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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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The sunset clauses are in there but re-authorization by Congress makes it moot.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/02/what-to-expect-for-the-patriot-act-reauthorization/

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Right, that's what I figured. Thanks, Pamela!

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Me too. And the DHS paper the other day has me screaming from the rooftops..HOW DARE YOU...What the hell has happened to our First Amendment rights? Now the government is in bed with the big Tech companies...so I can guess what happens next...Shut off from internet until they can get programmable digital currency in place. I am predicting it will happen before the November elections, because they have come so fast and so far they have to go even faster. We must be a lot more nimble...WHY aren't our representatives standing up for us and telling DHS to go F themselves???? Because I am afraid...the answer is it is already too late.

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.... our representatives standing up for us....

They're not your representatives my friend!

They're accountable to the special interests groups that finance their elections, not to you!!!

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".so I can guess what happens next...Shut off from internet until they can get programmable digital currency in place. I am predicting it will happen before the November elections, because they have come so fast and so far they have to go even faster. "

Not a chance. Too much commerce relies on the Internet and it has no upside for the ruling class w Internet the backbone of financial system & suffer greatly in their IoT device controlled homes when Siri won't turn the oven on.

Practically the move to digital currency is a process not a switch flipping event that involves infrastructure and laws. From a technical perspective it's like a moon launch and bureaucracies move like tankers in port. Certainly its on the wish list but operating in the background manipulating content is far more effective to manufacture consent and grow influence. Elections are such a rigged incestuous process there's almost nothing about voting that gives us folks who don't serve Blackrock & Raytheon.

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Brandon Smith estimates Internet would only need to be shut down for about two weeks to further crash small and medium-sized businesses and supply chains, before being brought back up with new filters, surveillance tools and other controls set up. The societal and economic chaos would continue after it was back up, of course, but the surveillance and control grid would be another notch tighter while people tried to get their bearings again.

https://alt-market.us/a-large-scale-false-flag-cyber-attack-is-now-imminent/

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"but the surveillance and control grid would be another notch tighter while people tried to get their bearings again."

Snowden leaks in 2014 confirmed full surveillance and collection of GPS location record, every text, call, search and transaction hoovered up by NSA so hard to guess what additional capabilities he imagines. As for your source predicting a false flag cyber attack try Whitney Webb reporting on Cyber Polygon simulations, the WEF exercise after Event 201.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/

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Because we have left democracy to fly on auto pilot and it does not fly on auto pilot.

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In the UK our Income Tax system was a temporary measure to fund the Napoleonic wars (1815)! Temporary? Yeah, sure!

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🤣😂😉 Madame, you had me rolling with that one. Look emojis!

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same

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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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I feel like I'm being served...up on a plate, well done, with a side of fries.

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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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Exactly.

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Or Kissinger winning a "Piece" prize after slaughtering millions of Vietnamese!!!

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The patently obvious moment for those who may have only suspected that the game is rigged.

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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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yes, obvious inside job the perfect pancake detonations

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among other things that were curious to me at the time was how quickly the government stepped in to provide substantial settlements to victims in exchange for their right to litigate with the excuse that it was to save the airlines from insolvency

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can’t have anyone sniffing around... meow🐱🙏🐱

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It is shameful how much silence has been bought over the years/decades/centuries …

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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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I'm Canadian. We haven't forgotten. My husband is a federal worker, still on leave without pay, and we still have federal mandates for travel - we can't even fly domestically in Canada, let alone internationally. Scary times. How quickly Canada fell from grace (although clearly that was an illusion).

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I am a Canadian expat. When the plandemic started, my first reaction was to figure out how to go home. But Castrudeau closed the borders, then requested "vaccinations" and quarantines for anybody who wanted to drive/flight in... Then by February 2022 Canada had become a full fledged Dictatorship when Castrudeau seized Canadians' bank accounts. I am now on my way to a 3rd country - I had started looking for a home in B.C but that's the past. No more Canada for me. I was going there because of "freedom", not because of a good weather. I prefer a true Banana republic with a good climate..

