A Bombing, Illegal Surveillance Against us, and my Gratitude 🙏🌷

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International solidarity with Palestine and global Direct Action activists are still assessing the new situation since Israel bombed the solidarity ship to Gaza named "Conscience", just off the shores of Malta a few days ago. It's no wonder that some prefer to refer to the aggressor here as "Israhell".

The bombing and its surrounding events are closely related to our organization, Cyprus IndyMedia, and to me personally, by way of complicated history of illegal surveillance against us hidden in the shadows. Until recently.

A short summary of the recent events and more details [1]:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://timesofmalta.com/article/why-gazabound-aid-ship-attacked-near-malta.1109225

Video of the drone bombing attack here [2]:
■ Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHotRDIwWws

As you can tell, the news item was suppressed, or "under-reported", so you would not read or hear about it unless you were already informed and engaged in deliberate search for it.

Fortunately no one was killed in this attack. But the bombing is indicative of the attitude that Prime Minister Satanyahu has imposed on all efforts to help the Palestinian people: just like in the year 2010, when Israel illegally raided the unarmed Gaza Freedom Flotilla, killing ten people and wounding thirty - all of them on the solidarity ship "Mavi Marmara" - arresting about 600 people and seizing the six ships comprising the Flotilla.

Satanyahu's message is his willingness to bomb and kill any international activists attempting to bring food or medicine to Gaza.

The current situation is a lot more dangerous than it was in 2010 because Israel is now wholly engaged and committed to full-scale slaughter, extermination of the innocents, mayhem and genocide while THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.


There are more parallels to the 2010 story but I will only mention one here:

The Government of Cyprus, which at the time was in the hands of a "progressive", fake-leftist party named AKEL and President Christofias ENABLED the slaughter by cracking down on our Palestine solidarity networks that were based in the free part of Cyprus. Cyprus security forces physically chased away the Flotilla, forcing it to seek support from the Turkish Government in the illegally occupied part of Cyprus - Turkey had already completed an invasion, occupation, and ETHNIC CLEANSING of Cyprus, the same kind of ethnic cleansing that Satanyahu's Israel is attempting to carry out in Gaza:
■ "This is the Cyprus Police Helicopter..."
https://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-is-cyprus-police-helicopter.html

Malta now seems to be involved in some similar game, oscillating between "supporting" and repulsing the solidarity Ship to Gaza, dissembling and prevaricating as its Government attempts to conceal a possible collaboration with the zionist forces (US and Israel) acting together on a global scale.


The events leading up to the slaughter of the international solidarity activists in 2010 included a tremendous amount of espionage, illegal surveillance, sabotage, and co-ordination by the US /State Department /CIA and Israhell /Mossad /Shin Bet security services, with some tiny "players" like the fake-leftist Government of Cyprus during that period.

Our activist networks for the Ships to Gaza /Fleet to Gaza /Free Gaza flotilla solidarity campaigns during the mid-to-late 2000s were all targeted with extensive surveillance by the dark forces named above. And...

My gratitude 🌷

I would like to extend deep, profound, sincere and heartfelt GRATITUDE to some of our comrades and allies in the US whose work in this process is almost unknown in our parts of the Muddled East and the Mediterranean. I'm referring specifically to the volunteers, staff, and supporters of the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), who, immediately after the 2010 slaughter on the ship Mavi Marmara and the total disruption of the Flotilla launched a head-on confrontation with the US Government for its role in the slaughter.

CCR took the US to Court, and at the end of a legal and administrative battle that lasted for about nine years, was able to uncover some of the most extensive and devious, disgusting aspects of the operations against us... proving once again that without active military, financial, political and intelligence support from US imperialism Israel would not be able to carry out any of its atrocities. And without that support it would probably collapse in a day.

CCR's legal victory forced the US Government to release THOUSANDS of pages of its surveillance documents.

Among them there was clear evidence that my emails came under surveillance.
TWO FULL YEARS BEFORE the lethal attack against the Free Gaza flotilla.

My name, along with that of many other friends and comrades in the Free Gaza solidarity networks who took risks to carry on projects, is featured in some of the espionage documents.

The fact that the spy agencies felt comfortable to release my name without drawing a black line over it to "redact" this act of surveillance, implies that targeting me is only an insignificant tiny tip of the iceberg. Targeting Cyprus branch of the global network of independent journalism, IndyMedia, is more serious. Fortunately our other Editorial Collective members, supporters, and friends of Cyprus IndyMedia were not named individually.

The pages we reproduce here are only four out of the THOUSANDS of pages produced by the illegal surveillance operations targeting our networks. We provide the links below so that you can study all of the if you like on the CCR website.

Some of the people involved in this particular chapter of espionage who mentioned in the papers:
o- John Carlino, was a "diplomat", serving in Cyprus as a Section Sead in the Consular section of the US Embassy.
o- Shawn Sherlock was a Diplomatic Security Special Agent.
o- Gregory Makris was Head of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy, Cyprus [4].
o- Nick Nicoletopoulos, Security Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy, Cyprus [5].

The email from me that was intercepted by the spies mentions the specific death threats we were all receiving at the time, the acts of sabotage, the threats for a BOMBING.

We reproduce here those four pages generated by that particular illegal surveillance operation. If you prefer to read them directly on the CCR website, you can find my name and Cyprus IndyMedia mentioned towards the end of this particular packet of documents, along with a letter from me that is reproduced by the spies in its entirety, at this address (you may need to use the "Find" function of your browser):
■ Dept of State_2014_005900-006078_0
https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/02/DeptofState_2014_005900-006078_0.pdf

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The legal case against the US Government, is explained here by the CCR staff:
■ CCR v. Department of Defense/Gaza Freedom Flotilla FOIA
https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ccr-v-department-defensegaza-freedom-flotilla-foia

The main page of the CCR:
■ Center for Constitutional Rights
https://ccrjustice.org/

With gratitude to CCR, and above all to the martyrs who gave their lives on the Free Gaza Flotilla, 🌷🙏

ALL EYES ON GAZA,
Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

NOTES, SOURCES, LINKS

[1]:
This news item was archived here:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://archive.md/Z1B2l
and here:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250506092338/https://timesofmalta.com/article/why-gazabound-aid-ship-attacked-near-malta.1109225

[2]:
Unfortunately video files are not archived online, but at least the pages on which they are published can still leave an archived trace even if Youtube deletes them in the future:
■ Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta - YouTube
https://web.archive.org/web/20250503203516/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHotRDIwWws

[3].
■ Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable: Updated Contact Information From Post
https://wikileaks.jcvignoli.com/cable_07NICOSIA822?amp=1

