ZH | On Tuesday, the Fourth of July, a federal judge in Louisiana kicked the Biden administration's censorship complex in the teeth
- ruling that federal officials (with limited exception) can no longer
communicate or collude with big tech companies to censor "protected
speech."
The order prohibits Biden officials from "collaborating, coordinating,
partnering, switchboarding, and/or jointly working with" key academic
groups behind various censorship campaigns, including the Election Integrity Partnership,
a coalition of researchers led by the Stanford Internet Observatory and
the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.
This is a huge win for free speech - and comes on the heels of
Twitter Files revelations of government influence and control over
various hot button narratives they wished to steer. And of all
people who deserve to take a victory lap - journalist Matt Taibbi and
Louisiana AG Andrew Baily have opined on the ruling.
Here’s how federal judge Terry Doughty yesterday described the digital censorship controversy at which pundits a half-year now have repeatedly rolled eyes, dismissed, and mocked as a nothingburger:
“If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case
arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United
States’ history.”
Doughty then ordered a sweeping halt to the censorship schemes outlined in both the extant Missouri v. Biden lawsuit
and in the Twitter Files. Critics who’ve been snickering about this
issue might want to read this 155-page ruling now, and ask themselves if
the current Supreme Court would or would not agree with Doughty. Still
think this is a nothingburger?
With this ruling in the Missouri v. Biden censorship case, Doughty went out of his way on the Fourth of July, to issue a stern rebuke at a conga line of government officials, many of them characters in the Twitter Files. Racket
readers will recognize names like Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow (of the
FBI), Jen Easterly and Brian Scully (of the Department of Homeland
Security), Laura Rosenberger (Special Assistant to the President, and
one of the creators of Hamilton 68) and Daniel Kimmage (of the Global
Engagement Center), who were all just ordered to get the hell off the
First Amendment’s lawn. Paraphrasing, Doughty enjoined them from:
meeting
with social-media companies for the purpose of pressuring or inducing
in any manner the removal or suppression of protected free speech;
flagging posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding to social-media companies urging the same;
collaborating
with the Election Integrity Partnership, the Virality Project, the
Stanford Internet Observatory, or any “like project” or group for the
same purpose;
threatening or coercing social-media companies to remove protected free speech.
The New York Times, which instantly wrung its hands and stressed the ruling could “curtail efforts to fight disinformation,” grumblingly handed blame to the Twitter Files, without naming them of course, and mislabeling it as a partisan enterprise:
Elon
Musk has echoed Republican arguments, releasing internal company
documents to chosen journalists suggesting what they claimed was
collusion between company and government officials. Though that remains
far from proven, some of the documents Mr. Musk disclosed ended up in
the lawsuit’s arguments.
The investigation led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri’s Andrew Bailey, produced documents showing overt government requests to censor people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a White House official expressing frustration to Facebook that they weren’t “removing bad information from search,”
and emails in which a Facebook official pleads with the White House to
understand that they’re already “reducing the virality” of “often-true content”
that might promote vaccine hesitancy, among many other things. The
Attorneys General likewise scored depositions with people like Dr.
Anthony Fauci, and confronted him with documents showing Facebook
sending his office updates about how “we are expanding the list of false
claims we will remove.”
Was
this illegal? Unconsititional? Did it show a pattern of mighty tech
companies like Facebook and Twitter acting like they were reporting to
federal officials like Fauci on content moderation? I knew what I
thought it looked like, but what judges or a jury might say, who knew?
counterfire | It is not surprising that Marx’s concept of class is unpopular in the
mainstream. Marx’s picture of a brutally divided society with organised
robbery at its heart amounts to a devastating moral condemnation of
capitalism. It also directly contradicts the various ways in which the
establishment want us to understand the world we live in. Their
preferred model of society is a giant market in which individuals
interact freely and equally. In reality, of course, individuals are born
into society with drastically different levels of wealth. Marx stressed
however that it is the way production is organised that more than anything shapes society. ‘The arrangement of distribution’ he says in Capital,
‘is entirely dependent on the arrangement of production’. What people
consume, even what people regard as needs, depends in the first instance
on what is produced in any given society. The way the goods are
distributed depends on the distribution of wealth, itself determined by
one’s position in the productive process.
Politicians also like to tell us ‘we are all in it together.’ This
illusion can only gain traction because the economy appears to operate
independently of human will and control. The idea can’t survive contact
with an understanding that the whole system is driven by a tiny minority
forcing profit from the labour of the many. We are also told that
capitalist investors are ‘wealth creators’. Looked at from the point of
view of class, the capital that an investor brings to the table has been
extracted – stolen – from past labour. The investor is simply recycling
the spoils to make still more money.
Marxism also challenges the idea that capitalism will ‘lift up’ the
poor over time. Capitalism has produced unimaginable wealth, but as Marx
predicted, its drive to keep wages down means that for most of its
existence the distribution of that wealth has become more and more
unequal. Forty years of neoliberal capitalism has brought us to the
extraordinary point at which just eight men are worth as much as half
the world’s population. Marx’s analysis leads to the devastating
conclusion that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. Generalised poverty and inequality are a necessary outcome of a system based on competition for profit.
The most radical aspect of all of Marx’s class analysis is however
that it shows that in the process of conquering the world and achieving
by far the highest levels of exploitation in history, capitalism has
created its own nemesis, its own ‘grave digger’ in the working class.
Marx believed workers had the potential to overthrow existing conditions
for a number of reasons. The first was directly economic. The fact that
workers are denied the material benefits of a more and more productive
society gave them an immediate interest in resistance. The second was
that the degradation experienced by most of humanity under capitalism
was concentrated in the working class. The denial of human
self-fulfilment, the ‘notorious crime of the whole of society’, was most
acutely experienced in exploitation and its attendant alienation.
Workers have through their experience the most acute consciousness of
the immensely destructive and degrading capacities of capitalist
accumulation.