Castrudeau is silently killing off Canadians at home as outlined here:

https://trudeauknows.ca/

and here:

https://librti.com/page/view-video?id=1438

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Doesn’t Justin Trudeau also have money in the vaccine business? If so, can’t forget that.

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He owns 17% of a company that supplies raw materials for C-19 vaccines.

He has already placed an order for 400million doses of C-19 vaccines from Pfizer (75%) and Moderna (25%). For each Canadian injected with this gene therapy, Castrudeau makes money. That's why he wants each Canadian to be vaxxed at least 10 times. It's money power that turned him into a Fascist and I hope his Ceaușescu day is in the making!

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Sickening!

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Saw Dr. David Martin video yesterday that, within Pfizer financial statements, plans to work with Acuitas for 10 more mRNA injections in the works.

https://rumble.com/vxaxu5-pfizer-and-acuitas-have-partnered-together-to-release-up-to-10-more-gene-th.html

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There are rumours. If he does, it's under a numbered company and at arms length. Regardless, he bought enough in advance for 11 doses each between now and 2025. Next he mandated them. At the very least, he should be called out on this for a political butt-covering manoeuvre. Legacy media in Canada? Crickets.

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Why would the legacy media call him out? They are bought and paid for by the Liberal Party to the tune of about $600 million. And, unbelievably, hardly any Canadians thought that was wrong or even unusual. Mainstream journalism was never a force for good in Canada and now it is just dead. But Canadians themselves are the real villains in this piece - complacency and narcissism are a deadly combination.

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I guess the Cull is naturally in order then?

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11 doses per Canadian? Wow.

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he has got to go. considering that only 62% of cdns voted in the last election (called early and in a pandemic, no less), castrudeau actually only has the support of 20% of cdns (i can hazard a guess as to where most of them live). i suppose that's why he threw a trucker tantrum. he clearly demonstrated in doing so, however, what he truly is. the mask came off, as it were. then he goes traipsing off to europe to tell everyone how much he values 'democracy.' the hypocrisy is vomit-inducing. BC is no place to be with horgan, dix, henry, and farnworth at the helm (yet another govt to call an election early in the midst of a pandemic). they have their own serious control issues. i have to wonder, as well, where their investments lie....'get your booster.' if they all are aware (how could they not be?) of the damage these shots are causing, then they are all certainly culpable, and all need be held to account.

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I've been following the political situation in Canada from outside for more than 20 years and I've noticed a serious pattern of mafia like operations at the helm of the government.

The Plandemic has just made the king naked and all my suspicions were vindicated.

Just a couple of events that most people who rely on the MSM don't know:

1 - The house of an Israeli immigrant was bombed in Montreal a couple of years ago. It turned out that the guy was a Mossad agent who had fled to Canada and Netanounou wanted to kill him but he was not at home when his house was bombed. I never heard about Canada asking Israel to account for terrorists activities on Canadian soil.

2 - The Mossad team assassinated a Palestinian in Dubai and fled to Canada. They had entered the UAE using Irish and Canadian fake passports. The UAE police contacted Interpol but Harper refused to hand them over to the UAE as per the international law and rather sent them back to Israel (good job!!)

3- Since Harper left Ottawa he's being attending meetings in the the Iraqi Kurdistan to support anti-Iranian western proxies in the Middle East.

And If you follow military news (not the MSM!) you'd have noticed that Iran has attacked those proxies more than 5 times using ballistic missiles - the last attack took place last week and the MOSSAD base in Erbil was razed to the ground by 12 ballistic missiles.

4- The same Harper is running a business in downtown Toronto whith his MOSSAD and UAE partners.........

5- Castrudeau has been involved in so many scandals that I don't understand how a sane person could have voted for him.

So, for me Canada has become a Banana republic run by an international mafia. It's not worth my 5 cents anymore.