[4].
■ Gregory Makris | Head of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy Nicosia, Cyprus | Volume 5 issue 6 – G.Makris – CCEIA
https://www.unic.ac.cy/cceia/volume-5-issue-6-g-makris/

[5].
"Security Coordinator
Department Of State/Nicosia, Cyprus
Jan 2006 - Jan 2009
        Perform planning and programming actions for the Regional Security Officer. Responsible for overall management of the Local Guard Force (LGF) program by ensuring staff assistance visits, annual plans reviews and all required training/documentation are completed and current for all plans and directives. Serves as focal point for the Embassy on all Security Plan issues and purchase agreements regarding the LGF. Provides immediate level supervision to subordinates. Selects or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO/MEO and diversity objectives. Develops, modifies and/or interpret performance standards. Hears and resolves complaints and effects minor disciplinary measures. I implement the required level of local guard coverage for all Embassy properties. I make decisions affecting the content and character of the local guard force. I assess the effectiveness of host government provided security services. I evaluate the local guard contractor's performance on a recurrent basis and formally once each year prior to contract renewal, providing results of these evaluations to the RSO. I train the Local Guard Force personnel including orientation to the Embassy and describe assets to be protected, role of the guard force in case of fire, explosions, bomb search and building evacuation, chemical and/or biological awareness, and countermeasures briefings, operation of explosive detectors and x-ray equipment, and imminent danger recognition/resolution. I contact the contract guard force managers including the project managers and guard force commander for any contract related issues. I review reports generated by the contractor including incident reports, surveillance detection reports, and explosive detection reports and X-ray inspection equipment operation reports."
■ Nick Nicoletopoulos | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-nicoletopoulos-053b2133/


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❤️ Regarding the Measles Weasels

 

❤️ The above graph was published by Dr Margaret Aranda Ferrante, MD PhD {Margaret Aranda, MD, PhD}, who is also a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners (FACFEI). She wrote:

"...VAERS-reported deaths from the measles shot (MMR) (in RED) ARE GREATER than measles deaths (in BLUE). You don’t have to be a doctor to see ALL THE RED DEATHS. This is WHEN THE CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE" [1].

The numbers in the graph are taken from the official US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

❤️ Wherever the graph was published or reposted, it drew a lot of hostile fire.

❤️ I'm all in favor of SAFE and EFFECTIVE vaccines. I hope to see them developed someday. Perhaps the new US. Secretary of Health will help in that direction.

❤️ Please give consideration to what Science says about the matter of measles and vaccines. It requires patient study, and clear thinking; not slogans:

❤️ A.
"Research reveals that a vaccinated individual not only can become infected with measles, but can also spread it to others who are also vaccinated against it" - proving that vaccine is neither safe nor effective:

■ Measles Is Transmitted By The Vaccinated, Gov. Researchers Confirm
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/measles-transmitted-vaccinated-gov-researchers-confirm

and,

■ The 2013 Measles Outbreak: A Failing Vaccine, Not A Failure To
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/2013-measles-outbreak-failing-vaccine-not-failure-vaccinate1

❤️ B.
Measles is NOT A LETHAL DISEASE. The majority of all of the "associated" deaths are from other illnesses, "complications" (pneumonia, encephalitis) - usually they are contracted after or during the measles recovery period and either treated wrongly, or ignored. An important factor underlying those deaths is either an insufficient immune response to a new infection (lack of defense, previous immunosuppression), or an exaggerated immune response (immuno-"storm"); in both of those types of cases, PREVIOUS vaccinations and other medications are a part of the causative equation. Cultivating a "herd immunity", or something close to it, comprised of people with NATURAL immunity to measles, is the best protective barrier for vulnerable children. Plus, if their parents want it, they can take the risk to vaccinate them.

❤️ C.
It's more dangerous to miss the BENEFITS bestowed by measles: measles and other childhood infections protect us against life-threatening conditions like cancer and heart disease, by priming and boosting our immune system. There's a lot of wisdom embedded in the traditional way of handling measles, allowing it to spread among small groupings of children and supporting them to recovery.

■ The Unreported Health Benefits of Measles
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/unreported-health-benefits-measles

and

■ Health Benefits of Measles Infection
https://greenmedinfo.com/keyword/health-benefits-measles-infection

❤️ D.
Vaccine injuries, such as the ones included in the graph above, are notoriously under-reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). An evaluation of VAERS carried out by Harvard FOR the Government, found that less than 1% of those injuries are reported by doctors. The report, known as the "Lazarus Report", is published on the Government's website:

■ "Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported"
https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf

Seen in that light, the graph published above is actually very lenient: it presents a much milder danger from the measles vaccine than exists in actuality.

❤️ E.
There's a lot more Science-based elements to take into consideration regarding measles. In order to hold an informed opinion, it's necessary to give some consideration to a spherical view of the phenomenon. Should we by-pass what Science says just because the Media and Big Pharma insist on it?

■ Measles and Measles Vaccines: 14 Things To Consider
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/measles-and-measles-vaccines-14-things-we-consider

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org

NOTES

[1].

✝️ Dr Margaret Aranda Ferrante: "VAERS-reported deaths from the measles shot..."
https://x.com/TheRebelPatient/status/1909017364907081995 

 

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🔵 News and Propaganda from - and to - the Front

 

🔵 The Forbes article below - published uncritically and without any comment, in many languages all over the world - constitutes a "mild" order from the Western powers to Zelensky's Ukrainian forces on how to act so that they can be slaughtered to promote the interests of the West [1].

🔵 It's based on a delusional conception of reality that's more sloganeering than a realistic analysis of what is truly happening on the ground, or on what the actual capabilities of the warring armies are. If you follow the Western Press and Media carefully, you'll see that every few days or weeks there is an impending arrival of Zelensky's Ukrainian fascist troops... in Moscow. They're supposedly "so close to victory"! The following article is based on this narrative, attempting to manipulate the Ukrainians into being slaughtered more and more efficiently, sealing the "need" for more and new weapons from the West.

🔵 "War is good for business, and what's good for business is good for America": advertising hallucinatory capabilities of the Ukrainian forces leads to new massacres and... new sales [2].


Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

🔵 Some alternative sources of information follow after the Notes at the end of this article.

■ Russian Trenches In Southern Ukraine Are Too Short To Stop A Ukrainian Attack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/11/29/russian-trenches-in-southern-ukraine-are-too-short-to-stop-a-ukrainian-attack

Nov 29, 2022, David Axe, Forbes Staff: "I write about ships, planes, tanks, drones, missiles and satellites."

Image: Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo.

It’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and bending the arc of Russia’s nine-month-old wider war on Ukraine.

The fighting in the south has slowed since then. But the calm belies the coming escalation. The Russians are digging in. And the Ukrainians are probing for weaknesses in Russia’s new defensive lines.

