#7 - While Joe Biden forces companies to force workers to get vaccinated or else, Vladimir Putin says "no one should be forced to get a jab.  Pressure, where people may lose their jobs, is even less acceptable."

So the inescapable conclusion is that Vladimir Putin is now the leader of the Free World.   

Freedom is in good hands, actually.  With Avangarde hypersonic missiles, 5th generation warplanes that outperform the competition, million-dollar anti-ship missiles that make billion-dollar aircraft carriers obsolete, electronic counter-measures that shut down Imperial radar, and S-400/S-500 strategic deterrence, freedom is fiercely well-defended.  It must be, for it is under attack from all directions by Imperial Fascist forces.  It is a war for survival:  A global fascist empire cannot coexist with sovereign nation-states.  Something has to give, and Russia's sovereign self-defence capabilities means freedom isn't going anywhere.  Jesus Christ Amen.

"The corporate state is the fascist state," is a quote famously attributed to Mussolini.  And according to Both Stanford University and former President Jimmy Carter, America is no longer a functioning democracy. 

We have seen Empire, and it is us.

Rome is falling, relatives.  Imperial fascism is collapsing under its own obese, corrupt weight.  Man cannot have two masters, for he will love the one and hate the other.  Western Civilization has turned its back on God in order to worship mammon.  We have been manipulated into abandoning the innate spirituality that is our birthright, in order to worship at the altar of materialism.  But the truth is coming to light, and all that is hidden is being revealed.  The age of Aquarius is the age of information, the age of transparency.  And so we are witnessing the fall of mammon's Empire. 

Turn your backs on mammon's Empire, relatives.  The time has come for America to look at itself honestly in the mirror and acknowledge the truth of what it sees.  The time has come to turn our backs on mammon's Empire, an empire of material wealth, and remember our relationship with Spirit  - the world that cannot be bought or sold, the world of values where love and loyalty and trust and solidarity and forgiveness and compassion are ideas worth believing in, defending, and dying for.  Humanity is making the longest journey we have ever made:  we are making the journey from our heads to our hearts. 

...but i digress.  In brief:

In Putin's Russia, oligarchs defer to the government.

In Biden's America, the government defers to the oligarchs.

In Putin's Russia, corporations are beholden to the sovereign State.

In Biden's America, the sovereign State is beholden to the corporations.

We have seen the enemy, and it is us, relatives.  And as we see the devastation our deceit has caused, to the world and ourselves, we at long last come of age, to a maturity that allows us to look at ourselves, our loved ones, our veterans, and the world at large, and speak the words of the Hawaiian Ho'o Pono Pono prayer:

I love you

I'm sorry

Please forgive me

Thank you

... This is what must be done, for us to regain our integrity.  For our integrity is the source of our strength.  America has lost its strength, because America has lost its integrity.  And a heartfelt prayer for forgiveness, not merely from God but equally from our fellow man, is the path of healing into wholeness.  Where there is no part of humanity left out, no aspect of the living world of nature bereft of mystery and divinity. 

Victor Hugo said, "No army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come,"  Buckminster Fuller said, "Its all of us or none of us,"  and Dwight Eisenhower said, "I think the people of this world want peace so bad, one of these days the government is going to have to get out of the way and let them have it." 

Relatives, that day has come.  It's all of us or none of us, and we all want peace so bad the government is gonna have to get out of the way and let us have it.  No army in the world can stop us.  No army in the world wants to.  It's our army.  it's composed of, entirely and exclusively, us.  Because we are all related, and its all of us or none of us.  Me vs You is archaic, obsolete and self-destructive.  Humanity is in this together.  Survival is a non-zero sum game.  It's all of us or none of us.

So let us remember the necessary virtue of tolerance, wherein we tolerate differences that we do not necessarily embrace or even enjoy.  We tolerate differences, because we know that we are part of the family of humanity, which is part of the web of life, which is a sacred mystery. 

And let us equally heed the necessary virtue of justice, which exists quite literally to protect and defend the vulnerable from exploitation.  In an unjust world the weak are defenseless against the strong.  It requires justice for the vulnerable to be safe and free.  A civilization is judged according to how well it treats its most vulnerable.

How Silent Bear got his name

 A long time ago Bastante Solipsis Marquez got lost.  He got so lost he couldn't find himself.  He discovered one day that he was sleeping in a ditch.  He went out to the road and stuck out his thumb, to hitchhike anywhere.  Nobody drove by.  After a long time passed he crossed the road to hitchhike anywhere else.  

He was that lost.

 

He was so lost, he lost the ability to speak.   Days and weeks and months went by and Bastante observed them pass without speaking.  He had gone silent.

Sleeping by a creek, one day he met a Native American who saw him clearly and took him home.  He was adopted by a Cherokee clan, the Clan of the Cave Bear.  They took him in and kept him fed and helped him find work and let him sleep in the yard.   They taught him how to pray, and they taught him how to sweat, and they taught him how to carry himself as he traveled the Red Road.  

 

The clan mother was White Wolf, and the clan elder was Black Wolf.  Bastante's brother was Traveling Wolf.  Uncle Moon and Uncle Eagle, and Grey Wolf and Crazy Bear, and Medicine Eagle and Red Bear were also in the clan.   Buffalo Woman and Auntie Fish Eagle and Two Coyotes and Earth Man with a Good Heart and Huitzilopochli were from different tribes, but they were close relatives, who sat up and prayed with Bastante. Even though they were from other tribes, they were part of the clan. 

They gave him a Cherokee name.  They called him Silent Bear.  

This is a true story.

Out of the dumpster

Heap Coyote spotted Silent Bear on sovereign land by the ocean.  

They smoked.

Heap Coyote spoke.  

"Heap police officer came on soveriegn land last Friday.  Lookin to arrest."  

"The Kanaka brought out the deeds and lay down his staff.

He got on his knees  before the police officers, and declared his non-violence and his title and his rights as an heir of sovereign land."

Silent Bear said nothing.

"After  three hours of nonviolent confrontation, the police offers left in good spirits and no one was arrested. "

Silent Bear smiled.

"Kept a fire goin the whole time."

Silent Bear spoke:

"Just like that, the war is won!"

"The tribe of the Earth Mother Goddess has engaged in conflict with the wrathful Sky God of legal language, the language of the Law, the Babylonian Language of the Babble-Law..."

"Babylon," said Heap Coyote.

Silent Bear nodded.  

“Babble-On.”

He continued:  

“The Earth Guardians of the Temple of the Heart have nonviolently engaged with the all-powerful Officers of the Language of the Mind.  And the warriors of the heart have emerged victorious!  Love for the world has triumphed over conflict!"

They both smiled on the gorgeous and horrible battlefield of life itself.

Silent Bear spoke yet again:  

"Law-Babel is written language, the Babble Language of the Babble-Law... memorized and written down, unlike the unspoken wisdom of the heart.  These ancient Babylonian Laws, the legal Babel laws of ancient Babylon sent many officers of the Law to arrest peaceful residents of sovereign Tribal land, and after several hours of nonviolent confrontation they left in good spirits, and the spirit of the land and its people remained well- defended... 

...by the Law, the Babble Law.

“VICTORY!”

He raised his fists.

  

“In the end, their own most invincible and lethal weapon, the legal language of the Law, was used against them.   They were consumed by their own aggression, as must always be,” said Silent Bear.

“Just like that we have won the war.”

They shook hands.

"It's all of us or none of us," said Heap Coyote.

The sun continued to set on a world that had become victorious over conflict itself, winning the eternal war between him and her- the head and the heart