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    Frida Kahlo Self portrait in a Velvet Dress 1926   • The US Grip On The Middle East Slips, And Peace Breaks Out (Inlakesh) • What China Is Really
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 3 2023]

    #134552
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Agenda2030 AND controlling everything.

    Food Police in New York to Track Residents’ Consumption

    NYC works to outlaw meat, oh, yeah, and to track every person’s every move forever. To punish and control them forever. That. Yay NY! Freedom!!!!

    “Scientists Say Meat Is Crucial To The Human Diet – Warn Against Vegan ‘Zealotry’”

    Trust the Science. Oh wait, we don’t trust the Science when we get the memo. Then we trust the Science again. Until we don’t. Then we do. A = A ; A ≠ A. Both! Neither! Aiiii!

    “Mexico pushing to nationalize mines claiming it is targeting lithium, many see this law as opening the door to seizing all mines”

    Or they can pay the TAXES on the mines, we’ll just take all the ore and profits! That’s Capitalism. They still OWN the means of production, right? I just get all the benefits.

    “‘Ukraine Will Not Stop Until It Liberates All Occupied Territories’ (Az.)

    …By killing every ethnic Russian within 300 miles of them. Then they’re liberated for Ukrainians! Lebensraum.

    On doctrine, I see that with perfect surveillance and intel due to communications, one must amass your Army’s force in a decentralized, distributed way. …Using perfect communications. This is fine for the men and jeeps, but refineries and arms manufacturers are presently centralized locations. The very concept of army bases, airbases, etc are concentrated.

    “Over the past month, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 15 thousand people;”

    Since that is +150,000/year, that’s about the right rate. Perhaps that says 200k total is too high.

    “Milley told Foreign Affairs that the US and its European NATO partners have helped Ukraine train and equip “about nine brigades”

    I believe that legally this makes you a party to the war. The war we’re not in that Joe Biden says we have to make sacrifices because we’re in. One sorrow of mine is that they’ve destroyed all Ukraine, all Ukrainians, and all the standing objects in that area, when the real enemy is here. It would be more just and appropriate to shell and flatten all Delaware, much closer to the real enemy, and home of its major backer. Then we could decide more honestly how much we want this war.

    Milley arguing that the US “should do what it can to make sure” that Russia and China don’t set up a strategic military alliance.”

    Yeah, if we don’t look out China and Russia might merge +20 years ago and create a BRI / SCO +10 years ago.

    I’m very tired of the constant lack of truth, that things that already happened, that we all experience, like an oxygen environment, are daily flip-flopped to happened/never happened ; happened/never happened. I’m about twice as tired of no one noticing.

    ““..it’s known that France, Germany, and countries in Western Europe, in general, have always been against Ukraine joining either the EU or NATO.”

    That’s because they’re the most corrupt nation in Europe or perhaps the world. But now that Western Europe has caught up with their level of corruption, it’s a match!

    “Supporters of the Kiev junta applauded the brutal massacre, glorifying the unbridled radicals as ‘patriots.’ Under the influence of a nationalist frenzy, human life in the country has completely lost its value.”

    Sure. This is the instant, obvious conclusion if you value the State or Collective above the Individual. The very next word out of your mouth is, how, or who, do we sacrifice and kill to strengthen the Fasces? That’s only logical. And the State or Collective is ruled or managed by ME, so I too am a Very Important Person who should NOT be sacrificed, but helped in every way. YOU are the person who should be liquidated and consumed. And instantly with prejudice if you hinder my desires in any way.

    “but the radicals surrounded the building and set it on fire.”

    Huh. That sounds dangerous. Is that anything like surrounding a Federal Building, attempting to set it on fire for weeks, even welding the doors shut? Or is that love and tolerance?

    How about if you took high-powered guns from a local militia and tried to set an immigrant facility on fire with everyone inside, men, women, children, all brown? Would that be love and tolerance too?

    Apparently to the Federal Prosecutors, they are both laudable events of pure love, broadly accepted as good and right.

