Today, I am again grateful to those who continue the work to bring truth to light, whether to serve the families impacted by 9/11, to those families impacted by vaccine-related injury and death, or to those working in the many other areas where truth may be occulted, if only by “open secrets.”
This year we found success and continue to take action in these areas by:
- Lowering the target drinking water fluoride level in Lincoln by one additional point. Just 3 more points to go.
- Holding and showing up at community events with real testimonies and positive messages.
- Continuing to observe CyncHealth HIT Board meetings and discuss related legislative options.
- Beginning to observe and report on 3 of the 18 local Boards of Health in Nebraska.
- Continuing with records requests to learn about institutional processes, to audit expectations against outcomes and need, and to evaluate and make recommendations for improvements. Ongoing requests are:
- Review of DHHS Vital Statistics Reports and others
Awareness & recognition
How does a person prepare themselves to be aware… to discern truth, to maintain curiosity about how people and events are connected? And yet, live out their life in peace. Is that possible?
How does setting, working toward, and achieving small, measurable, individual, positive goals in relationship with others support healing and community? How does meeting individual goals based on common principles different than joining in on collective goals?
Courage
How does prioritizing courage over profit, self-image, or self-preservation impact personal peace and hope? Dr. Pierre Kory shares the story of a Canadian ER doctor who prioritized courage.
The plea after 9/11 was “Never forget.” A current plea is for truth, justice, peace and accountability. Did the man my dad referred to in stories of his youth as “little Bobby Kerrey,” the man who would later serve Nebraska as governor and as U.S. senator and member of the 9/11 Commission, assure that the sources for his claim that 9/11 was a 30 year-old conspiracy were included in the 9/11 Commission Report?
Was Kerrey aware of, or did he express concern about, Philip Zelikow’s preconceived report outline disclosed by Philip Shenon in his book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation?
The Texas parent’s plea, after the death of their six-year-old child, Kaley Fehr, from a treatable lung condition, was to provide their daughters medical records for forensic review, “so others could learn of the errors and ensure they are not made again.”
How do these individual experiences impact the challenges of finding common ground and informed consent?
Cycling through recognition, grief and healing
From a recent conversation with like-minded life travelers, topics and concerns I hear frequently expressed were lifted up again: the journey of awareness and recognition, ways we acquire knowledge, loss of trust, anger, grief and family trauma, testimony, healing through self-care, challenges in supporting each other, and accountability.
Personal agency – seeking truth, justice, accountability and peace
In what areas are producers increasingly designing humanized products and services to compound media influence and to obscure our innate personal agency, shifting individual control of products to centralized control. How do these messages mix with our own internal messages to impact the different levels of personal agency we take in various areas of our life.
How does complexity, or lack of specificity, obscures truth and enable error and harm?
In accountability, who goes first in improving relationships? One way is Braver Angels Citizen-Led (or think of it as individually-led) Solutions through local relationship building, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Problem… reaction – or response – and who’s solution?
Where does the responsibility lay for error and harm? Are we playing a game of “gotcha?” Justice, according to whom?
How does the concept of “walling off” the anti-science aggressors, “escaping the medical matrix,” or “building a parallel economy” promoted or hinder finding solutions, choice and informed consent? Why are community solutions necessary?
How do the principles of a collectivist social view differ from the principles of individualism, the view that the role of the state is to protect each individual from the greed and passion of the majority? Why focus on principles instead of issues to meet goals?
By Tracy Aksamit
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