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Awesome.

I am not holding my breath, but dream of a day when all the Democrat big-tech collusion evidence is finally made public.

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It is already obvious. The problem is that so long as the legacy press is still in the DNC/Technocrat/Swamp Rat bag, 40% of the population wouldn't care or in many cases, even know.

That is the frightening and insidious thing. The Swamp Rats--the unelected bureaucrats of the federal government--DNC, establishment portion of the RNC, legacy press and tech titans were all in collusion with oneanother.

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Worse than not care; they'll actively cheer it on in the name of "saving democracy" and "combating disinformation". I already see it on some liberal forums I lurk. While they sling the term "fascist" around like candy at a Christmas parade, they adored the disinformation governance board.

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I've seen that too. So-called progressives have no self awareness. I had one co-worker raging that Trump was "literally Adolf Hitler." I had to gently remind my other co-workers that, bad as he is, Trump is no Hitler. With that kind of reasoning, these faux progressives will cheer on most any repressive policies.

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It was Glenn who said when you've allowed yourself to be convinced you're dealing with the most singular evil in three generations you can justify using whatever tactics to stop it. When the DGB came out most of the comments were standard authoritarian fare like "the only people who should be concerned about this are the people spreading disinformation". One that stuck out to me was "conservatives are having a meltdown over this and I love it!" I used to laugh at conservatives doing silly things like smashing their already-paid-for keurigs to "own the libs". Now that coin has flipped over and liberals are cheering on giving government unprecedented sweeping powers to "own the cons".

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So, good: We have a majority.

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It's been leaking out for a while, but a new round of released emails shows MAJOR coordination between Big Tech and the CDC

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/emails-reveal-extensive-coordination

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Of all the stupid things for big tech to collude with government about, I still can't get over the stupidity of colluding over health information. A ridiculous number of human health opinions have been proven wrong or abandoned in the last 100 years. Consensus opinions about health are less reliable than ones about the one, true god.

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Case in point: The Food Pyramid.

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It wasn't stupid, it was part of an intentional "plandemic" meant to result in the controlled demolition of the American middle class, e.g., the destruction of the mom-and-pop shops that couldn't financially withstand the lockdowns while allowing the big box stores to stay open.

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Exactly.

And this phenomena is part and parcel of the over-arching problem of State *capture* of what should be wholly a-political, solely (honest, non-coerced) supply-and-demand wealth -creating entities in the private-sector, who can only survive by competing fairly *without* the imprimatur of Big Brother.

We need a Constitutionally enshrined (strengthened with explicit amendment) separation of State and economy. It is just as, if not more, important as the separation of State and "church."

Edit: And we especially need it to protect against the resetters:

https://americanmind.org/salvo/triumph-of-davos-man/

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Let's start with ending subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. They may have needed help at the beginning of the twentieth century, but I'm pretty sure they're profitable now.

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Subsidies aren't today's carbon energy problem; shutdowns, artificial supply restrictions, and especially qualifying carbon as a pollutant are.

If only plants and crops could talk...

https://issuesinsights.com/2022/06/30/americans-are-collateral-damage-in-dems-insane-war-on-energy/

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Yes, but it's not about the truth. It's about who controls the "truth" (the State narrative). Big tech corps are onl;y doing what all persons do: Survive and grow. That they become State captured is only a measure of too much State power. Without State backing and protection (for example, Parler), these corporations would not be able to accumulate so much market power. There would be unfettered competition, and we consumers would have the power.

Massively reduce the size and power of the Federal leviathan, and all good will follow, including the tech "monopolies."

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My feeling is you have that exactly backwards. It isn't the elected officials who are dictating to the companies it is the opposite. Corporate lobbyists often write the drafts of the laws they want the politicians to vote on.

What is the easier sell for big media?

A) Simply deciding to de-platform Parler out of the blue for 'reasons'.

B) Talking with a couple of your politician buddies and saying "Hey, if you give us a good reason to, we can shut down this Parler thing that Trump is using to upset your political applecart."

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So corporate CEOs and their "oligarchy" have captured the State, not the other way around? (The answer to which is the growing shareholder revolt and reassertion of appropriate control.)

