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I've been a human rights activist for almost 20 years.

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As a documentary filmmaker, I've been on the front lines of many of our nation's biggest scandals and protests.

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From that perspective, I've been an eyewitness to the rise and fall of numerous people-powered movements.

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Nearly every organized resistance I've been a part of has ended just inches from victory for the same critical mistake,

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infighting, when members of the same group turned against each other.

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It often begins with whispers about the most prominent spokespeople of the cause.

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These rumors typically sound like,

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I hear John is controlled opposition.

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Or,

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Some people are saying Jane is compromised.

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While the use of infiltrators and agitators is a very real thing,

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I've yet to experience one scenario where such a label was accurately applied.

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And suspiciously, these labels are always branded on the people who are making the most progress.

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But the degradation of their reputation goes their contribution to your life.

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Prior to social media, people actually sat down to dialogue through their differences.

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Today, without solid evidence or sufficient inquiry,

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we go directly to our keyboards to vent our suspicions.

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Even after the rumor is proven false or simply fades away,

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some level of doubt and division always remains.

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This is all by design.

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Part of what allowed so many people to walk away from Assange

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was some of the Me Too allegations that had surfaced and that were ultimately discredited

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stuck in people's minds.

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The voices of propaganda are masterful at this game.

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They knowingly run a false story, then retract it,

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knowing the lie will reach millions, but very few will see the correction.

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Amy Coney Barrett's religious faith is being called into question again.

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She belongs to this People of Praise group,

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which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled them a hate group.

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When I stated that People of Praise had been deemed a hate group,

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I just got them mixed up with another group.

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I conflated them.

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Ah, okay.

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That happens, you know.

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It's easy to do.

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In the words of former CIA Director William Casey,

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we'll know that our disinformation program is complete

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when everything the American public believes is false.

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The planting of divisive rumors is one of the most common tactics used in psychological warfare.

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As the lies bloom, like worker bees, well-intended citizens pollinate the masses with poisonous disinformation.

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What the gossiping bees fail to realize is that they themselves are doing the work of controlled opposition.

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They are literally, unwittingly, working on behalf of the very forces they believe they are resisting.

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Again, all of this is by design.

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While we've all been distracted by the latest trends and tragedies,

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everything that has influence on our behavior has been infiltrated by an agenda to control our thoughts.

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Whether their goal is to make us purchase a product, vote for a political party, or submit to experimental inoculations,

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there are forces at work who understand the functionalities of your mind far better than you do.

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Their goal is total control.

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But because they are the few and we are the many,

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they can only achieve total control through the age-old tactic of divide and conquer.

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You're either with them or with us.

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Never before have we been so divided.

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Divided by politics, religion, nation, state, race, class, gender, and now, vaccine status.

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To better understand how we got here, consider these three quotes from The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war.

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The secret lies in confusing the enemy so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

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Though Sun Tzu lived over 2,500 years ago, his work remains at the heart of our CIA,

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as well as the Chinese Communist Party's strategy today.

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It's no coincidence that around the same era as Sun Tzu,

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the words united we stand, divided we fall, were first recorded.

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It is unity that will save our communities.

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As you see in the audience, Muslims, Christians, Jewish community, Democrats, Republicans,

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white, black, everyone all in between, this is the example of what you get

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when you choose to attack all members of the human family.

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Our greatest power is our numbers, hence the relentless effort to shatter us into broken fragments.

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As their agendas are being exposed, the dividers will stop at nothing to cover their crimes against humanity.

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They have bunkers.

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All we have is each other.

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The good news is, that's all we need.

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Though we are intrinsically interconnected, our minds are being wired to obsess on our differences.

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Contrary to social indoctrination, we do not have to be ideologically aligned to stand together.

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We don't even have to like each other.

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There is only one thing that we must agree on, that freedom is our birthright.

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Now is the time to let go of whatever it is you're holding onto that keeps you divided from your friends, family, and fellow humans.

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Rise above all the micro-dramas and distractions to see that a much bigger story is unfolding.

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Swallow your pride.

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Humble yourself.

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Let it go.

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I'm not suggesting that we look the other way when someone is clearly thwarting our forward momentum.

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There are people who deserve to be called out by name, especially those who are undermining our trust in each other.

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But even then we should remember that there is a human life being affected by our words.

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We've been so conditioned to believe we are powerless, that we've become careless with our power.

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Like toddlers with loaded guns.

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How many times do we need to shoot our own foot till we realize that the power is in our hands?

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The only thing that can stop us at this point is us.

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We've all been lied to, scammed, fooled, tricked, conned, and coerced.

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Yes, it sucks.

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But here we are.

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Wiser and stronger than we were just three years ago.

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This is the moment for us to activate our innate ability to create solutions.

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That can only happen through the awareness of symbiosis.

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Defined as a mutually beneficial relationship between different groups.

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All of life depends on relationships.

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Every living thing is in communication.

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From the stars to the planets, the earth, the plants, the elements, the insects, the animals, the humans, and every cell within us.

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Real change out there begins with real change inside.

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The question is, how bad does it have to get before we're willing to change?

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Psst, pass it on.