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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQKF9QWY-g]Be Divergent song + music video from Mike Adams the Health Ranger
TheHealthRanger | Published on Jun 10, 2014
The newest song + music video from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, called “Be Divergent.”
This socially-conscious music encourages diversity, creative thinking and individuality. It’s all part of the Health Ranger’s effort to entertain and uplift society with positive messages.
www.NaturalNews.com/Awakenings
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You wanna learn something about yourself?
You’re more powerful than you could ever imagine
Listen up
Did you ever have a new idea?
Did you ever seek a new frontier?
Did you ever try to question something
Invent something, create something?
Did you notice how they keep you down
Friends shove your mind into the ground
“You can’t do it!” they scream ‘cuz your ideas are
So unique they make them look weak
Just think for yourself. Think for yourself
Think for yourself, be divergent, be divergent
Think for yourself. Don’t be like everyone else
Think for yourself, be divergent, be divergent
Hey, you have to conform
Fit in, be average, worship the norm
Go with the flow like everyone else
And you can be popular just don’t be yourself
If you had dreams, sink ’em in the deep end
Dream if you want, but only when you’re sleepin’
In the real world, you wanna get by,
Live your life as a lie and forget that you can fly
Yeah, you wanna be accepted, right?
So you crush your own mind without even a fight
You put your dreams on the shelf
And you wake up each day pretending to be someone else
I’m not sayin’ don’t be polite
But don’t let the masses burn out your heart light
You’ve got one life to live as YOU
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do
All this time, they told you be yourself
But then they scold you when you’re not like everyone else
It’s all illusion their expectations are so unkind
Don’t let them silence your beautiful mind
It’s time to throw off those mental chains
Be strange be the change you want to see in the world
That’s what Gandhi said with a gun to his head
But he didn’t back down and he didn’t give in
He was true to his dreams, strength from within
Said no to authority persecution
And ignited a global peace revolution
One day at a time
Don’t listen to those who try to get you down
Don’t surrender to hopelessness and helplessness
You are a divine being!
We all have the power of global transformation
But systems of control don’t want you to stumble upon that realization
They know that if you discover who you truly are
You might just go too far
And be divergent
I finally saw Elysium. Alex is right. This movie really is pure propaganda, excellently done — very powerful!
This first video, below, is especially good, and I start with two key quotes, the nun (giving the spiritual mandate — a mission from God) and Spider, both speaking to Max (Matt Damon):
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Nun: “Sometimes in life we don’t understand why things are the way they are. But I know one thing. I know you are special. You will do something very important one day. Something you were born for.”
Spider: “Open the borders. Make everyone a citizen of Elysium.”
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ELYSIUM: ONE OF THE MOST RACIST FILMS IN HISTORY: MOVIE REVIEW
Infowars.com
August 10, 2013
Despite the overt allusions to class warfare and a focus on a tarnished and out-moded socialist narrative of rich-vs-poor, Elysium is primarily about immigration “reform” and the stalled effort in Congress to pass legislation legalizing millions of illegal aliens. Idealized and romanticized pet liberal causes come in second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIox2YJ89iM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Utce7v_LUElysium Propaganda Dissected
TheAlexJonesChannel | Published on Aug 9, 2013
Despite the overt allusions to class warfare and a focus on a tarnished and out-moded socialist narrative of rich-vs-poor, Elysium is primarily about immigration “reform” and the stalled effort in Congress to pass legislation legalizing millions of illegal aliens. Idealized and romanticized pet liberal causes come in second.
Elysium producer Simon Kinberg promised the film will address “immigration, health care, and class issues.” Hollywood liberals know glitzy, action-packed Hollywood films and television shows are the most effective delivery vehicle for pushing their neo-Marxist idealism on the masses. “If you think you’re actually going to make a difference or change anything, you’re on pretty dangerous thin ice. But you can put ideas in there that are real issues that are happening in the world,” Kinberg told Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan in April.
Kinberg led off with immigration — and that topic is at the very core of the film’s message.
James Hirsen summarizes Elysium’s plot-line:
Wealthy elitists live in a place called Elysium, which incidentally is another name for the Elysian Fields, an Ancient Greek conception of the afterlife. It is a pristine utopia housed in a massive high-tech space station, where sprawling mansions abound and medical technologies have advanced to the point that all diseases are met with an instant cure.
Those who are unfortunate enough to be located outside of the Elysium realm must endure an overpopulated, poverty stricken, crime ridden, disease-filled world positioned far below the orbiting “Valhalla” in the sky.
Residents of Elysium vigorously enforce anti-immigration laws to keep the earthbound masses from entering their immaculate biosphere.