Secondly, as well as having an interest in change, workers have the
means to make it happen. Just as workers rely entirely on capitalists
for their livelihood, capitalists are completely dependent on workers
for their profits. Powerless as individuals, collectively, workers have
immense potential power. As Marx put it, ‘of all the instruments of
production, the greatest productive power is the revolutionary class
itself’. By forcing huge numbers of workers together at the point of
production, capitalism creates a counter-power. Struggles over pay and
conditions have the capacity to generalise into a political conflict
between different class organisations:
Large-scale industry concentrates in one place a crowd of people
unknown to one another. Competition divides their interests. But the
maintenance of wages, this common interest which they have against their
boss, unites them in a common thought of resistance – combination…
If the first aim of resistance was merely the maintenance of wages,
combinations, at first isolated, constitute themselves into groups as
the capitalists in their turn unite for the purpose of repression, and
in the face of always united capital, the maintenance of the association
becomes more necessary to them than that of wages…In this struggle – a
veritable civil war – all the elements necessary for a coming battle
unite and develop. Once it has reached this point, association takes on a
political character.
WSWS | The response of the US media to a series of leaked Pentagon documents
revealing US involvement in the Ukraine war raises far-reaching issues
of democratic rights.
On Thursday, the New York Times
publicly identified the individual who allegedly leaked Pentagon
documents exposing US government lies about the Ukraine war, leading to
his arrest.
The Times, working with the state-funded
propaganda clearinghouse Bellingcat, publicly revealed the identity of
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guard member. Teixeira was
arrested just hours later.
There are indications that Teixeira
holds repulsive fascist and antisemitic views. But Teixeira’s
motivations do not change the fact that the documents he released caught
the US government red-handed in systematically lying to the public in
waging an undeclared war against Russia in Ukraine.
The documents
showed that, contrary to false claims by the Biden administration, NATO
troops are on the ground in Ukraine, NATO is directly involved in the
war, and the Ukrainian military is in a far worse position than
presented by news reports.
These documents have exposed not only the US government, but the New York Times and Washington Post, as liars.
In
turn, the major US media outlets have responded by upholding, in
principle, the right of the US government to lie to the public.
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an editorial headlined, “The Discord leaks show our nation’s secrets at risk.”
Nowhere
in the editorial is there any criticism of the Biden administration for
having lied to the American public. Instead, the editorial upholds
government secrecy, and vows to assist the government to keep the public
from knowing what the government wishes to keep secret.
The editorial declares, “Keeping secrets is essential to a functioning government.”
In making this statement, the Post, owned by the oligarch Jeff Bezos, has declared war on a fundamental precept of democratic rule.
theguardian | Washington lawmakers have written off Jack
Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman accused of being behind
the worst US intelligence leak in a decade, as an “alleged criminal”
after his arrest yesterday, but that hasn’t stopped him from winning
praise from the political right.
“He revealed the crimes, therefore he’s the criminal. That’s how Washington works. Telling the truth is the only real sin,” declared
the Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson on Thursday evening in the
opening monologue of his show, which is the most watched on cable
television. “The news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who
told Americans what’s actually happening in Ukraine. They are treating
him like Osama bin Laden,” the late al-Qaida terrorist leader.
Federal prosecutors allege Teixeira took secret documents from the Massachusetts
air national guard base where he worked as a low-ranking cyber
specialist and posted them online. They first appeared on one of the
gaming messaging platform Discord’s servers in January before spreading
to other social media sites and being reported on by news outlets
earlier this month.
Shortly after he was taken
into custody in Massachusetts on Thursday, the far-right congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene – who has persistently called for the Joe Biden
White House and Washington in general to cut off support to Kyiv –
rallied to his defense.
“Jake Teixeira is
white, male, christian, and anti-war. That makes him an enemy to the
Biden regime. And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in
Ukraine and a lot more,” she tweeted in an apparent reference to one of the leaked documents that indicates 14 US special forces soldiers were present in Ukraine during the past two months.
“Ask
yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen
[sic]? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-Nato
nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?”
Other documents
have revealed details of how the United States gathers its information
and how deeply its intelligence agencies have penetrated Russia’s
military. Also among the leaked material is a pessimistic assessment of
Ukraine’s prospects of recapturing territory from Russia this spring – a
subject Carlson seized on.
“Ukraine is in fact
losing the war,” he said, citing other documents that indicate
Washington’s concerns about Kyiv’s ability to defend its airspace.
“The
Biden administration is perfectly aware of this. They’re panicked about
it, but they have lied about this fact to the public. Just two weeks
ago, for example, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the US Senate
that Russian military power is ‘waning’. In other words, Russia is
losing the war. That was a lie. He knew it was when he said it, but he
repeated it in congressional testimony. That is a crime, but Lloyd
Austin has not been arrested for committing that crime.”
neuburger | To answer that question seriously, consider the following premises. I
think the first four accurately describe the thinking of mainstream
Democratic leaders since the humiliating presidential loss of 2016:
Modern Republicans (leaders, media, and crucially, their voters as well) represent the worst threat to the American Republic since the Civil War.
Or
possibly since the Founding. Southern Confederates didn’t wish to
institute Hitlerian reforms that would eliminate democracy from the
governance of the state.
Any act by any individual or organization that advances the overall Republican Project, inadvertently or not, is as dangerous as the Project itself.
Because the Republican Project is evil, its supporters are evil — or in the most generous cases, deeply stupid.
Stopping the Republican Project means stopping all supporters and adherents, be they willing or not.
(Taibbi addendum 1) Matt Taibbi is a supporter, willingly or not, and therefore must be stopped.
(Taibbi addendum 2)
Because his support is probably not inadvertent — Seder’s hosts and the
Democratic committee members are certain his motive is money, a
sell-out to advance Elon Musk — destruction of his entire career is a
reasonable response. After all, the whole of American democracy is at
risk; literally all.
I don’t think any of those
statements, stark as they are, misrepresent the Democratic Party
position. Everything I’ve observed since November 2016 confirms them
all.
But does the rest follow from that? Does it justify the destruction of free speech, to take one example, in order to preserve it? (If you doubt that’s what’s on offer, click the link.)
