We Are Change Chicago

Thanks so much to everyone who came out, brought supplies, and made this a successful event.  And a special thanks to the video editor.  By the way, the “f word” is, relatively speaking, not profane.  That the greatest crime in American history has not been properly investigated after 10 years, but was nevertheless deemed sufficient reason to go to war at the cost of the United States economy and millions of lives, on the other hand…

We Are Change Chicago member Swizzlesteve has released a music video for his song “Our World Changed.”  We can be certain that 9/11 changed our world dramatically.  Yet, we still cannot be certain what really transpired that day, nor can we afford to continue to pretend we can be.   Watch. Share. Spread.

Investigate 9/11

Jared, Co-Organizer of We Are Change Chicago, has released a full length Hip Hop album entitled The Awakening (click to download for free).  The album is full of substance and “truth movement” based content.  So give it a listen, and help spread it and the information it contains.  Support real Hip Hop and the search for the Truth.

“I encourage all listeners to research the information provided in these songs. My main goal in music is to educate people and wake them up the the realities they have yet to comprehend. Seek Truth. Share Knowledge. Embrace The Awakening.”  -Jared

Mark Jungwirth
We Are Change – Oshkosh
QW Magazine

I am going to begin this by saying that some people may be offended by what is said in this article. It is not my intention at all to offend. And I can say with honesty that if you are offended at what I say, it means that you need to get past a mental block and allow yourself to ask ALL the questions, not just the questions that all the other “good little truthers” expect to hear. That being said, let’s dive right in, shall we?

Recently Geraldo Rivera came out (basically) in support of 9-11 Truth.  At first glance this may seem like a “WIN” for the Truth Movement. But when you consider all the things that we know to be true, the idea that this isn’t a set-up of some sort is preposterous.

We know that the most prominent members of the media attend Bilderberg meetings, the Bohemian Grove ceremonies, Council on Foreign Relations meetings, and are sworn to secrecy. These meetings take place behind armed guards and locked doors. The policies for such meetings are as rigid as can be imagined. Some of these “reporters” are George Stephanopoulos, William F. Buckley Jr., Will Hutton, Andrew Knight, Harry Shearer, Walter Cronkite, the owner of People Magazine, the manager of Time Warner, Charlie Rose, and Chris Matthews, just to name a few. We know that by the early 1900’s the ruling elite purchased all the major forms of media that would allow them to control what was and was not allowed to be presented to the public. And we know that the news broadcasts and radio shows today are so obviously and rigidly controlled that when anyone brings up real issues, the person gets cut off immediately, and is often ridiculed afterward, without having any of their points disproved. And we even know that there are government programs such as Operation Mockingbird and Cointelpro, which are programs that work through major media agencies and broadcasters to spread misinformation and disinformation to manipulate public perception. We know by studying the raw footage of all of the Big 5 (American) TV news agencies, that the news media was intricately involved in the deception that was the 9-11 attacks.

Knowing all these things, it is impossible for me to just accept that when I saw Geraldo Rivera switch stances on the issue of 9-11 Truth, I was seeing a victory for our movement. Given all I know and have experienced in my own research and activism, I find it highly more probable that there is a reason that 9-11 Truth is getting mainstream attention. When the mainstream media sees a group of activists or a social justice leader as “dangerous” to the status quo, they don’t give the group or individual any media time at all. Even bad publicity is good publicity. When you see activists or journalists demonized and treated like dirt on TV, many people think, “Why did they just treat that guy so terribly?” And then they go look into the information that the person who was being demonized was trying to present, and find it to be logical and accurate. I also find 10 times out of 10 that when someone is seen on TV, it is because they are allowed on. Now, just because someone is allowed on TV does not necessarily mean they are complicit in some sort of conspiracy. It just means that whatever information they will be presenting is not damaging to the powers that be, and/or is information that the powers that be want (at least certain) people to see.

Regardless, the only time someone who is genuinely challenging the status quo is allowed on TV is when they already have standing in the public arena and can’t be ignored. So the powers that be may bring this person on to attempt to assassinate their character. On the other hand, if this person does not have standing in the court of public opinion, the media chooses to ignore this person, and gives them zero airtime, and not even a mention.

Let’s apply that to the 9-11 Truth Movement. 9-11 Truth has how much standing in the eyes of the general public? None. Most people don’t want to discuss 9-11, especially in the sense of conspiracy / government complicity. Most people will avoid that conversation at all costs. I have been a researcher / activist exposing 9-11 for the better part of a decade now. I would know. So I have to be skeptical when I see Bob McIlvaine, a 9-11 victim’s family member, on Geraldo Rivera’s show, being given an interview where he isn’t being demonized, he isn’t being made fun of; he is actually being treated quite politely, and shown respect, even as he expresses that he feels that elements of the U.S. government were responsible for 9-11.