The weak spots already are evident. “The Russian field fortifications in eastern Kherson are ... optimized to defend against drives along the roads and would be very vulnerable to envelopments across the open countryside,” the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War noted in a detailed study of Russian defenses in southern Ukraine.

Trenches and tank-traps are sprouting up across eastern Kherson Oblast on the Dnipro’s left bank. But the fortifications don’t form long, unbroken lines. Instead, they simply straddle the main roads running south from the Dnipro toward the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. That’s a foreboding sign for the depleted Russian field armies in the south.

Ukrainian mechanized forces already are adept at crossing rough terrain. That’s how they advanced across northern Kherson starting in September. Yes, Ukraine is cold and muddy right now—less than ideal conditions for a cross-country march. But the ground will get firmer as the temperature continues dropping over the coming weeks. There’s no reason to expect that, once the Ukrainians cross the Dnipro, they won’t again take to the open fields.

Tactically, the Ukrainians could bypass the stiffest Russian positions by going off-road. Operationally, there also are opportunities for the Ukrainians to avoid the densest Russian fortifications.

Scouring satellite imagery, ISW’s analysts identified a lot of new Russian earthworks at the eastern edge of the Kinburn Peninsula, a sandy finger of land curling across the mouth of the Dnipro from the river’s left bank.

Those earthworks make sense. Ukrainian commandos likely have been on the Kinburn Peninsula for at least a couple of weeks now. The new Russian fortifications could complicate a Ukrainian attempt to roll east from Kinburn in order to create a lodgment on Dnipro’s left bank.

But Russian fortifications are much thinner on the opposite side of Kherson Oblast at the border with Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Analysts long have been anticipating a Ukrainian offensive in Zaporizhzhia—one that could turn right and get behind the first line of Russian troops on the Dnipro’s left bank.

Image: Institute for the Study of War

The lack of major defenses on the Zaporizhzhia side of Kherson could indicate Russian planners are downplaying the risk of a Ukrainian attack along this axis. Of course, it also is possible the Russians are planning for a mobile defense. Falling back from fort to fort, staying just ahead of the Ukrainians and bleeding them for each mile they advance. If this mobile defense sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how the Ukrainian armed forces have defeated more than a few Russian attacks.

“The Russian military is setting conditions for a protracted defense in eastern Kherson Oblast,” ISW noted. But this protracted defense might not prevent the establishment of at least one “solid Ukrainian lodgment” on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

So even if the Ukrainians fail to gain a lot of ground in their first attack, they could fall back to their lodgment, reconsolidate and try again. The disposition of Russian forces south of the Dnipro speaks to the Kremlin’s expectations. As the first full winter of the wider war sets in, Russian commanders expect to remain on the defensive. And they might also expect to trade space for time.

The open question is what the Kremlin hopes to buy with that time. It’s possible the Russian army is planning another round of forced mobilization of potentially hundreds of thousands of men. “If Russian forces expect Ukrainian forces to take months to break through their defenses in this [southern] region, they could reasonably expect additional mobilized forces or partially-trained conscripts to arrive in time to stop and possibly reverse the Ukrainian counteroffensive,” ISW explained.

But that expectation hinges on a huge assumption—that future conscripts will be better than current conscripts.

The 300,000 men the Kremlin drafted back in September, and speeded to the front without much training, didn’t prevent Ukrainian forces from liberating huge swathes of their country starting the same month. Why would another couple hundred thousand equally unready conscripts make a difference if the Ukrainians launch an offensive across the Dnipro in December or January?

David Axe:
"I'm a journalist, author and filmmaker based in Columbia, South Carolina".

🔵 Notes

[1].
■ Νέα και Προπαγάνδα από και προς το Μέτωπο
https://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2022/12/blog-post.html

■ Οι ρωσικές οχυρώσεις στη Χερσώνα δεν επαρκούν για να εμποδίσουν μια...
https://www.capital.gr/forbes/3684299/oi-rosikes-oxuroseis-sti-xersona-den-eparkoun-gia-na-empodisoun-mia-oukraniki-epithesi

[2].
■ War Profits Are A Comin’! - Weiss Ratings
https://weissratings.com/en/wealth-wave/war-profits-comin/


🔵 Alternative news sources

SouthFront: Crisis News, World Events, Political SurveySouth Front | Analysis & Intelligence
https://southfront.org

GRAPHICS Archives - South FrontSouth Front
https://southfront.org/label/graphics

RT - Breaking News, Russia News, World News and Video
https://www.rt.com

🌿 HOW TO BYPASS THE BLOCKAGE OF NEWS FROM RUSSIA
🌿 The "Western Democracies" have almost completely wiped off the map the Russian equivalent of the BBC - an important source of alternative news - called Russia Today [rt.com]: they have cut off all access to its website, uprooted it from FB, youtube, TikTok, and Twitter; Google, Microsoft, and Meta/Facebook have also cut it off from distribution, search, and advertising.
1. Download the security tool called Browsec, here - it's a free VPN and you don't need ANY registration:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browsec
2. After it is installed, open it by clicking on its icon (a globe with a lock), and select a server country. So far the Netherlands option is still working. If needed in the future, try another one. (There are also some paid options.)
3. Visit the page of the Russian service [rt.com] - if there is important news, share it with others!

■ Russian state-backed media outlets are getting blocked
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/state-backed-russian-media-blocked-ukraine-war

 

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🔵 WHAT DO I KNOW, AND HOW DO I KNOW IT?

■ Karl Marx and the Freemasons (no, it's not a new music band!)

A lot of material like the following has been circulating again among good and honest people who have been politically active recently in the Movement for Medical Freedom and the Movement to preserve our Constitutional and Human Rights, which mobilized in the face of the coronacrisis and the Medical Dictatorship that was set up almost overnight all over the planet. As we all know the dictatorship received support through authoritarian Hygienic Fascism initiatives by a large section of our terrorized and misinformed populations. These authoritarian initiatives included ALL sections of the (former) Left, the Right, the Center, the all around and in between, and all colors of political affiliation and identity who sided with illegitimate authority and State-sponsored terrorism.

From a friend's letter who has been active in the Movement:

"Scroll down to the photo of Karl Marx.  Notice his hand inside his jacket.  This is how Napoleon always posed, and how Ted Cruz poses.  Why?  Because it's a signal of being a member of a secret Masonic society called The Hidden Hand."

The material below is published in an effort to restore some clarity on this subject.