The film will undoubtedly rekindle immigration “reform,” legislation critical to the ultimate success of the globalist effort to destroy America and usher in an authoritarian one-world government and planet-wide serfdom enforced by a high-tech surveillance and police state.
“People in this country have swallowed the blue pill.”
–George Humphrey on The Alex Jones Show, 6/9/14
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwY2HKAXugACensored News Network
Published on Jun 7, 2014
Gone are the days when news personalities warned you of potential graphic content, now footage is delayed if its ever aired at all. What’s the point of around the clock news coverage if it isn’t live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIpIf5F6ms18 “Conspiracy Theories” That Were Proven True
“Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community propose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”
– David Rockefeller, New York Times, 1973
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These TWO VIDEOS contain most of Mia’s interview with Jeff Rense.
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“Keep an eye out for the darkening of the lips…. Cocaine is a vasoconstricter. It constricts the blood flow. So it gets that purply look. … He should be on Jerry Springer’s Show, not in the White House.”
– Mia Marie Pope
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2krC_DsLnI
Jeff Rense & Mia Pope – Barry Soetoro The Pathological Liar
Jeff Rense | Published on Nov 15, 2013
Clip from November 12, 2013 – guest Mia Pope on the Jeff Rense Program. Full program available in Archives at http://www.renseradio.com/signup.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBep05oWbpA
Mia Pope Shocking Revelations Obama Gay, Druggie In Hawaii High School P3
Alex JJ | Published on Nov 13, 2013
Barack Obama Gay & druggie in Hawaii high school.
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HILLARY CLINTON: WARMONGER FOR THE BANKSTER ELITE
Next president owned by the same banks and corporations as Obama and Bush
by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 5, 2014
Unfortunately, it takes the media mouthpiece of the Russian government to tell the truth about Hillary Clinton and the War Party.
You’ll never get the truth from the U.S. government’s media mouthpiece who self-righteously and disingenuously claim they are independent and “fair and balanced” (cue laugh track).
Clinton, of course, is no different than your garden variety Republican, including the any number of neocons. All of them are propped up by the military-industrial-intelligence complex and the banksters who run the show and who laughingly pretend we all live in a pluralistic democracy. Of course, anybody who has more than two brain cells to rub together and is not in serious denial knows we live in an authoritarian plutocracy run for the sake of a small clique of mega-rich and powerful global internationalists.
Abby Martin presents:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-jQFKyeeI
Clinton will be the Democrat contender for the position of teleprompter reader. Jeb Bush will probably be the Republican choice to play the political equivalent of musical chairs. The ruling elite has decided it wants to stick with the Bush-Clinton dynasty for the foreseeable future.
Hillary is preferable because the elite are keen on making sure all criticism and political activism is either marginalized or written off as hatred and thus not only dismissible, but worthy of a violent response by government. Criticism of Hillary will be deemed sexist the same way serious criticism of Obama is now considered racist.
In addition, Hillary’s confrontational and ugly personality will be described as an admirable attribute indicative of a strong leader the same way the psychopathic personalities of her male counterparts are described as the attribute of masters of statecraft (the word is synonymous with bombing small helpless nations and bailing out transnational banks).
It really is too bad RT had to run this piece. The Russian government, of course, is as authoritarian and violent, and in some instance more so, than the government ruling the United States. Anti-Russian propaganda disseminated by alphabet networks owned and operated by an interlocking directorship dominated banks and transnational corporations point out Russia’s flaws on a daily basis.
Everything we see on television, an increasingly on the internet, “often surpasses expectations of media subservience to government propaganda,” as Edward S. Herman noted nearly two decades ago. Only the alternative media, which naturally suffers from its own flaws, is free to tell the truth.
As an arm of the state, RT has its own propaganda agenda. Part of that agenda is pointing out the indisputable fact the U.S. government is owned and operated by banks and large corporations. For pointing out what the corporate media in this country is forbidden to mention, we can be thankful. On the other hand, we should be wary and mistrustful of RT and any other propaganda organ of the state.
“War is coming. I think the average American finds it difficult to believe that the same sort of devastating war that we’re seeing that is destroying Syria, which is 3-4,000 years old. Look at the pictures of those cities over in Syria, which are being destroyed today. Remember, of course that your government is financing the Islamic terrorists that are killing the Christians, certainly, raping the Christian women, killing the little Christian children.
They’ve killed over 162,000 Syrian civilians. And does anybody in America really care? Well, I do. And I hope many of our listeners do.
And I hope that you understand that God is just, and certainly His justice will not sleep forever. I think He’s going to bring judgment on America — not because what our good people are doing. It’s just because they’re so busy having the good life. They’re not involved in what’s going on.
And of course, they’ve changed the music. They’ve changed the message of our Christian churches.