But in either case (whichever way one wishes to see it) the problem is the Federal government has too much power, too much scope. It is the Staists/Fascists/WEFer/DEIer/ESGer/control-freaks dream come true.

There are Statists-at-heart, some powerful, some merely "fellow travellers," in BOTH the private sector and public, so why would you think one group would not work hand-in-hand with the other, regardless of position, private or public.

Statists cooperate. The only antidote is popular uprising, whether at the ballot box, board meeting, or, ultimately, an insurgency.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/29/pay-attention-to-the-dutch-farmer-protests-because-america-is-next/

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I wouldn't say no to the French Revolution Solution. It's not like we haven't given these folks enough chances to get it right.

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I pray that when the Republicans retake the House, we can have a REAL investigation into J6, including the participation and incitement by Ray Epps and the FBI…and that the facts can actually be presented and searchable on the internet.

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Sadly, no one will care.

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That's not true. In fact, I share GG's optimism.

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Many years from now names like Glenn Greenwald, Dr Robert Malone, Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi and Tucker Carlson will be considered true heroes of the resistance. Viva America, Viva Liberty and Viva Glenn Greenwald. Thanks for fighting the good fight to help save us from ourselves, the happless voters who have allowed this to happen through their apathy, ignorance and focus on being FAT, Dumb and Happy..

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Don't start celebrating now, we won't live through the coming nuclear holocaust to enjoy any of this "freedom".

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We have never been closer to global nuclear war.

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That is what terrifies me most, and that the only real thing holding such a catastrophize back is Putin himself.

Neither the EU nor the US or their 'shared organ' of NATO have shown signs of anything but pushing an unending war. This is wholly on their hands...and they even have a nuclear attack add running in NYC on what people should do. When I hear of that, my first reaction was 'find out who allowed for nuclear war to become possible and put them six feet under.

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Even during the so called Cold War there were always voices in the power structure and the media who wanted rapprochement, peace, those people were respected and seen as legitimate interlocuters.

Not today. Speak out against war with Russia, and you know what they will call you.

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Neville Chamberlain?

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And, Gov. Hochul tried to push thru Bill A416 which reads, in part, (Section 12): "...the governor or his or her delegee may...issue and seek enforcement of any other order that he or she determines...to require testing or medical examination of persons who may have been exposed to or contaminated with dangerous amounts of radioactive materials or toxic chemicals .." With Mayor Adams recently having been discovered by the media conducting NYC business from a bunker in a windowless building instead of from City Hall ( a few blocks away), I wonder if Hochul and Adams know something the rest of us don't. Or, if this is just part of the perpetual fear campaign that is being waged to keep Americans constantly scared of something (covid, omicron, crime, BA4-5, monkeypox). Frightened people stop thinking, and are more easily controlled, confined, and manipulated.

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I truly fear that you are correct.

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Stephen Cohen, the great Stephen Cohen, would agree with us.

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Bill, thanks for those excellent links. Yes, Prof Cohen was prescient on so many issues, and often fiercely reviled for it. You probably know his book "War With Russia." It is a collection of his articles and commentary decrying those who would needlessly start a war with Russia.

Agreed, expanding NATO is undoubtedly the greatest US foreign policy error of the post-CW era...and that's saying something.

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Maybe we need to calm things down. In the long term, we can give Russia assurance that its valid (but only its valid) security interests will be protected by allowing (and encouraging) Russia to join NATO. Sounds silly, but it is one way to prevent wars based on perceived security threats.

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Now you are talking my talk. I consider myself to have been one of his greatest fans. You too, I take it.

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Yes, Prof. Cohen got it. Cohen was actual friends with Gorbachev, and if anyone "got it" it was Stephen Cohen. Him and X, George Kennan, who predicted all this.

I have been 'following' the cold war since the 70s.

"Real men go to Mockba"

https://williamowen.substack.com/p/the-war-on-russia

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The architect of the cold war policy of containment did not mince words in arguing that “expanding Nato would be the most fateful error in American policy in the entire post-cold war era”.

