“When you find yourself on a vicious cycle, for goodness sake, stop pedaling and get off.”

-- Swami Beyondananda

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBh9F8Iunk

From Steve Bhaerman:

One of the biggest challenges for me in the wake of the election results has been speaking into the field of grief, anger, profound disappointment, hopelessness and despair so many of my progressive co-hearts have been experiencing.

And …I’ve been watching this slow-motion train wreck for nearly four years, so I was not surprised.

I began this election day by taking my own advice and following my conscience. I abstained from voting for President. My choice was neither of the above. My prayer was for the American people to make the wisest choice possible – and I let it be with that.

I went about my business peacefully, spent time in nature, watched inspiring, entertaining and educational programs Tuesday night and went to bed without following the “hearse-race.”

In sharp contrast to my rage and horror when it happened in 2016, I awoke to the news peacefully, and – please hear me out – relief that uncommon common sense prevailed, and the American people soundly rejected what has passed as “progressivism” in recent years.

Am I pleased Trump was elected? Well …there’s a reason I didn’t vote for him. (Check out Bill Maher’s rant on this very topic)

Where to begin?

I keep thinking about a conversation I had just over a year ago with a long-time friend who was such a rabid anti-Trumper that if he bit you, you’d have to get a shot. After he informed me that Trump was evil incarnate, that anyone who supported him was evil, and anyone who didn’t believe he was evil was evil as well, I asked him a few questions.

We’ll call him DINO, which stands for Democrat In Name Only.

“DINO,” I asked, “How do you feel about ‘woke’ and all of the new language we are being told to use?”

“I hate it!” he replied. “I hate people telling me what I can and can’t say.”

“And transgender?” I inquired.

“I can’t even comprehend it. Absolutely fucking nuts!” he said.

Then I asked, “What’s your take on the immigration issue?”

“Are you kidding?” he responded. “You can’t just have open borders and let everyone in!”

This was at the time that gangs of youngsters were descending on stores and stealing everything they could get their hands on, and no one was being prosecuted. “How about the ‘catch and release’ policing?”

He rolled his eyes. “Incomprehensible,” he said.

I said, “DINO, I don’t know how to tell you this, but … you’re a Republican. The only thing keeping you in the Democrat fold is …Donald Trump.”

He didn’t say anything. What could he say? Several months after that, when he found I was supporting Bobby Kennedy’s campaign, he called to officially terminate our 40+ year friendship.

There’s a lot more that can be said – and you can go deeper into the conversation by watching our Front and Center podcast, where Michael Maxsenti and I explore both the critiques of the Harris campaign and Democrats through the sharp eye of Bill Maher (the closest thing we have to George Carlin these days) and the heartfelt words of reassurance about the Trump administration from Aubrey Marcus.

Bottom line -- 51% of American voters now identify as independent. That is the future of politics in America, if we are to have one. There is no “political savior” on any side … rather what will save us is the collective wisdom of we the people.

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We have met the solution – and it is us!

“If a speech falls freely in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, is it still free speech?” – Swami Beyondananda

Watch here on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5l72zy-beyond-censorship-mind-control.-you-cant-know-what-they-dont-show-you.html

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In 1974, the satirical troupe, Firesign Theatre, put out a comedy record, Everything You Know Is Wrong.

Now, 50 years later …looks like they were right.

When we think of censorship, we think of overt repression of views, like book banning, or even book-burning. But in these times, where so much of what we think we “know” comes from digital sources, the censorship is so silent and stealthy that we haven’t a clue how the information we receive has already been filtered and focused by someone unknown to us. And how we are convinced we are “thinking our own thoughts” but are in fact parroting planted narratives.

On this episode of Front and Center, Michael and I review and unpack an eye-opening interview with psychologist and journalist Dr. Robert Epstein, on what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). Epstein, a former editor of Psychology Today, has written extensively about how Google’s algorithms elevate the data they want you to see and suppress what they don’t. It explains why when you Google “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” you have to wade through pages of negative articles before you can get to anything that Kennedy actually said or wrote.

Recently, Epstein reports, the same has been true of Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren – who has been critical of Google and their bias.

An example of how this works. Just go to Google search and put in the letter “a” – what comes up but Amazon, Google’s biggest advertiser.

More disturbing yet, Epstein shows how this distorted distribution of information has impacted elections – shifting undecided voters from 50-50 to 90-10, by sending them one-sided information and burying the other point of view. Epstein, a Democrat himself, shows that this silent programming is being done to support selected Democratic candidates and squelch dissent.

Here’s another example. When RFK, Jr.’s independent campaign was surging, he went from 25% support to single digits – all because of how the “news” was being skewed.

This is how elections are “stolen” without going near a voting booth or ballot box.

But we don’t know any of this – and we don’t know that we don’t know -- because we never get to see it.

We DO know this now because we have the ability to monitor exactly what they are doing, thanks to Dr. Epstein’s platform The Tech Watch Project (https://techwatchproject.org/) that is holding Big Tech companies accountable by monitoring internet content with the first ever nationwide "Digital Shield."

As I’ve said before, these are apocalyptic times when the veil is being lifted on evils of all kinds. We might not want to look, but to get through this difficult passage for humanity, we must. As the Swami has said, the truth shall UPSET you free.

It’s natural to be upset when you’ve been set up. Knowledge is power.

Please watch this podcast to find out what you don’t know, and need to know.

Explore the data and analysis on Epstein's monitoring system at https://americasdigitalshield.com/

Review Epstein's privacy tips at https://medium.com/@re_53711/seven-simple-steps-toward-online-privacy-20dcbb9fa82

Learn more about the Tech Watch Project at https://techwatchproject.org/

RFK, Jr Podcast interview with Dr. Robert Epstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1YKFdgL5c