Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The Julian Assange extradition appeal hearing concluded on Wednesday, with no date yet set for a verdict. The entire thing was plagued by media access issues
"This is not what freedom looks like. Humanity could be so, so much more than this, and it should be."
Amen to this! The more we can help our neighbors see beyond the propaganda wall that has been built around them, the faster we can create a world where truth is lauded and cherished. #FreeAssange
"Communismy"? Hmm, Methinks Caitlin may have been reading First Dog On The Moon :)
A trivial and irrelevant point I know, but I have nothing left to say about Israel and Amerika that hasn't been said a thousand times or more already.
I've used up all the words I can use in polite company and despair and dread are just about my default state of mind. Even my dreams are becoming polluted.
I will say, I think pot is a much better alternative to anti-depressants.
Caitlin writes..."We’re already working, consuming and voting in perfect alignment with the interests of the powerful, and for the most part we’re thinking and speaking as the powerful want us to as well. This is because our education and,........
The most succinct powerful description of global capitalism I have ever read in my long decades And I have spent almost 80 years experincingit and studying it from a personal and academic. level .
i suspect they are going to wait for the Friday news dump to announce they are extraditing Julian. the process has been so rigged and opaque, I'm not optimistic for a better outcome, and this is a common tactic used in releasing information that will be highly unpopular.
"One thing a lot of people miss about the rising authoritarianism in our society is that such measures are not being rolled out with the goal of constructing a new dystopia that will look wildly different from what we see today, but to lock our current dystopia into place." --An extremely profound insight. I've been distracted by fear of what's coming, and failed to see what already is...
Julian should break his principle and disclose the source of Hillary's cabal e-mails.
Julian already stated that Wikileaks' source was NOT a state/country actor. The source was likely murdered Seth Rich, DNC operative and Sanders supporter.
Ep. 76 -- As they lecture us endlessly about human rights in other countries, the Biden administration is trying to kill journalist Julian Assange for the crime of embarrassing the CIA. His wife Stella joins us from his extradition hearing. -- Feb. 21, 2024
For anyone that is aware of the history of Israel & Palestine, this issue is an incredibly simple one. There are few issues in geopolitics as simple as this one. Yet we find all sorts of people performing incredible feats of mental gymnastics to convince everyone else that this is somehow a "complex" issue.
The so-called "intellectual elites", journalists, think tanks, mainstream media, social and political elites and capitalists are spending vast amounts of resources to "complexify" a simple issue - in part because they are on the losing end and they know it - they are desperately trying to take back control of the narrative - they know that most people are aware of the truth and have been able to see through most of the propaganda.
I believe their attempts at propaganda will only get more desperate as time goes on...
The only time I have felt free was when I was living halfway up a mountain with no neighbours, no roads going by where I lived, no running water, no electricity. Just a few bears, a couple of cougars and my dogs. Every now and then I had to go into the nearby, very small town for groceries and I always felt overwhelmed by the "crowds". Now I live in a bustling city and the only free things I see are the squirrels and the birds.
Really? UK Warns It Could Restrict Arms Sales To Israel If Rafah Offensive Proceeds
Fresh headlines Wednesday say the United Kingdom is mulling restricting arms sales to Israel if it goes ahead with its planned major offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with over a million Palestinian refugees who've been forcibly relocated from other parts of the Strip...
..Not only has London's High Court recently dealt with petitions from legal advocacy groups alleging British arms sent to Israel are being used to commit war crimes (petitions which thus far have been rejected), but the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has just issued a letter to Netanyahu's office calling for Israel to "stop and think seriously about the repercussions of a military offensive" on Rafah.
Earlier this week Israeli defense officials for the first time said that the offensive would likely be launched by Ramadan, which begins on March 10 this year. The military has said Hamas can avoid this by releasing all of the hostages. At the UN Security Council, the UK abstained from a Tuesday vote on a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It failed due to veto from the United States.
Cuban President backs Lula's comments on Gaza genocide
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his solidarity with Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva after he was classified as persona non grata by "Israel for his sincere condemnation of the extermination of the Palestinian population in Gaza."
