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July 16, 2008 at 08:41:09

Frightened and Demoralized - by Design?

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Frightened and Demoralized "" by Design?

Ibrahim Turner

If you take the temperature of the public who are fed up with war crimes, lies and threats of terrorist attacks, the threats of world war three, and the rising food and oil prices, and wonder what the hell is going on, you could be forgiven if you think that these forces manipulating the world populations are invincible and that you can't do anything about it, short of revolution.

Now many say that 9-11 was an inside job and that the London 7/7 tube train bombings had so many similarities, like simultaneous "security exercises" going on, just like on 9/11, that it too was a false flag operation. Be that as it may, the "climate" of constant "terrorist alarms" some real, some obviously fabricated with arrests, which eventually lead to the suspects being released, or charged with small "unrelated to terrorism" charges. This "climate of fear" is being constantly raised and the MSM is full of threatening opeds about war with Iran, questions about medical drugs being unsafe, GM foods being foisted everywhere as a "solution" to the food crisis, WWIII, police state legislation, arrests of protesters, all this produces in many people is a sense of impending doom.

Is this by design? Are the manipulators of public opinion doing all this with something specific in mind? If that is the case, what is the result they want?

I'll tell you what the public opinion manipulators don't want. They don't want educated, healthy, confident people thinking for themselves. You can find all sorts of apparently kooky ideas on the Internet, from poisoning the populations with Aspartame sweetener, fluoride in the water impairing intelligence, chem trails seeding the air with heavy metals, to excessive vaccinations of young babies (with a view to what?), weather and earthquake manipulation, rising temperatures and melting icecaps blamed on man-made global warming. Wherever you look, there is something to be worried about besides the high cost of gas. Why is that?

Are all these things to worry about real, or some of them? And what effect does that have on you? Are you thoroughly demoralized and depressed enough yet?

Playing on your insecurity deep down inside is easy for these people. Just talk about "security" as if it can be given to you by the "authorities" enough and you will clamour for more security. And they will give it to you. The FISA spying bill will track the terrorists and you will be able to sleep easy, right? If you still don't feel safe, then efficient Blackwater types, helped along by the tazer-wielding police, will round up the dissidents into already built and staffed camps. Why do you think that Bin Laden, who died in 2001/2, reported by some credible sources, has not been published in the MSM? Because he is the boogey man who is of use to manipulate the fearful into more hiding in the cupboard denial.

The people who are the driving force behind all this fearfulness know exactly what they are doing. Everyone who has observed and read widely about psychology knows that most people are afraid inside; yes even the strong blusterers, perhaps even more than the apparent quiet cowards. In one philosophical system it is manifested under the name of "inner considering." You want to say something but you are afraid of what people will think of you, so you do not say it, or you modify what you say, to put yourself in a better light. In the process, you keep your ego intact, safe and not open to criticism. That is the fear we all have deep down inside, acknowledged or not.

Of course there is the opposite idea called "outer considering" where you make the effort to put yourself in others' shoes. Do you think that from that position you would say the same things? Of course not. You would say what you have to say, with a view of taking into account the others' fears, and with an agenda to effect change in the situation in a positive way. But sadly most people operate from the inner-considering stance. They want to impress, they want to show how clever, intelligent or strong they are, and if confronted are usually outraged or claim they are misunderstood.

So given this psychological climate in the general population, you can see that it is very easy to frighten people, and if you pile on the bad news, you demoralize them all into the "it is too big for anyone to do anything about it" mind set. This is where we are, in spite of the many attempts for calls to do something, rallying calls to march, strike, protest, boycott, impeach, stop buying things and so on. And what is the usual result of these calls to do something? A few petitions garnering a few thousand signatures, or a few hundred protesters, with no apparent breakthrough to reach the millions of sleeping people, who wallow in the dog and pony show of the primaries and the run up to the elections. There is never anything substantial discussed by the presidential candidates, nor are any awkward questions allowed. It really is a circus of the absurd, pandering to the mistaken idea that voting gives the millions power.

I have written this because it has been on my mind for some time, but I do not have any solutions, none. Calls for the populations to wake up and smell the coffee fall on deaf ears, drowned out by the MSM trivia. They are too powerful, too wealthy, too entrenched to dislodge without a major awakening of the population, which seems to be off the agenda, at least for now in the runup to the circus show in November.

There is one person I have come across lately that has been saying things for twenty years, making predictions of what was going down, which have now been proved right. At the time of his beginning on a major TV show, he was ridiculed and ostracized, and suffered terribly along with this wife and children. He could not even walk down the street without being laughed and sniggered at, including his children at school. The benefit of all that, he says, is that he never worries about what people think any more. He is immune.

He also has no solutions, all he does is write books and give lectures, some of which are posted on the internet, presenting the information with the declaration to make of it what you will. His job is done, in getting the information out. Some of his ideas, although really well researched and verifiable, do sound a bit over the top even now, but considering the reaction that he got twenty years ago, when talking about a agenda by "hidden behind the politicians' real rulers" (which is now a common idea widely discussed), perhaps his time has come. He is British, was once a mainstream journalist until his "conversion" and his name is David Icke. He is but one among many, of course.

 

A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mauritania, Istanbul, Turkey and Morocco.

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In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

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Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

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I get the over all drift, but am disturbed by the apparent dismissing of the very real danger posed by aspartame in the population at large. It is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde, and thus, of course will do vast neurodegenerative damage to hundreds of millions, as it already has done damage. Just google RUMSFELD'S BIOWEAPON LEGACY, to get to the truth of how it was approved by the FDA, the crookedest and most sordid chapter in that agency's checkered history...finally, I have dozens of articles about this right here at opednews.

 Truly, Stephen Fox, Managing Editor Santa Fe Sun News 

by Stephen Fox (51 articles, 1 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 105 comments) on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 10:24:45 AM
 


A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

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ibrahim turnerA well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

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Sorry I did not want to disparage

the Aspartame thing, I have not researched it personally.
It was in a list of things which generally get labeled as 'conspiracy theories' by those who do not want us to know the truth about anything. Sorry if it caused offence.
You could do us all (and me) a favour if you read this by posting links to what you have.
thanks

by ibrahim turner (25 articles, 24 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 168 comments) on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:03:25 PM
 


A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

to see more of bio, click on member name

ibrahim turnerA well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

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Post links if you like

but clicking on your name and looking through your articles showed me that I was amiss, in the past for not reading any of the articles - don't know why, may be something to do with Hawaii in the titles.
there are so many articles on opednews that even tho I have much time I could not possibly read them all. I am guilty of ignoring the many articles you have posted about this, and I apologize.
Anyone reading this far down, should check it out, after all it contains things about Rumsfeld, who I would think, deserves further scrutiny than just the Iraq war mongering.

by ibrahim turner (25 articles, 24 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 168 comments) on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:31:26 PM
 

 

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