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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 24, 2021 6:18:36 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 24, 2021 6:17:42 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 24, 2021 6:11:01 GMT -5
The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 ended the territory's status as a part of the Commonwealth through the United Kingdom. Non-sovereign states or regions are not permitted to become members of the Commonwealth. The government of the People's Republic of China has not pursued membership. Hong Kong has nevertheless continued to participate in some of the organisations of the Commonwealth family, such as the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (hosted the Commonwealth Lawyers Conference in 1983 and 2009), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (and the Westminster Seminar on Parliamentary Practice and Procedures), the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel,[108][109] as well as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 24, 2021 6:08:35 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 23, 2021 22:22:46 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 18, 2021 21:39:23 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 16, 2021 1:15:25 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 14, 2021 3:25:57 GMT -5
Divide-and-rule, cognitive dissonance and the Stockholm syndrome
Divide-and-rule is a technique as old as empire, and perhaps older. In the age of competing empires its purpose was to encourage willingness to fight and often die in the interest of the empire of which one happened to be an inhabitant. Antagonism towards one's "equal" could act as a catalyst for hostility towards one's master's enemy.
The reflex persists into the present, even if today there is no longer more than one empire. (Perhaps there is, perhaps there isn't.) In the preceding period of Cold War between "the West" and "Communism" nuclear weapons were a central part of the divide-and-rule mechanism. Initially nuclear weapons were unequivocally "good" because they "ended the war". With the passage of time a division was fomented between "our" (good) nuclear weapons and "their" (bad) nuclear weapons. Then the anti-nuclear movement itself, which had started as a fan club for one side, the weaker side, of the nuclear arms race, divided into two. A competing ("independent" or "non-aligned") anti-nuclear movement was elaborated from an accusation of bad faith against the self-declared possessors of "good" nuclear weapons. (There is no such thing, you see. Weapons of mass destruction are bad. Full stop. "Nuclear deterrence" is a fraud, a mechanism for the generation of counterforce scenarios and so of escalation.)
The "official" vs "non-aligned" dichotomy persisted through the nineteen eighties up to the collapse of the weaker side, which in accordance with the credo of the "non-aligned" anti-nuclear movement should have triggered a demand for unilateral nuclear disarmament of the defeated weaker side. againstthecurrent.org/atc075/p1816/
But it didn't. Instead it generated a revival of scenarios of "nuclear deterrence".
In the 2020s "divide-and-rule" is embodied in a bipolar scenario of "vaccinated" versus "anti-vaxxers". William Engdahl has introduced an interesting new insight with his observation that divide-and-rule is activated through cognitive dissonance. Is one's life more threatened by the "pandemic" or by the "measures against the pandemic". Argue about it. Feel free.
Engdahl says: "Cognitive dissonance is a term in psychology for a person’s experience of two contradictory or inconsistent experiences whose inconsistency causes them great stress. The stress is resolved in the brain by the person playing unconscious tricks to resolve the contradiction. The Stockholm Syndrome comes to mind."
The Stockholm Syndrome was first named in 1973 by Nils Bejerot, a criminologist in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a way of understanding the emotional response some people have towards a captor or abuser.
Someone who has Stockholm syndrome might have confusing feelings towards the abuser, including:
• Love • Sympathy • Empathy • Desire to protect them
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 14, 2021 0:29:08 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 13, 2021 3:02:11 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 11, 2021 8:24:07 GMT -5
Η συνεισφορά του Michael Murphy www.aeginaportal.gr/eidiseis/programmatismenes-ekdiloseis/31032-programma-festival-kinimatografou-aiginas-2021.html (Τετάρτη 25 Αυγούστου)
Οι αεροψεκασμοί chemtrails δεν είναι πια στην πρώτη γραμμή της επικαιρότητας. Ο χαρακτηρισμός "ψεκασμένος" όμως, αν όχι ακριβώς επίκαιρος, σίγουρα συνηθίζεται, ειδικά για να δυσφημίζονται οι συμπολίτες που απορρίπτουν - ή έστω έχουν επιφυλάξεις για - τον υποχρεωτικό εμβολιασμό, τα lockdowns - και όλα τα σχετικά. Στην πραγματικότητα "ψεκασμένος/η" είναι αυτός/ή που αμφισβητεί έναν όλο και μεγαλήτερο κατάλογο θεμάτων για τα οποία τον τελικό (αποκλειστικό?) λόγο έχουν οι τηλεοράσεις. Tι σημαίνει όμως να είναι κανείς "ψεκασμένος".
Οι δύο ταινίες του αμερικανού σκηνοθέτη Michael Murphy είναι ίσως η καλύτερη απάντηση σε αυτή την ελληνική ερώτηση. Η πρώτη του ταινία "Τι στο καλό ψεκάζουν" (What in the World are they Spraying?) (2010) είχε το πλεονέκτημα της καινοτομίας κι έτσι διαθέτει ελληνικούς υπότιτλους από εθελοντική εργασία. Αυτή είναι η ταίνια που θα προβληθεί στις 25 Αυγούστου (ο, τι και να πεί το πρόγραμμα του 14ου Κινηματογραφικού Φεστιβάλ της Αίγινας). Η δεύτερη του ταινία "Γιατί στο καλό ψεκάζουν" (Why in the World are they Spraying) δεν έχει ελληνικούς υπότιτλους επειδή ορισμένοι μεταφραστές ζητάνε πληρωμή.
Ο Michael Murphy πέθανε πρόωρα (chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/award-winning-documentary-maker-activist-michael-j-murphy-passed-away-in-sleep/) στις 22 Ιουλίου 2020. Αρκετά έχουν γραφτεί για την αιτία θανάτου του αλλά παραμένουν εικασίες. Αυτό που είναι σίγουρο είναι ότι οι αδυναμίες του ήταν εκμεταλλεύσιμες και επίσης ότι η ρήξη του με τον ακτιβιστή Dane Wigington (τον βλέπουμε στις ταινίες) δεν τον βοήθησε.
Αν είναι αποδεκτό να μιλήσω προσωπικά, είχα συναντήσει τον Michael Murphy δύο φορές - πρωτη φορά στη Γάνδη, Βέλγιο, το 2010 στο συμπόσιο της ομάδας Belfort που παρουσιάζεται στο "Τι στο καλό ψεκάζουν", τη δεύτερη φορά στις Βρυξέλλες το 2012 στο κτήριο του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου. Μετά από την τότε συγκέντρωση είχα προσθέσει κάποιες παρατηρήσεις () με τις οποίες συμφώνησε και ο Michael Murphy.
Η τρίτη ταινία του Murphy "An Unconventional Shade of Grey" () κόντευε να ολοκληρωθεί όταν πέθανε. Ο αμερικανός ακτιβιστής Peter Kirby έχει αναλάβει να την τελειώσει με crowd funding.
(Η ταινία "Τι στο καλό ψεκάζουν") κρατάει μια ώρα και τριάντα επτά λεπτά, όχι δύο ώρες).
Γ. Χωλ
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 10, 2021 10:32:15 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 8, 2021 0:19:23 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Jul 31, 2021 7:12:38 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Jul 30, 2021 10:33:46 GMT -5
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