■ A Photograph, and the Private Property issue

A.
The way a person poses for a photograph is not necessarily "proof" of anything, especially during an era when photographers were known to pressure their subjects to appear this way and that, saying "this is how it must be done", or creating an atmosphere where a person fit a particular "composition" the photographer had in mind, or took ten different photos of varying poses under direction, and only chose to release one of them. In this article there's a number of authentic photos of myself which can be used to "prove" anything about me.

But closer to the substance of the issue, what people mean today when they say "Freemason" is entirely different from what it meant in the 1800's. And also very different from what it was in the 1700's.

In the 1700's, Freemasons were one of the organizations of the newly-formed class of the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois artisans, merchants and capitalists; they stood opposed to feudal ruling classes (kings, royalty, gentry, etc.) and were dedicated to the values that were embodied the French Revolution, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" - which eventually spread all over the world as feudalism came tumbling down with serial revolutions lasting about 150 years, especially in the West, and a new form of class society (somewhat more democratic) replaced it.

The Freemasons also had a spiritual dimension to their shared values, but it was not much more than a shared faith that the Divine is a unitary (single) spiritual entity.

Due to this, and especially due to their revolutionary character, the Freemasons were opposed vehemently by all supporters of the feudal ruling class, with the reactionary feudal church at the head of a propaganda machine aimed against them, demonizing them and targeting them with every imaginable accusation.

By the 1800's and as more and more countries tore down feudalism and installed bourgeois (capitalist) democracy, the Freemasons became one of the many unofficial formations and secret fora of the new ruling class - the capitalists - who soon became dominant the world over as they conquered, expanded, and embodied a global capitalist Imperium. This Imperialism became even more pronounced toward the late 1800's, early 1900's.

Marx was OPPOSED to the power of ALL formations of the capitalist class, and especially opposed to their secret societies.

By the mid-twentieth century the worldwide revolutionary movement of the nineteen sixties and seventies popularized the revolutionary Left's opposition and resentment of the secret societies that belong to the ruling class, and especially the Freemasons. And so a grand alliance was formed in the sphere of ideological warfare which brought together the medieval feudal church's argumentations and accusations against the Freemasons (they are "satanists"; they are "evil"; they "sacrifice children", etc.), with the argumentations and accusations of the modern capitalist class against the revolutionary Left in a very clever false-flag operation. The operation aimed to channel the natural hatred of the people against the rulers' secret societies and use that hatred against the revolutionaries themselves ("they will take away the little bit that you own"; "they will take away your freedom"; "they will install a dictatorship"; "they are working with the Freemasons", "they ARE Freemasons", etc.)

As we entered the reactionary era of the 21st century with its failed uprisings, failed mobilizations, extreme deepening of poverty and extreme centralization of the Empire's dictatorial structures, we witnessed an almost complete takeover and co-optation of most of the Left's organizations, institutions, and slogans, and the absorption of entire sections of the (former) Liberation Movement into the machinery of the Empire: our people were left rudderless, ideologically ungrounded, unprepared for this, helpless, and under constant bombardment from the propaganda war machine.  

The Empire's propaganda war has been successful to a large degree, and it has managed to generate a large number of people who "know", or who believe that Socialism or Communism is a monstrous conspiracy of the ruling class itself, a campaign of the banksters, and that Karl Marx is this or that - without them having ever read a single book or pamphlet or even an article by Marx. They just "know" it all; memes and slogans on social media, or claims by people whose sources are entirely without validity... are all the "proof" they need.

A person needs to STUDY in order to understand what all this means and how to deal with it.

One fundamental question that EVERY person needs to grapple with is "WHAT DO I KNOW, AND HOW DO I KNOW IT?" "What are my sources? And how do I know they are valid? How do THEY know (or prove) what they claim is true?"

Instead of a large number of people within the Movement engaging in this self-appraisal - immersing themselves in the process of questioning everything they know or think they know, in order to arrive at what is truly valid - what we see is millions of people who are absolutely certain that they "know" the truth (about Marx, or about anything) without being able to trace within themselves a single clue about how they came to "know" this thing. Nor are they willing to engage in pursuing the answer.


On the particular questions regarding Karl Marx and the Freemasons, here are some very good starting points:

a.
Hand-written Manuscripts of Marx, prove that he wrote extensively AGAINST the Freemasons - here is an excerpt:
«...Marx is also of the opinion that the First International Organization (International Workers’ Association) was destroyed from within by the hidden hand of freemasonry. In the "Reports and Documents Published by the Socialist Democratic League and the International Workers’ Association in accordance with the decision of the International Hague Congress", Marx talked about "freemasonry" in two places. Marx clearly stated: "Hidden behind the international Geneva branch is the Central Bureau of the Secret League; behind the international branches of Naples, Barcelona, Lyon and Jura, the secret branches of the freemasons are hidden. This is a freemasonry organization, and ordinary members of the international community and their leadership centres should have no doubts about such a (destructive) organization."»  
■ The Opposition of Marx to Freemasonry - BUDDHIST - MARXISM ALLIANCE (UK)
https://buddhistsocialism.weebly.com/the-opposition-of-marx-to-freemasonry.html

Archived here:
https://archive.ph/NPIia


b.
There's been a long struggle waged by Freemasonry against the organized revolutionary labor movement, socialism and communism. The following article documents large sections of the history of this struggle. The authors belong to an anti-stalinist communist organization.
[The article contains some typographical errors, you may need to read some sentences twice to get the meaning. There are 8 occurrences where the word "the" is mistyped as "me.]
■Workers' Movement: Marxism against Freemasonry | International Communist Current
https://en.internationalism.org/content/3741/workers-movement-marxism-against-freemasonry

Archived:
https://archive.ph/Wka5y


c.
Freemasons themselves address the question of whether Marx was one of them. Their answer is quick and easy: "he would have never qualified" as a member!
■ Was Karl Marx A Freemason
https://free-masons.livejournal.com/46309.html

Archived:
https://archive.ph/AWjsB


d.
What did Marx himself say about the accusations that supposedly the revolution which gave birth to the Paris Commune was the result of a conspiracy by secret societies? Here is his answer given during an interview for the "New York World" magazine, July 18, 1871. This is from the Freemason website of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon.
■ Karl Marx on Freemasonry
https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/marx_k.html

Archived:
https://archive.ph/ydvtT


B.
Regarding the issue of private property

The issue is very simple, but it appears complex. Marx and revolutionary Socialists use a specific terminology that contains particular meanings. When those terms are taken and twisted out of context, instead of history what we get is twistory.

Within the body of work known as Scientific Socialism, the phrase "private property" refers to the fact that the most important means of production (ie. factories, manufacturing facilities, mines, etc.) that produce and distribute what humanity needs (food, clothes, buildings, computers, vehicles, infrastructure)... are all held under private ownership. Even though they are operated collectively by working people, the fruit of that combined labor is stolen at the point of production and SOLD BACK to us at a price. If we want to have what we created together with our combined labor, we have to buy it as a commercial product at the market.

