Japanese City Kills "Smartphone Zombies", Bans Texting-While-Walking

Yamato, a city in Japan, became the first municipality in the country to ban people from using smartphones while walking in public areas, reported RT News.

The passage of the new ordinance is to prevent 'smartphone zombies' from endangering themselves and others as they walk down the street with their heads buried in a screen.

The city's assembly in Kanagawa Prefecture passed the new rule last week and will go into effect this Wednesday. Violaters will not be fined or imprisoned, but the purpose is to bring awareness that "smartphones should be used when not in motion."

The ordinance makes clear smartphone users should come to a complete stop while in public areas and not obstruct sidewalk traffic before checking emails or text messages.

Earlier this year, city officials launched a study in several high trafficked areas, observing roughly 6,000 people, and found 12% of people were actively using their smartphones while walking down the street. It concluded by saying smartphone users could trip or walk into traffic while using their device.

And maybe the Japanese are onto something - here's a New Jersey woman texting while walking - falls into a basement.

Smartphone addiction has led to the proliferation of sidewalk zombies.

Smartphone Addiction Tightens Its Global Grip

Toxic Tech: How Social Media Is Making Us Dumb, Angry, & Addicted

In the age of technology, whoever thought of walking down the street while texting could be so dangerous.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/japanese-city-kills-smartphone-zombies-bans-texting-while-walking

Hong Kong Man Charged With 'Terrorism' In First Ever Security Law Case After Ramming Police

Yesterday we noted that one of the Hong Kong pro-independence movement's most visible young activists, Nathan Law, fled Hong Kong for an undisclosed outside country on fears of how the new national security law could be applied retroactively, especially given his and his close associate Joshua Wong's public relationship with and backing by the US embassy and American Congressional leaders.

There is also the looming question of just what the law will look like applied in action. Recall that the law which went into effect Wednesday harshly cracks down on dissent and fomenting unrest with possible maximum life jail sentences for some crimes, largely dependent on the ambiguous and highly open to interpretation (with no independent review) question of what ultimately constitutes 'foreign interference' or sponsorship of a 'terror' organization.

It was perhaps wise that Nathan Law didn't stick around to find out how stringently it will be applied given that on Friday HK authorities made their first example, arresting a man for carrying an anti-Beijing sign after he was alleged to have intentionally rammed police with his motorcycle.

https://youtu.be/k4OXV-J-0ig

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hong-kong-man-charged-terrorism-first-ever-security-law-case-after-ramming-police

CVS adds men's makeup to thousands of stores as the industry begins to boom

The new normal?

America's largest drug store chain, CVS, announced this week that it would be adding a men's cosmetics line to 2,000 stores across the country in hopes of cashing in on the growing industry.

For decades, men's makeup consisted of niche products primarily sold in high-end stores, but that is all changing now as interest in male cosmetics has reportedly experienced a recent uptick, especially since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Men's grooming has seen incredible growth during this stay-at-home period," CVS said in a statement, according to Bloomberg News. The outlet noted that the move is part of an overarching strategy to capitalize on market demand for grooming products tailored to men. "Men are a top customer focus at CVS Beauty," the company said.

The company behind the products, Stryx, was founded in 2017 after chief executive Devir Kahan woke up on his wedding day with a zit on his face and had no socially acceptable way to fix it. He became convinced that he had discovered an underserved market — men looking for ways to have better looking skin without the stigma attached.

As such, the packaging for the new products, which are a concealer tool priced at $19.99 and a gel cleanser at $11.99, appears masculine in nature.

"Even though Stryx is pitching a product traditionally made for women, its presentation is stereotypical male," the Bloomberg report noted. "The packaging is black, grey and dark blue. The concealer tool is pitched as sleek and discreet and could be easily be mistaken for a black pen, clip included. A photo on Stryx's website rests the makeup on a wooden desk, next to a leather-bound notebook and rocks glass half-filled with booze. A slogan reads: 'Handsome made easy.'"

The company adds on its website that they "didn't just take a women's product and slap a 'For Men' label on it," rather their products are "meticulously formulated for male skin."

Though not all consumers of male cosmetics are looking for a product so discreet. Take for example, Max Belovol, 23, who, according to Bloomberg, "grew up wearing dazzling eyeshadows and foundation for figure-skating competitions."

While the move by CVS marks the first time that a major chain drug store has begun selling makeup products for men, opinions have been changing about the issue for some time.

Last year, BBC News asked, "is men's make-up going mainstream?" while noting that the male grooming business, valued at $57.7 billion in 2017, was "growing exponentially."

"We're not just talking Nivea; we're talking moisturizing foundation and bronzers, concealers and brow definers — proper cosmetics," the news publication added.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cvs-adds-makeup-for-men

Who REALLY funded the Taliban to kill Americans?

While accusing Russia, without proof, of paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers, US politicians are conveniently ignoring facts about who really armed and financed terrorist groups in Afghanistan.