    “In Putin’s words, China “managed in the best possible way, in my opinion, to use the levers of central administration”

    This is quite true and was a selling point during the war that we could only win by Central Planning and Fascism ourselves. It does work. But the problem is a good short-term plan; bad long-term plan. If Socialism didn’t work well even at first no one would try it.

    Poland Explains Plan For WWII Reparations From Russia (RT)”

    I’m a little lost here, even among pathological liars. Nazi Germany conquered Poland. After quite a long and expensive effort, the USSR conquered Nazi Germany and put Germany out of Poland, back to their borders. So Poland should pay RUSSIA reparations, right? As a thank you for fighting the Germans for them?

    “[Trump] he too has not challenged US hegemony..”

    I mean sure, overlooking that everything he did and promoted would undermine US hegemony: ending globalism, withdrawing from foreign wars, signing peace, making NATO pay, halting borders, founding the US$. But other than everything in his platform, he didn’t do anything.

    …It another one of these, “Everything Trump does, every minute of his political life, everywhere worldwide, was all one big accident” theories. Ooops? I guess?

    “Abbe David Lowell, said his client has been paying $20,000 monthly, more than $700,000 since the support order was signed.”

    I guess we don’t have to worry if Navy is alright. Instead we’ll have to worry if her mother is blowing it on crack. And she’s suing for more, or what? $250k/year not enough?

    Psychopathy – at least the most of it – is a spectrum, like all other words. Most people are born with some human capacity for love and empathy, but then choose otherwise and purge it from themselves. I don’t know if some are born with no capacity for emotion at all, but it’s so close we simply describe it so. But that’s probably <1% of rated psychopaths.

    That means that, depending where you put the line, I’m a psychopath, and you are too. In some way I also choose to block out the emotional connection, refuse to be entirely open to all mankind, loving, merged, enlightened and true. So where’s the line? Also if there are such psychopaths and wolves, is the best response to them really to be completely open and loving? Is not our own empathy generally weaponized against us wherever it appears?

    NATO funding: “We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Hey, that’s just what Osama bin Laden said! Good thing he warned us!

    #134553
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Russian intelligence is very good and the slightest hint of Ukronazis moving equipment for their ‘counteroffensive’ will result in destruction before it gets in place.

    The Ukronazis have no air covered or aircraft. Their equipment is a sitting duck.

    The Russians have thousands of cruise missiles and I imagine if Nazilensky makes a move, the big lie that Russia is ‘running out’ of cruise and hypersonic missiles will be revealed as a cruel joke.

    typically an offensive force needs to be 3 times the size of the defending force to break through.

    Basic military doctrine

    The Ukronazis have barely the same force, if even that, and their troops are untrained and ill equipped to breach highly fortified Russian lines.

    This ‘offensive’ will be the Ukronazis ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’

    Useless, suicidal, directed by cowards at the rear.

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    #134554
    zerosum
    Participant

    No secrets …. Lies don’t work
    Everybody see it ….
    What can be done about it?

    • Why Ukraine’s Much-Anticipated ‘Counteroffensive’ Could End In Failure (RT)
    • Kremlin Mocks & Dismisses White House’s High Russian Casualty Count (ZH)

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    Discovery – Prove it

    President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden may have paid the mother of his 4-year-old daughter up to $750,000 in child support since March 2020, said one of his attorneys at a hearing.
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    #134555
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies Gangster Nation® and it’s Military Mafia think they can lie forever about everything.

    Not true, lies are a cancer

    The amount of Collective West ‘aid’, both money and weapons, sent to the Most Corrupt Country of Euroturdistan® that actually arrived at the point of contact on the battle front is probably only half of what was sent.

    The other half was siphoned off through the mass of institutionalized and cultural grift endemic to the Ukronazi character.

    NATOnazis, continuing a time honored tradition.

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    #134556
    zerosum
    Participant

    Organ harvesting and transplant.
    The market should be good for demand/buying/selling brains.

    #134557
    zerosum
    Participant
    #134558
    chooch
    Participant

    Cool

    “Last week an incredibly insightful federal judge issued a decision and order that will allow, for the first time in 44 years, children in Mississippi to attend school when their parents’ convictions do not permit them to be vaccinated.“

    https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/freedom-rings-in-mississippi?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

    #134559
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Russians shifted their missile strike targeting priorities from electrical infrastructure and air defense systems to rail yards and stations and ammunition depots and equipment storage facilities.