Scientific Socialism's primary tenet is that this conflict between the manner of production (collective) and the form of ownership (private), generates all of the modern world's strife and suffering. And it will be resolved only when all of the means of production and distribution (ie. factories, manufacturing facilities, etc.) come under our collective ownership. In that sense, they become the collective property of all of us combined together, ie. belong to all of society. So that what we produce together through our combined labor (everything that humanity needs such as food, clothes, buildings, computers, vehicles, etc.) will also be distributed to all of us collectively.

The phrase "private property" does NOT refer to your shoes, your clothes, other items of your personal usage, or anything that most people own that is outside of the cycle of
production->market->profits.

The aim of Socialism is to INCREASE what you own, so that in addition to whatever you use and own privately (toothbrush, shoes, clothes, your home), you will also become a co-owner of all the social means of production and distribution, and have a say in how they are used and to what purpose.

The way this happens is through the combined action of working people who seize and occupy the factories and other means of production, place them under a decision-making process of direct democracy where people decide things together in councils, and begin to operate them for human needs instead of profits. This act of expropriation is what Scientific Socialism identifies as "abolition of private property"; it is the act of rendering the means of production into collective property, owned by all of us together.

In contrast to this, the goal of most (especially the pettiest) of the members of the ruling class, is to actually take everything you own so that you'll be working all your life and never be able to get back even a small fraction of what you produce.

► Revolutionary Socialists want to take everything owned privately by the capitalists and render it into collective property - social property - that will be owned and controlled by you, and by all of us together, all of the people collectively.
► The pettiest of capitalists want to take everything YOU own.

The fact that some of our people confuse these above two types of appropriation is an act of mostly just plain ignorance, repeated without thinking about the meaning, or about the history of peoples' struggles through the centuries.

Among people who know what they're talking about, equating these two forms of "private property" expropriation is criminal propaganda It is aimed at poisoning people's minds against Socialism in order to support the capitalist ruling class in its war against the radical Left.


So to summarize:

► There is no proof that Karl Marx was ever positively involved with the Freemasons except a clever misinterpretation of a photograph. While there is PLENTY of proof in his writings, his statements, and his legacy that he stood against the Freemasons of his era.
► Claiming that Karl Marx wanted - or that Socialism wants - to take away the little bit that you own is a lie.

All you have to do is read and study a little, and talk with some Socialist you trust. You might discover a world of joyful truths and enjoy the relief of living without the lies that constrain you in your social activism for Freedom.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

Further Readings and Resources

■ Left Lockdown Sceptics
"Left Lockdown Sceptics is a forum for critiques of ‘new normal’ societal changes from anarchist, feminist, Marxist and socialist perspectives. We stand for an informed, open debate and discussion about everything relevant to the Covid phenomenon and its related issues..."
https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/about/?doing_wp_cron=1662649092.0787079334259033203125

■ Revolutionary Communist Group
https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/explore-topics/covid-19

"Humanity faces a profound crisis: a devastating pandemic, soaring poverty, inequality and insecurity, with escalating rivalries between the world’s wealthiest nations, leading to global conflicts and wars. Environmental destruction and climate change already devastate the lives of millions of people and threaten humanity’s extinction. We are in a race against time to prevent this outcome. The only answer is to fight for socialism: a system in which resources are democratically controlled and rationally organised to meet humanity’s needs rather than those of a tiny minority.
...No capitalist ruling class has ever given up power voluntarily; it will take mass direct action, a revolution led by the working class and its most oppressed layers. The RCG exists as a vehicle to strengthen the revolutionary anti-racist, anti-imperialist trend within the working class..."
https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/about/6248-what-we-stand-for-2

■ If you have the clarity and presence of mind to study the opposition, please see what a FORMER radical Leftist has to say in these troubled times. You can trace the ideological shift from radical Left opposition to the ruling class all the way to... not just acceptance of its propaganda, but a willing participation in the propaganda war being waged by the Corporate State, on their side! Here:
■ It’s shocking to see so many leftwingers lured to the far right by conspiracy theories
George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/22/leftwingers-far-right-conspiracy-theories-anti-vaxxers-power

■ Thank You Greece! Thank You SYRIZA!
"...the political
program of the Left CAN NOT be actualized without active mobilization
and physical-emotional participation of the people, without a hands-on
tangible involvement of the population in the process...
...No one is talking about organizing the farming brigades and worker's
brigades that will be required to re-vitalize the country's ability to
feed and clothe itself; i.e. to create a self-sustaining economy for the
country. It seems that both the party and its supporters are assuming
that all that can achieved by conventional "investment and development"
procedures (State-directed investment by the banks; in other words a
humane management of capitalism). No one is talking about the need to
mobilize people for occupations and seizures of productive units (idle
factories, housing units, hospitals, etc.) No one is talking about
mobilizing the reserve soldiers into the self-organized defence teams
(some sort of militia) that will be required to protect the country from
Turkey's military aggression or from resistance to the popular
mobilizations mentioned above that might be thrown up by the fascist
elements of the Police.
Socialism cannot be "proclaimed"; it can only be achieved by active
participation of the multitude..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20150914184141/http://cyprus.indymedia.org/node/4968

■ For a Hellenic Socialist Revival
"Some features of this project, or junctures of this political period, might necessitate some of the following:
    Seizure, occupation and operation by the people of many industries and branches of agriculture, and the introduction of workers' control with direct democracy;
    The establishment (and empowerment) of people's councils throughout the whole of the country, through which the day-to-day activities will be administered. These can be based in the neighborhoods, the workplaces, the schools, and within the security services (military, police, etc.);
    Social or State control of foreign trade;
    Self-organization of labour-brigades along the lines of a modern democratic People's Army, and militarization of labour (more on this below);
    Seizure or requisition of agricultural, industrial or trade surpluses for decentralized (community determined) distribution among the population;
    If social assets and production dwindle and the country is forced into a state of emergency, it might become necessary to introduce rationing of food and of most other commodities, with distribution to the people according to need and availability;
    Encourage and support small private enterprise alongside with enterprises by collectives, communes, bands, worker-owned businesses, which should receive priority;
    Social control of the railways, highways, airports, telephones, electricity, water and other large scale elements of the social and economic infrastructure, ensuring that these will serve the people's needs..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20161002011438/http://cyprus.indymedia.org/node/5021

■ Endo~Media / Socialism
https://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/socialism

■ Endo~Media / Revolutionary Politics
https://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/revolutionary%20politics

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🟢 Coronavirus Transmission, Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: "the Science" is clear

All over the planet, the Hygiene Dictatorship has presented  unvaccinated people as a "danger to all society", and has instituted Apartheid measures to "contain the danger". Due to those illegal, unconstitutional, cruel and despicable "safety measures", the Unvaccinated are barred from participating in normal life: in most countries unvaccinated people are not allowed to go to restaurants, to school, work, many stores, malls, indoor activities, and in some countries the ban is enforced for outdoor activities as well, such as parks, beaches, etc. [1].