And
even if it does, even if the means are justified by the end, the
problem is that this Democratic Party response — this
hate-Republicans-at-all-costs messaging (while party leaders themselves cut deals with them)
— is not going to work. It won't blast them past their electoral
opponents at near the speed it ought to, given their opponent's obvious
and fatal flaws.
Mainstream Democrats run roughly even with
Republicans except in protected districts. They certainly ran roughly
even with Donald Trump in the only venue that counts, the Electoral
College. And Democratic leaders are the reason that this is so. Will all
this vitriol make them more attractive, or less?
If you don’t like the status quo, you have no one to vote for, just people to vote against.
What
do you think would happen if Democrats ran a candidate of Real
Rebellion, a Bernie Sanders, say, à la 2016, against the candidate of
Pretending to Care what happens to suffering voters? Would real
rebellion against predatory rule by the rich “trump” fake rebellion
financed by the rich?
Of course it
would. Sanders would have beaten Trump soundly, had he had the chance,
in the 2016 race. All the momentum was his, and he won almost every
head-to-head primary contest in states with open, same-day primary
voting.
But Democrats, the other party of the rich, won’t take that course. Which leaves them only one pitch. In Taibbi’s language from the start of this piece:
It’s always “Vote for us or you’re a right-wing insurrectionist Putin-lover,” which is the opposite of persuasive.
This
is the Democrats’ constant closing argument, and the worst they could
advance. It makes them, not just wrong, but ugly as well, the “opposite
of persuasive.” Yet this is all they have, if they can’t themselves
attack the people’s real enemy, and this time actually mean it. Sad for
us. Sad for them as well.
racket |I’m going to be interviewed on MSNBC today by Mehdi Hasan, the author of a book called Win Every Argument. I’m looking forward to it as one would a root canal or a rectal.
I
accepted the invitation because it would have been wrong to refuse, on
the off chance he was planning a good-faith discussion. If you’re
reading this, things have gone another way.
I last appeared on MSNBC six years ago, on January 13, 2017, to talk with Chris Hayes and of all people Malcolm Nance, about the then-burgeoning Trump-Russia scandal.
The
Trump-Russia story was white-hot and still in its infancy. That same
day, news leaked from Israel that Americans warned the Mossad not to
share information with the incoming administration, because Russia had “leverages of pressure”
on Trump. Asked by Chris about the scandal generally, I made what I
thought was a boring-but-true observation, that we in the media didn’t
“have any hard evidence” of a conspiracy, just not a lot to go on. This
was the TV equivalent of a shrug.
Nance jumped on
this in a way I remember feeling was unexpected and oddly personal.
“Matt’s a journalist. I’m an intelligence officer,” he snapped. “There
is no such thing as coincidence in my world.” Chris jumped in to note
reporters have different standards, and I agreed, saying, “We haven’t
seen anything that allows us to say unequivocally that x and y happened last year.”
“Unequivocally”seemed
to trigger Nance. With regard to the DNC hack, he said, “That evidence
is unequivocal. It’s on the Internet.” As for “these links possibly with
the Trump team,” he proclaimed, “You’re probably never going to see the
CIA’s report.” Nance went on to answer “no” to a question from Chris
about whether leaks “were coming from the intelligence community,” Chris
wrapped up with a sensible suggestion that we all not rely on a parade
of “leaks and counter-leaks,” and the segment was done.
To
this day I get hit probably a hundred times a day with the question,
“What happened to you, man?” What happened? That segment happened, but
to MSNBC, not me.
That exchange between Nance and me was symbolic
of a choice the network faced. They could either keep doing what
reporters had done since the beginning of time, confining themselves to
saying things they could prove. Or, they could adopt a new approach, in
which you can say anything is true or confirmed, so long as a politician
or intelligence official told you it was.
We know how that worked
out. I was never invited back, nor for a long time was any other
traditionally skeptical reporter, while Nance — one of the most careless
spewers of provable errors ever to appear on a major American news
network — became one of the Peacock’s most familiar faces.
thecradle | Soleimani was the “keyholder” in the Axis
of Resistance, according to an Arab politician with strong ties to
decision-making circles in both Washington and Riyadh.
“Hajj Qassem,” says the politician, was
uniquely capable of making decisions and then implementing them, which
is considered a “rare advantage” among leaders. He was able to achieve
significant strategic results – rapidly – by moving freely and
negotiating directly with various statesmen, militias, and political
movements.
Examples of this are rife: The Quds Force commander persuaded
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015 to intervene militarily in
Syria, and organized the complex ‘frenemy’ relationship between Turkiye
and Tehran through Turkish intelligence director Hakan Fidan.
Soleimani played a pivotal role in
preventing the fall of Damascus, maintained and developed important
links with Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in Beirut, led a
region wide campaign to defeat ISIS, and successfully managed the
delicate balances between various political components in Iraq. In
Yemen, he was able to supply the Ansarallah movement with training and
arms that arguably changed the course of the Saudi-led aggression.
Together or separately, the aforementioned
points made him a desired target of assassination for both the US
government and the security establishment in Israel.
A visit to Venezuela
There may, however, be additional factors
that contributed to the US decision to assassinate Soleimani on 3
January, 2022. While some analysts cite, for instance, the storming of
the 2019 US embassy in Baghdad by demonstrators three days before the
extrajudicial killing, US decision makers were unlikely to have
mobilized its assassins in reaction to this relatively benign incident.
More significant for them would have been
Soleimani’s unannounced trip to Venezuela in 2019, which crossed
Washington’s red lines within its own geographic sphere of influence.
His visit to the South American country was
publicly revealed more than two years later by Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro, during an interview with Al-Mayadeen in December 2021.
Maduro stated that Soleimani visited
Caracas between March and April 2019, during which time the US launched a
cyber and sabotage attack on Venezuela, resulting in widespread power
outages. He glorified the Iranian general as a military hero who
“combated terrorism and the brutal terrorist criminals who attacked the
peoples of the Axis of resistance. He was a brave man.”
