10/4: Don't be shamed out of doing you
The term “conspiracy theorist” is perhaps the crowning achievement of psyops. Few terms have been more successful in triggering our collective fear of looking foolish and gullible. Many of us will shy away from exploring the possibility of anything that might render us a tin-foil-hat-wearing-flat-earther. Or God forbid, an anti-vaxxer.
So this meme gave me a giggle.
If you’ve spent any time on social media over the last couple of weeks, you’ve likely seen at least one of several viral posts about the Emergency Alert System (EAS) test that FEMA will be conducting today at 2:20pm Eastern time.
As far as I can tell, Jason Shurka, was the primary harbinger of a warning to turn off our phones. Here’s his original warning.
This test will be used to send a specific high frequency signal through devices like smart phones, radios and TVs with the intention of activating graphene oxide and other nanoparticles that have been inserted into billions of human beings around the world… Everyone will be affected regardless of your status…
If the October 4th date does not happen for any reason, the back up plan will be to do it on October 11th…. In the case that this is not able to be stopped, I ask you to shut off your phones and all relevant devices at 2pm Eastern time, for a period of 2 hours to be safe. This type of wavelength can affect us physically, mentally and emotionally. I urge you all to protect yourself and I ask you all to share this video.
Here’s his follow up message:
Since then, there have been loads of posts with all kinds of claims. I’ve seen ones about activating marburg virus. I’ve seen posts about a geolocation initiative.
Here’s an example of how mainstream media covers these concerns.
Because most of this fearmongering concerns allegedly harmful cell phone signals, the conspiracist community is also sharing pseudoscientific advice about how to protect oneself during the FEMA test.
Basically, if you even consider the possibility that FEMA might do something irresponsible or harmful with 5G signals, you are a conspiracy theorist. If you consider using a Faraday cage to try to protect yourself from electromagnetic radiation, you’re a nutter.
The publication that supports global mass vaccination and mandates believes that people who may turn off their phones for a couple of hours are lunatics and scours the internet for the most extreme post in order to play the media conflating game…
“My family believes the end is near,” a redditor wrote recently on r/QAnonCasualties, a subreddit where people can commiserate about their friends and loved ones falling down the rabbit hole of the conspiracist QAnon movement. “According to my father, on October 4th, at 2pm EST, the government is going to use the Emergency Broadcast System to play a frequency that will activate the RFID chips in vaccinated people and trigger the beginning of the great replacement,” the post explained. The idea that the vaccines contain radio frequency identification tags — so that elites like Bill Gates or George Soros can track individuals, according to some anti-vaxxers — is a falsehood typically conflated with paranoia about 5G networks. “The Great Replacement,” meanwhile, is a white nationalist conspiracy theory which holds that white citizens in Western nations are being systematically replaced with nonwhite immigrants. Racist mass shooters have regularly invoked the concept in their manifestoes.
But as risk/benefit analyses go, what’s the downside of putting your phone in a Faraday cage or turning it off for a couple of hours? Who cares if people choose to put their phone in the microwave or wrap it in aluminum foil? It’s not like they’re telling people to get injections every six months that won’t stop infection or transmission of a virus.
Of all the stories publications like this will not go near, why this one?
Doing a brief search in Rolling Stone for the term anti-vaxxer, I get 3 pages of listings for articles like these.
And??
Do whatever you want from 2 to 4pm. Here in New Jersey it’s a beautiful day and I welcome the chance to be outside in nature. Maybe I’ll even meditate or pray or do something to raise the vibrations even higher.
If that makes me a conspiracy theorist, that’s fine my me. I’ll be a conspiracy theory fairy if it means remaining curious and checking in with my gut.
Rolling Stone and mainstream media are not afraid to be wrong. They are wrong ALL THE TIME. They are completely unapologetic about being absolutely wrong and almost never look back, so maybe we should worry less about the possibility of making mistakes.
Don’t let anyone shame you out of whatever learning curve you’re on.
Go 4th and do you.
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I am skeptical of this one but hey, I turned off my phone because that is a pretty easy thing to do. I also have my modem/router wrapped in a shroud. I do think some conspiracy theories are psy ops, but I refuse to shame anyone for believing in any of them, especially after the past few years.
I spend most of my media time in a Jimmy Dore/ Max Blumenthal/ Trish Wood/ CHD/ Wesley Yang/ Bret Weinstein/ Kim Iversen/ Clifton Duncan/ Matt Taibbi/ Walter Kirn nexus. I'm always surprised to find that a lot of people still consider that media nexus and those corresponding ideas "beyond the pale." That's what I find shocking.
I've had the "flat earther" and "lizard people believer" and "anti-Semite" labels flung at me for doing something as benign as posting my support for RFK, Jr. on my Facebook page (this by supposed "friends" who think they have an "own" with a CNN headline or a Reuters fact check). I'd much rather hang out with people who are open to counter narratives. I have even met (again, to my surprise) some highly intelligent flat earthers (https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/behind-the-curve-and-outside-the/comments) and although I'm not sold on that one (and had assumed it was a psy op), we do keep learning entirely new concepts about space, so I will give them that.
There are some young up-and-comers from across the political spectrum who I think are doing really interesting work in regard to questioning narratives on podcasts such as PsyOp Cinema, Rare Candy, and Subliminal Jihad. They seem to me like dream students in that they are self-motivated to do a lot of in-depth research on various subjects. Not sure if that is still something the educational system is encouraging.
Rolling Stone! Ugghh! I still remember when it was a must read for counter culture kids like me who thought with our love (and the right combination of drugs) we were going to change the world. What happened that turned them, Mother Jones and others into cheerleaders for the establishment? In today’s Kennedy Beacon Nikko House dives into the dark world of Mockingbird journalism revealing who’s calling the shots and why. This is, although scary, one of the best overviews of the slimy way the mainstream narrative is being used to brainwash anyone who isn’t careful enough to ask questions. The only hope is watching our numbers soar as fewer folks than ever trust a word they say. https://open.substack.com/pub/thekennedybeacon/p/how-two-of-hollywoods-top-talent?r=59dck&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post