{"id":581,"date":"2024-01-30T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=581"},"modified":"2025-01-25T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:55:15","slug":"we-are-the-waves-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/we-are-the-waves-together\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are the Waves Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Note two things Nancy Pelosi said recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">She said that some protesters for a free Palestine are connected to Russia. And she also said \u201cGo back to China where your headquarters is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A week ago or so I made a post about the original \u201cAxis of Evil\u201d and its version 2.0. Stay with me here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The first iteration of that term was uttered in 2002 by George W Bush and included Iran, Iraq, northern Korea, and was used to make some of the worst international and domestic policy decisions that still reverberate today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For instance, \u201cthe War on Terror\u201d was coined, which was used as a blanket excuse to establish military campaigns in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, in search of Weapons of Mass Destruction that were NEVER found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For instance, the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; was coined, a blanket concept that was used to set up military campaigns in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. There was also the war in Afghanistan for 20 years where the US failed and made it worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There was the establishment of the US Patriot Act, which set up domestic surveillance for the panopticon that it is today. And there was the rampant Islamophobia that was goaded on by the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So when Nikki Haley and Mitch McConnell bring up the term \u201cAxis of Evil\u201d to now include Russia and China, we can get a glimpse into their intentions and how they are trying to craft a narrative to ready the public for harmful and atrocious international and domestic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They are laying the groundwork to pit us against other countries to distract us from being inside the imperial core itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, for example, MULTIPLE cop cities are being planned and constructed within the US Empire. We need to be deeply concerned and aware of the narrative that Empire is spinning.<br><br>Empire is building its proverbial and physical walls higher. They say it is to keep others out, but in fact, they are to keep us trapped within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Within the imperial core, we are in an advantageous position to dismantle Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Remember what I said before. We are waves. We are the waves within those walls. We can cause crevices and cracks under our collective might. We create momentum and movement to cause more fissures and openings until the walls buckle altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Stay unified, stay alert. Spot the propaganda. Ready yourselves for what is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And let us keep being powerful waves together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note two things Nancy Pelosi said recently: She said that some protesters for a free Palestine are connected to Russia. 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