{"id":210629,"date":"2022-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=210629"},"modified":"2022-05-01T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:11:31","slug":"its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/its-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 Apr 2022 – <\/em>Isn\u2019t it always?<\/p>\n

With the start of World War III by the United States \u201cdeclaring\u201d war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible.\u00a0 I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.<\/p>\n

I look down at my great-uncle\u2019s gold Elgin pocket watch from the 19th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 His name was John Patrick Whalen, an Irish immigrant to the U.S. who fled England\u2019s colonialist created famine in Ireland.\u00a0 It tells me it is 5:15 PM on April 21, 2022, a date, coincidentally, with a history.\u00a0 No doubt John looked at his watch on this date in 1898 when the United States, after the USS Maine exploded from within in Havana harbor (a possible false flag attack), declared war on Spain in order to confiscate Spanish territories \u2013 Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.\u00a0 One colonial power replaced another and then proceeded over the long decades to wage war and slaughter these island peoples.\u00a0 Imperialism never dies.\u00a0 It is timeless.<\/p>\n

One hundred-and twenty-four years go by in a flash and it\u2019s still the same old story.\u00a0 In 1898 the yellow press screamed Spanish devils and today it screams Russian devils.\u00a0 Then and now the press called for war.\u00a0 If the human race is still here in another 124 years, time and the corporate media will no doubt have told the same story \u2013 war and propaganda\u2019s lies to an insouciant and ignorant population too hypnotized by propaganda to oppose them. This despite the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can\u2019t think clearly enough to perceive reality and realize the threat posed by that quintessential technological invention \u2013 nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

This is not uplifting, but it\u2019s true.\u00a0 The nuclear weapons are primed and ready to fly.\u00a0 The U.S. insists on its first-strike right to launch them.\u00a0 It openly declares it is seeking the overthrow of the Russian government.\u00a0 Russia says it will use nuclear weapons only if its existence is threatened, which has become increasingly so because of U.S. provocations over a long time period and its current expanding arming of Ukraine\u2019s government and its neo-Nazi forces.<\/p>\n

The Russian President Vladimir Putin and its Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov have just warned the U.S. that such involvement has made nuclear war a \u201cserious\u201d and \u201creal\u201d risk, in Lavrov\u2019s words \u201cwe must not underestimate it,\u201d which is a mild form of diplomatic speech. Putin said that Russia has made all the preparations to respond if it senses a strategic threat to Russia and that response will be \u201cinstant, it will be quick.\u201d\u00a0 The U.S. response is to shrug these statements off, just as it has done so for many years with Putin\u2019s complaints about NATO forces moving up to its border.\u00a0 Incredibly, Biden has said, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man (Putin) cannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite endless media\/intelligence anti-Russian propaganda \u2013 \u201ca vast tapestry of lies,\u201d to use Harold Pinter\u2019s phrase \u2013 many fine writers have provided the historical details to confirm the truth that the U.S. has purposely provoked the Russian war in Ukraine by its actions there and throughout Eastern Europe, which the mainstream media avoid completely. This U.S. aggressive history against Russia is part of a much larger history of imperial hubris extending back to the 19th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 I will therefore here follow Thoreau\u2019s advice \u2013 \u201cIf you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?\u201d \u2013 since how many times do people need to hear lies such as \u201cIraq has weapons of mass destruction\u201d in order to justify wars of aggression around the world.\u00a0 The historical facts are very clear, but facts and history don\u2019t seem to matter to many people. Pinter again, in his Nobel Address, bluntly told the truth about the U.S.\u2019s history of systematic and remorseless war crimes: \u201cNothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn\u2019t happening. It didn\u2019t matter. It was of no interest.\u201d\u00a0 Which is still the case.<\/p>\n

So time is my focus, for the last days have arrived unless there occurs a radical awakening to the obvious truth that the U.S. government is pushing the world to the brink of disaster in full awareness of the consequences.\u00a0 Its actions are insane, yet insanity has become the norm.\u00a0 Insane leaders and a catatonic, hypnotized public lead to disaster.<\/p>\n

I write these words with an old fountain pen, a high school graduation gift, to somehow comfort and remind myself that when we were this close once before in October 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev miraculously found a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis; and to find hope now, and that when my time is up and I join John Patrick in the other world, things will have changed for my children and grand-children.\u00a0 It is admittedly the hope of a desperado.<\/p>\n

The last few years of the Covid-19 propaganda have served to further distort people\u2019s sense of time, a distortion years in the making through the introduction of digital technology with its accompanying numerical time clicks and its severing of our natural sense of time that is tied to the rising and falling of the tides and the turning of the days and seasons, a feeling that is being lost. Such felt sense of time\u2019s texture could be slow or faster, but it had limits.\u00a0 We now live in a world without limits, which, as the ancient Greeks knew, demands payback.<\/p>\n

For years before Covid-19, the sense of speed time was dominant, supported by the politically-introduced state of a constant emergency after September 11, 2001 with the urgency to hurry and keep up or one would fall behind. \u00a0Keep up with what was never explained. \u00a0Hurry why?\u00a0 Fast and faster was the rule with constant busyness that served the very useful social function of leaving no time for thinking, which was the point, but it made many feel as though they were engaged.\u00a0 And constantly alert for \u201cterrorists\u201d to come knocking.\u00a0 Thus the long wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc., all of which continue via various subterfuges.<\/p>\n

Then, presto, all this frenzied time sense came to a stop with the 2020 lockdowns, when time got very slow, but not slow in the natural sense but an enforced slowness.\u00a0 People were locked up.\u00a0 Not only was it stupefying but stultifying and an existential drag.\u00a0 This went on for two years with the prisoners allowed short respites only to be rounded back up and locked down again. Jabbed and jolted was the plan. \u00a0When will it ever end? was the common cry, as despair and depression spread and scrambled minds led to suicides and mindless screen entertainment.\u00a0 This was planned education for a trans-human future in which the cell phone will be central to totalitarian control if people do not rebel.<\/p>\n

Those behind the Covid-19 and war propaganda are fanatical technocrats who seek total control of the world\u2019s population through digital technology.\u00a0 Now they have temporarily<\/em> let the people out of one type of cell and dramatically sped up time with frantic war propaganda against Russia.\u00a0 The great English writer John Berger said it perfectly:<\/p>\n

Every ruling minority needs to numb, and, if possible, to kill the time-sense of those whom it exploits. This is the authoritarian secret of all methods of imprisonment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone is now doing time while scrolling messages on the walls of their cell phones.\u00a0 A twisted, convoluted, distorted, mechanical time in which it seems that there is no history and the future is an endless road of more of the same.<\/p>\n

Some say we have all the time in the world.\u00a0 I say no, that we have entered a new time, perhaps the end-time, when the world\u2019s end is a very real possibility.\u00a0 Hypnotized people can agree to anything, even mass-suicide, unless they snap out of it.\u00a0 This can only happen with a return to slowness in the old sense, when people once felt time in their hearts\u2019 rhythms attuned to the rising and falling of nature\u2019s reality.\u00a0 Time to think and contemplate the fate of the earth when nuclear war is contemplated.\u00a0 Yes, \u201cWe must not underestimate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it always?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Edward Curtin is a widely published author and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. His new book is <\/em>Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies<\/a> \u2013 His website: Behind the Curtain<\/a> – email: edcurtinjr@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 edwardcurtin.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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