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Video footage of Sri Lankan protesters taking over President's office in Colombo
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From Caitlin Johnstone:

The video footage coming out of Sri Lanka right now has been the recurring nightmare of every ruler throughout history.

Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation's economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.

[Video footage of Sri Lankan protesters taking over President's office in Colombo]

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Just look at that. Look at all those people flooding in there. That is some truly awe-inspiring power. Imagine how terrifying it would be to find yourself on the receiving end of it.

Every ruler throughout history has spent time envisioning what would happen if a crowd that size decided to storm their base of operation. If their numbers became too great to suppress, or if your forces who would be doing the suppressing joined the ranks of the people instead, the best-case scenario for you is that you'd have already fled the building by that point, as Rajapaksa had the good sense to do shortly before the building was stormed. If enough angry people get their hands on you, it won't matter if they're armed with rockets or pistols or their own bare hands; you are in for a violent end.

If you've ever wondered why so much energy goes into keeping everyone propagandized in our society, this is why. If you've ever wondered why our rulers work so hard to keep us divided against each other, this is why. If you've ever wondered why we're always being instructed to take our grievances to the voting booth even though we learn in election after election that it never changes the things that most desperately need to change, this is why.

Our entire civilization is structured around preventing scenes like the one we're seeing in Sri Lanka today. Our education systems, our political systems, our media, our online information. Religions that have been around for thousands of years because the powerful endorsed and promulgated them are full of passages extolling the virtues of obedience, poverty, meekness, and rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's. From the moment we are born our heads are filled with stories about why it's good and right to consent to the status quo and why it would be wrong to take back what has been stolen from us by a predatory ruling class.

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This is why we're always inundated with messaging about the importance of civility and politeness any time people realize that they can simply confront corrupt officials in restaurants or at their homes to push for what they want. The managers of the oligarchic empire which rules over us are terrified that we will one day notice that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and that there's really nothing they could do to stop us if we decided to replace them with a system which benefits ordinary people instead of an elite few.

Things are getting worse and worse because the systems that are in place are designed to exploit and oppress rather than to uplift and help thrive. Those systems will protect their own ability to continue to exploit and oppress until the people use their numbers to replace them with something healthy. The people will never use their numbers to replace abusive systems with something healthy as long as they are successfully propagandized away from doing so.

This is why our political and media institutions act the way they act and why our systems are set up in the way that they are: to keep us from realizing how easy it would be to shrug off the old mechanisms of oppression like a heavy coat on a warm day and build something new that works for all of us.

Things will keep getting worse until we find a way to cut through the propaganda brain fog and rise like lions.
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From Me:

This may or may not be the start of a global movement over the next few months. But it is the only way to change the course of world history in this decade. For still incomprehensible reasons and through inconceivable methods of Big Money cooperation on a global scale, all politics and all social communication are under ever tighter control.

Of course there is a vibrant underground, made up of a scattering of internet voices like Caitlin Johnstone. This is a necessary element of the gathering resistance, but it cannot change the insane route that "Western Civilization" is now following as dictated by the unaccountable Expert Class of Ivy League National Security Ghouls and the zillionaire members of the World Economic Forum.

We can try to explain to our fellow citizens how the public pronouncements coming from The Propaganda Machine is in error. I remember in 2016 discussing the election with my Hillary supporting brother. I cited her vote in favor of the Iraq War Resolution as a deal breaker for me. He replied, 13 years after the fact, "Oh, that was just a case of faulty intelligence."

Employing my critical thinking skills, in my head I said, "Freddie, what does faulty intelligence mean? It means wrong intelligence, doesn't it?" But I was already sick of the conversation and I knew that I would get nowhere with him.

Only a tiny minority of human beings ever utilize what we call critical thinking skills. People make their political decisions almost always by asking themselves what kind of person they are? Some are red state, rural minded people who hate liberals. Others are blue state, urban minded people who hate Trumpers, religious nuts and racial bigots. Both sides consider the other side crazy.

This is the deadlock the authorities want.

The scene in Columbo today is what the authorities dread.