This comes after the Brazilian President said during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, "What's happening in the Gaza Strip isn't a war, it's a genocide," detailing that Israeli troops were not fighting "soldiers against soldiers," but rather a highly prepared army against "women and children."
Gideon Levy (paywalled) opinion piece from Haaretz: The World Must Force Peace on Israel
Now is the time for the United States, and in its wake the international community, to make a decision: Will the endless cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians continue, or are we going to try to put a stop to it? Will the United States continue to arm Israel and then bemoan the excessive use of these armaments, or is it finally prepared to take real steps, for the first time in its history, to change reality? And above all, will the cruelest Israeli attack on Gaza become the most pointless of all?
This article makes a great point about the fact that we are already in a dystopia that will only look more dystopian as authoritarian measures (censorship, etc) currently being implemented are really like a new coat of paint for the same old prison-house. Bio-medical tyranny? Already in place for quite a while now: the Covid Regime was just an accelerant. Information Space Control? Just fine-tuning the apparatus. The elites running the Machine are mostly brain-washed drones that have been brain-chipped, as it were. Plenty of freedom of thought and perspective still out there, however, despite the avalanches of White Noise coming from the top. Free Assange!
The problem is indeed one of organization. Individuals without groups will never solve the problem of organization. Individually we are weak and easily crushed, powerless. The only power available comes from ideologically united groups. Currently our opposition has groups and institutions that are very powerful, and have no qualms about exercising their power. It is magical thinking to believe avoiding any groups will present any threat to the existing power structure.
And the problem does seem to be that it is hard to find groups worth joining and throwing your personal effort behind. But we must find them or make them.
"This is not what freedom looks like. Humanity could be so, so much more than this, and it should be."
Amen to this! The more we can help our neighbors see beyond the propaganda wall that has been built around them, the faster we can create a world where truth is lauded and cherished. #FreeAssange
"Communismy"? Hmm, Methinks Caitlin may have been reading First Dog On The Moon :)
A trivial and irrelevant point I know, but I have nothing left to say about Israel and Amerika that hasn't been said a thousand times or more already.
I've used up all the words I can use in polite company and despair and dread are just about my default state of mind. Even my dreams are becoming polluted.
I will say, I think pot is a much better alternative to anti-depressants.
Caitlin writes..."We’re already working, consuming and voting in perfect alignment with the interests of the powerful, and for the most part we’re thinking and speaking as the powerful want us to as well. This is because our education and,........
The most succinct powerful description of global capitalism I have ever read in my long decades And I have spent almost 80 years experincingit and studying it from a personal and academic. level .
Most Americans don't support Israel's War on Gaza. They're reasonably terrified to skate on the thin ice of anti-semitic defamation of character. More chilling than anti-vaxxer libels. https://stephensimac.substack.com/p/war-is-war-lies-are-weapons
i suspect they are going to wait for the Friday news dump to announce they are extraditing Julian. the process has been so rigged and opaque, I'm not optimistic for a better outcome, and this is a common tactic used in releasing information that will be highly unpopular.
"One thing a lot of people miss about the rising authoritarianism in our society is that such measures are not being rolled out with the goal of constructing a new dystopia that will look wildly different from what we see today, but to lock our current dystopia into place." --An extremely profound insight. I've been distracted by fear of what's coming, and failed to see what already is...
Thank you, Caitlin.
Julian should break his principle and disclose the source of Hillary's cabal e-mails.
Julian already stated that Wikileaks' source was NOT a state/country actor. The source was likely murdered Seth Rich, DNC operative and Sanders supporter.
Ep. 76 -- As they lecture us endlessly about human rights in other countries, the Biden administration is trying to kill journalist Julian Assange for the crime of embarrassing the CIA. His wife Stella joins us from his extradition hearing. -- Feb. 21, 2024
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1760424414124867651?s=20
For anyone that is aware of the history of Israel & Palestine, this issue is an incredibly simple one. There are few issues in geopolitics as simple as this one. Yet we find all sorts of people performing incredible feats of mental gymnastics to convince everyone else that this is somehow a "complex" issue.
