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I'm old enough to remember when there was supposedly a "sunset clause" on the PATRIOT Act.

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Whenever I see "stakeholders" I figure it's more likely that I'm the menu than the diner.

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The entire problem with this idea is who decides what is "disinformation". The fact that people keep cheering this on as a possible solution just shows how naïve, stupid, or disingenuous that they truly are. It's almost as amusing as Fauci winning the "Speaking Truth to Power" award.

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Speaking of 9/11, this seems an apropos moment to share this November 2021 article by William Hurt in his memory:

• “It Took Me a Long Time to Face What I Knew to be True About 9/11” (https://www.globalresearch.ca/it-took-long-time-face-what-knew-true-about-911/5761325)

RIP William Hurt 😢

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Another fantastic article. I hope some commenters can give specifics about how to access these kind of encrypted systems for dummies! Thank you for continuing to emphasize the importance of what happened in Canada. Many Canadians have already forgotten it but it has repercussions for all of us!

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At various points any information that pointed out how ineffective the vaccines were, was “Russian troll farm disinformation”. I’d say 70% still believe they’re “safe and effective” even as objective lived experience proves them anything but. They need to cut down and isolate that 30%, but the thing is that none of that 30% will believe a word the government says ever again.

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It started with Ivermectin and turns out they knew that it was a therapy for Covid all along.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/pfizer-admit-ivermectin-used-as-a?s=w

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"the technology to do this, to generate peer to peer swarm sourced distributed DNS internet systems encrypted end to end and running outside the limits or even notions of nation states is coming."

We need this before it is stuffed or corrupted. If the tech doesn't come soon enough, those struggling with the powers that be will need to dispense with social media and its corruptable devices. Keep in mind that the Vietnamese and the Afghanis defeated the mightiest military in world history without equivalent weapons. The transnational technocratic monster can be defeated too through non-traditional means.

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Mar 14, 2022·edited Mar 14, 2022

The difference between Russian "disinformation" and Western disinformation is that Russian "disinformation" largely agrees with the well-established historical record - the 2014 US-led coup that replaced the elected government with a US puppet state, the fact that the current puppet regime in Kiev banned opposition media and jailed/exiled political enemies, the fact that the regime in Kiev spent the last 8 years ignoring the Minsk protocol while killing 1000s in the Donbass region and allowing neo-Nazi paramilitary groups, esp. the Azov Batallion, to terrorize the population, the central role that neo-Nazi groups have played in the US puppet state over the years (e.g. Svoboda, Pravyi Sektor, etc.) - all of these verifiable facts which were openly discussed by Western media as late as 2019-2020 are now unspeakable Russian "disinformation" according to that same Western media. The fact that Hunter Biden has the cushy sinecure he does with Burisma was the result of his father playing an important role in organizing the coup and setting up the new power structure in the country, a fact that was getting decent airplay on conservative media in the US just 15-16 months ago but that they have apparently forgotten in their neocon fervor to finally have the hot war with the USSR their Cold War-jostled brains have been wanting all these years. And, just like in the run-up to the war in Iraq, the entire American ruling class and media are all on the same page, repeating the same lies, how this is all about "freedom and democracy", and so on. It's remarkable how many of those who admit now that the Iraq war was a mistake or who finally came around to Team Reality after realizing the last 2 years were a lie are just hopping right back on board the next psyop, no questions asked. Did we learn nothing?

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"You Are There" was a great TV show but I sure don't want to be living in it no more. I've had quite enough of the "Build a Better Genocide" theme park up here in a supposedly libertarian red state. To be fair if they'd banned Noo Yawkuhs from immigrating here I'd have been in trouble myself.

But even so late in our current Plague Era these people in this awful blue enclave that I'd once thought was a nice community are still debating continuance of masking ordinances and using the words "your freedom" as the vilest of epithets. Because of our city council my apt. complex must observe masking in public areas. The regional major medical center located here keeps sending out its anti-evidence COVID "Updates."

Here's an excerpt from my letter to the editor of our regional paper, published Jan. 2022. I'm doing the best I can but I ain't got many fellows in this locality:

"If your party permits school authorities to force your children to eat outside in near-freezing or rainy weather, you have abandoned your first duty to protect and defend your offspring. If you meekly accept the continual cancellation of in-person classes and force your children to spend hours every day in Zoom classes, you care nothing for their future, and may God help you should you ever require their tender mercies in your old age.

It is currently a Democratic administration that’s done everything possible to destroy scientific inquiry and rigor by demanding consensus and punishing dissent, and repeats almost daily medical untruths about what is now an endemic disease and absolutely not “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” "

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100% agree with this. We didn't censor "Bagdad Bob" during the Iraq war. He became a joke. Let the Russians spin their propaganda and then counter it. I don't trust the government or Big Tech - AT ALL.

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You are an inspiration, comrade. It is up to us humans to build a new era of human flourishing and push back against the jackboot.

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100% correct bad cat! Taibbi is out today with a similarly great article pointing out how we are basically living in Orwell’s 1984

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“We simply can’t let all those people whom we’ve fooled again and again with shock videos, crisis actors, and well planned and executed fabricated disasters say that they no longer buy our shock videos, crisis actors, and well planned and executed fabricated disasters! It will be the end of civilization as we dictate it!—I mean as we know it…”

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Thank God for inflation & government debt! These people are running out of money and all their schemes will collapse when the money runs dry. Once they can't pay for Social Security etc., do you think ANYBODY will care about ANYTHING they're whining about? Every other government program will be gutted to pay pensions etc, and so all of these little agencies will go broke. What they might do between now & then is terrifying, of course, but we WIN because they can't afford the fight.

The goal of freedom lovers must be to accelerate their financial collapse.

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this is the way. build it and they will come.

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