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Are We Hypnotized – We are in the grip of a narrative that is totally wrong
BY SIMONE J. SMITH
“The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” George Orwell
This week I am presenting to the community a documentary that focuses on a subject that is controversial, an untold story, and exploration of a fascinating aspect of our world. The subject matter will evoke strong emotions and is meant to provoke thought. It provides credible sources, expert interviews, and verifiable facts. It is brimming with personal stories, powerful testimonials, and intense footage that contribute to its emotional resonance.
The Plandemic series is an eye-opening collection of films that dares to explore untold narratives. The series is widely recognized as the first to warn the world of crimes against humanity that are now being brought to light.
PLANDEMIC 1
The first PLANDEMIC, a 26-minute documentary, has been seen by over one billion people worldwide, setting a historic record. This documentary exposes hidden agendas, questions mainstream narratives, and sparks a global conversation.
PLANDEMIC 2: INDOCTORNATION
The premiere of PLANDEMIC 2: Indoctrination set streaming records with two million viewers attending the global livestream. Journey deeper into the web of deception as Plandemic two uncovers the untold stories and exposes the powerful forces manipulating our world.
PLANDEMIC 3: THE GREAT AWAKENING
This week, our cover story is focused on the last installment of the Plandemic Series, and I am going to do my best to list the points that really stood out, topics that we as a community, as a nation must pay attention to before it is too late. The documentary starts off funny, but this is not a joking matter. In this last installment, you will witness the culmination of truth-seeking as PLANDEMIC 3: The Great Awakening unravels the layers of corruption. Allow me to take you through some of the topics that you will be seeing.
“In order to conquer people in this societal environment, you have to do so through the mind.” Edward Griffin 1969
Socialism; the Transition Stage to Communism
At a women’s night town hall in November 2013, then-Liberal Party Leader Trudeau was asked, “Which nation, besides Canada, do you most admire and why?”
“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Trudeau responded. “Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and saying, ‘We need to go greenest fastest, we need to start, you know, investing in solar.’”
“There is a flexibility that I know [former Conservative Prime Minister] Stephen Harper must dream about of having a DICTATORSHIP (yes, he said THAT word) that he can do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting,” he continued.
Our Prime Minister worships a country that has allowed hundreds of thousands of their people to die, to be tortured, and to be controlled.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history, allowing the federal government to freeze assets, suspend the insurance of the Freedom Convoy protesters, and target crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrency transactions under “terrorist financing” rules.
“This is about following the money. This is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at a press conference. “We are today serving notice that if your truck is being used in these illegal blockades your corporate accounts will be frozen.”
“The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended,” she continued. “Send your semi-trailers home, the Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally making us all poor.”
Here was the beginning of what looked to be the punishing of those who stood up to the government; punishing individuals whose only interest was protecting the freedoms of themselves, their families, and their communities.
This idea of punishing individuals who do not comply is not novel. Let’s also look at a level of control that is slowly being implemented, the idea of the Social Credit System.
China’s Social Credit System
In 2020, China announced that it would be implementing a social credit system whereby individuals and companies throughout the country could increase their “social credit score.” This score aims to keep track of the good and bad deeds of citizens, rewarding those who do good in their communities and punishing those who don’t.
The data collected by China for this social experiment primarily came from digital sources, including: interactions on social media, search history, and purchasing habits. Citizens were monitored according to their actions on the internet, and each had a chance to affect their credit scores. Other sources for data included: government agencies, information from not-for-profits, criminal records, and financial institutions.
Finally, China began to use video surveillance to monitor an individual’s actions in the real world. They began using advanced facial recognition technology to track people as they moved through and interacted with the world around them.
Good deeds (subjectively) that increased your social credit system standing included: donating blood, doing volunteer work, taking care of the elderly, and safe driving practices. Purchasing books instead of video games and dedicating time to schoolwork were also examples of how to increase one’s score.
Bad deeds (subjectively) that decreased your social credit standing included: not paying your debts, unsafe driving, posting anti-government content on social media, spreading rumors (conspiracy theories), infidelity, and buying too many video games.
If you were good, you would get perks that included: decreased electric bills, access to universities and higher education, easier access to public housing, free gym access, and a higher chance of securing a loan. Some citizens with high scores also enjoyed lower public transportation costs and tax breaks, as well as no requirement for a deposit when booking hotels or travel reservations.
China is ranked as one of the world’s most miserable countries, and our leader wants to pattern Canada after it? Something does not sit well thinking about that.
Mass Formation: what is that?
As a journalist and researcher, I have become concerned about the consensus narrative I have been seeing in the mainstream. There is a disputed phenomenon of large-scale mass formation that has risen from four psychological conditions that currently exist and are closing off human thinking. I want to be clear about something here: people don’t necessarily act from an evil intent, but more a psychological process to survive environmental conditions that is 95% subconscious.
The four conditions that allow mass formation to emerge are:
Lack of Social Bond
It’s a psychological social media paradox: people are interacting together online with their avatars, but they aren’t their true selves. They don’t create the intimacy or vulnerability that comes from shared experience.