And the Christian churches, rather than taking a stand against these terrible things that are happening, and the terrible atrocities that we are funding throughout the world, where they’re killing civilians. We’re funding it with our tax money. Why, of course, the church is silent, absolutely silent.
– Dr. Stanley Monteith on Radio Liberty, 6/5/14 hour 2
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Spunky, insightful lady!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwhmJGWySoInterview With a Bilderberger! – Julia Tourianski on The Corbett Report
corbettreport | Published on Jun 3, 2014
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=9377
It’s not every day you get the chance to have a frank, public discussion with a Bilderberg attendee on camera, but that’s exactly what happened to Julia Tourianski of BraveTheWorld.com at this year’s Bilderberg conference in Copenhagen. Today she joins us on The Corbett Report to discuss her surprise conversation with Diederik Samsom, Dutch parliament leader, and dissect what we learned from the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBMOD11kxcBilderberg Member Double-Speaks to Protestors
BraveTheWorld | Published on Jun 1, 2014
Samsom, Diederik M. Parliamentary Leader PvdA (Labour Party) came out to engage the caged protestors. Paul Joseph Watson of InfoWars and I caught him on his way over.
New World Order Freudian Slip: 4:05
Double-Speak about their non-disclosure agreement: 24:13
Backward democratic process….voting fluoride out of our water after the fact: 25:48
Things “covered”: privacy, the Bilderberg agenda, renewable energy, bitcoin and Peter Thiel, world government, democracy, policy making in Brussels, climate change (global warming), Africa, puppet presidents, taxes, monarchy, republic, fluoride, voting process, freedom.
*To clarify: I talk about moving towards a republic in this because I felt preaching Anarchism to a political puppet would have resulted in him brushing me off as insane. I wanted a long discourse. And a republic would be a step in the right direction.
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Brilliant list — a balance to G. Edward Griffin’s analysis, linked below.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTgBzwfmadMThe Antichrist will be a Democrat
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Israel is run by the globalists too. They’re leading the way for this aspect of the Mark of the Beast.
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From: endoftheamericandream.com
Government Plan Would Transform Israel Into The World’s First Cashless Society
By Michael Snyder, on May 26th, 2014
Will Israel be the first cashless society on the entire planet? A committee chaired by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff has come up with a three phase plan to “all but do away with cash transactions in Israel”. Individuals and businesses would still be permitted to conduct cash transactions in small amounts (at least initially), but the eventual goal is to force Israeli citizens to conduct as much business as possible using electronic forms of payment. In fact, it has been reported that Israeli officials believe that “cash is bad” because it fuels the underground economy and allows people to avoid paying taxes.
100% Blackout on Bilderberg 2014 in American Mainstream Media
Interesting how few people know — the key to the globalists’ success.
Compare the willfully ignorant guy (3:30-minute) to the open-to-the-truth guy at the end.
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Have You Heard of the Bilderberg Group? Man on the Street Survey
Published on Feb 24, 2014
Mark Dice asks random people on the street if they’ve heard of the Bilderberg Group, and keeps asking until he finds someone who has. How many people did he have to ask before finally finding someone who knows about them? Have a look and find out!
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“Maintaining national sovereignty is not racist.”
– John B. Wells on Caravan to Midnight, 5/29/14
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
– Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976
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Actually, the CIA was involved in 9/11 and the Boston bombings. See my links, below.
Snowden did very well in the interview, but too much editing by NBC. And then the presstitute pundits that shamelessly pushed the police state in the post-debate online broadcast — horribly disgusting!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoNC3QIcQoNBC Censors Edward Snowden’s 9/11 Comments
Published on May 30, 2014
Statements made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden regarding the 9/11 terror attacks were edited out of his NBC Nightly News interview with Brian Williams Wednesday in what appears to be an attempt to bolster legitimacy for the agency’s controversial surveillance programs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6C33RadOucBilderberg Unmasked
Published on May 29, 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzrA7IcSu0Bilderberg 2014: “Conspiracy Theorists Were Right”
Published on May 29, 2014
BILDERBERG FILES CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Bilderberg member Ed Balls embarrassed for failing to produce credentials
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | MAY 30, 2014
Infowars captured Bilderberg member Ed Balls’ conference files on camera during a security mix up when Balls couldn’t find his pass to enter the Marriott in Copenhagen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r_gxsmEEZ8
The sheer volume of files disproves the notion that Bilderberg is a mere talking shop. Balls, who is the current British Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, was carrying a huge bag stacked with papers.
“That’s my name, I’m on the list to attend,” says Balls as he handed his passport to the officer. He was eventually allowed to enter the Marriott after being escorted by police.