Although Maduro did not reveal the exact
date of the visit, it can be assumed that it took place on 8 April,
2019, and that Soleimani came on board the first direct flight of the Iranian airline Mahan Air between Tehran and Caracas.
At that time, the US attack on Caracas was
at its peak: Washington’s recognition of Juan Guaidó as president of
Venezuela, comprehensive economic sanctions, and then, at the end of
April, the organization of a coup attempt that succeeded only in
securing the escape of US-backed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to the
Spanish embassy.
antiwar | More than half of House Republicans didn’t attend Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wednesday night address to Congress, The Hill reported on Thursday.
How many Members of Congress refused to attend tonight's speech because they do not support Zelenskyy's Ukraine? Important to know this and why.
According to The Hill, 86 out of 213 House Republicans were
at the Capitol for Zelensky’s speech. While some of the absences could
be explained by lawmakers getting an early start on Christmas travel, as
about a third of House members had active letters to vote by proxy on
Wednesday, there is growing opposition to the policy of arming Ukraine
among Republicans.
Ahead of Zelensky’s address, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote on
Twitter that he would not be attending the speech of a “Ukrainian
lobbyist.” Some Republicans that attended the address were spotted
sitting during moments when the rest of Congress was giving Zelensky a
standing ovation, including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Lauren Boebert
(R-CO).
For any Members of Congress who refused to clap for Zelenskyy, we need to know from them exactly why.
After the speech, Boebert said in a video posted on Twitter
that she wouldn’t support “sending additional money to this war” until
“Congress receives a full audit of where our money has already gone.”
Gaetz released a statement
that said Zelensky “should be commended for putting his country first,
but American politicians who indulge his requests are unwilling to do
the same for ours.” Gaetz said the speech did not change his stance on
“suspending” aid to Ukraine.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), who attended the address, said the
speech sent the wrong message. “We should be focused on trying to
contain the war, not expand the war. And this kind of sends the message
we’re kind of OK with expanding the war. And I think we should be
sending a different message,” he said.
Massie, Boebert, Gaetz, Davidson, and 53 other House Republicans all voted against
the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that was passed back in May. Since
then, new aid for Ukraine has been rolled into other massive spending
bills, including the new $45 billion that was packed into the $1.7
trillion omnibus bill the Senate passed on Thursday.
While there is some dissent among Republicans, the majority of GOP
members in Congress still support arming Ukraine, and Republican
leadership is extremely hawkish on the issue. Rep. Michael McCaul, who
is expected to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee next year, has
criticized President Biden for not sending Ukraine more advanced and longer-range weapons.
2. What you’re about to read is the
first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal
documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an
incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most
influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a
human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
4. Twitter in its conception was a
brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true
real-time global conversation possible for the first time.
5. In an early conception, Twitter
more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to
create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
6. As time progressed, however, the
company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools
for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and
financial fraudsters.
7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff
and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools.
Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well:
first a little, then more often, then constantly.
8. By 2020, requests from connected
actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to
another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come
back: “Handled.”
9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:
10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020,
requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were
received and honored. However:
11. This system wasn't balanced. It
was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed
by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more
ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/s…
stilumcuriae |Medical
Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is
grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking
to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began
with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by
and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation,
complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was
unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the
entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably
cataclysmic results.
MD4CE
International is an international group of medical doctors, scientists,
lawyers, journalists, economists, historians, politicians,
philosophers, data analysts, bankers, military/intelligence experts and
others from all over the world, working determinedly together to expose
the terrible truth of what has happened during the past three years to
the people of the world, their families, their communities, their
countries, and to hold those responsible for the great crimes committed
properly to account.
Dear and distinguished friends,
Allow
me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has
extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank
all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is
commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had to face
in order to remain consistent with your principles, and I hope that the
damage you have suffered can be adequately repaired by those who have
discriminated against you, depriving you of work and salary and
labelling you as dangerous no-vaxxers.
I
am pleased to be able to speak and share with you my thoughts about the
current global crisis. A crisis that we can consider to have begun with
the pandemic emergency, but that we know has been planned for decades
with very specific purposes by well-known personalities. Stopping at the
pandemic alone would in fact be a serious mistake, because it would not
allow us to consider the events in their full coherence and
inter-connectedness, thus preventing us from understanding them and
above all from identifying the criminal intentions behind them. You too –
each with your own expertise in the medical, scientific, legal or other
fields – will agree with me that limiting yourselves to your own
discipline, which in some cases is extremely specific, does not fully
explain the rationale for certain choices that have been made by
governments, international bodies, and pharmaceutical agencies. For
example, finding “graphene-like” material in the blood of people who
have been inoculated with experimental serums makes no sense for a
virologist, but it does made sense for an expert in nanomaterials and
nanotechnology who understands what graphene can be used for. It also
makes sense for an expert in medical patents, who immediately identifies
the content of the invention and relates it to other similar patents.
It also makes sense for an expert in war technologies who knows about
studies on the enhanced man (a document of the British Ministry of
Defense calls him “augmented man” in transhumanistic terms) and is
therefore able to recognize in graphene nanostructures the technology
that enables the augmentation of the war performance of military
personnel. And a telemedicine expert will be able to recognize in those
nanostructures the indispensable device that sends biomedical parameters
to the patient control server and also receives certain signals from
it.
Once
again: the assessment of events from a medical point of view should
take into account the legal implications of certain choices, such as the
imposition of masks or, even worse, mass “vaccination,” made in
violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. And I am sure that in
the field of health governance the manipulations of the classification
codes of diseases and therapies will also emerge, which have been
designed to make the harmful effects of measures taken against Covid-19
untraceable, from placing people on respirators in intensive care to
watchful waiting protocols, to say nothing of the scandalous violations
of regulations by the European Commission which – as you know – has no
delegation from the European Parliament in the field of Health, and that
is not a public institution but rather a private business consortium.
