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The censorship is out of control. They are so afraid of truth coming out. They know their narratives are phony and that people can see through them.

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The increasing reliance upon overt censorship and repression are sure signs of weakness and not strength.

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Feral.

I could not agree more with you here. & you make a good point abt the pause., The children out in Silicon Valley are doing as they are told now. Why bring it in-house, where 1st Amendment matters may arise?

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Students of history may recall thst a favorite segregationist tactic during the Civil Rights Era was to have government officials act as government officials, when they wanted their actions to take on the force of law, and as "private citizens exercising their constitutional rights" when they didn't want any troublesome 14th Amendment claims.

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When one considers the persecution of Julian Assange, he might think there is a renascence of

the Inquisition [as the Rendition was] and the Imprimatur, applied this time so commonly among the digital algorythm gaga generations in the Big Data dominion. The Spanish writer and philosopher Ortega y Gasset is a good read on the subject, having taken refuge to Argentina during the Spanish

Civil war, and unable to return till after WWII was over, during which time the British intercepted his

personal mail to family, abrogating the Law of Neutrality. 'Man And Crisis' and 'Man And People' are

good reads, philosophical.

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I think there should be a Julian Assange for President write-in campaign.

Imagine next year, when he's on trial in Virginia and there are Assange for President bumper stickers on cars all over the country.

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TL:DR: you spoke blasphemy.

And the real reason that the Biden maladministration "paused" the Disinformation Board wasn't because of Dipshit Mary Poppins, it was the realization that outsourcing the censorship function to Silicon Valley puts it safely outside the reach of pesky unwanted election results.

The last thing the censors want is a populist to get elected and be able to appoint members to the Board. That could be catastrophic.

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I'm put in mind of a gentleman named John D. Rockefeller. Why Mr. R? Back in the late 1800's when oil was just getting going, there wasn't much demand for it. There were no internal combustion engines, etc etc. whale oil or paraffin provided light, horses provided transport. So what did Mr. R do? He gave away hurricane lamps for free. Of course, they wouldn't burn whale oil, you needed to buy Standard oil's kerosene to use them. So he created a market for his product and proceeded to make a fortune.

Alas, he ran afoul of Teddy Roosevelt and his trust busters. Don't be fooled by the word trust there. Trusts were the legal chicanery that gave them their power. They were monopoly busters taking aim at both horizontal and vertical monopolies. The government doesn't protect the republic from them much anymore (see Micro$oft) and that's a bad thing. Your tech buddies did the same thing. Here have this app for free! Except it's not free. They want your soul and the business model is such that it's hard for them to lose. You get pissed off and walk away, so what? You weren't paying them anyway. The advertisers were and they only work with aggregate numbers. We need some new laws to knock that shit back but it's not going to happen. The United States is now a perfect blend of corporate and governmental. Fascism that would make Hitler salivate.

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History repeats. First as tragedy, then as farce. Our Hitler is apparently the deranged clown. Donald Trump is the Great White Whale of the establishment. The script writers couldn't have come up with a more perfect monkey wrench to throw in the gears, than an actual cartoon character.

Hitler just industrialized the pogroms. His amorality wasn't what changed, only the tools at his disposal. The downside of our modern world.

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A word from England.....

I was suspended by Twitter in December 2020. Permanently excluded from Facebook and Discord December 2021.

Please try to remember that the cancel culture within social media is GLOBAL and not limited to America.

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Priceless pic! The caption deserves translation: "Raid on the workshops of "Freedom of the Press". This is in the period of Louis Philippe, about 18 years after Napoleon, when there was an internal quarrel in France which led to a change in the Monarchy. France in those days was incredibly divided between Republicans (they wanted the Republic to be restored), the Monarchists (they were in charge and were happy with the king) and Bonapartists (they were more in favor of a strong law and order centralized state). On the left is Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution, being hand-gagged by one of the raiders and on the right a petulant Louis Philippe tearing up the output of the free press.

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This is disturbing. Like others, I think it is a sign of their weakness and this weakness stems from international, world historic challenges. So whatever is happening to the empire that they think they can reverse with more despotism--it's not going to be fundamentally impacted by this sort of thuggery.

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Pat,

You want to be on the outside, looking in, when the tent collapses.

I'm sure there were quite a few true and loyal apparatchiks still around, when the Soviet Union collapsed, but that didn't keep it from collapsing. Don't hear of Pravda and Izvestia much anymore, do we? Would you prefer to be on the inside?

As someone who has always been on the outside and reveled in it(fortunately my income didn't depend on believing in the crowd), I found the deeper I dug, the more I found and followed the cracks in the system and the ways that patches have been applied, for years, decades, centuries, millennia, rather than anyone actually going back and tearing apart the books, to find the sources of the problem.

That's the problem with being an insider. You can't question any of the underlaying axioms. You can only patch the holes as they come up and get a gold star when you get others to believe it.

