farmer A chopped down his own tree, a person who has been gaslighted
may come to believe an outright lie since no one will admit they’re lying and they'll keep insisting your beliefs and instincts are just plain wrong.
Americans
learned a few months ago that
we have our
very own “Ministry of Truth” propaganda bureau, but these latest
bald-faced lies seem too crude to have been crafted by masters of the
fine propaganda
arts. Maybe they’re all on vacation?
Still, the US government propagandists will keep trying to sell a proxy war to control a pipeline that no ordinary person asked for or wanted. $65 billion in arms deals and many deaths later, it ranks at the very bottom of a recent Gallup poll of what Americans are most concerned about. Caitlin Johnstone puts it all so eloquently:
If your proxy war demands nonstop perception management at maximum
aggression to manufacture public consent for it, your proxy war is
probably immoral and bad. If maintaining public support for a proxy war
requires nonstop PR spin, aggressive propaganda from the mainstream news
media, banning of Russian media, and giant troll information ops
amplified by think tanks and government agencies, it probably shouldn't
have public support. --A Good and Righteous Proxy War Wouldn't Need Such Cartoonish PR
The amateur Twitter bots name-call people when the weaknesses of their false narrative is made apparent, and they have no hard facts to back their story up. If you can think for yourself and say you're not falling for such nonsense, you might be called a "Putin puppet". More and more frequently if you state that you're not pro-war on a social platform, you'll be called a "Russia lover" instead of simply a pacifist or peace-lover. No, you must be for using nuclear weapons first, according to a recent statement made by Ukrainian President Zelensky. It's sad but predictable behavior from those who have been brainwashed into "learning to love the bomb" as the character of Dr. Strangelove admitted to in the classic Stanley Kubrick film of the same name.
I guess the Golden Rule and loving your neighbor as yourself aren't seen as shining virtues in the West anymore? Maybe our government is hoping nuclear winter will cancel out the climate emergency?
This
week’s announcement by President Biden that he would pardonthose charged with federal
charges
for simple marijuana possession is another weak
gaslighting
attempt to change the public's opinion before
the midterms.
Most marijuana possession charges are made at the
state
level,
not
the federal, so
there’s
practically no one to
pardon. Federal agents charge people for drug trafficking
large amounts, not a joint or two. If
Biden really wanted to legalize marijuana, he could have
ittaken
off the federal
drug
schedule, making it like tobacco and alcohol. But Biden is going to leave that decision up to the FDA he
said, so nothing substantial will happen anytime soon.
Did he really think we’d
fall for that stunt?
Americans
need to trust their instincts and continue to use their gray-matter
if they want to survive under this gaslighting government. Blowing up LNG pipelines that belong to a
fellow nuclear power is an open invitation to start a nuclear war.
Destroying trade and trust with Europe in order to rake in fossil fuel profits this winter isn't a kind or intelligent move. The distractions of the midterm elections and non-existent marijuana pardons shouldn't persuade us from considering
this
potentially end-of-the-world
scenario our self-centered political leaders have put us all in. We
are smarter than they think--much, much smarter.
I think we're smart enough to let those in
Washington DC know that we’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to
take their gaslighting anymore. We see through the spell cast by the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and we understand just how much money goes into politicians pockets to legislate the way that they do. (It's more than $1 billion in the 2022 midterm elections alone!) We'll let our votes do the talking in the
midterms. We'll think independently of the propaganda. We'll vote outside the box of the status quo.
We'll let those in the establishment parties know that we’re intelligent
enough to know that nuclear war is not winnable and it's never worth risking for any amount of profits because we are smarter than they think. Much smarter.
Stephen F. Cohen Provides Clarity on NATO Expansion and Russia More than 10 Years Ago (video)
People who aren't gravely concerned about the rapidly escalating brinkmanship between the US and Russia simply have not spent enough time researching the facts and contemplating the reality of what nuclear war would mean. Their composure comes solely from psychological avoidance.
Not one member of The Squad is calling for a negotiated peace to end a war that is inching us closer to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Not. Fucking. One.
The World According To L*go Videos
