{"id":55547,"date":"2020-11-07T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55547"},"modified":"2020-11-07T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T14:18:52","slug":"todays-contemplation-the-coming-collapse-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55547","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once more a\u00a0comment posted in the Tyee<\/a>\u00a0in response to ongoing \u2018debate\u2019 with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not obviously related to \u2018collapse\u2019 I will add some context to draw it into my ongoing thesis afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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For the sake of argument, let\u2019s say some of these<\/span>\u00a0[a list of supposed election irregularities] are fabricated and\/or misinterpretation of events (which is what the video of the polling clerk filling out ballots is being explained away as \u2014 they were filling out \u2018damaged\u2019 ballots). That does not mean they all are and should just be summarily dismissed. They merit further scrutiny and investigation. Conspiracies (that is, an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act) are common in politics (in fact, perhaps far too common).<\/p>\n

A few thoughts to share for those that believe otherwise.<\/p>\n

The fact that the sources are not mainstream should not lead to their immediate dismissal as many suggest. All one has to do is look at how many mainstream sources are deliberately suppressing the whole Julian Assange debacle or the Hunter Biden laptop evidence that suggests pay-to-play shenanigans involving his father. Or Glenn Greenwald deciding to resign from the media company he founded because fellow editors refused to publish an article unless he removed all criticism of Joe Biden. These examples (and there are many, many more \u2014 a pertinent one is how many mainstream media accepted the Bush administration\u2019s declaration that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and then basically ran PR for the government\u2019s invasion) should show that mainstream media is quite biased and often does not perform due diligence in its reporting, suppresses stories, or primarily runs opinion-editorials and passes them off as investigative journalism, especially if one is questioning the dominant narratives that they tend to support quite adamantly. It is often, unfortunately, only those outside of the mainstream that question the stories told by the-powers-that-be and challenge them.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Once more a\u00a0comment posted in the Tyee\u00a0in response to ongoing \u2018debate\u2019 with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not obviously related to \u2018collapse\u2019 I will add some context […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,30548,14545,1101,26505,5833,30370,12380],"class_list":["post-55547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-collapse","tag-election-irregularities","tag-narrative-control","tag-olduvai","tag-sociopolitical-collapse","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation","tag-us-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55548,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55547\/revisions\/55548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}