Just
in the past few days, at the G-20 Bali summit, Klaus Schwab instructed
heads of government – almost all coming from the Young Global Leaders
for Tomorrow program of the World Economic Forum – about the future
steps to be taken in view of establishing a world government. The
president of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic
means exercises undue power over world governments, obtaining their
obedience from political leaders who have no popular mandate to subject
their nations to the delusions of power of the elite: this fact is of
unprecedented gravity. Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth industrial
revolution the winners will take it all, so if you are a World Economic
Forum first mover, you are the winners” (here).
These very serious statements have two implications: the first is that
“the winners will take it all” and will be “winners” – it is not clear
in what capacity and with whose permission. The second is that those who
do not adapt to this “fourth industrial revolution” will find
themselves ousted and will lose – they will lose everything, including
their freedom. In short, Klaus Schwab is threatening the heads of
government of the twenty most industrialized nations in the world to
carry out the programmatic points of the Great Reset in their nations.
This goes far beyond the pandemic: it is a global coup d’état, against
which it is essential that people rise up and that the still healthy
organs of states start an international juridical process. The threat is
imminent and serious, since the World Economic Forum is capable of
carrying out its subversive project and those who govern nations have
all become either enslaved or blackmailed by this international mafia.
In
light of these statements – and those of others no less delusional than
Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab’s adviser – we understand how the pandemic
farce served as a trial balloon for imposing controls, coercive
measures, curtailing individual freedoms, and increasing unemployment
and poverty. The next steps will have to be carried out by means of
economic and energy crises, which are instrumental to the establishment
of a synarchic government in the hands of the globalist elite.
amidwesterndoctor |One of the greatest challenges for individuals with advanced
knowledge in a subject is the gradual realization of just how little
they know (conversely, as shown by the Dunning–Kruger effect,
the less individuals know, the more they overestimate their knowledge
and competence). Being able to proceed forward despite not knowing if
you were on the correct path requires a great deal of courage,
especially when most of your peers oppose what you are doing. That said,
virtually every person who has been highly successful and changed the
world for the better had this type of courage.
In
some cases, we are just born with it, but in the majority cases, it
comes from living a life that cultivates courage. One of the most useful
words of wisdom I heard at a young age was “comfort makes you weak”
which is important because our technocratic society has tried to create
the illusion that if we always comply with it, it can guarantee our
safety and prevent all discomfort.
This is
fundamentally impossible (and often creates many medical issues), but
many traumatized and pampered members of society have become so
ingrained with this mythology they now lack the courage to venture
outside safe spaces created by the technocracy. Unfortunately, if you
lack the courage to oppose something you know is wrong, as history
repeatedly shows, that same evil will eventually show up at your
doorstep, and by the time it does it will have gained enough momentum
that you will no longer have the ability to oppose it.
The
strength that produces courage ultimately arises from our connection to
ourselves (particularly our physical body) and our connections to each
other. Hence, like many things in medicine where you cannot reduce a
problem to one single component, mass formation is also a complex
process that weaves into so many other aspects of our society that it
must also be dealt with holistically. Just remember:
Postscript: I have noticed that many groups will develop a
collective consciousness that often transcends the individual
participants (often leading them to rapidly adopt terrible behaviors
once they join the group holding that collective conscienceless) and can
often persist for generations. The best term I ever came across for
this, Egrigore, was something I came across on wikipedia.
I cannot fully endorse the idea because of where it originates from,
but over and over I have come across situations where it appears an
egrigore has taken over a group (particularly in Allopathic medicine,
which I believe carries fairly malignant Egrigores).
Reading
Desmet’s work has led me to suspect crowd psychology and the mass
formation concept provides another potential explanation for the
“Egrigore” concept I keep on running across. Put differently, this
means I believe in addition to Mass Formation applying to society as a
whole, it can also manifest within specific subgroups which have some
type of strong ritualistic link to each other especially when they also
have to suffer through a collective hardship.
michaelshellenberger |Sri Lanka has fallen. Protesters breached the official
residences of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister and President, who have fled to
undisclosed locations out of fear of death. The proximate reason is
that the nation is bankrupt, suffering its worst financial crisis in decades.
Millions are struggling to purchase food, medicine and fuel. Energy
shortages and inflation were major factors behind the crisis. Inflation
in June in Sri Lanka was over 50%. Food prices rose by 80%. And a half-million people fell into poverty over the last year.
But
the underlying reason for the fall of Sri Lanka is that its leaders
fell under the spell of Western green elites peddling organic
agriculture and “ESG,” which refers to investments made following
supposedly higher Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria. Sri
Lanka has a near-perfect ESG score (98) which is higher than Sweden (96) or the United States (51), notes a commentator.
To be sure, there were other factors behind Sri Lanka’s fall. COVID-19 lockdowns and a 2019 bombing hurt tourism, a $3 billion to 5 billion-per-year industry. Sri Lanka’s leaders insisted on paying China back
for various “Belt and Road” infrastructure projects when other nations
refused to do so. And higher oil prices meant transportation prices rose 128% since May.
But
the biggest and main problem causing Sri Lanka’s fall was its ban on
chemical fertilizers in April 2021. Over 90% of Sri Lanka’s farmers had
used chemical fertilizers and, after the ban, 85% experienced crop losses. After the fertilizer ban, rice production fell 20% and prices skyrocketed 50 percent
in just six months. Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice
despite having been self-sufficient in the grain just months earlier.
The price of carrots and tomatoes rose
five-fold. Tea, the nation’s main export, also suffered, thereby
undermining the nation’s foreign currency and ability to purchase
products from abroad.
While there are 2 million farmers in Sri Lanka, 70% of the nation’s 22 million people are directly or indirectly dependent on farming. “We are furious!” said one rice farmer in May. “Angry! Not just me - but all the farmers who cultivated here are angry.”
lefteast | Amid the geopolitical and humanitarian crisis generated by the war in
Ukraine, another crisis is unfolding globally which is also heavily
affected by the war. Global food supply problems
could cause food shortages and famine in several low-income countries
in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Global food prices,
increasing since the early 2000s, had already reached new peaks in the
last years. Owing to the important role of Ukraine and Russia in the
global food system (they are both among the largest grain exporters in
the world, and Russia has a significant role in the fertilizer industry
as well), they are expected to further accelerate to highest-ever
levels. The war also reveals how important local food systems
are in providing nutrition in Ukraine: people fleeing the cities are
depending at the moment on food produced by small family farms. The
solidarity of Romanian farmers providing Ukrainian family farms with
seeds also shows the power of alternative ways of thinking outside the
logic of the global food system.