Up until this moment in history such a statement was unheard of in mainstream news, unless, of course, it was followed by charges of believing in shape-shifting aliens, or wearing tin-foil hats. So why the drastic difference in treatment all of a sudden? Has the 9-11 Truth movement finally begun to break through to the general public and garner the respect it deserves? I can tell you from thousands of hours as an activist, both on the street and online, that the answer to that question is an honest but disappointing “No”. Are we making a difference? Absolutely. Are we making nearly enough difference to possibly be mentioned positively on TV without it being a set-up? Absolutely not. There may be many people who are unhappy with me for what I am presenting, but I am only presenting what I know to be accurate by my own experience. If this makes you uncomfortable that means you have found one of your current mental blocks and discovered the newest issue for you to work on coming to terms with. For some people this process happens 10 or 20 times. For others it only needs to happen a few times for the individual to be open enough to truly hear all questions, regardless of what emotional response is evoked.

So there it is. Why is the 9-11 truth movement going mainstream? I have a few ideas, but am unwilling to speculate at this time. What I will say is that between this and a few other hairy details I have come to know to be true of the Truth / Patriot movement, my advice to all those who are true out there is to keep your eyes peeled and your ears and minds open. These people have been in control for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. If there is one thing I know that history continuously proves beyond a shadow of a doubt about the relationship of the people who run the world to those fighting them, it is that when you think you have them, they almost certainly have you.

On January 7, 2010 We Are Change Chicago confronted Neo-Con radio show host Michael Medved on the presence of nano-thermite in the World Trade Center dust.  He makes some interesting comments.

To view the peer-reviewed scientific article “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe” see the following link:
http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/art…

To view experiments and additional information on thermite/thermate, see the following link:
http://swizzlesteve.com/2010/11/911-experiments-the-great-thermate-debate/

Special Thanks to:
The Reality Report
yungdubble
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Loose Change
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We Are Change Chicago marched along with a multitude of other groups to call for an end to the illegal wars.

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On 09/21/2010 George W. Bush attended a real estate conference in downtown Chicago at the Four Seasons Hotel.  We Are Change Chicago joined members of numerous other groups (including Code Pink, Chicago 9/11 Truth, Veterans for Peace, the World Can’t Wait, M20 Coalition, etc.) outside to call for his arrest.  Bush is literally a war criminal, and his irresponsible and immoral actions have led to the deaths of over a million people.  Meanwhile, he’s traveling around to expensive hotels and attending conferences.  We were not able to confront him, because secret service snuck him out somehow.  At least he knows he can’t come to Chicago without sneaking around like the criminal that he is.

“The Consumer is gonna be king…  always.”  -Michael H. Moskow, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1:26:45)

“Left unabated, obesity would overtake smoking as a leading preventable cause of death in this country.”  -David Satcher, MD, Former US Surgeon General. (From Super Size Me)

“We’re developing a society because of all of these different toxins known to affect brain function… that not only has a lot more people of lower IQ, but a lot fewer people of higher IQ.  In other words… a chemical dumbing down of society….  That leaves them dependent on government….  Then we have this mass of people who are gonna believe anything they’re told because they can’t really think clearly.  And very few people… who can figure this all out, and that’s what they want.”  -Doctor Russell Blaylock

“We have a government that deliberately orchestrates needless fear and makes people insecure enough to ignore the reality of their lost liberties.”  -Congressman Ron Paul.

“We cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”  -George W. Bush

“What about people returning from the war?  Soldiers, and jobs?  Are we keeping the war going in order to not face what to do with our soldiers who come back looking for jobs?  Now that’s not the reason for the war going on… and when the debt is mentioned, the debt that the US has that keeps increasing partly because of trying to be the policemen of the world, we have a very big question about how long do we stay in Afghanistan.”  -Philip Kotler (0:56:43)

“We are definitely as a nation living beyond our means, and our fiscal trends, our government spending, is unsustainable… because of mostly social security and entitlement programs.”  -Michael H. Moskow, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (0:57:24)

On September 16^th 2010 We Are Change Chicago attended a meeting entitled “New Patterns in Global Consumer Demand” put on by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs which featured Jim Skinner (CEO of McDonalds), Philip Kotler (Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University), and it was chaired by Michael H. Moskow (the former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago).  (Full Audio of conference) Security was disconcertingly tight and bizarrely diligent for this sort of line-up.

I noticed a security guard looking at me as I rummaged through my pack during the meeting.  I pulled out my bottle of reverse osmosis filtered water and had a gulp or two.  By the time I screwed the cap back on the security guard was in front of me telling me that no outside food or drinks were allowed, but I could have it back after the conference.  There was a pitcher of free water right next to me, so this did not seem to make any sense.  Given that I was not allowed to have my water, I assumed that asking a question during the Q and A session and recording the answer with a video camera would be unacceptable.  Though controversial, I thought my question was completely legitimate, but I was afraid to even ask it.  With security so tight, I thought I might be thrown out.

I asked the following question: “Given the increase in consumer demand for healthier foods and the resulting increase in supply, would it not become economically viable for McDonalds to move in a healthier direction with its product, and can we expect to see this unfold in the near future?  On the topic of healthy products, I was hoping you could address the issue of the use in chicken McNuggets of Dimethylpolysiloxane which is found in cosmetics and silly putty, as well as tBHQ which is a petroleum based product [I was cut off here], one gram of which can cause nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation and collapse.”  (1:17:24)

Skinner responded:

1. “It’s an ingredient found in a lot of food….  It’s food.  It just happens to be food that’s in silly putty.”