PST: Here is the worst financial scandal in Canada since 1867:

http://werex.org/what-happened-to-the-10-trillion/

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I am too and also under many of these restrictions. But the public at large where I live thinks we are just 'moving on'.

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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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So why would anyone suppress an effective therapeutic that reduced risk of serious complications from a nasty flu bug?

I'm sure timing had nothing to do with it ;-). just because it hit right about the time a certain political outsider was shaking up the status quo and needed to be unseated, but a thriving economy was making it look unlikely to defeat the evil bastid is no reason to suggest it was politically motivated, was it?

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I don’t think it was necessarily about ousting Trump. Why would you take the wind out of the sails of a pandemic that is driving the change you’re aiming for? I still distrust Trump, the Democrats have been so bad that it is almost certain to be a Republican president next time round so why would they not make sure it’s “their guy” who gets in?

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Several fair points to explore. I won't go quite so far as to say COVID-19 was invented to stop Trump, but it is fairly obvious that it was exploited to that end.

Trump is neither R nor D. He hijacked the R party in 2016. Call it a hostile takeover. Both parties helped by reinforcing his "outsider" image, the key to his campaign. Both failed to notice how many of their constituents they had alienated, making an outsider look good (even one with really bad hair and a brash mouth).

Back to 2020: In January, no pollster, no matter how bent (or broken) would put their own money on a bet against Trump. Energy independence, strong economy in real terms real people understood (stability, employment). The attempts to "take down" Trump had only made him more popular. I do think the initial extreme response to COVID,, shutting down the economies of the largest states (note 46 states governors played along, not all Ds), was political opportunism. Stifle the economy to mitigate this card in Trump's hand. There was no science nor logic behind deciding that pot stores were essential but HVAC was not. But Pot stores and liquor stores provide distractions. TV and Movie production continued to ensure entertainment as distraction.

Then it became an experiment in how far the push could go. Geez, the masses went for the shutdowns, what else can we do? So it then became a top agenda item to set the stage for the longer term objectives. How many people can we make dependent on the central government and thus helpless. How much power can we shift. How much of the constitution can finally be discarded. And the answer was "all of it". And it was learned that the true believers, the party loyal, would swallow dam near anything if pitched as required by crisis. Not new, but taken to new extremes.

For the record, I distrust the lot. But things improved in significant ways (long overdue corrections). We had taken control away from OPEC+Russia by becoming the #2 exporter of energy products to the world (Putin was not pleased). We had more good (not minimum wage) jobs.

The devastation of the last 13 months is hard to comprehend. I am not sure anyone in the GOP can fix it. I'm not seeing either party willing to give back what was taken. I sure hope I'm missing something.

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I think COVID was far bigger than just America. I agree Biden has been a disaster, his backers could hardly have done better destroying America over the last 13 months. I wouldn’t trust any existing politicians to change it. The only solution is to vote for those with no background in politics and no suspicious allegiances.

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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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But, but the NIH derives no royalty revenues from IVM! Can't have that.

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Dr John Campbell on YouTube has a new video from a peer reviewed study that proves once more ivermectin works. It is from March 14, if you want to get the actual report, he links them. Now how the heck can we get the stuff? As it looks like the covid is coming around again.

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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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Much, much more complex than the scenario you laid out. Like many things there are elements of truth and elements of conjecture, by my studies. The now is important and if, in fact, citizens are arming themselves to protect their freedom and their current leader that establishes what they prefer. Voting to use a weapon with a threat to your life is a powerful message. Perhaps they themselves are deluded by propaganda asserting their chosen President is legitimate but that's their choice.

The US meddling in other's business has long been troublesome, that we can agree about. The meddling caused Crimea and the continued Russia efforts in the Donbas, an area in dispute for more than 50 years. Whether the vote in Crimea was valid depends on a lot. But it is quite clear the Russian did not want to lose (or lease) their base there. The partitioning of Ukraine may or may not be legitimate but that's up to the Ukrainians. Kyiv is much like DC against the rurals as far as eastern areas go.