    They also hit 9 Ukronazis brigade command posts killing over a thousand primarily officers and logistics personnel in one night. Hard to plan ‘offensives’ when you loose so many planners in one pop.

    Col MacGregor elaborates:

    I guess the cancerous big lies are finally beginning to metastasizing into Stage Four

    #134560
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    No Philippines Gates Arrest Warrant

    Oh and while I’m at it: no, Klaus Schwab’s Daddy wasn’t some big-time Nazi.

    Facts are useful in their direct correspondence with reality. Bukllshit is useful for its indirect corresp0ondence with reality. Facts will steer a direct course. Bullshit meanders all over the place leaving a brown smelly trail.

    #134561
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The continuing Bud Lite fiasco is fascinating to watch, because you can learn how things work everywhere without looking up from that microcosm. What’s happening with Bud Lite is what is happening, happened with Ukraine or Vaxxes or Star Wars or whatever you like.

    They’re clearly committing brand suicide. Anhaeser-Busch and inBev are taking a hit as well. It isn’t fading over time – MORE people are figuring out you have to switch to a different parent company to punish AB – not just switch to another of their brands, although I suppose a massive internal product shift screws up production/inventory for them anyway.

    They can’t stop. They cannot even slow down with self destruction. The particulars are annoying and boring but what’s actually happening is a bit fascinating.

    Surely they are aware that they got blown up because of a few different things that were happening around the same time:

    Trans school shooter, shooting the place up because “we need to defend children,” so logically, morally, if you can’t have access to indoctrinate them, then they may as well be dead, as they are of no use to Trans people?

    President does a press conference specifically to talk about this National Tragedy — comes out, talks about ice cream and shows a creepy interest in the children he spotted at the back of the room.

    World class female swimmer goes to talk at a college and is punched by a dude in a dress, is forcibly kidnapped — college makes a statement congratulating their stunning-n-brave “peaceful protestors”

    Another Trans shooting or attempted shooting I forget which.

    Trans Day Of Vengeance scheduled for a day or two after the shooting – placards of rainbow colored Assault Rifles against a black background, etc. Not enough self-consciousness to just state “Hey, that’s NOT what we are about and out of respect, rescheduling for next week” nope. Full speed ahead. President comments admiringly of “Our Fierce Transgenders”

    Florida bans children at sexually explicit parades, pride parade cancelled in response. Er, if you can’t expose children to inappropriate stuff, there’s not even a POINT to your parade??? Up until this moment, I had assumed that WASN’T your outlook on life.

    Amidst the Florida Disney battle (and why is a business engaging in a political/cultural battle with a state government?) Disney starts hosting LGBTQ+ nights at Disneyworld – their amusement park for children. Just in case you thought Disney was being misunderstood somehow.

    A video goes viral showing the Bud C-Suite lady responsible raving all the Woke neomarxist talking points, her dislike of their client base (normal people), etc. It comes out she comes from a wealthy background, went to super expensive prep schools and colleges, had this high paying job inexplicably handed to her with virtually no experience.

    A new ad to “recover” that indicates they think their customers are easily manipulated, stimulus-response stupid animals.

    This was all in about a week, if I recall. So yeah, just NOT actively buying a brand that happened to step right into it is easy, not even an inconvenience. Does not require any active rage, hate, whatever they imagine is happening, just a slight semi-apathetic weariness of insanity is all that is required.

    Gah. Idiots. We have our own problems. We cannot be bothered to “Hate” a dude that wants to put on a dress. Fine. Seriously, FINE. Yawn, even. But when you insist on being actively celebrated while having more rights over children than their own parents at the point of an assault rifle, you start to get people’s attention. Showing us a grotesque caricature of Audrey Hepburn – in a sense, boring, unoriginal., and uninteresting as that is, yawn, unsubscribe – in that moment gave everybody an INCREDIBLY easy way to show they’re not up for unlimited insanity. Nobody ran out and burnt buildings down, kidnapped people, whatever “hateful” people ostensibly do – they just didn’t buy a beer.