Call me crazy, but I do not feel comfortable eating “food” with a name like Dimethylpolysiloxane.  Apparently it is not toxic, but to say it is food is a bit of a stretch.  Anyway, What about the tBHQ?

2. “We’ve done more than any other brand” to offer “choice and variety” and “healthier options.”  Note the 100% pure beef, bread, meat, potatoes, fruits, and salads.  “We’re the largest purchaser of apples in the world.”

Choice?  Variety?  Healthier options?  …McDonalds?  Corn and meat fed beef from cows that live in their own feces?   White, blood-sugar spiking bread?  Meat with hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics, potentially irradiated or sprayed with live viruses?  Genetically modified potatoes and apples?  High calorie salads with iceberg lettuce?  Mercury (via high fructose corn syrup) containing condiments?

3.  The “obesity problem we’re having” is “not because they eat at McDonalds….” “85% of meals today are still taken at home.  When you get up tomorrow morning, you’re going to have 900,000 choices of where to eat.  McDonalds is only one of those.  Our most frequent visitor to McDonalds visits us four times a month.”

These are deceptive numbers.  85% of meals for each person are taken at home?  No, that’s an average taken from a bunch of people.  Poorer populations tend to be forced to eat cheap, quick meals (i.e. at McDonalds) far more often.  Not everyone has 900,000 options, and for many of those that do, because of convenience and price, McDonalds– one choice out of 900,000—is the choice.  As for the claim that at the most, people go to McDonalds four times a month, this statistic clearly does not include homeless people or “Big Mac Enthusiast” Don Gorske.  Furthermore, to be included in the information gathering upon which that statistic would be based, one would probably need a phone, or at least an address.

4.  “We use a lot of consumer information….  The question always is, well, will you be organic?  If our customers want us to be organic, and they will buy organic produced food, we will be selling it….  McDonalds will be on the cutting edge and the forefront of all of that change if that is where the consumer takes us.  The only problem we have is, they talk a good game, it’s not what they buy, and it’s not what they eat….  We want to be part of the solution, but… we’re in a for profit business.  The consumers have to want to participate, and have to tell us what it is they want us to produce and to sell.”

If consumers demand (purchase) healthier products, the supply will increase.  As this trend continues, healthier foods will become more available and more affordable.  In the movie Food, Inc. Troy Roush (Vice President, American Corn Growers Association) stated, “We farmers, we’re gonna deliver to the market place what the market demands….  People have got to start demanding good wholesome food of us, and we’ll deliver.”  At the end of the movie, we are told that, “You can vote to change this system.  Three times a day….  You can change the world with every bite.”

I had at least six people tell me afterwards that I had a good question, one of whom was the security guard who took my water bottle.  He apologized for having to take it and explained that he was told that there was no outside food or drinks, or recording devices allowed because of high security.

As I was leaving, I passed a woman who was crying, and I overheard her saying “they thought I was a terrorist.”  After she calmed down a bit she explained that although she was a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, security had approached her and accused her of being a terrorist for flicking her pen.  Security, watching the proceedings from a balcony above, noticed her flicking her pen and thought that she was using it to communicate to someone else in the room.

How have we as a nation allowed fear to take us over and impair our common sense to this extent?  A six year old girl has been placed on the DHS no fly list. We need an elevation of consciousness that will enable people to recognize and denounce such absurdities.  Among other things, that means eating healthy.  As Vandana Shiva states, “Every day’s act of eating is an act of creating freedom.  And doing it consciously, doing it with choice, has to be something we construct.  As Gandhi said, ‘We have to be the change we want to see.’  And then we have to drive the governments to shape the policies that make it easy….  Today’s policies are going in the opposite direction and therefore, ordinary people have to shape the world….” In a post 9/11 world—the perpetuation of which we are all responsible for through our complicity—where people are considered terrorists for flicking pens, when I asked a substantial question as a concerned American without security intervening, I got away with murder.

This year on 9/11 We Are Change Chicago marched through the streets of downtown to exclaim that we have not forgotten the tragic events of that day, we have not forgotten the mountain of unanswered questions, we have not forgotten the sick and dying 9/11 first responders, we have not forgotten the victims of torture, machine guns, depleted uranium, and predator drones, and WE WILL NOT FORGET UNTIL OUR QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED AND OUR CRIES ACKNOWLEDGED!  We must have passed out over 2000 items between dvds, fliers, ae911truth newspapers, and Republic Magazines.  Here are two of the videos assembled from footage of the event.  Please watch and spread!

“So we’ve never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11.  That evidence has never been forthcoming.”  – Dick Cheney (Source: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html)

Investigate 9/11.

On March 24, 2010 We Are Change Chicago attempted to confront Mitt Romney at a public interview/discussion followed by a book signing. Unfortunately, for some reason this writer cannot comprehend, Borders would not allow it. However, Romney was given a copy of the nano-thermite report.