People Experience life as Meaningless or Senseless
A Gallup poll from 2012 done with people in 142 countries revealed that 63% of respondents admitted to being so disengaged at work that they were sleepwalking through their day, putting time but not passion into their work.
Free-Floating Anxiety
Free-floating anxiety is creating a deep psychological discontent. In Belgium alone, 300 million doses of anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and sleeping pills are used each year in a population of 11 million. A study from the World Health Organization says that one in five people—over 300 million—actually have anxiety disorders. They not only have anxiety but qualify as having disorders.
Free-floating Frustration and Aggression
People feel frustrated and aggressive without really knowing the cause of their annoyance and anger.
When these four conditions are fulfilled, if a narrative is distributed through the mass media identifying an object of anxiety (COVID-19) and providing a strategy (mask wearing and vaccination) to deal with that object, mass formation can thrive. All the free-floating anxiety and anger, now turning into panic, becomes attached to the object (COVID-19). Sudden connection through this heroic struggle together against the object creates a new solidarity, a social bond that has been lacking, which in turn, creates meaning. People then feel that they can control their psychological discontent by participating in the strategy, even if it’s utterly absurd.
Participation in the strategy has nothing to do with facts; it’s to preserve this new social bond created by fighting together to defeat the object of their collective anxiety (we are in this together).
Karl Marx Abolition of the Family
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims,” Marx declared in his famous manifesto (Manifesto of the Communist Party). “They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution.”
For the African-Caribbean community, this section might be triggering to some because it focuses on an organization that many of us hold in high regard, Black Lives Matter. PLANDEMIC: Part Three did an excellent job of exposing certain aspects of this movement that I had no idea about.
First of all, I bring up Karl Marx because the founders of BLM have spoken to the fact that they admire his views and have actually called themselves “Marxist!”
In a now scrubbed page off their website, BLM’s main objective was to disrupt the nuclear family. In September 2020 Black Lives Matter removed a page on its website that disparaged the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
The group, whose co-founder Patrisse Cullors has described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists,” removed a page titled “What We Believe,” that included its public policy positions as well as describing itself as part of the “Global Black family.”
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” the website formerly read.
Some critics claim that BLM aimed to “Dismantle the patriarchal practice” that leads to mothers having to work double shifts to make ends meet.
Let’s go back to Marx; he admits that destroying the family is a thorny topic, even for revolutionaries. “Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists,” he writes. “The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.”
In the documentary one the founders actually is happy that her book is compared to Mao’s Red Book. For those who don’t know Mao’s Red Book It’s an icon of China and communism as well as a work of propaganda. More than a billion copies have been published, making the book, often wrapped in its distinctive vinyl cover, one of the most widely produced of all time. During China’s “Cultural Revolution” it became virtually mandatory to own and carry one.
Well, what does this have to do with BLM? Let’s take a look at how like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, BLM has expressed their affinity for China. The Black Futures Lab, a liberal initiative launched by a Black Lives Matter co-founder, lists as its financial sponsor the pro-China Chinese Progressive Association, raising questions about the extent of China’s support for the increasingly powerful protest movement.
China has made no secret of its support for the Black Lives Matter movement. It has cheered on the demonstrators and slammed U.S. “racism and police violence” in the Chinese Communist Party outlet China Daily. You don’t have to believe me, but believe the facts; go to the website for the Black Futures Lab, a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza, and click on the “Donate” button. It will ask you to send your money to an obscure organization, the Chinese Progressive Association, explaining that “Black Futures Lab is a fiscally sponsored project of the Chinese Progressive Association.”
Now we have the state turning children against parents (something that has been reportedly done in China), we don’t have a clear definition of what a woman or a man is, and there is a decline of healthy femininity and masculinity.
There is so much in this hour and 44-minute documentary, but it is necessary for us as a community to connect the dots. Something is not right, and it is going to be hard to admit to ourselves, but many of us have been hypnotized.
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Urban Alliance on Race Relations celebrates and highlights Racial Justice Award recipients
BY PAUL JUNOR
It has been almost 40 years since the Urban Alliance on Race Relations (UARR) has been at the forefront of: promoting tolerance, social justice, racial equity and fairness. Since it was formed in 1975, they have celebrated and recognized changemakers in the fight for racial justice in diverse sectors such as: health, labour, government, education, arts, media, environment, and justice.
On Saturday, December 7th, 2024, there was a great turnout at the 2024 Racial Justice Awards Night held at The Estate Banquet & Event Centre in Scarborough. In attendance were many community supporters, civic officials, long-time racial justice warriors, and individuals from diverse ethnic groups.