The growing food crisis points to characteristics of the global food
system that has emerged in relationship to the capitalist economy. The
global food system’s dependence on fossil fuels, commercial seeds, and
chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides), and its devastating
societal effects in certain parts of the world make the system
unsustainable. Rural societies in general, but more specifically small
producers and rural communities in peripheral and semi-peripheral
regions, are affected by the global food system in a way that is
inherently unjust. The marginalization of small producers and peasant
communities who lack the capacity to successfully integrate into the
global food system (but are also unable to remove themselves from it ),
and inequalities in access to land and natural resources caused by land
concentration or land grabbing are significant consequences of the
global food system. The global division of labor means that while
peripheral and semi-peripheral regions more frequently specialize in the
more labor-intensive and less profitable activities in the global
commodity chain, core countries are generally involved with more capital
and technology-intensive production and more profitable activities,
reproducing global inequalities in the accumulation of capital.
Liberalization of the land market in semi-peripheries and peripheries,
rather than aiding small or medium farms, has tended to benefit mostly
the local elite (a minority of the rural society) or multinational
corporations based in core countries. In semi-peripheral Hungary, the
food-processing industry and supermarkets, which realize a great amount
of profit from the food commodity chain are also to a significant extent
operated by foreign capital.
The global food system has negative effects on society and more
broadly a damaging impact on the environment. It is a main culprit in
the loss of biodiversity and a major driver of climate change. Negative
environmental effects like the emergence of herbicide-resistant
superweeds, the loss of pollinators, and the increasingly prevalent
droughts hit back at the global food system. Requiring costly
interventions in agroecosystems such as new pesticides, artificial
pollination, and irrigation, they contribute to higher food prices.
The concept of food sovereignty was developed and propagated by the
international peasant movement La Via Campesina (The Peasant Way).
Originally rooted in autonomous peasant organizations in Latin America,
the movement later became global, and now has members from Africa, Asia,
North America, and Europe. La Via Campesina centers its work around
claims of social justice, the right of peasants to produce food, and
more equal access to lands and other resources (like water or seed). It
also focuses on the localization of food systems and emphasizes the
right to control one’s food and the right to access healthy, culturally
appropriate food instead of producing for and consuming the products of
the profit-focused global food system. Food sovereignty not only
concentrates on the health of people, but the health of the environment
as well, it argues for ecologically sound and sustainable agriculture.
In its thematic issue on food sovereignty
(#29), the Hungarian critical journal Fordulat addresses how the
operation of the global food system affects rural society and ecosystems
in Hungary and discusses the struggles and strategies of small
producers, including those of women who work in agriculture. The first
part of the issue contains five original articles and a translation,
tied together by the concept of food sovereignty and what it entails. It
gathers theoretical and empirical works that show how the history of
struggles of rural societies for more fair distribution of land and
natural resources and environmental degradation have developed in tandem
with capitalism, focusing specifically on transformations in Hungary’s
agriculture. It shows how the dialectical relationship between nature,
society, and the capitalist system to a large extent shapes rural life
in this semi-peripheral context today. The second part of the issue
presents three book reviews that reintroduce anthropological works
discussing local conditions, practices, and the changing meanings of
food and farming as well as resistance and struggle, amid the capitalist
and socialist transformations of the food systems in peripheral and
semi-peripheral places. While these books were written several decades
ago, they still hold relevance for understanding struggles in these
rural areas today.
NTD | Minutes after Berenson posted for the first time following his reinstatement, he re-posted the words that triggered the ban.
“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a
vaccine. Think of it—at best—as a therapeutic with a limited window of
efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE
OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity,” he wrote.
Berenson was referring to the COVID-19 vaccines, which have proven increasingly unable to prevent infection from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Also known as the SARS-CoV-2, the virus causes COVID-19.
Though the vaccines have been authorized and approved for prevention
of the virus, they’re actually recommended primarily for helping prevent
severe disease among those who contract the illness.
Twitter had initially claimed that Berenson’s post was “misleading,”
even though the company acknowledged that “studies indicate a reduction
in vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron variant” of the virus.
Studies show that the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson
shots—the only three available in the United States—provide little
protection against Omicron, and that the protection quickly wanes.
Some studies indicate that the vaccinated are more likely to contract
the virus after certain periods of time elapse following vaccination.
U.S. health authorities still recommend vaccination for virtually all Americans.
Berenson sued Twitter after being banned, claiming the company breached its contract with him as a user.
A federal judge tossed all of the claims except for the breach of contract one. Berenson and Twitter recently announced they’d agreed on a settlement in principle.
The details of the settlement have not yet been entered into the
court docket, with the parties saying they’re still negotiating.
According to court filings, Berenson was told by a senior Twitter
executive that posts that sparked controversy would not lead to him
being banned from the platform. But Twitter began taking action against
him after Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden, said
some of Berenson’s remarks were “horrifying,” first locking him out of
his account and eventually enacting the ban.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, said in a
recent ruling that Berenson “plausibly avers that Twitter’s conduct here
modified its contract with plaintiff and then breached that contract by
failing to abide by its own five-strike policy and its specific
commitments set forth through its vice president.”
Study from Senior Editor of the British Medical Journal Peter Doshi, et al, finds the absolute risk of serious AE from mRNA vaccines exceeds the absolute risk reduction of serious covid-19 infection.https://t.co/6JxOyIZVEHpic.twitter.com/PHhODa2dYt
There's only just so much to be said about the latest chapter in the empire of lies' desperate and ultimately futile attempt to hold onto financial and colonial power. That horse is already out of the barn and there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it except ride it out as best we can.