The problem now, is the bullshit has been piled so deep, so many people think it is reality and not just waiting for that reality check to show up.

This isn't just politics. Here is an essay I wrote a few months ago, about the basic flaws in Big Bang theory and why the James Webb Space Telescope will find ever further galaxies and not just a primordial haze of some initial state.;

https://medium.com/predict/the-webb-is-cast-72f2b8ab067d?sk=510bf56d64a35624de3b9835c688d2fd

It might seem off topic, but as you say, they have a death grip on the narrative, so it will take some blow from the outside to really break it open and popping the cosmology is a serious blow to any cultural paradigm.

Which we will also certainly get, this winter, as the Europeans realize they not only shot themselves in the foot, but the leg, the stomach and the arm. While the US political situation in the US founders on the fact there is no honor among thieves and as much as the powers that be think they own both parties, the divide and conquer will create much more blowback than can be contained, as the election plays out.

So appreciate the view from the cheap seats. It might not be close to the action, but you can see much more of the picture.

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John.

Thanks this comment, and to all others contributing.

You remind me of the wonderfully vulgar LBJ's noted remark: You're either inside the tent pissing out or outside the tent pissing in.

I determined 15 years ago now, how time flies, that there was nothing left for me to do of any worth inside the tent. Not always easy out here, but who would want it any other way?

I shall edit you soon, friend.

Patrick,

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There is much to what you write but be careful! You don't hear much about Pravda and Izvestia but not for the reasons you suggest. You heard a lot about them back in the day because the USG was so focused on communism and Russia as an authoritarian one party state (much like Idaho). In fact, both publications survived the collapse of the SovU. Pravda was never really a newspaper in the classic sense, it is the official publication of the Russian communist party and it still is but the on-line version is not owned by the same crew that own the print version. Izvestia is still alive and well with a circulation of around 300,000 which makes it bigger than the LA times.

Personally, I think that Europe is going to get a hard lesson long before winter. The prime use of the gas isn't to keep housing warm, it's as feedstock for industrial processes and to power those processes. If Russia has two brains to rub together, they'll keep the gas turned off to the EU.

Finally, I'm a physicist and I, too, have issues with the Big Bang theory (and Dark Matter) which as far as I'm concerned are the moral equivalent of the intelligent design theory. The good thing about real science is that when the results of the experiment don't match theory, the theory gets revisited. Not all of science has been captured by statisticians with delusions of grandeur.

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Jeffrey,

I figured they were still around in some form. The Brand!

It does look like the wheels are really coming off the train now. There is a situation report in the Saker and one of the stories is the degree to which the Ukrainians are selling the weapons directly to the Russians. The irony here, among many, is our narrative control could never admit to this. Though it does seem the actual arms flow is slowing much faster than the promises are. http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-slomo-collapse/

The argument I try making everywhere I can, is this situation Patrick is lamenting really is only the tip of an enormous iceberg, that runs through Western culture, of the degree to which people make up stuff on the fly and it becomes bedrock for succeeding generations, that cannot ever be questioned.

So if they seriously want to shut down any debate over the details of their particular scams, the most strategic approach would be to really just step way back and pull away the foundations on which it all stands.

Here are a few points;

Would a spiritual absolute be the ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

A follow up question would be, what would be the consequences of an entire culture raised on the assumption that ideals are absolutes?

Would good and bad be some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, or the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience? It is one of the primary tools to make people march in lockstep to indoctrinate them to thinking it can only be black and white and any spectrum in between is only weakness.

Is money a social contract, enabling society, or a commodity to mine from it? Econ 101 says it's both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Would you mix them up?

Essentially banking should be much more of an accounting function, than a vault. As a contract, the asset is backed by a debt, so to store the asset, debt has to be generated. The elephant in the room is the financial system couldn't function, without those trillions in public debt. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

As for physics, is time the point of the present, moving past to future, or change, turning future to past? We are mobile organisms, so we experience our situation as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, but assuming it's some foundational geometry really is a modern version of the crystalline spheres of epicycles.

I could go on, but my point is there are so many cobwebs in the cultural attic, that if that can of worms could be opened, our banker overlords would be washed away in the flood.

Here is an essay I put up on medium; https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73?sk=ccfd20865804f1b6499aeb6aecb14c20

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Is this true? I mean do you have corroborating evidence? The Ukrainians are the least credible source, the US next, and finally the Russians. They'll all lie as necessary so I tend to wait for others to tell the same tale. I freely admit I'd like to see the Ukrainians (and, by extension, the US/UK/EU axis of evil) get their ass kicked for a whole armload of reasons.

There are no absolutes and it's a fool's errand to look for them. Societies evolve and change over time, our understanding of how the world works, and what's considered right and wrong changes over time. There are, I think, some fundamental things one can say, like there's no right or wrong just consequences. The world is far more chaotic and arbitrary than most people will accept but frankly, the world (this is the real thing: land, trees, rivers, oceans, not the organic scum that inhabits the surface) could give a sh*t what the organic scum accepts.