UARR is grateful for all the sponsors of the Racial Justice Awards Night Celebration. It notes in its email to its supporters on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024, the importance of its sponsors including:
- United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) of Canada, UFCW, Local 175
- The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 353
- Unite Here! Local 75
- Toronto & York Region Labour Council
- Canadian Labour Congress
- The Coalitions of Black Trade Union (CBTUL)
“Your sponsorship plays a vital role in shining a light on individuals and organizations driving equity, justice, and change in our communities. This celebration is more than an event, it’s a movement. Thanks to your support, we’re: honoring changemakers, amplifying unheard voices, and funding initiatives that break down systemic barriers.”
The categories and names of the awards and recipients were:
Racial Justice in Arts: Hannia Cheng
She is an artist and cultural worker who co-founded Unit 270, a DIY gallery and multi-purpose grassroots community hub in Chinatown Centre.
Racial Justice in Labour: Vanessa Story
She is the founder of the Black Youth York Region and co-founder of the York Communities for Public Education coalition.
Racial Justice in Education: Shannon Simpson
She is Senior Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Toronto.
Racial Justice in Environment: Dr. Ingrid Waldron
She is a Professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global and Peace and Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University.
Urban Alliance of Race Relations Agent of Change Award: Kirk Mark
He is the Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Consultant at KIRK Mark & Associates.
Racial Justice in Media: Amanda Parris
She is an award-winning writer, tv host and producer, and former host of CBC Arts Exhibitionist.
Racial Justice in Health: Camille Orridge
She is former CEO of the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (TCLHIN).
Racial Justice in Government: Amira Elghawaby
She is a journalist and human rights advocate who was appointed in January 2023 as Canada’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia.
Racial Justice in Justice: South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALC0)
This legal clinic supports low-income South Asian people in Canada.
The funds raised from the Awards night will be going toward the work of the Diversity Youth Fellowship Program. This innovative and creative program is directly involved in enabling racialized youth to get paid experience working in municipal governments and at various public policy making organizations across Canada.
The performers at the event included: Katheen Zaragosa (a Filipino music performer), Rithika Jeristus & Maya Jeristus (Bharatanatyam dancers) and Yasmin Said (spoken word artist)
UARR is looking forward to its 50th anniversary celebrations in 2025 and shared five of its strategic priorities for the next 10 years including:
- Employment and economic opportunity: The goal is to foster inclusive workspaces and economic opportunities.
- Education: The goal is to promote racial equity in education and research.
- Communication: The goal is to expand public awareness and reach to amplify our stories.
- Community engagement and outreach: The goal is building community capacity and convening towards change.
- Truth and reconciliation-relationship building and supporting calls to action. The goal is to strengthen our solidarity and action towards truth and reconciliation.
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What is it about those short videos that keep us captivated? Oh! Yes! Our short attention span
BY KAHA GEDI
As our attention spans decrease, short form videos are becoming more popular. From TikTok, to YouTube Shorts, to Instagram Reels, these “snack sized” videos have positive qualities alongside the bad. Mainly we want to know what makes them so effective, and why are they becoming the go-to choice for both viewers and marketers? In this article, I will be discussing how these videos have received such popularity worldwide.
First, we need to understand what counts as and what is short-form content. According to blog.hubspot.com, “Short-form videos are videos that are less than 60 seconds long.” However, some marketers and content creators agree that short-form videos can be up to 3 minutes. “They are videos that deliver information in a ‘digestible’ format so that viewers can quickly watch and save content if they’re in a hurry or enjoy it.” Now, I’ll talk about the main reasons why these videos are so popular.
First, our attention spans have gone down exponentially. Dr Gloria Mark has written a book called “Attention Span,” and she says her research indicates people’s attention spans have been shrinking over the last 20 years. According to the same article Dr. Mark said that “Back in 2004, we found the average attention span on any screen to be two and a half minutes on average. Throughout the years, it became shorter. So, around 2012, we found it to be 75 seconds. Then in the last five, six years, we found it to average about 47 seconds.” So, it’s notable that our attention spans started out longer but then decreased over time.
Secondly, these videos have become cheaper and easier to make. Unlike long-form videos, which require extensive: planning, editing, and storytelling, short-form videos are simpler. To the point where they can even be shot on a smartphone. For example, DuoLingo, the app that helps learn new languages, went viral on TikTok a long time ago by posting funny, low-budget videos that resonate with millions. Like a video of a DuoLingo plus being: tossed down the stairs, sitting outside on a rainy day, or being soaked by the shower with the title “When you ignore my notifications.”
Lastly, they provide valuable information in a short amount of time, and they are easily accessible. According to a recent Adobe Survey, two in five Americans use TikTok as a search engine, and nearly one in 10 Gen Zeers are more likely to rely on TikTok than Google as a search engine. This isn’t always reliable for real news because anyone can claim to be an expert, and you wouldn’t know if they’re telling the truth. So, even though they give valuable information in a short time, they can also give misinformation or mislead you.
Short-form videos have changed how we watch and learn things. They fit our short attention spans, are easy to make, and share information quickly. Even though they’re fun and helpful, they can also spread false information or leave out important details. Even with these problems, short-form videos are here to stay, so we should use them in proportion, but also enjoy the benefits.
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