🚨: NY Times' Jim Tankersley asks Biden, "How long is it fair to expect American drivers to pay that premium" for the war in Ukraine?
zeta potential though, well, that's a whole other ball of wax. I'm going to make a simple, direct, and hopefully non-controversial claim. Aging is largely a process of all the fluid circulations in your body shutting down. I hadn't thought about that before. Why, because it falls into the yawning crack of unadvertised behavior. Science and the experts don't consider it, therefore it never trickles down into the consensus hubbub, so, out of sight, out of mind. This work here is purportedly about liminal views of consensus reality - so - back to the practical work at hand.
Well, it's not entirely true that I'd completely overlooked the question of fluid circulations, but, the version I had considered for some time, and then put back up on the shelf, was the version taught by taoist alchemy chi kung. According to this systematization, chi or vital energy depends upon the circulation of fluids in and around organ fascia. That's one aspect of zeta potential, and perhaps an oversimplification of chi kung.
Just as there was a powerful and clear signal sent concerning the underlying nature, origin, and purpose of the panicdemic - when the administration changed partisan hands - yet, hot-shots of mRNA goo alone remained the single mandated official response - so also - a very clear and powerful signal has been sent to us. Compare and contrast the west's response to coronavirus with China's continued insistence on hard lock-down procedures. What do they know that our misleadership pretends not to know?
Further, there's the fact that China's allopathic medical response has been more traditional. They are not administering hot shots of mRNA goo and blatantly and extravagantly fucking around with the future viability of the Middle Kingdom's people. Neither are the Russians.
All subjects of the empire of lies, however, are at risk of yet another mandated round of multiple hot shots of experimental goo, including the little children.
Trust the science you sleeping fools.
Trust deeze-nutz muhphukka....,
WW-III has been declared on the subjects of western corporatocracies by our own psychopathocratic gerontocracy. The western panic-demic governance response has nothing whatsoever to do with public health. AFAIC - the madness being inflicted upon us - looks much more like an upgraded core tactic in an arsenal of economic and medical warfare on all of us uselessly eating and no longer economically viable pissants.
There may not be much we can do to stop billion$ being squandered and stolen via Ukraine.
However, we are far from helpless in the face of this specific medicalized assault.
thehill | The Biden administration
announced Wednesday that is paying $3.2 billion for 105 million doses
of an updated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for a fall campaign, pending Food
and Drug Administration signoff on the new formula.
The order is a major step in the administration’s efforts to move
forward with a new vaccination push this fall, in a bid to blunt a
renewed COVID-19 surge when the weather turns colder in much of the
country.
The updated vaccine is expected to target the omicron variant, with the goal of providing improved protection.
The new doses are expected to begin to be delivered “as soon as late
summer 2022 and continue into the fourth quarter of this year,” Pfizer
said in a news release.
The Biden administration is using money that it was forced to cut
from other areas of its COVID-19 response after Congress did not act on
the administration’s request for new funds.
The White House is still pushing for more money from Congress, but
prospects on Capitol Hill are not looking particularly hopeful amid a
continued stalemate. Republicans have pushed back on the urgency for the funds.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said
that “despite months of warnings from the Administration on the
consequences of a lack of funding,” due to Congress’s lack of action,
Wednesday’s order “will not purchase enough vaccines to offer one of
these new booster shots to every adult and unfortunately, comes at the
expense of continued funding for other critical pandemic response needs
like testing manufacturing and domestic vaccine manufacturing.”
The order placed on Wednesday, though, will ensure the country is not completely lacking in updated vaccines for the fall.
“We look forward to taking delivery of these new variant-specific
vaccines and working with state and local health departments,
pharmacies, health care providers, federally qualified health centers,
and other partners to make them available in communities around the
country this fall,” said Dawn O’Connell, an assistant secretary at the
Department of Health and Human Services.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Thursday gave
the green light to updating vaccines for omicron, though there are still
more steps in the approval process.
Uptake of even a first booster dose, which is recommended for
everyone aged 5 and older, has been lagging, an indication that not
everyone will want an updated booster this fall.
axial | Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and was exiled
from his native home Austria after the nation was annexed by Nazi
Germany. He moved to Ireland after he was invited to set up the Dublin
Institute of Advanced Studies. This follows the past history of Ireland
acting as a storehouse of knowledge during the Dark Ages. After decades
of work, biology was becoming more formalized around the 1940s. Better
tools were emerging to perturb various organisms and samples and the
increasing number of discoveries was building out the framework of life.
With the rediscovery of Mendel’s work on genetics, scientists probably
most importantly Thomas Hunt Morgan and his work on fruit flies (Drosophila) set up the rules of heredity - genes located on chromosomes with each cell containing a set of chromosomes. In 1927, a seminal discovery
was made that irradiation by X-rays of fruits flies can induce
mutations. Just the medium was not known where Schrödinger was thinking
through his ideas on biology. At the same type, organic chemistry was
improving and various macromolecules in the cell such as enzymes were
being identified along with the various types of bonds made. For
Schrödinger, there were no tools to characterized these macromolecules
(i.e. proteins, nucleic acids) such as X-ray crystallography. Really the
only tool useful at the time was centrifugation. At the time, many
people expected proteins to be the store and transmitter of genetic
information. Luckily, Oswald Avery published an incredible paper in 1944 that found DNA as probably the store instead of proteins.
With this knowledge base Schrödinger took a beginner’s mind
to biology. In some ways his naivety was incredibly useful. Instead of
being anchored to some widely-accepted premise that proteins transmitted
genetic information (although he had a hunch some protein was
responsible), the book thought from first principles and identified a
few key concepts in biology that were not appreciated but became very
important. Thankfully Schrödinger was curious - he enjoyed writing
poetry and reading philosophy so jumped into biology somewhat
fearlessly. At the beginning of the book, he sets the main question as:
“How
can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial
boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and
chemistry?”