    What Bud needed, when this started was incredibly simple. Fire the people involved, make a statement that they were fired, release some normal non-pandering beer ad. Done. NO bending of the knee or apology required. Like, just the most businesslike, rational thing possible. Just be seen to be a normal company. Do to THEM exactly what you’d do to US as your employee. Just be seen to be a basically sane evil megacorp and not an insane one.

    Instead, they announced they’re basically on paid vacation, as far as any of their customers can tell. Sales keep slipping, still no word to the contrary. That’s what it must be. Still nobody fired. They’re probably somewhere sunny with a beach right now. Someplace you or I couldn’t afford. Blackrock will surely find them a 6-7 figure job elsewhere when they’re done relaxing.

    It’s the failure to act like a sane business that is telling people – woah, I didn’t think so, but it turns out you ARE seriously nuts, you DID mean it, holy @#$%. And failing to defuse the situation earlier makes this drag on, continuing the conversation – more and more people are discussing Blackrock and Vanguard’s ownership in the company.

    But regardless, keep going with stupid, cannot do the obviously sane thing, cannot say the obviously sane thing. Free unlimited money that doesn’t care about anything in the real world must be pouring in from somewhere. Just engage in, essentially, propaganda warfare on your customers knowing it just pisses them off and keep going. There Shall Be No Discussion.

    Like, nobody CARES if you are gay, want to wear a dress or whatever. The people that WOULD care are in nursing homes or dead. We don’t give a FUCK, man. It’s not 1950. Up until you went nuts, you had our complete, heartfelt benign total all-encompassingly bored apathy.

    #134562
    Oroboros
    Participant

    An oldie but goodie

    Create a ‘pandemic’ with a crooked PCR test

    “If you want to create a pandemic…you create a PCR protocol, you put the cycle threshold between 35-45, and you test healthy people…that’s how you create cases.”

    Every cycle threshold amplifies the results 10 times.

    So 10 raised to the 45th power, you could probably detect particles from the Martian surface in your coffee.

    So were are the law suits?

    Judges and prosecutors in the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation® are thieves and cowards, like Nazilensky, they are essentially strip club managers.

    #134563
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I read much in places like TAE about truth and lies.

    The truth, said a snaggle-toothed old man, is not a condom ribbed for his or her pleasure, although lubrication can, indeed, turn painful truth into ecstatic enlightenment.

    Furthermore, he said, truth is the only key that will turn the rusty lock of an adult’s broken heart (all adults are heartbroken) without breaking off and leaving you stuck inside yourself.

    In this world, you can’t go home except by death or a lover’s sighs. The rest is just so much driving a dead man’s car nowhere. I remember singing along with this song drunk on moonshine in a dead car (engine locked up from overheating) with just enough battery left to play the radio on a cold clear winter night with Georgia moonlight splintering through the breath-frosted windshield of a ‘65 Ford Galaxy while my cousin Evan got laid in the back seat.

    Prisoners Have No Place To Go

    The truth is that we don’t really know what’s happening, although we surely suffer a surfeit of clues; and not knowing doesn’t drive us nuts (we’re already there) but it keeps us crazy. So we lioe to ourselves and each other, insisting that the world is run by ZPZB (Ze Powers Zat Be). It isn’t run by ZPZB any more than dogs are governed by their fleas. Tormented, yes, but the dog is still the boss.

    We’ve forgotten individual autonomy, hence our inability to form collective opposition against our parasitic oppressors. If every prisoner in a penitentiary adamantly refused to comply — and beat the tar-feathers out of any guard who attempted to force compliance — osaid prison would become a de facto condominium/business incubator for a buncha former convicts.

    It is NOT ZPZB that enslave us, it is ourselves. We are the people in our neighborhood. Rosa Parks didn’t have a plan when she sat in the front of that bus in Selma, Alabama way back when. She was just goddam fucking tired. Her feet hurt.

