MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Fri, 3 pm EST: THOUGHT TALK #3 - NASTY AGENDAS. Live!!! Talk plus discussion.

“He has an agenda.” “I know their agenda.” We all know, when we hear something like that, that the agenda is anything but good.

The German authorities who arranged for Reiner’s kidnapping, his being forcibly brought back to Germany - they definitely had an agenda. The German authorities who accepted a complaint against Reiner as criminal though it clearly was a civil matter - they definitely had an agenda. Viviane Fischer, when she tricked Reiner into not appearing at a Corona Committee meeting by claiming it was not happening, and then used that opportunity to make many allegations against him - she definitely had an agenda.

What do we mean if we claim someone has an agenda? It’s against the truth, against the facts. There’s the intent to harm, to impose someone’s will on someone else, against their will, and without just cause. Words like untrustworthy, deceitful, hidden, unspoken, evil, nefarious, underhanded, sly, mean come to mind.

But often it’s not quite like that.

A big concern of mine is agendas many people accept without questioning, agendas from people who believe they are on the side of good, and so the agenda (omitting mentioning some things, stressing others) is just, if they think about it at all, to strengthen something good.

Here’s what I would call an “agenda phrase” - meaning the individual using it wants me to believe something but closer examination would show something very different from what I am intended to believe. “It’s an open air prison.” Or even, the somewhat softer, “It’s almost like an open air prison.”

I'll say more about this on the live event, but now, how do you get to the event?

To listen to this live event, the Youtube link will be available at 2:45.
Then If you’d like to take part in the discussion, please email: elsaiselsa@substack.com and I’ll send you the Zoom link.

Now, more about THOUGHT TALK #3.
Agendas Meant to be Unquestioned and Invisible.
FRIDAY, Feb 2, 3 pm EST. 60 min.
10-30 minutes - Thoughts on Agendas.
The rest of the time - Discussion.

I will be starting with the widespread adulation given to journalist Jon Pilger after his recent death. I was sent a powerful video he had done on the mass starvation in Cambodia. I was impressed. I soon came upon, in another piece of his I was sent, evidence that this was a man with an Agenda he did not want questioned, but wanted to have accepted as The Truth. Then, ever so helpful, into my inbox came a rare dissenting view of Pilger: the article documented lie after lie after lie - lies of omission and of commission.

But Pilger is not someone unusual.

And that brings us to the general topic of AGENDAS.

What agendas have you noticed, questioned, fallen for?

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Posted January 29, 2024