The allegation by some US intelligence agencies that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan has kicked up a partisan furore in Washington. It has renewed the tirade by the Democratic Party that President Donald Trump is soft on Russia and raised fresh demands for additional sanctions on Russia.

With a US presidential election due shortly, reusing the ‘Russia’ card to paint Trump as incompetent on national security or as a commander-in-chief who treacherously colluded with Russia to spill the blood of American troops is a handy political attack tool.

For the liberal camp in the US, nothing quite stirs up hair-raising emotions and passions like Russia and its supposed evil actions around the world. Even though both Russia and the Taliban have denied any collaboration, Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien clarified that the Russia-Taliban bounty theory was “uncorroborated,” and despite the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) information about Russia “incentivizing” the Taliban being met with skepticism from the National Security Agency (NSA), it is open season for the political knives to be brought out in Washington.

This imbroglio has everything to do with American domestic politics and little do with Russian foreign policy. American politicians accusing Trump of negligence or naivety towards Russia are conveniently ignoring facts about who really armed and financed the Taliban and several other terrorist and rogue actors in Afghanistan’s complex multi-sided, two-decade-long war which began with the US invasion in 2001.

Forgot Pakistan?

For years, American strategic experts, intelligence agencies and military commanders have held a near unanimous and consistent view that sanctuary and sponsorship of the Taliban came from sections of Pakistan’s military establishment and its allied jihadist infrastructure across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

President George W. Bush’s Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage spoke of “substantial information that there was direct assistance from the Pakistan government to the Taliban between 2002 and 2004,” the crucial period when the Taliban regrouped and re-emerged to fight a long anti-US insurgency.

In 2011, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Barack Obama, Admiral Mike Mullen, called the dreaded Haqqani terrorist network, which carried out several terrorist attacks on American forces and is almost inseparable from the Taliban, “a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493759-us-russia-afghanistan-taliban/

Protesters use vans with slashed tires to BLOCK Trump supporters from Mt. Rushmore event, National Guard on scene

Several dozen protesters have used vans to set up physical barriers, effectively blocking the roadway into Mount Rushmore, which is set to host US President Donald Trump’s fireworks celebration.

With several hours left until Trump’s ‘Salute America’ event to mark Independence Day at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Friday, an estimated 200 to 300 protesters have effectively made the road leading into the venue impassible.

The protesters parked several vans in the middle of the road and blew out tyres on them so they cannot be easily removed by law enforcement.

Videos of the standoff show protesters climbing the vans and waving banners.

A popping sound, that resembles that of a gunshot or a minor blast, can be heard on some of the footage.

It appears to be the result of the protesters’ effort to disable the vehicles, however.

https://www.rt.com/usa/493780-rushmore-trump-protest-rally/

Piers Morgan slammed for hypocrisy after blasting pubs opening but supporting son’s BLM protest

Broadcaster Piers Morgan is being branded a hypocrite for blasting the reopening of pubs as “insane,” after praising his own son for attending a Black Lives Matter protest, where many flouted social distancing guidelines.

Morgan has won a lot of grudging admirers for repeatedly highlighting the failures of the UK government during the coronavirus pandemic. But the Good Morning Britain host has now found himself at the receiving end of criticism for his, seemingly contradictory, positions on people gathering in public.

“WHAT? This is insane,” the outspoken commentator wrote on Twitter in response to news of Britain’s pubs being given the green light to open from 6am on Saturday.

https://www.rt.com/uk/493738-piers-morgan-hypocrisy-son-blm-protest/

“Concept Incubator” Envisages Babies Being Grown at Home in a Pod

“It’s designed to replace the womb and pregnancy.”

A “concept incubator” envisages a dystopian future where babies are grown inside sophisticated electronic pods which completely replace the womb and pregnancy.

The promotional video for the baby pod stresses how parents will be able to focus on other things like work while the pod baby is taken care of by the machine.

“Parents would be able to live their lives normally,” states the promo, as if having a baby naturally is abnormal.

“It has a dock to insert food,” states the promo as a woman is shown pouring green gunk into a canister. There’s also a “microphone” attached so people can “speak to the foetus.”

They want to take away from women what makes them special.

No I will not grow my baby in the pod. pic.twitter.com/UALJWRVz8k

— Grass Tastes Good 🌱 (@TasteGrass) July 1, 2020

The pod, which thankfully is just an “idea” at this stage, was birthed by students at Product Design Arnhem.

According to Tech Insider, the arrival of the pod baby is “only a matter of time” because it is not that different from lambs already being grown inside “biobags.”

Responses on Twitter to the pod baby concept were not overly enthusiastic.

POV: Pod-grown humans bullying you in 2065 for having developed in your mother’s womb pic.twitter.com/DYOg8m0peM

— Grass Tastes Good 🌱 (@TasteGrass) July 1, 2020

This and sex robots = erasing women

— Daystrom was right (@DemotedHusband) July 2, 2020

What happens when there is a power outage?