    Listen to your feet. Get up off your internet ass and go do something. Take a walk. Say hello to that vaxxed neighbor who is so very fucked and was so fucky to you about your refusal to be treated like livestock. Be bigger than them. Be bigger than your petty ego’s shrill demands. If you don’t like the leadership you’re experiencing, start leading, awreddy. It will take a tad more than casting some vote or folding our arms and saying. “I told you so.”(one of our favorite pastimes).

    You might have to forgive someone. Maybe even yourself. Life’s like that. “He who would lead would follow” said some god slumming in human drag. WTF do dat mean?

    Among many many things, it could mean that first you get the flock’s attention. You stand in front of them and say This way! This way! About the time they get the idea, typically more late than not but not necessarily too late, you don’t stand in front of them saying Itoljyaso and uvaxxedRsofukked. You get behind them and start driving them, preferably keeping silent about how you told them so. They can’t tell you that you were right after all while you’re busy telling them that you were right after all. (It’s similar to ‘you can’t fire me; I quit!’… but that’s human nature for ye.) This is because (along with many other reasons) there are some mules (most of ’em) to whom you can only speak to on the hind end with a stick.

    That doesn’t sound like following but it is. To be an effective leader you’ll have to accept the limitations of your leadership skills and humbly submit to the crowd’s wisdom once it finally figures out you really were right all along. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, said my favorite legendary avatar of divinity. Because my mind compulsively mixes metaphors and moves things around, I’ll say neither a follower nor a leader be… cuz he who would lead must follow.

    Sounds kinda spiffy, don’t it?. Roll it in some gold-leaf hemp wrap and I’d smoke if my lungs weren’t shot.

    btw, you’re all really lovely people, even the soulless bots and dis/mis/diss-informationists. You care enough to peek behind the veil and look at really scary stuff. I can only salute that.

    I can attest that real human beings composed and recorded the following music, but I suspect that some of the the rather stunning visuals are AI-induced:

    South Canadian River

    #134564
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Welcome back, Bosco 🙂

    Your recommendations certainly aren’t wrong, and others expressing the same sentiment here aren’t wrong either.

    Surely we’re finding ways to do our part, each in our own way.

    I thought really hard about this and had to keep revising my ambitions downward and downward.

    I’m pulling masses of empty bottles and used drug paraphernalia out of the park for instance. Ultimately, it does not matter how much garbage is or is not in the park, that’s not the point. In a way, the more garbage, the better.

    It’s the morale-boost to anyone watching who sees a person who is clearly a nobody fixing the problem their own damn selves.

    People come up to me and ask me if I am with the city or a charity – “who are you with?”

    I laughingly, vehemently, tell them I am with nobody, would never do this for an entity.

    They often reply that I should join an organization or start one. There almost seems to be a compulsion that I HAVE to do it collectively or under some form of ostensible authority?

    I respond “So I’m going to lend MY personal virtue to an organization, so they can use that to collect donations to pay administrators and HR Ladies 6 figure salaries? Hell no. I just got tired of seeing all this garbage around, so now I am getting rid of it”

    It seems to come, initially, as a mild, muted shock. Then they seem to somehow both relax and straighten their posture a bit. And they seem to cheer up a bit. It’s kind of cool to watch.

    In a very mild way, it’s almost like they were under some sort of weight or pressure that has been visibly relieved. Even though they were the ones indicating no, you have to be doing this for an entity. Reminds me of how the vax belief-based waiver request could ONLY be accepted if it was proof that I was following SOMEONE’S orders but not my own.

    I had a friend in high school who was a Pan-Papist. Pan-Papists believe that everyone is the Pope. Every last human being. He had a card he kept in his wallet certifying himself as the Pope, authorized and empowered to issue Papal Bulls, excommunications, dispensations, and interdictions of whole regions or countries. Maybe I need to get one of those and put it in one of those flippy FBI wallets. “JB-HB! Official Papal Business!!!”

    Anyway, welcome back.

    #134565
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    AI and your job, … ZeroHedge, snip:

    As Goldman chief economist Jan Hatzius put it, “using data on occupational tasks in both the US and Europe, we find that roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work. Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation” as up to “two thirds of occupations could be partially automated by AI.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ibm-stop-hiring-roles-can-be-replaced-ai-nearly-8000-workers-be-replaced-automation

    F.S.