In all cases, the totalitarian measures are supposedly justified on the basis of slogans promoted by the global propaganda machine: "trust the science"; "I'm vaccinated to protect you"; "the Vaccinated protect those who are vulnerable", "the Unvaccinated are selfish individuals who place their own 'rights' above the well-being of the many", etc. It all revolves around the claim that supposedly vaccination prevents or reduces transmission of the virus.

A tangible extension of the propaganda is the bestowing of gifts and privileges to the vaccinated. In addition to gifts of cash, bonuses, services, free vacations, etc. the vaccinated are endowed with the most precious of all privileges: freedom of movement; freedom to participate in social life and all daily activities, free from bans and restrictions.

In some countries that are not just merely pawns under the thumb of Western Imperialist corona-totalitarianism, but countries whose rulers are EAGER and willing to go all the way in actualizing the propaganda beyond all semblance of logic, the Vaccinated are provided not only with the  privileges listed above, but even when they are singled out by contact-tracing as verified close contacts of verified coronavirus "positives" (coronavirus carriers), they are still allowed to go out to society and circulate without any restriction! Whereas the unvaccinated MUST remain isolated. One such country is the Republic of Cyprus. These are not accidental policies instituted by some half-asleep faceless bureaucrat: they are ordered by repeated DECREES issued by the Cabinet of Ministers (the highest body of the Executive branch of Government, and headed by the country's President), signed by the Minister of Health, and APPROVED by the "top scientific committees" and scientific advisors of the country.

Atrocities abound, all in the name of "trust the Science".
But what does "the Science" really say?

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed journal of Medical Science. It's one of the world's oldest and best-known science journals. It enjoys a globally well-respected status and global appreciation; it's one of the most influential scientific journals in the world, with editorial offices in London, New York, and Beijing. What does it say on the matter?

🟢 "...fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts".
■ Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study
October 29, 2021
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00648-4/fulltext

🟢 "...the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people. The scientific rationale for mandatory vaccination in the USA relies on the premise that vaccination prevents transmission to others, resulting in a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”. Yet, the demonstration of COVID-19 breakthrough infections among fully vaccinated health-care workers (HCW) in Israel, who in turn may transmit this infection to their patients, requires a reassessment of compulsory vaccination policies leading to the job dismissal of unvaccinated HCW in the USA. Indeed, there is growing evidence that peak viral titres in the upper airways of the lungs and culturable virus are similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. A recent investigation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of an outbreak of COVID-19 in a prison in Texas showed the equal presence of infectious virus in the nasopharynx of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. Similarly, researchers in California observed no major differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in terms of SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in the nasopharynx, even in those with proven asymptomatic infection. Thus, the current evidence suggests that current mandatory vaccination policies might need to be reconsidered..."
■ Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 among fully vaccinated individuals
January, 2022
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00768-4/fulltext

🟢 "In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”. But this view is far too simple.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic. Cycle threshold values were similarly low between people who were fully vaccinated (median 22·8) and people who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median 21·5), indicating a high viral load even among people who were fully vaccinated".
■ COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
November 20, 2021
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext

Science is clear: vaccinated people TRANSMIT the virus just as much as the Unvaccinated, not only to vulnerable individuals, but also to others who are fully vaccinated. Vaccinated people are carriers of viral loads that are the same as those of the Unvaccinated; the fluids of their nasopharynx which are ejected when vaccinated people speak, sneeze, cough or laugh, contain the same amounts of coronavirus as that of the Unvaccinated.

The propaganda machine's entire narrative on this matter - summed up with the slogan "trust the Science" - is totally demolished by Science itself.

Of course Science - and Reality itself - are not enough reasons for the propaganda machine to abandon its lies; the global Apartheid regime separating the Unvaccinated into zones where they can be denied their political, constitutional and human rights has invested way too much to abandon its propaganda campaign just because Science, itself, contradicts the slogan "trust the Science".

In fact the propaganda machine has invented that artificially quaint phrase ~* "the Science" *~ to make it sound vaguely old-fashioned, cute, colorizing it with airs of "old Americana". People familiar with the nuances of the english language recognize the oddity of the phrase: it's the result of cold manipulations calculated to induce the feeling of old-time, folksy, picturesque imagery; sweet, idyllic, rustic, homely, nostalgic connotations; providing to the phrase an atmosphere of a bygone era in order to convince the "modern" citizens of the contemporary digital world that the slogan supposedly comes from an "era of certainty", unspoilt by modernity, supposedly forged by charming, dedicated, weatherworn scientists who forged the fundamental roots of Science... It's all lies.

The narrative is fake; it's a disgusting effort to hide what Science really says. But it works because we experience on the one hand State-sponsored terror and relentless propaganda by the regime's media, and simultaneous censorship of the Truth; on the other hand a continuous enforcement of Apartheid and dictatorship: the "quaint" color of the propaganda makes it easier to feel a sense of comfort when we swallow the pill of lies. "Trust the Science" sounds good, even if it's the slogan with which the global regime VIOLATES Science.

A simple chart illustrates reality: the status of daily TRANSMISSION of coronavirus in a country where vaccination policy is pursued most intensely (they are now on the FOURTH injection campaign), and where the unconstitutional "protective measures" have been the most austere, violent and draconian continuously for two years now. It's one of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world; Israel, seen through the numbers provided by its own Ministry of Health:

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Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/israel

Israel was able to enforce an Apartheid regime against the Unvaccinated very easily: it already had in place a tremendously violent and efficient security apparatus for enforcing a genocidal Apartheid against the Palestinians; it was easy to turn it against its own people. The regime first practiced by employing a dictatorship of "protective measures", and then as soon as vaccines became available it became transformed into the most fierce vaccine-Apartheid regime in the world.

Most "advanced" countries of the West are playing out the same scenario. Wherever "protective measures" and vaccination were enforced the most, with special gifts and privileges awarded to the vaccinated, TRANSMISSION of coronavirus has peaked.

Quod erat demonstrandum; 'nuff said.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

[1].
Even though the author is wrongly biased against communism, the Soviet Union, China, etc (a common syndrome), he paints a very accurate description of the current state of affairs and of the dangers global society is facing:
■ Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/496981-hygienic-fascism-turning-the-world-into-a-safe-space-but-at-what-cost
Archived at:
https://archive.fo/aa6gv

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What just happened? Did it "just" happen?