The so-called "intellectual elites", journalists, think tanks, mainstream media, social and political elites and capitalists are spending vast amounts of resources to "complexify" a simple issue - in part because they are on the losing end and they know it - they are desperately trying to take back control of the narrative - they know that most people are aware of the truth and have been able to see through most of the propaganda.
I believe their attempts at propaganda will only get more desperate as time goes on...
"It's complicated" is truly my favorite phrase deployed by Liberals to defer responsibility.
Grow a goddamn spine.
The only time I have felt free was when I was living halfway up a mountain with no neighbours, no roads going by where I lived, no running water, no electricity. Just a few bears, a couple of cougars and my dogs. Every now and then I had to go into the nearby, very small town for groceries and I always felt overwhelmed by the "crowds". Now I live in a bustling city and the only free things I see are the squirrels and the birds.
Day 2 at ICJ hearing: Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s actions in Palestinian Territories as ‘legally indefensible’
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2463186/middle-east
Really? UK Warns It Could Restrict Arms Sales To Israel If Rafah Offensive Proceeds
Fresh headlines Wednesday say the United Kingdom is mulling restricting arms sales to Israel if it goes ahead with its planned major offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with over a million Palestinian refugees who've been forcibly relocated from other parts of the Strip...
..Not only has London's High Court recently dealt with petitions from legal advocacy groups alleging British arms sent to Israel are being used to commit war crimes (petitions which thus far have been rejected), but the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has just issued a letter to Netanyahu's office calling for Israel to "stop and think seriously about the repercussions of a military offensive" on Rafah.
Earlier this week Israeli defense officials for the first time said that the offensive would likely be launched by Ramadan, which begins on March 10 this year. The military has said Hamas can avoid this by releasing all of the hostages. At the UN Security Council, the UK abstained from a Tuesday vote on a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It failed due to veto from the United States.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-warns-it-could-restrict-arms-sales-israel-if-rafah-offensive-proceeds
Cuban President backs Lula's comments on Gaza genocide
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his solidarity with Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva after he was classified as persona non grata by "Israel for his sincere condemnation of the extermination of the Palestinian population in Gaza."
This comes after the Brazilian President said during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, "What's happening in the Gaza Strip isn't a war, it's a genocide," detailing that Israeli troops were not fighting "soldiers against soldiers," but rather a highly prepared army against "women and children."
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuban-president-backs-lula-s-comments-on-gaza-genocide
Gideon Levy (paywalled) opinion piece from Haaretz: The World Must Force Peace on Israel
Now is the time for the United States, and in its wake the international community, to make a decision: Will the endless cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians continue, or are we going to try to put a stop to it? Will the United States continue to arm Israel and then bemoan the excessive use of these armaments, or is it finally prepared to take real steps, for the first time in its history, to change reality? And above all, will the cruelest Israeli attack on Gaza become the most pointless of all?
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/now-peace-by-force/0000018d-b862-dd5e-a59d-fdf2034d0000
Speaking of locks on prisons, enter A.I.
This article makes a great point about the fact that we are already in a dystopia that will only look more dystopian as authoritarian measures (censorship, etc) currently being implemented are really like a new coat of paint for the same old prison-house. Bio-medical tyranny? Already in place for quite a while now: the Covid Regime was just an accelerant. Information Space Control? Just fine-tuning the apparatus. The elites running the Machine are mostly brain-washed drones that have been brain-chipped, as it were. Plenty of freedom of thought and perspective still out there, however, despite the avalanches of White Noise coming from the top. Free Assange!
Yourvideo/painting gets the war crimes totally clear. It is difficult to express how horrible what we are watching happen in Gaza is.
I disagree that people should avoid ANY group.
The problem is indeed one of organization. Individuals without groups will never solve the problem of organization. Individually we are weak and easily crushed, powerless. The only power available comes from ideologically united groups. Currently our opposition has groups and institutions that are very powerful, and have no qualms about exercising their power. It is magical thinking to believe avoiding any groups will present any threat to the existing power structure.
And the problem does seem to be that it is hard to find groups worth joining and throwing your personal effort behind. But we must find them or make them.
I think the corrupt Justice system in the US needs to be mentioned here!