— Empress Eleni (@EmpressEleni) July 1, 2020

Grotesque. I hope this is a joke. We are not in any danger of extinction. There are BILLIONS of humans on this planet. Growing lambs in plastic sacs is obscene god complex experimentation for experimentation's sake, let alone more humans. There is absolutely no need for it.

— Emmeline Wyndham (@EmmelineWyndham) July 2, 2020

This is an abomination!

It could only be morally acceptable if a woman was close to losing her child and this was used in a NICU under medical supervision- but what a disgrace to separate the biological reality of mother and child.

How callous are we going to get?!

— Joanna Jewell 🕊✨ (@JoannaAJewell) July 1, 2020

The happy clappy promotional video did not make mention of the fact that this all sounds like some horrific dystopian hybrid of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and a plot from Black Mirror.

Huxley’s 1932 classic portrayed a soft form of totalitarianism where children are biologically engineered from birth in test tubes where each one is given a predestined course in life which is dependent on the conditioning techniques used on its decanted embryo.

While the “concept incubator” falls far short of that scenario, it does promote the idea of dehumanizing the baby by removing the mother from the process entirely.

As we have previously highlighted, the tech elite seems to be obsessed with further atomizing human beings by making them do literally everything from within the confines of a pod, whether that be living, exercising, working, or eating.

Since the coronavirus outbreak, numerous restaurants have announced that they’ll be enclosing diners within pods or greenhouses, despite the fact that they will obviously overheat in summer.

“Transparent corrals for beach-goers. Dining pods. Clear boxes for students. The demand for plexiglass protective shields has never been higher,” announced the Wall Street Journal this week.

https://summit.news/2020/07/03/concept-incubator-envisages-babies-being-grown-at-home-in-a-pod/

Clinton

What Are You? What Are You Really?

The following was given to me by a Hollywood Veteran of 40+ years.



“We are made in God’s image and have within us a microcosm the same forces, aspects of our nascent Unity. When we balance the aspects of God within us by daily prayer and meditation, judgement and mercy are reconciled in Christ and we become shepherds ourselves. What we guard against, are the powers and principalities, the Kings of Edom, the unbalanced forces active within us. The powers men call gods have been shaped by rituals and nourished over millennia by blood sacrifice to produce entities which appear and act “real”. They are conceived by us and they live in our imagination, not in watery metaphoric sense, but as autonomous psychic content. Moloch, Ba’al and the rest of the Y-head demon brands are represented by families of associated interconnected symbols, sigils and glyphs. These symbols are the “brands” we now see all around us; we’ve been conditioned from infancy to view as “normal” marketing of consumer goods. Recognizing these occult elements, understanding how they insinuate themselves into our consciousness and become automatic behaviors is part of what “Awakening” is about. Repeated exposure to satanic symbols, sigils, images and glyphs embedded in advertising and entertainment media content activates corresponding influences within us all.

Hypersexualized, materialist culture is not an accident; it is the product of occult rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices which produce the illusory materialist environment in which we are, many of us, confined. These rituals are performed with the purpose to incrementally manifest a trans dimensional parasitic unitary intelligence which propagates via cult initiation and/or by cumulative exposure to Satanic “entertainment” programming. As a result, they are certain to exist. Pedovore cultist openly promote and overtly worship Satan and solicit kids on YouTube to take part in ritual ceremonies disguised as theater, art or comedy via hypno-sexual mind control games. Satanic “brands” employ ancient runes, and talismans, and sigils and glyphs peruse our culture. News and “entertainment” media content is pumped full of embedded symbols, sounds and subliminal images related to SEX and DEATH. These occult influences combine over decades to produce and sustain a selfish, shallow and violent materialist consciousness, a culture where Satan and his Luciferians can most easily manifest the hierarchical, slave society of pedovore criminality they prefer. 


The frieze on Apollo’s temple at Delphi, properly translated does not say “Know yourself.” It says “Watch yourself.” And if we watch ourselves we will begin to add additional layers of reflection, increasing our cognitive power as we learn. Humans appear capable of (literally) infinite self-improvement, and the blood-drinking petty gods do not like that. They have expended so much cleverness in a futile effort to channel and confine human consciousness. Constricted human consciousness, harassed and distracted with unnecessary mandated tasks, busy work ‘initiatives,’ social duties, and financial harassment generally insures we do not awaken to the real universe and the powers of big “G” God inside us. The Satanists don’t believe in GOD, because they can’t perceive a self-aware quantum field like the Holy Spirit.

All they can do is what they’ve always done, with drugs, sex, illusion and NLP mind tricks.”

Arise Human Beings to your true divine power within. Share this everywhere. We need to wake the world up.

“When we are born, I start to discover we are so connected with the source of life. We are manifesting the God being the son or the daughter. We are the light.” – Ronald Bernard

https://www.coreysdigs.com/consciousness/what-are-you-what-are-you-really/