The painting of an evil Russia is not wise. Their meddling can be countered easily with a bit of effort. But calling everybody a client or supporter of Russia because you would rather not see WWIII is quite unwise. The harsh financial reprisals on Russia may haunt the world for a long time. Biden's know-it-alls rarely think about consequences beyond an election.

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How do you even know that Ukrainian "citizens are arming themselves to protect their freedom and their current leader"? How many? How many are doing so voluntarily, and how many are being conscripted and coerced?

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I don't know anything aside from news reporting. I am told the Ukrainian armories were open and weapons were provided to all over a given age. Nominally most societies don't conscript teens and in the last days of Germany during WWII, teens were on the front lines. All I see via the news suggests a fierce fight between a rag-tag force against a "trained" force of much greater capability. If that trained force is that incapable, that suggests the citizens are doing something. The Russians have devolved to indiscriminate siege warfare but at least not devolved to use of tactical nukes that could do the job faster. At least they have some sense of the risks of escalation. Eventually after considerable destruction there will be no "winners" and it remains to be seen if Putin can achieve his goals.

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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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Let's not fool ourselves with partisan politics. They're all in on it. Just watch clowns like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell in action.

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I belong to no party, and for the sake of brevity omitted the rest of my letter, but here's another quote from what was published in my regional paper (it was replying to the letters of others):

"Geez. It’s like a schoolyard on here, politically speaking. But I got news for ya, Republicans and Democrats: ALL yer mothers wear combat boots.

Neither is a good party. They’ve both failed us and continue to do so. Political parties exist only to accrue power and then dole it out as patronage to ensure loyal support. "

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Spot on. Great comment.

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Thank you.

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The first president of the United States of America warned us about national political parties. He noted that they would accumulate power and undermine the distribution of power that was intended to assure the sovereignty of the states and prevent concentration of power to serve a national agenda over the representation of the people. He said it would undermine and ultimately destroy our representative republic.

He was very smart. Or had a time machine and had been to the 21st century.

Because he nailed it.

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that first president also led the militia against American tax protesters

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Yes both parties are bad, but nobody can seriously contend that the Democrats aren't far worse with respect to covid. Cuomo versus De Santis, writ large.

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I never voted for anybody in my life because I don't believe in fake democracy.

Covid started with Trump and he failed miserably. The democrats came in an failed miserably. It's not a party game here, it's a failed flu management on the global scale. When I say flu I am serious because SARS-Cov-2 is not more dangerous than seasonal flu. $billions have been spent just to create a delusional treat with a 24/7 mass formation Psychosis.

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I will concede but add "for the moment".

now that we have a new crisis to exploit, game on.

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Reminds me of the recent Darkhorse Podcast--postmodern masking. Here in Vancouver Canada we finally dropped our mask mandate on Friday. Most people still wear them! Even outside! And at a major chain store today (London Drugs) I saw a new sign about how wearing a mask was still “strongly encouraged” while shopping. I wanted to scream and tell everyone what I knew! Tell everyone to not be afraid to unmask! But instead I just showed off my smile as I shopped with cash and quickly got outta there. Anyway, thank you for sending such an important letter!

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I went to do errands today and finally went to the fabric store after two years. We haven't had the witch governor's slave mask edict in effect for a month. I would say 75 percent of people still wore those dirty rags. I'm to the point that if they want to be treated as a nonhuman so be it. I don't even look them in the face or acknowledge their presence. They are zombies to me.

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When I searched my "letters to the editor" file for the text of that letter, I was disconcerted to see I'd written a letter *supporting* masking in August 2020. With all of my faults, failing to acknowledge when I discover I'm wrong is not one of them.

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Excellent. Keep at it. Point out vaccine failure, every opportunity you have. Mention that 90% of those dying of covid in England are vaccinated. Share Naomi Wolf's interview with Michael Dowd to anyone and everyone.

Keep hammering away at the fact that our leaders are incompetent, dishonest, dissemblers who deserve no respect. Covid caused no crisis; the stupid responses to it did.