The incident was a rare sight because Bilderberg members are normally whisked into the hotel quickly with press being kept well back.
Bilderberg has proved to be an embarrassment for Balls two years in a row. Last year, he was confronted about the secretive confab by an Infowars reporter inside the BBC studios in London.
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From: Good Fight Ministries’ Facebook post
Liberty University decided that having Glenn Beck, a Mormon, give its convocation speech really isn’t all that big of a deal. In an email response sent from the office of Johnnie Moore, senior vice-president for communications and assistant to the president at Liberty, it was said that The Liberty University Convocation is not a church service, so having a mormon preaching mormon doctrines is completely ok! And according to Moore, Glenn Beck might be born again!
“By the way, many conservative evangelical leaders who are closer to Beck than me have told me that they believe Beck has had a born again experience recently.”
So what kind of message did Mr. Beck, who was said to have a born again experience recently, preach to the graduating class? One filled with old religious relics and Mormon doctrine. From an original William Tyndale Bible, to a pocket watch that supposedly was with Joseph Smith when he was killed. Beck painted the picture of Joseph Smith as a martyr of the faith, and one to look up to. Beck even referred to the unbiblical Mormon doctrine of The Council of Heaven, in which all pre-existing human souls are in heaven before being sent down to earth for a “divine purpose”. He then went on to state:
“I share your faith. I am from a different denomination. And a denomination that I’m sure can make many people at Liberty uncomfortable—I’m a Mormon—but I share your faith in the atonement of the Savior Jesus Christ.”
I’m sorry Mr. Beck, but the Jesus of the Bible is not the same Jesus of the Mormon faith. He is not the brother of Lucifer. He is not simply another god as your former prophet Bringham Young said, “How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods…” (Journal of Discourses 7:333).
“The further a society drifts from truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it.”
– George Orwell
From: RedLetterChristians
Three Questions for Memorial Day
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As Memorial Day is celebrated, is memory really what is encouraged or is it just an exercise in imagining? In other words, can we tell the truth on Memorial Day? While some truth is given voice on this solemn occasion, there are other important truths that are distorted in the telling or pushed from memory altogether. This is the case, not just in community Memorial Day services, but in churches that allow a Memorial Day focus to be introduced into worship. While I find the inclusion of this nationalist holiday in worship a wholly inappropriate, theologically unjustifiable practice, I find it doubly disturbing that from what I have seen churches do little to introduce much needed truth to the occasion.
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Right remembering of the dead is a moral undertaking. It shows respect for the departed and displays sympathy for family members and friends left behind. But untruthful memorials serve other purposes, sometimes masking truth and glorifying that which should not be glorified. I think there are some questions we should ask as Memorial Day approaches.
(1) Can we remember without attributing reasons for war that aren’t in fact the real reasons? To celebrate Memorial Day by claiming soldiers died that we might be free is misleading. The real causes behind most wars have had little to do with protecting freedom of speech or assembly or worship. Major General Smedley Butler, USMC , declared, “Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die.… No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits.” Can we remember in a way that doesn’t falsify the causes of war, justify national self-righteousness, or turn Memorial Day into a recruiting tool to entice the young to enter the armed forces?
(2) Can we remember the innocent victims of war, even as we remember those who died while fighting? The majority of people who die in wars are not combatants. It is certainly not the case that sufficient care is taken by the military to avoid civilian deaths or that investigations of the deaths of the innocent are always undertaken. For those who believe otherwise, I highly recommend the viewing of the critically acclaimed, Academy Award nominated documentary Dirty Wars. Far too many people have suffered at the hands of the American military who have engaged in no armed hostilities. Yet they are maimed and killed, often on ill-founded suspicions. Remembering these men, women, and children can help us remember rightly on Memorial Day.
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(3) Can we remember without the “us versus them” factor that is inevitable when we honor “our” war dead? Memorial Day was formerly known as Decoration Day and it served as an occasion to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. By including the war dead on both sides of the conflict, the day was used to affirm unity rather than reinforce division. The sacrifice of the soldiers was acknowledged but one side was not glorified over the other. Can we remember those who died in war without reinforcing nationalism? Perhaps if all who died on battlefields were commemorated on Memorial Day –and not just Americans- the occasion might foster something greater than national unity: a global unity rooted in an acknowledgment of the tragedy of war.
Those Americans who suffered and died in war ought to be remembered. The grave difficulties endured by of those who faced armed conflict and lost their lives should be recognized. The soldiers’ best intentions in allowing themselves to be put in harm’s way –regardless of the actual reasons for war- deserve to be honored. But in the process, war itself should not be honored, the reasons for war whitewashed, nor should the suffering and the deaths of others be ignored. Rather “putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbor” (Ephesians 4:25).
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