Information
In the first chapter,
Schrödinger argues that because organisms have orderly behavior they
must follow the laws of physics. Because physics relies on statistics,
life was follow the same rules. He then argues that because biological
properties have some level of permanence the material that stores this
information then must be stable. This material must have the ability to
change from one stable state to another (i.e. mutations). Classical
physics is not very useful here, but for Schrödinger his expertise in
quantum mechanics helped determine that these stable states must be held
together through covalent bonds (a quantum phenomena) within a
macromolecule. In the early chapters, the book argues that the gene must
be a stable macromolecule.
Through discussion around the
stability of the gene, the book makes its most important breakthrough -
an analogy between a gene and an aperiodic crystal (DNA is aperiodic but
Schrödinger amazingly didn’t know that at the time): “the germ of a
solid.” Simply, a periodic crystal can store a small amount of
information with an infinite number of atoms and an aperiodic crystal
has the ability to store a near infinite amount of information in a
small number of atoms. The latter was more in line with what the current
data suggested what a gene was. Max Delbrück had similar ideas along
with J.B.S. Haldane, but the book was the first to connect this idea to
heredity. But readers at the time and maybe even still overextended this
framework to believe that genetic code contains all of the information
to build an organism. This isn’t true, development requires an
environment with some level of randomness.
wikipedia | In chapter I, Schrödinger explains that most physical laws on a large
scale are due to chaos on a small scale. He calls this principle
"order-from-disorder." As an example he mentions diffusion,
which can be modeled as a highly ordered process, but which is caused
by random movement of atoms or molecules. If the number of atoms is
reduced, the behaviour of a system becomes more and more random. He
states that life greatly depends on order and that a naïve physicist may
assume that the master code of a living organism has to consist of a
large number of atoms.
In chapter II and III, he summarizes what was known at this time
about the hereditary mechanism. Most importantly, he elaborates the
important role mutations play in evolution.
He concludes that the carrier of hereditary information has to be both
small in size and permanent in time, contradicting the naïve physicist's
expectation. This contradiction cannot be resolved by classical physics.
In chapter IV, Schrödinger presents molecules,
which are indeed stable even if they consist of only a few atoms, as
the solution. Even though molecules were known before, their stability
could not be explained by classical physics, but is due to the discrete
nature of quantum mechanics. Furthermore, mutations are directly linked to quantum leaps.
He continues to explain, in chapter V, that true solids, which are also permanent, are crystals.
The stability of molecules and crystals is due to the same principles
and a molecule might be called "the germ of a solid." On the other hand,
an amorphous solid, without crystalline structure, should be regarded as a liquid with a very high viscosity.
Schrödinger believes the heredity material to be a molecule, which
unlike a crystal does not repeat itself. He calls this an aperiodic
crystal. Its aperiodic nature allows it to encode an almost infinite
number of possibilities with a small number of atoms. He finally
compares this picture with the known facts and finds it in accordance
with them.
In chapter VI Schrödinger states:
...living matter, while not eluding the "laws of
physics" as established up to date, is likely to involve "other laws of
physics" hitherto unknown, which however, once they have been revealed,
will form just as integral a part of science as the former.
He knows that this statement is open to misconception and tries to
clarify it. The main principle involved with "order-from-disorder" is
the second law of thermodynamics, according to which entropy only increases in a closed system (such as the universe). Schrödinger explains that living matter evades the decay to thermodynamical equilibrium by homeostatically maintaining negative entropy in an open system.
In chapter VII, he maintains that "order-from-order" is not
absolutely new to physics; in fact, it is even simpler and more
plausible. But nature follows "order-from-disorder", with some
exceptions as the movement of the celestial bodies
and the behaviour of mechanical devices such as clocks. But even those
are influenced by thermal and frictional forces. The degree to which a
system functions mechanically or statistically depends on the
temperature. If heated, a clock ceases to function, because it melts.
Conversely, if the temperature approaches absolute zero,
any system behaves more and more mechanically. Some systems approach
this mechanical behaviour rather fast with room temperature already
being practically equivalent to absolute zero.
Schrödinger concludes this chapter and the book with philosophical speculations on determinism, free will, and the mystery of human consciousness.
He attempts to "see whether we cannot draw the correct
non-contradictory conclusion from the following two premises: (1) My
body functions as a pure mechanism according to Laws of Nature; and (2)
Yet I know, by incontrovertible direct experience, that I am directing
its motions, of which I foresee the effects, that may be fateful and
all-important, in which case I feel and take full responsibility for
them. The only possible inference from these two facts is, I think, that
I – I in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every
conscious mind that has ever said or felt 'I' – am the person, if any,
who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Laws of Nature".
Schrödinger then states that this insight is not new and that Upanishads
considered this insight of "ATHMAN = BRAHMAN" to "represent
quintessence of deepest insights into the happenings of the world."
Schrödinger rejects the idea that the source of consciousness should
perish with the body because he finds the idea "distasteful". He also
rejects the idea that there are multiple immortal souls that can exist
without the body because he believes that consciousness is nevertheless
highly dependent on the body. Schrödinger writes that, to reconcile the
two premises,
The only possible alternative is simply
to keep to the immediate experience that consciousness is a singular of
which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what
seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this
one thing…
Any intuitions that consciousness is plural, he says, are illusions. Schrödinger is sympathetic to the Hindu concept of Brahman, by which each individual's consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe
— which corresponds to the Hindu concept of God. Schrödinger concludes
that "...'I' am the person, if any, who controls the 'motion of the
atoms' according to the Laws of Nature." However, he also qualifies the
conclusion as "necessarily subjective" in its "philosophical
implications". In the final paragraph, he points out that what is meant
by "I" is not the collection of experienced events but "namely the
canvas upon which they are collected." If a hypnotist succeeds in
blotting out all earlier reminiscences, he writes, there would be no
loss of personal existence — "Nor will there ever be."[8]
A Foundation of Joy
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Two years and I've lost count of how many times my eye has been operated
on, either beating the fuck out of the tumor, or reattaching that slippery
eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
4 to the power of 3 is 64
64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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Return of the Magi
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the earth.I can feel it bubbling up, effervescing and evaporating around
us, s...
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