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I would challenge "incompetent". Replace it with "unethical" or "self serving" and you have a true statement. Sadly the perpetrators you describe have been way too competent in the systematic suppression of liberty and opposition.

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Exactly. The whole thing is Me-Too Freakoutism run by 'the cool kids' and you're not allowed to sit at their lunch table.

Me-Too Freakoutism™

https://narrowpath.substack.com/p/me-too-freakoutism?r=171xjv&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

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Excellently put but one minor correction: I think you mean "submission" rather than "consensus". Just a thought....

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Well, I used "consensus" in the context of scientific peer review which has been turned into whoring now.

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Yup. "consensus" in the review process has redefined. Nothing new. I remember doing a peer review on an early work in "climate change" where the authors cited a lot of valid science from geology and astrophysics. They had valid cites, solid math and conclusions that were supportable by their data. But the conclusion shed doubt upon the "green house" model (again with solid math and solid citations). I recommended "approve for publication" and my review was invalidated because I was deemed not a "climate expert" (being an engineer with a background in high energy and solid state physics, you know, soft stuff). In fact all "approve" reviews were tossed. That was like 15 years ago if I had to guess.

So what we see now is just more of (and more extreme) what we've seen for a while.

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Though a public college education in my home state when I was young was quite affordable, I'm glad my idiot younger self was wise enough, after a year's worth of credits earned at night, to realize it was a complete waste of my time since I had no career aspirations and was perfectly capable of buying books without a syllabus requirement to guide me. By the time I'd reached my highest level of employment as the usual sort of indentured servant, I was making more than my friend with her 2 master's degrees. The real crime (or one among many) against young people in this country has been the extermination of trades high schools. Now we've got an overabundance of highly-credentialed morons in joke disciplines whose purposelessness and neurasthenia are dragging us to the precipice of hell or its near neighborhood.

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I too lived once in a state with affordable higher education. at a time long enough ago that the university was not so totally and completely politicized and corrupt. For me it was a great experience and opened up many wonderful opportunities. I spent a lot of time in 4 different universities and escaped (eventually) with pretty papers to hang on the wall, and for me, a much expanded learning capability. It was a path to great opportunities and opened up many options that would not have been available. Choices I'd not have had without. For a lot of people in my generation, the right education provided a way to better my life, and to economic mobility. The most significant thing for me was discovering and learning to use talents and abilities I didn't realize before. I'm not saying my life would have been worse without, but it would have been different. Quite likely I'd have made more money more quickly, but I don't think I'd have had as much fun overall.

I have great respect for the trades, for sure. I have friends for whom my path would not have worked. People who are just as smart (and smarter) than I, and who found their talents and opportunities. Some benefited from trade schools and others had to figure it out. I never have entertained any notion that my education is better than theirs, just different.

I figured out long before I escaped the university that the world was full of "highly credentialed morons" in both "joke disciplines" and even in the "serious disciplines" (at least the ones I considered serious ;-). That hasn't changed. What has changed is the culture at universities. It is much harder now to find opportunity.

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I'm probably of the last generation that could have a modest but comfortable middle-class life on no qualifications as long as there was some native intelligence. I had a lousy HS average because my English and social studies grades couldn't counterbalance the abysmal math ones (I only managed to graduate because I passed the geometry Regents by divine intervention [only plausible explanation because I'd failed every quiz all year and didn't bother studying since I understood nothing--shout out for the mercy of multiple-choice questions...]).

I dropped out of CUNY after 3 months for an idiotic marriage whose great advantage was I already had a basic resume by the time it ended and I was prepared to keep earning a living and I started traveling too. I'd gone back to college at night, and after awhile I wondered why I was exhausting myself for no discernible reason. And I began to feel it was all a scam anyway. I'd had an anthropology professor I really liked and admired, but I put little effort into my final paper and handed in 5 pgs. instead of 10, and she marked it "brilliant." So I was seeing I could bullshit my way through life and had no ambition other than to not be hassled by anyone in authority and to "someday be a writer" and to accumulate as many books as could reasonably be hoped for.