He predicted that “it would inflame nationalistic, anti-western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion”, “have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy”, “restore the atmosphere of cold war to east-west relations”, and “impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking”."

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I agree and I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, totally terrified for 2 weeks.

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I was very young. My main memory was the fear that I saw and felt all around me.

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I agree that world war is likely in the next 10 years or so. Whether it reaches the level of destructiveness you fear -- that is, ending civilization in some countries -- is a separate issue. You're right to worry about that level of destructiveness, which can now be achieved without nuclear weapons. Modern Internet/hacking technology allows that civilization-ending level of destruction without breaking the nuclear taboo. As long as each major power can maintain an effective deterrent threat of mutually assured destruction, and leaders aren't reckless in certain ways, we'll avoid that level of catastrophe. But what matters is whether a country's deterrent ever breaks down, and that depends on developments in hacking which are very difficult to find out about.

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We're in WWIII. Advancement's in electronic communication (much like the printing press) has caused a jump in Consciousness world wide. "ism's" are dead or dying and the graft of avaricious finance is transparent to reality. They're dangerous. The fact that we're discussing nuclear war is proof that the mask is off. Totalitarian finance is holding a gun to our heads. The choice is "you will own nothing and be happy" perpetual debt driven feudalism or salvation in the firestorm. Welcome to the new age.

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You clearly don't understand the destructiveness of nuclear weapons. It's not just the explosive power of them, it's also the massive and massively toxic radioactivity they release into the atmosphere. And your Dr. Strangelove attitude that a nuclear war may not reach a high level of destructiveness is insane and immoral beyond words.

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Where world-war-level hacking is concerned, you are the one who is taking the Dr. Strangelove "it's not that bad" approach. I acknowledge how catastrophic nuclear war would be; it would have terrible global effects. But because you share the common view that understates the dangers from hacking, you wrongly believe that world-war-level hacking wouldn't reach a level of severity comparable to nuclear war. You misunderstood me, and I hope I wasn't being unclear.

I've done anti-nuclear protests and I'm familiar with the harms that nuclear weapons do. Most of this is understood by the general public. The harm of nuclear weapons is largely concentrated on the cities they target, although as you say they can have very serious effects elsewhere. The harm from a world-war-level hacking campaign is less understood by the general public. If you hack into utilities, shutting off the power grid and making the sewage systems flow in reverse with maybe some chemical-plant sabotage tossed in, you kill the population pretty quickly and it affects not just cities but rural areas too. At present the only effective defense that's been implemented against that is mutually assured destruction, just like with nukes.

I wouldn't want either a large world-war-level hacking campaign or a small nuclear war, but the harm from a large world-war-level hacking campaign can clearly become more serious than a small nuclear war, and it's not bound by any well-publicized taboos that are as strong as the nuclear taboo. So, it's clearly shortsighted to talk about only nuclear war as a danger and not talk about hacking.

World-war-level hacking should be discussed as a similar danger to nuclear war, so that taboos against it can develop. The long tradition of talking about nuclear war as if it was a unique danger has now become an outdated habit -- it's not that nuclear war has become any less severe than it's feared to be, but that modern means of warfare such as hacking have become as severe or more severe than a small nuclear war. Since there have been some successes in establishing a taboo against nuclear weapons, I want to replicate that success by publicizing the truth that world-war-level hacking can be comparably severe.

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Hacking only affects humans, unless it causes a nuclear meltdown or nuclear weapons to be launched. Nuclear weapons irradiate the atmosphere, negatively affecting the Earth and all life on it. I'm a radical environmentalist and I totally oppose industrial society, though we're obviously stuck with it for a while even if we began moving away from it immediately. My primary concerns are the Earth and all life on it, of which humans are just one of tens of millions of species.

Your comment to which I responded was questioning of the great harms that a nuclear war would cause. I understand that because of this ridiculously tech-dependent society that we've created, hacking can cause severe harms. But aside from nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants, I'll take hacking any day over a nuclear war, which could end all or virtually all life on Earth, not merely some civilizations. I agree with you that humans can destroy the Earth, and in fact have been doing so, without nuclear weapons. But the great harm that nuclear weapons would cause should never me minimized.

