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Yes, we're in a rut leading to Hell and can't get out of it. Can it be a death wish? I think a feeling of hopelessness is putting many people in a dangerous frame of mind. It doesn't have to be. We should start with the demand that Assange be released immediately, and go from there. No more "help" for Ukraine: Johnson out: Biden out: Trudeau out: Incipient fascism by another name - out, out, out. This is bloody ridiculous. If people are looking for meaning, there has never been a better opportunity to do something meaningful: save humankind and all life on the planet.

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“It's impossible to despise the mainstream western press too much, in my opinion. They're paving the way to destruction and dystopia just as much as the plutocrats and politicians. They whine that the public hates them, but really the public doesn't hate them enough.”

I like you more and more. As Jake Gittes said in ‘Chinatown’, “What can I say, kid? When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.”

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"Between 2016 and 2019 smearing Assange was a way of demonstrating to current and prospective mainstream media employers that you will do anything, anything at all, to defend the empire. It was a great way to advance your career, and many did so." So stated Caitlin.

If only they had realised at the time that what they were actually doing would ultimately come back and bite them somewhere. Right now that is what has happened. No one is free to publish anything that contradicts the party line and the creative component of their journalistic careers has vanished, perhaps in today's climate, never to return.

Let no one ever criticise the socialistic controls in Russia. They pale by comparison to the USA, on the downward slope to the end of empire.

An award for journalism (as in the old days), something of a farce in 2022. Pulitzer Prize, (Excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements) renamed the BlackRock Prize for Journalistic Acquiescence.

They are now nothing but word arrangers, the topic, emphasis and structure being the mandate of the government of the day as they respond to their masters, the BlackRocks, Vanguards and the like added to which are the military / industrial complex ....which means the BlackRocks and Vanguards all over again, a.k.a the corrupted American Merry-go-Round.

Capitalism at its best!

With exceptions, there are a few, just a few, who refuse to join the MSM and rot away following a demeaning career in what journalism has become, hardly a career worth pursuing in 2022. The majority sell their souls working for the publications of false record, found in almost every city near you.

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People should stop subscribing to these media. How many times have I seen special bargains from certain newspapers ‘Subscribe now – 0.99 cents a week for six months.’ I wouldn’t even subscribe for a nickel a week. There is more honest reporting elsewhere. The propagation of lies is so rampant with these journalists. Their conscience and the truth went out the window a long time ago to serve the Evil Empire.

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This: "...if you look at the vast quantity of sophisticated psyops distorting everyone's picture of the world it's very understandable there's so much confusion."

I consider myself one of the more aware & sophisticated in seeing these psyops - but even so, I don't have the time (or expertise/background) to do the necessary research on ALL of the issues.

Mixed in with heaps of frustration about the brain-dead state of the general populace, I find increasing amounts of sympathy (on my good days, my more compassionate broader-awareness days) for all those people who don't yet get that the government (EVERY government) is lying to us.

Blatantly, knowingly, condescendingly, manipulatively lying.

My sympathy sometimes extends (in nano-filaments) to those in power, who must surely be puppets of some greater evil puppet-master (since most of them do not have the brains to have come up with these narratives). Like Faust, they have sold their souls to the devil for worldly gains - and pretty soon their debt will be called in. (And I won't be supporting the appeal for clemency.)

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Hell, the Ronald Reagan administration never ended.

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Can’t gush enough about you. The. Best. Thank you for letting us in for a little bit sometimes.

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not sure what your issue with ron desantis is, hes doing a pretty good job of reining in the covid bs, he seems to be doing a pretty good job as a governor from what ive seen. feel free to expand and explain

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I often think I've heard the dumbest possible comments any human being that can read has ever offered to the pubic: but then James Ball of the Guardian comes along and it's all up for grabs. Because what he claims about Julian Assange and the Ecuadorian Embassy is beyond nonsense,

it is beyond belief. And they've been looking for an excuse to bring it all down for some time now, the mad war mongers (how did that mad cow thing finally end, or did it? Might explain a lot, because something's in the air or brains, and it isn't good). Is it to be tiny Lithuania, the powder keg? Or huge Ukraine? or Taiwan, where most people are not unhappy under China's wing? C'mon, what about a dartboard approach, or slips in a hat? We've turned a blind eye to bullshit for so long we've convinced ourselves it's all good : coin of the realm.

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adding to SBN's quote, "As long as only a small minority of people have the willingness and ability to put in long hours to try and understand what's going on, it will remain easy to manipulate all leftward movement into impotence or complicity. Something very, very big is going to have to change."

I think that change is happening now, under the skin and in the veins. I just put out a retrospective of my long hours trying to understand what's going on during the last year: https://youtu.be/Pt5eB7D8JUQ

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Your last paragraph says it well. How many have the time, energy, and ability to muck through all the propaganda and "disinformation" dumped on them by the mainstream media? Not many. And so we thank you Caitlin for your tireless work to keep us all better informed and sane in this insane world.

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Another Brilliant Article by Ms. Johnstone. The Ruling Class has lost ALL Legitimacy & the Political "Puppet Class" has as well. 3rd Party is the only option for Western Democracies now - in order to take our Countries back from these International Mobsters. SWJW.

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Jun 22, 2022·edited Jun 22, 2022

To the tune of California here I come. **blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2014/08/28/tbt-danzig-and-the-beginnings-of-world-war-ii/

When the wintry winds starts blowing

And the snow is starting in the fall

Then my eyes went eastward knowing

That's the gas that I love best of all

Lebensraum, I've been blue

Since I've been lusting for you

Nazi Blackshirts better get going

Even now Joe's starting in a call

Danzig Free Port,** Here I Come

Right back where I started from

Where Agent Orange on flowers

Stop blooms every spring

Each morning at dawning

88s shoot at everything

Chrystia Freeland said, "Don't be late!"

That's why I can hardly wait

Open up that Hell's gate

Danzig, Here I Come again

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https://medium.com/@ennuid/george-lakoffs-framing-101-7b88e9c91dac

George Lakoff has some good ideas on liberal strategy.

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multiple ways to kill leftward movement

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Remember - Trump wanted to pardon Assange and Snowden. Mitch McConnell threatened him he would vote for impeachment if he does that...

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