    #134566
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    This made my day:

    Up until you went nuts, you had our complete, heartfelt benign total all-encompassingly bored apathy.

    Thanks, jb-hb! You won the Internet today.

    #134567
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nordstrom to close last San Francisco locations

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    Dave “Kennedy, 2024” Collum
    @DavidBCollum

    San Francisco derives its name from Spanish, I believe.

    Loosely translated, it means “shithole that makes Chicago look like paradise”

    #134568
    Oroboros
    Participant

    With Liberty and Justice for All!

    Judges & Prosecutors in the Empire of Lies® are the Real Vermin®

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    #134569
    John Day
    Participant

    @Boscohorowitz: Geronimo’s Cadillac. Good choice. Michael Murphey left Austin a year or two before I arrived to attend college. I never saw him preform live, but I walked by The Hole In The Wall, where he used to perform this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MzdVz7GJ5s

    #134570
    Oroboros
    Participant

    More Vermin Lies

    This time from Amnesty International

    Once again, where are the lawsuits, where are the consequences to the Monsters?

    AI is SkyNet

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    #134571
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Once AI high rez video is perfected

    The Monsters can make ‘you’ appear to say or do ANYTHING on ‘enhanced AI video’

    Not just political, the Control Monsters could text a ‘video of you’ to your spouse showing you cheating on them with a very believable virtual person.

    Hey, trouble on the personal home front can be worse than political trouble

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    #134572
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    I think that this is an important read that starkly illuminates the attitudes and beliefs of the public health profession:

    From the Belly of the Beast: Inside the 23rd World Vaccine Congress

    Props to the author for paying $1000 to attend the conference on his own dime. His observations corroborate what I have seen from social interactions with our state public health authority members.

    #134574
    Red
    Participant

    Commentary

    As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees.

    It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking that will include Jordan Peterson’s shows) is of “high standard.”

    If you’re OK with having online content curated by unelected office-holders, you can move on and read something else.

    If it bothers you though—if you don’t like the idea of bureaucrats handling complaints about and sifting through the internet wondering if Vatican website videos and J.K. Rowling podcasts are making the internet an unsafe space—here’s what you need to know.

    Now that the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) has been given Royal assent and become law, the internet is recognized in law to be broadcasting in Canada. That means the CRTC is obliged to ensure internet “programming” meets aspirations such as serving to “safeguard, enrich and strengthen the cultural, political, social and economic fabric of Canada,” which is either harmless or hopelessly creepy depending on who you trust to interpret that phrase. Right now, that’s nine commissioners appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. You decide.

    Those nine people will be expected to be in line with the intent of Bill C-11 which, according to the Government of Canada website, is to “support greater diversity and inclusion in the broadcasting sector. This ensures greater representation of Indigenous peoples, racialized communities, cultural and linguistic minorities, LGBTQ2+ communities and persons with disabilities.”

    Never mind that a free and open internet has given everyone a voice without needing permission from anyone, the Government of Canada believes the only way to truly participate is by asking a regulator’s permission to do so.

    And yes, that’s indicative of the thinking behind Bill C-11.

    But in terms of what you can say, watch, or listen to, it’s unlikely anything will change for at least a year. That’s because Bill C-11 is so vague that it leaves the definition of a myriad of important terms including “social media” and “professional content” up to—you guessed it—the CRTC’s nine Trudeau appointees.

    In the days and weeks ahead, the CRTC will get an Order in Council from cabinet telling it how to interpret Bill C-11.

    Then the CRTC will hold some form of public process, or hearing, to define terminology and scope. This is where the media and the public need to pay attention. The CRTC can only make its decisions based on what exists on the record of its proceedings.

    So if you want to maintain your online liberties—your freedoms of choice and expression—you better pay attention to crtc.gc.ca and urge your favourite media to do the same. Otherwise, you and all your like-minded friends are going under the bus. If you want to be silenced, stay silent.

