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The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Julian Assange once said, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.” As someone whose life’s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he’d have […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Today’s thought was motivated by another Tyee article that carries on the notion of ‘clean energy’ and the ‘magical thinking’ needed to buy into such narratives. * * * As long as language is being manipulated (e.g., ‘clean energy’ is a gargantuan oxymoron), magical […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXII Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author A personal view of the ‘Net-Zero’ policy being implemented by governments around the world, particularly those of the ‘West’. * * * As happens so often (always?), the ruling elite are manipulating what is possibly one of our more (most?) existential dilemmas so […]
Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In 2016 the most corrupt and murderous government on earth dealt with public discontent by selling a sociopathic billionaire as the anti-establishment presidential candidate, then in 2020 sold a lifelong empire lackey as the revolutionary people’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author As per usual, my comment on an article in The Tyee that gives an interesting perspective on the idea of ‘Carbon Footprint’ and individual verses collective actions in addressing the behavioural/consumption changes necessary for effective action on climate change. * * * Great read […]
The Screams Of A Dying Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Screams Of A Dying Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Ana Kasparian’s infamous Young Turks tantrum about Aaron Maté was the screams of a dying empire. Some want to dismantle the imperial slaughter machine and create a harmonious world; others just want the imperial slaughter machine […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV Rome, Italy (1984) Photo by author Energy. It’s at the core of everything we do. Everything. Yet we take it for granted and rarely think about it and what the finiteness of our various energy sources means for us. As Gail Tverberg of Our Finite World concludes in a recent thought-provoking article that should […]
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices & Targets Journalists
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices & Targets Journalists Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage, writes Norman Solomon. Palestinian solidarity demonstration in New York City on May 11. (Andrew Ratto, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Israel’s missile attack on media offices in Gaza City last weekend […]
US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: ❖ Joe Biden is a corrupt, murderous empire lackey. He is also a very normal US president. The same was true of Trump. The same was true of Obama. The same was […]
If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn’t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn’t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: It sure is interesting how stuff keeps happening that makes free speech on the internet something dangerous which must be curtailed. Covid, the Capitol riot, Russian propaganda, all of which just happen to […]
Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op
Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op Listen to this article: The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion […]
Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: ❖ Hey remember when we learned that the CIA unilaterally funds its own clandestine operations via drug trafficking without the permission or oversight of any elected body and then everyone went “meh” and forgot about it? ❖ It’s strange how many westerners […]
Maturity Is Discovering How Everything You Believe Is A Lie
Maturity Is Discovering How Everything You Believe Is A Lie Listen to this article: You get your first taste of it when you’re little. You find your Christmas presents in your parents’ closet in early December, or maybe some older kid just tells you that Santa Claus isn’t real. What the hell? What the hell […]
Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch.
Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch. (Constituents to remain fair game for abuse from party apparatchiks) A colleague forwarded me the text of an article from Blackrocks Reporter, which covers Canadian politics from Ottawa, our capitol. It’s a report on Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guibeault’s ongoing vendetta against non-conforming political speech on […]
Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively
Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google/Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testify before the House […]