And I found, at every job I had (exec. secretary/equivalent), I was at least as smart and sometimes more capable than the degreed people, since I was always copy-editing their work and generally improving it, so I had a kind of rebellious arrogance (or, as the vernacular might have it, a "fuck you" attitude...)

I'd wonder what might have been except for the great answer to any such second-guessing: all my self-defeating, idiotic, dangerous and/or just plain dumb choices led me accidentally to having my life's treasure. Fate can sometimes be astonishing. I thank it every day.

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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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That's not going to work this time. Social media and cameras in every hand make it difficult to combat evidence when Russian disinformation turns out to look a little too truthy. Our present leadership is closer to communism than is Russia and is taking plays from the pages of the Communism for Dummies handbook. Accuse the enemy of everything you yourself are doing, only tell the truth if you can make it sound completely ridiculous, change language and definitions, less is more...

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Follow the Joeseph Gobbels handbook! Gobbels controlled the press and media, as it existed in the 1930's. And he controlled the high schools. Look how that turned out. Our modern wannabe disciples of the great propagandist have a deeper reach into the psyches of our young people. Does not bode well!

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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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It's coming, one way or another. They want to control the collapse to their benefit; that's why they are acting like junior varsity totalitarians to shore up and increase their powers while society remains calm.

Forget social security. They have no intention of paying it; they can't. Make peace with this fact and act accordingly, never letting the threat of withholding it act as a coercive force. And never, ever, ever go for any of their "vaccines."

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Canadian banks are not so secure. It took a few frozen accounts, or threat of, to point that out to those that want to see.

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The money won't run dry. They'll just make more. Or take it by stealing from frozen Afghanistan or Russian accounts. Failing that, they'll take it from us, they'll nationalize banks.

And it'll all be Putin's fault. Or the unvaccinated, the 5th booster could have saved us all but they refused....

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But that's the point of inflation: it destroys the value of $. So you can print more or steal more or whatever, but no one ACCEPTS your currency regardless of its origin. That's the magic of inflation (which people think means higher prices, but which really means LOWER value currency)!

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Noted elsewhere, eBay can provide as many $100M or $50B Zimbabwe bills as you might want. Beats the wheelbarrow.

Of course, stealing from the lower classes is what the government does. Give them Obama phones from his stash and get those votes. Never mind who pays for that and the double whammy of inflation.

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according to Pelosi government spending reduces the national debt

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

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Yes! I thought of a movie reference too, though this reflects how unreal and fictional the world has seemed for so long, more than anything, but nonetheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOTMgFjmcBo

And the excellent alliteration puts me in mind of Beowulf, written in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. This time the Brobdingnagian globalist vampire tick with teats and tentacles is the monster. Buckminster Fuller, I think, said, however: you can't fight it, you must build a parallel opposite structure. So hopeful.

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A very cogent summary of our final descent into some kind of post Orwellian hell.

We seem to have established, conclusively, in these last two years, that Governments, at all levels, have the right to control what we are allowed to say, where, (or if) we work, where and when we travel, where, and what we eat, and what medicines are allowed/required to consume.

Every facet of our lives is monitored. An expression of a desire for privacy is taken as prima facie evidence of criminal ‘subversion’, or ‘insurrection’. The mere act of questioning the latest dictate from our rulers is now a crime. Governments around the world ignore constitutions, bills of rights, and basic human rights. Laws/regulations are capriciously, (and vigorously), applied. And very obviously do not apply to our leaders/rulers. Or the Elite.

We have arrived in a previously unthinkable totalitarian world that calmly accepts that criticism of the powerful is a criminal offence. Absolute control. The powerful can truly micro manage every tiny facet of our lives.

Technology, sadly, has made possible a ‘new world order’ that Orwell, Hayek, or Huxley, in their worst nightmares, could not have imagined. And we, sadly, are living it.

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