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When Iran gets a working nuke they’ll start threatening Israel and then we’re “screwed, blued and tattooed”.

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I see you've been busily swallowing propaganda. The US National Intelligence Community assessed that Iran's nuclear goal was to achieve a "breakout capability" -- that is, Iran's end goal is to have the technology and components that enables assembling nuclear weapons on short notice but without actually possessing any assembled nukes. That Iranian strategy is the same approach that Japan took to nukes for many decades during the cold war. Countries that take that "breakout" approach end up having a similar deterrent power to those who actually have a few nuclear weapons, but without running the risks of actually possessing nukes, and can tell their own people and their neighbors that it's only the evil foreigners who possess nukes. Saudi Arabia follows a very similar strategy, having made a quiet international agreement with Pakistan where the Saudis can have a few Pakistani nukes delivered to Saudi Arabia on short notice in case of emergency. Like Iran, Saudi Arabia is able to have a kind of nuclear deterrent without possessing the actual bombs.

Western mainstream media distorted all this into "OH NO IRAN IS RUSHING TO BUILD NUCLEAR WEAPONS, DOOM DOOM DOOM", while of course not saying the same about the Saudis or Japan. I would say the Saudis are even more evil than the evil Iranian regime; the Saudis are engaging in more aggressive wars, not to mention their other abuses. But no one in the media tells you to panic over how close the Saudis are to having nukes, so you act as if Iran is the problem.

Even apart from that, the idea that "When Iran gets a working nuke they'll start threatening Israel and then we're screwed" is completely illogical. India and Pakistan have nukes and they threaten each other, but the nukes have had little effect apart from maybe slightly diminishing India's and Pakistan's covert operations against each other. Iran hasn't ever fought an outright war with Israel, while India and Pakistan have fought at least three wars with each other since the mid-twentieth century.

Just stop repeating the indoctrinated panic stuff, it's pointless.

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I see you trust Iran. Good luck to you.

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Lies about the "Iranian bomb" started way back in the 80s and have never ceased.

Iran is a state in rebellion against The Empire and is a minor threat to Israel, and so, "they must be destroyed".

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TRVTH

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Yep. The megalomania of totalitarian finance and its poseur Marxist front is capable of anything. The Jordan Peterson/Michael Yon conversation is chilling. The ascension of world wide WEF/CCP feudalism is in our faces.

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In case of nuclear attack, it seems to me, you should kiss your ass goodbye, and hope that you are killed instantly. Those who remain alive will be the ones who suffer horribly.

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I confess. I have not bought a luxury bunker yet. I'm waiting for them to come down in price. Some people are "early adopters", I'm the "last adopter". Any day now, I'm going to buy one of them newfangled AM/FM radios. Just gotta get my nerve up.

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thanks for that link :).

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Who's celebrating?

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The NeoCons and NeoLibs.

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Indeed Señor Paine.

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Remember when Elon Musk was threatening to buy Twitter and goodthinkers were losing their minds at the thought that Twitter might censor less aggressively?

Funny how "Muh private company can do whatever it wants!" was no longer a QED argument when it came to *less* censorship.

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All private companies are equal but some are more equal than others.

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Besides Twitter's misrepresentation of how many accounts were actually bots; the State threatened "Space X" with all kinds of nonsensical regulations and requirements. I wonder if Musk didn't see that coming, or whether he thought "Space X" was so important to the future of the nation that it wouldn't be used to rein him in.

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Apples and oranges.

Please stop disparaging the private sector, M. F. Yes, private actors are free to censor. That is no problem , of course, because actors in the private sector have "competitors," and consumers are free to go elsewhere. (Google, of course, has broken laws by illegaly structuring its architecture to deny competition, and it has been allowed to do so because it is State-captured, and therefore has unfair State assistance.)

As always, it's the PUBLIC sector, the State, that is the danger and cause of all censorship problems. The State has no competition.

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"Yes, private actors are free to censor. "

Yes they are.

"That is no problem , of course, because actors in the private sector have "competitors,""

Until they don't

"and consumers are free to go elsewhere."