    Because there is an army of self-interested, veteran lobbyists/stakeholders out there ready to drive over you on their way to what they hope is going to be a huge trough of money.

    The ink was barely dry on the Governor General’s signature, for instance, before the Coalition for Diversity of Cultural Expression was sucking up with congrats and noting the ball is now in the court of the CRTC to make the rules for each of the new services including “audiovisual and audio services and social media.” (my emphasis)

    The Canadian Media Producers Association and the Writers Guild of Canada are already signalling they’ll be putting pressure on the CRTC to ensure what they call a “two-tier system” doesn’t unfold.

    These are groups that have a long history of influence with the CRTC and they, along with big cable companies—this will come as no surprise—are focused on their interests (not yours) when it comes to lobbying the regulator.

    There are a lot of aspects to this, but for now the things you have to look out for the most are untrue statements. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, for instance, when asked on CTV’s Question Period on April 28 whether Bill C-11 will impact user-generated content, replied, “This is about the platforms, it’s never about the users.” He also said that user-generated content (social media posts) is “nowhere in the bill.”

    But of course it is. His own ministry has stated quite clearly that the bill applies to social media.

    And don’t pay attention when the chair of the CRTC says her organization “has no intention to regulate creators of user-generated content.”

    Because it doesn’t have to. As the previous CRTC chair testified, the organization “has ways” to get the outcomes it wants. And that means regulating companies like Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to make sure they regulate user-generated content (i.e., your stuff) to make sure it meets the CRTC’s standards. The commission can then claim it is not doing something that it is ensuring gets done—just as it gets the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to play crosswalk guard on speech and fuss about whether “Happy Days” reruns are inherently racist and sexist.

    The battle for a free and open internet is not over. It’s really just beginning. Pay attention if you care.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/peter-menzies-with-bill-c-11-now-law-what-to-watch-out-for-to-fight-online-censorship_5233532.html?

    #134575
    Red
    Participant

    “I’ll say neither a follower nor a leader be… cuz he who would lead must follow.” Agreed Bosco. I’ve had the unnerving position on a number of occasions in my life to find myself spouting about something or another only to look around and find a crowd forming behind me. I don’t wish to lead anyone and will not follow. On these occasions I will quickly slip away down a darkened alley and leave the leading to anyone else. I’m a loner and a doer as such some will look to me for advice on certain matters, that’s fine but don’t look for leadership, I don’t want it.


    @jb-hb
    Top notch!

    #134578
    Germ
    Participant

    Sorry TAE-ers – I couldn’t resist.

    https://www.wapt.com/amp/article/tori-bowie-rankin-county-native-olympic-medalist-dies-at-32/43780698

    TVASF (and I got a flat tire today)

    #134580

    “I respond “So I’m going to lend MY personal virtue to an organization, so they can use that to collect donations to pay administrators and HR Ladies 6 figure salaries? Hell no. I just got tired of seeing all this garbage around, so now I am getting rid of it””

    This was just so beautiful on so many levels.

    #134581
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    I could be wrong, but I thought that each cycle in the PCR amplified by a factor of two, not ten. Either way, 2^45 is still a very large number (3.5 x 10^13). I think the guest in the Dr. Drew interview just misspoke.

    PCR chain reaction diagram

    Look on the far right: nth cycle -> n copies.

    #134582
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Oroboros said

    Create a ‘pandemic’ with a crooked PCR test

    Two pandemics. The bird flu pandemic also uses the PCR test: just one chicken sick, the whole farm has to be depopulated.

    #134583
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    Maybe the image will work as a link:

    PCR Chain Reaction Diagram – Wikipedia

    Look on the far right: nth cycle implies n copies.

    #134585
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    Boy, really not my day: “Look on the far right: nth cycle implies ~2^n copies.”

    #134587
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Chaos is being created so the jeworldorder can be shoved up your ass. Ancient tools, nothing new under the sun.

    #134588
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Also if there are such psychopaths and wolves, is the best response to them really to be completely open and loving? Is not our own empathy generally weaponized against us wherever it appears?