🟢 A Imperial Holy Alliance comprised of the US-based ruling class and the global deep state have just regained control of the White House. The world is bracing for new wars.

🟢 A racist, sexist, homophobic Populist movement represented and led by an independent billionaire failed to save the world, even though it held the White House for four years.

🟢 The morally and ideologically corrupt, organizationally failed and co-opted american Left knowingly sided with the Empire's Holy Alliance and became willingly assimilated into its machinery, claiming it was "fighting fascism".

🟢 The ultra-reactionary american right-wing that has gotten embedded within the Populist movement that just lost the White House, was used as a clever excuse ~ an alibi ~ for the Left to avoid joining the Populist movement and failing to help orient the mobilized population toward liberation from Capital and the State. A poor excuse, but what else could the Left come up with to justify its own alliance with Capital and the State?

🟢 We live in a weird era in which, as the song goes:

"Left is Right and Right is Wrong
better decide which side you're on..."
- Tom Robinson Band.

It will take many years, perhaps decades, for truly radical and alternative american organizations and activists to disentangle themselves from the chariots of the Holy Alliance and re-emerge again as a viable political option. And they won't be able to do anything useful at a socially meaningful scale until they understand that in the current era among the People - beyond slogans and behaviors - the concepts of left and right are mostly mixed up and very often inverted.

🟢 Liberation from the power of Capital and the State necessitates a Liberation Movement; not a contest of "politically correct speech", nor the tormented "politics of guilt". Identity politics can only have a meaning if they are part of a unified movement for collective and personal social liberation aimed at the overthrow of Capital and the State; otherwise those politics only serve the modern Empire and the empowerement of its Thought Police.

🟢 A contemporary Liberation Movement needs to be guided by an understanding of complex concepts; the mental-emotional numbness created by the Left's internal Thought Police makes that impossible and it cultivates political stupidity.

🟢 Components of reality which need to be recognised as parameters that together must determine the direction of the compass guiding the Liberation Movement include:

🟪 The fundamentals of political economy (relations of production, ownership and control of means of production and natural resources - the so-called Objective forces of History).

🟪 The fundamentals of Orgonomy (mass psychology, knowledge of the psychosomatic essence of authoritarianism, effects of the suppression and exploitation of sensuous and pleasurable experiences of the Erotic; personal and social liberation by restoration of Eros and self-regulation of the individual and social organism - all which sculpt the so-called Subjective forces of History).

🟪 The fundamentals of how the contemporary Society of the Spectacle operates, and especially how the Objective and the Subjective forces of History have come to be producing and reproducing it, ruled by it, identified with it, and are aware of themselves only through it. It has gone way beyond the world of Advertising and Propaganda; it is currently the process by which the current regime's narrative is experienced as "reality". Its modern evolutes, ie. the Society of Television, the Society of the Desktop or Mobile Screen, the Society of the Keyboard... all evolving together into the Society of Social Media, have given us the present stage of the Spectacle, which is a Participatory Dictatorship of Social Media: produce and reproduce a version of dominant "reality" of your own, with your own personal flavor. At the same time, it is the only unified culture shared by the majority of the global population.

🟪 Newly evolving paradigms of revolutionary societies with contributions from the Zapatistas and the Kurds.

🟪 Restoration of "old-fashioned" patterns of Liberation - such as ethnic and national liberation, community politics, etc. - can take totally new meanings in the present era of Empire which rules entire countries via globalization. Che Guevara's "Patria o Muerte / Homeland or Death" retains a global and glorious anti-Imperialist validity which the euro-american Left no longer understands. Patriotism, in the context of internationalism, continues to be one of the most powerful vehicles for Liberation.

🟪 The local and global working class has changed. We live in an era where the 99% of the population belongs to the working class, even though only 30%-60% of this class might be employed at any given time: the entire class survives on the combined incomes of those few. There's a need to recognize that the "new" working class includes very few industrial proletarians; more academic and highly technical proletarians; a large number of people who work either part-time or seasonally; that many people work at home; many people are in a "fluid" employment status somewhere between "self-employed" and "employed"; that more and more people work in an environment where "local" and "global" are intimately connected; more and more people possess many, many highly developed skills and yet they are employed as "unskilled workers", or their skills are under-employed; the working class includes a few farmers, many small business owners; it includes vast numbers whose social and self awareness is determined by their being shoppers and consumers; and similarly, it includes vast numbers whose social and self awareness is determined by their being Spectators and participants in the dictatorship of Social Media. All of the above belong to multitude of varied and different identities characterised by ethnic, national and cultural parameters, language and religion, gender and sexuality, location, and by their country's or community's status within the local and global hierarchy and relations of power. Collectively, they - we! - comprise a political Multitude, which is both the new Subjective force in History, and also part of the machinery of production and reproduction of Objective reality.

🟢 All of the above are essential for re-aligning the compass of the Liberation Movement in the West - don't leave home for the Revolution without them!

🟢 A Left that is self-absorbed and entirely obsessed with its own internal Thought Police enforcing the Politics of Guilt and petty Identity Politics on its members and attempting to enforce that on the populatioin-at-large while it exists in a criminal co-dependance with the Imperial Alliance, is better Left Behind.

🟣 Integration is not Liberation!

🟣 All Power to the Imagination!

🟣 Onwards for a new Erotic Psychedelic Inter-Galactic Consciousness spanning both the Physical and the Metaphysical!

🟣 Revolt where you live ~ Live Everywhere!

🟣 Liberated Collective realities are crucial for the Liberation process: they can only be created by Love actively engaged in listening, participation in group dialogues structured as a shared experience of Direct Democracy; shared Work; shared Play. They can take a myriad forms: music bands; affinity groups; combat units; community power councils; collective households; communes; worker-owned businesses ; cooperatives; independent unions of working people, soldiers, neighbors; consumers' co-ops; Peoples' Armies; Liberated Countries.

🟣 All for One and One for All!

🟣

November 8, 2020
Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net
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Dogmatic Derision and the re-emergence of the Worlds in Collision theory...

They laughed at Veliskovsky. And they howled at anyone within or outside of Science who gave consideration to his theories. Now... they're all coming around confirming them!

Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth
http://news.rice.edu/2019/01/23/planetary-collision-that-formed-the-moon-made-life-possible-on-earth-2

A Collision With Another Planet May Have Seeded Earth With the Ingredients for Life
https://gizmodo.com/a-collision-with-another-planet-may-have-seeded-earth-w-1831984838

Delivery of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur to the silicate Earth by a giant impact
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3669

These developments constitute one more proof of the dogmatic insanity built into the invisible religion of Scientism.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Worlds in Collision
https://www.velikovsky.info/worlds-in-collision

Worlds in Collision
"Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky is an essential book to read for those interested in chronology revision, world catastrophism, alternative mythology interpretation, comparative mythology and especially the Electric Universe theory (EU theory)..."
http://www.everythingselectric.com/worlds-in-collision

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Was 1968 our global 1905?

■ A special appearance by friends and comrades Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in Santa Fe - the precious town known to some Cypriots as "Kyrenia of the high-altitude desert".
■ "“Whatever the so-called ’60s was, it was mainly a prelude to what we need to do today”, said Ayers."
 

It's an essential and burning question that keeps recurring to people who are actively engaged in the revolutionary process, in the study of its history and the theoretical foundations that might guide better guide us in understanding its curious developments in order to help bring the revolution to a VICTORY (or to a new beginning): it's the question of 1968 - the need to understand the historical role of the planetary-scale revolutionary period of the "sixties and seventies" symbolized by the year 1968.

Students of revolutionary Socialist history often see the 1905 revolution in Russia as a launching pad (a dress-rehearsal) of the 1917 revolution in Russia which gave birth to the Soviet Union. Could it be that the revolutionary period exemplified by 1968 can act as a prelude to another and more SUCCESSFUL global revolution? Can this happen even though two whole generations have already passed, and we're in the process of losing many of the people who were the bearers of the Light, Love and Consciousness from that time?

Is it possible that the Socialist revolution possesses qualities that are transcendental (like a number?), going beyond the boundaries of the particular experiences of individual persons or specific populations, embodying a transpersonal reality capable of actualizing a "small 'c' communist" society all over the globe in the same sense that we witness the materialization of Archetypes? In that sense, it would be reasonable to assume that the next global prairie-fire can be self-igniting, without the necessity of being mediated by people who have lived through 1968. Or, to say it differently, it might be possible that those would who bring that spark over across time from 1968 to the present, might be able to re-ignite the prairie through a discarnate process, through an incorporeal abstraction acting on and through objective reality.

Could it be that the contradictions discovered within capitalism and global Imperialism by marxian science keep generating the Consciousness necessary for humanity to overcome them and replace them with the socialist ~ communist ~ anarchist ~ feminist ~ green ~ autonomist society we yearn for?

What about the social and political conditions? Is it possible to envision a global collective coordinating body that will harmonize and coordinate the Movement? Are modern populations emotionally and politically capable of overcoming the individualism and narcissism enforced on us by the commodity shopping culture and the Spectacle; by narrow perceptions of collective struggle confined by the mental borders of the nation-state; and move forward to removing the obstacles to unity found among the communities and populations of the present? Of the future?

Where is the radical culture that can bind us together? Where is the organizational structure ("One Ring to free them all: One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the Light to bind them")? Where are the radical Jedi, radical Bene Gesserit, the witches and guerillas, the musicians and healthcare workers, the geeks and "fairy weirdos" who will serve as the cadre of a future revolutionary party that can emerge as a Conscious force on the stage of history to embody the Last International?

Is it viable to work in that direction? Is it premature? Are there radicals consciously and knowingly engaged in building that network? Does it already exist, hiding in plain view and gently guiding us in the direction of planet-wide Liberation?

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net
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Radical activists to discuss next steps of resistance
By Megan Bennett / Journal North Reporter
Friday, September 22nd, 2017 at 12:02am
https://www.abqjournal.com/1067393/radical-activists-to-discuss-next-steps-of-resistance-ex-former-weather-underground-members-to-join-sfais-equal-justice-residents-on-panel.html

SANTA FE, N.M. — Two members of the Weather Underground, the 1960s-70s radical activist group most famously known for protesting the Vietnam War and black oppression through bombings of government buildings, will speak at the Santa Fe Art Institute Sunday about current-day issues and creative solutions for fighting back.

Though they are most famous for their activism in their teens and twenties, husband and wife Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, both now in their seventies and living in Chicago, say they are not stuck in the past. The two are still activists in what Dohrn called “perilous times” with the election of Donald Trump.

“We’re not looking wistfully at a ship that already left the shore,” said Ayers. “We’re very much living toward the future. Whatever the so-called ’60s was, it was mainly a prelude to what we need to do today.” He said what he and his wife were fighting for then, like stopping the “underlying causes of war” and white supremacy, still need resolution today.

Both Dohrn and Ayers began their activism in college protesting against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and for the Civil Rights Movement, a period during which Ayers said he participated in sit-ins and was arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

They later helped organize the Weather Underground – sometimes labeled, then and now, as a terrorist group – that detonated small bombs at places like the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon to protest war and other social issues. Three members of the Weather Underground died in 1970 at a New York townhouse while creating an explosive.

Ayers and Dohrn, who was once on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, were on the run for several years until 1980 when they turned themselves in. By then, most of the charges against them had been dropped. Dohrn served less than a year of jail time for refusing to testify in a case, then went on to a career as a legal advocate and in teaching law. Ayers became an education professor in Chicago – whether he had any significant associations with Barack Obama there became an issue in presidential politics.

“My whole life I’ve been told that won’t work, that’s extreme or that’s crazy,” said Ayers about criticism of radical activism throughout the years. But he said activists can’t rely on what polls or powerful figures are saying about a movement and, sometimes, unpopular or new ideas are necessary.

Now, they’re retired college professors who keep up with movements like Black Lives Matter, as well as activism on climate change, women’s rights, protection of undocumented immigrants and other issues.

The two will participate in an “inter-generational” panel with several SFAI Equal Justice Residents, a group of local and national artists invited to work on political or social movement-related art pieces, to discuss alternatives to addressing today’s political climate.

The couple will offer a discussion of their lives, during which people can ask questions. They’ll be available afterward to sign copies of their books if audience members bring them. Dohrn said the couple welcomes all opinions and perspectives in the discussion, including those who disagree with their past tactics.

While there is no “road map” for activism, Dohrn says everyone has something they should be doing right now in response to today’s political situation. She hopes the conversation with artists will evoke some innovative ways of resistance.

“We need to talk to each other, we need to think deeply about other domains, other than just talking in which we can impact, inspire, ignite and imagine a different world,” said Dohrn.

If you go

WHAT: “SFAI Presents the Weather Underground: A Night of Radical Imagination” panel discussion, Q&A and book-signing.
WHERE: James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd.
WHEN: Sunday, 6-8 p.m.
TICKETS: Free, but comes with the option to include a $10 or $25 donation to help fund the Equal Justice residency. Go to sfai.org for tickets.

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Was 1968 our global 1905?
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