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Just that post I linked. I tend to have a fairly well developed filter. I grew up in the horse racing industry. So ask yourself, is it possible the Ukrainians just might be getting the sense they have been used? Again. How would they respond? Would they continue with what has to be a fairly futile situation, given the West is not going to come save them and the Russians are just grinding away. Or would they try to find the best way out?

Think of Turkey. They are stuck in the middle between East and West and they know their only route is to try playing one side off the other.

Now the Ukrainians have been on the Russian side of the split for a long time and have a lot of complaints from being a junior partner. But does that mean they really think they can just join up with the West and everything is hunky dory? If they did, it seems they might be having second thoughts.

So trying to get the West to give them as many weapons as possible, then selling them to the Russians would be one way to flip the bird at the West and try making with the Russians. It's not like it's Mister Roger's Neighborhood.

As for absolutes, I think that's one of the many ways the theorists have lost themselves in the complexities and ignored the simple can be equally profound.

The opposite of the absolute is the infinite, both of which physics tries to erase.

Consider that in a frame moving at the speed of light, the clock and the ruler go to zero. So look in the other direction, to the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler. It would be closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

Now the paradigm is that space is three dimensions, but they are a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude. The two most elemental qualities space has, are equilibrium and infinity. Think the number line, from zero to infinity.

The function of a map is signal. The territory is noise. So if you have a map that incorporates more information than is necessary for the function, it is reverting back to noise. Math is not some platonic foundation of reality, but just the most stable patterns and processes that can be distilled from the larger reality. Map, not territory.

Now galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, while the structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium.

The issue of time is there is no dimension, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present and creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past, but that's another story.

So waves tend to synchronize, as that is the path of least resistance, the effect being centripetal. As the energy radiates out, against this structure coalescing in, the effect is centrifugal. As the energy dissipates across and through all the other forms, it harmonizes. Between black holes and black body radiation. The joke here is both directions are entropic. This is why space both curves in, as gravity and curves out, as redshift of the radiation.

The problem of Dark Matter is there isn't sufficient mass to explain the evident gravitational effect, but what if we are looking at it backwards? That mass is an effect of gravity?

Gravity is a centripetal effect, so if this synchronization is occurring across the entire radiological spectrum, then mass is just the more dense end of this dynamic. Consider quasars shoot out the poles of galaxies and as giant lasers, they would be synchronized light waves.

I better leave it at this. Just trying to draw a map and not create too much noise.

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Well, let me say this about that. The Ukrainians are idiots, grifters, and thieves. When they got out of the ruins of the USSR, they stole (illegally annexed) Crimea because they knew that they could get the big bux from Russia leasing Sevastopol. Plus Russia had to leave the gas pipeline in the Ukraine. How else can I say this? Money for nothin' and the chicks are free. Yet they still stole gas from Gazprom and tried to blame Russia. They were hoping for a better deal from the West, not realizing (probably not even now) that they were living on easy street. The Ukrainians are good and royally screwed. I think that selling American weapons to Russia (and probably elsewhere) where they will doubtless eagerly get Euros and Dollars..... just before they will probably become worthless is priceless.

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Don't worry. Joe Biden will figure it all out. I hear his son has contacts.

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Jul 1, 2022·edited Jul 1, 2022

Patrick - thanks for your courage and dedication in speaking out.

We have to have an answer to news guard and the like; a place where these stories, with their individual & collective power, can be aired, and presented to the public. The cure for this problem is for the bureaucratic stone under which they hide to be upturned, and for light to shine on their acts; we need notarization.

But where to turn to? The ACLU has defanged itself; perhaps here: https://www.thefire.org/.

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I'll eventually have to sign up for telegram, but they want my phone number and I try keeping the phone and the computer as separate as possible. Instinctive paranoia.

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I know, so do many online services, and I most definitely understand your hesitancy, if it's instinctive it's also common sense. I had a cheesy old flip phone with no smart features and used that. In any case it's the best free speech service out there as far as I know.

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It does seem one of the few outside the clutches of the blob available in this country.

Though my tendency is to turn off the web and find something else to do, when the information tsunami gets too much.

When I was a little kid, I'd get stressed by the plot devices in tv shows. The stuff these days can only be taken in small doses.

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Well there is VK which is also 'free'speech'. Pepe Escobar was also erased in similar fashion, from everywhere except VK, T-Gram, not to mention the feared site Strategic Culture although his work is often crossposted on other sites. Substack itself seems a good place, for now.

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I'd like to be as erased as Pepe Escobar. Heck, he even makes Zero Hedge a few days late.

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Well if you do try Telegram, just in case, here is his channel, which is rather hard to find: https://t.me/joinchat/Uxbn8mAJx2971eDI

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