    Jesus provides our answer. Yes it may well be the end of our body but if the mind is united in complete non-attachment with it (the body) and full identification with mind in spirit it would be our only response (defenseless love as all powerful awareness).

    I am not ready for that because I am a slow learner so endorse a response to psychopaths.

    #134589
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Rototillerman Interesting link to the vaccine conference. I was puzzled by this…

    “to produce more and better vaccines to the market.”

    Who is that market exactly? The oppressive governments who want to terrorize their citizens? The WHO which wants to be the facade behind which the oppressor billionaires can pull the strings? I interpret this conference as a PR stunt for the vaccine industry, their demonstration that they can play the role of saviour of the world. I also know that the vaccine companies paid governments to make the vaccines mandatory and paid for legal protection, I also know that the ESG crowd forced companies to insist on vaccinations. Given all that background, this vaccine conference looks more like one of those military weapons shows, where we get to see all the tools that the billionaires will be using to kill us in the future.

    #134591

    “The US Navy employed a drag queen as digital ambassador to boost its recruitment goal and reach younger audiences. Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, is an active sailor that has been performing on board since 2018. Despite their efforts, Navy officials projected to miss their goal for enlisted sailors by 8,000 recruits.Conservatives said the Navy missed the goal because they became “woke.””
    msn, Newsweek
    The comments express exasperation.

    #134592
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr. D said

    Agenda2030 AND controlling everything.

    Food Police in New York to Track Residents’ Consumption

    China has done the exact opposite, they have seen the increase in stature of their people over the last few decades as a result of nutrition and they now encourage the consumption of meat. The USA know that a vegetarian diet will not provide sufficient nutrients unless technology can step in and provide the missing nutrients. Of course, we know which billionaires will be waiting in the wings happy to sell you nutrients at 10x the price of a steak. Your alternative will be the declining stature of your family, with your grand children noticeably shorter than you or your children. But they don’t give a shit, neither do the people of NYC by the looks of it.

    #134593
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    @aspnaz : these are Hannah Ahrendt’s earnest bureaucrats. They have to be reassured regularly that they’re still doing God’s work. They need to be fed a steady stream of Narrative to fill their incurious minds and make them feel like they have the true inside dope on What Is Really Happening, lest they wander off the reservation and start thinking for themselves.. As Catherine Austin Fitts says, all you have to do is give people a cover story to make them believe that they’re The Good Guys and show them how they’re going to profit from the scam, and they’ll be all in for what you want them to do. After attending the WVC this crowd will make plans, they will draw up budgets, they will hold many Zoom meetings, they will debate the finer points of how equitable the roll-out will be, they will round up stakeholders… they will never question the stone tablets that come from the CDC and the FDA (tablets that arrive in large boxes, cushioned with copious wads of grant money).

    Some have compared the new normal COVID faithful to a religious sect. If so, the World Vaccine Congress appears to me to be a major faith revival.

    #134603
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Rototillerman said

    Some have compared the new normal COVID faithful to a religious sect.

    Same here. The first thing to cross my mind was that they are like a cult. They have been indoctrinated and now they cannot come back from their crazy beliefs. They cannot listen to other points of view etc. as their existence is totally committed to the cult. You have to wonder how hard it is going to be to get rid of these people, surely their masters would be easier targets.

    #134604
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Rototillerman I clicked on the link to the Western Australian authoritarian Dr Katie Attwell.

    I was interested in this part of her resume:

    A/Prof Attwell has engaged in community, systems and behavioural research in the area of vaccination uptake since 2014, the year of her ground-breaking and internationally recognised “I Immunise” campaign, which drew on behavioural insights to address alternative lifestyle-based vaccine hesitancy in Fremantle, Western Australia. A/Prof Attwell is one of the world’s leading experts on mandatory childhood vaccination, the subject of her current three year research grant.

    So she is being paid to be a mandatory vaccine expert. What is that saying about changing peoples’ minds when their income depends on their beliefs? Looking at her resume, she is a political promotion placed by an “award” to perform the role of Hitler’s rottweiler when big pharma’s interests may be threatened. Look at her qualifications and you can see no medical expertise at all, just social pretend sciences and political pretend science.

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