Until they aren't

So long as money trumps humanity, you are going to have this kind of thing (using said money to bend/break rules for your own benefit at the expense to the detriment of others) happening on various scales throughout society.

That's the bottom line here. Dress it up however you like, but it always, in the end, comes back to that.

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There seems to be some psychological willingness to believe that wealth makes someone worthy of leadership. It's not just an Anglo-Saxon trait. And, $$$$$$$ by its nature seems to rig whatever system it gains control of at the cost of human moral decency. I'm for commerce. I'm not for rigged game finance. The entire problem is apparent in the fact that Wall Street gutted American industry, crashed the greatest economy in history, stuffed their pockets and walked. How much of the chaos in the world today is direct "blowback" from the Cheney/Bush/ Clinton/Obama travesty and its capitulation with Wall Street rigged game grifters.

The WEF/CCP new world perpetual debt driven feudalism, is just the new face of the venal Capitalist anti-union, cheap subsistence debt driven labor, I'm exploiting the worlds resources for my own benefit without consequences scam. Avaricious finance has abandoned America. And, Capitalism.

I'm not Communist nor am I a Capitalist . I'm an American. Our Constitution and the fact that we're armed to the teeth is the only thing holding the WEF/CCP totalitarian financed bureaucratic big tech surveillance state at bay. (I'm not, by the way, for armed conflict.) I do think one thing we don't consider and discuss enough is pulling the monsters teeth through extreme taxation. That and adamant protection of our Republic and its Constitution might begin to bring daylight.

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"Extreme taxation" *only* fuels Statism, and is certainly un-Constitutional.

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Right because certainly no one else has, you know, nodded and winked at your famed article of treating everyone equally under the law over the years for personal gain. That's never happened. The Constitution is sacrosanct. It's never been perverted for private gain (cough,...NRA...cough).

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You are mistaken, perhaps because, as a Canadian, you are not as familiar with our Constitution, and specifically what it is *not*.

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Sign me up as the first person in favour of taxing the hell out of the rich. The problem is, so long as they control the politicians that is never going to happen. Control must be wrested from them in other ways.

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A huge part of the lie is convincing "...we the people..." that we have no power. I think we do or, though bad things are happening to good people, especially at the Marxist D.E.I. end of the gun, it would be a lot worse. We probably both see and experience today's lives in the balance reality and would like it to change. Realistic taxation of income isn't anti-Constitutional. We pay it proportionately. So should the rich. And the transfer of debt downward and tax dollars upward is criminal. American political representation standing by while the lords of monopoly tax shelter and duck legitimate tax's is also criminal. The pretense WEF/CCP monsters like K.Schwab and B.Gates have anything but a self-interested vision of the future is pure pathology. The MSM duck and cover Epstein "the king has no clothes scandal" revealed the moral high ground they inhabit. Its pure dog and pony we want slave labor and unfettered exploitation. They gutted American industry and destroyed the greatest economy in the world. If a couple of thousand of us chip in a hundred bucks each I'm sure we can find an economics expert capable of insight and solution.

We should at least have the discussion.

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There's economists out there already who are squarely pointing the finger where you are, the financial sector and the oligarchs who use it to prey on people.

Interesting tidbit here, a recent memo from a Bank of America exec basically stated that he hoped the conditions for American workers would get worse to force them back into taking the three low paying burger flipping jobs they've been forced to take pre-COVID but are now saying no too because it would help the bank's bottom line if that happened.

Think about that. They are willing to see you homeless, without clothes, food, medical care unless you 'company town' your existence so they can increase their profit margins.

They are currently lobbying the government to fiddle with your interest rates to ensure that happens.

This is what unfettered Capitalism brings you. Pure markets look great on paper, but they do not account for the human factor. The reality is far more messy.

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"Until they don't" (twice)

And usually the fault of the public sector, either by capturing the corp/sector (think healthcare) and denying competition, or by not enforcing existing law.

The free market takes time to re-assert itself. Trust the free individual and the free market.

Money does not trump humanity. That is, and always has been, a canard and a red herring. Are you a Socialist?

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Are you a Capitalist?

Does me being a Socialist (whether I am or not) automatically mean that what I write has less credibility than you?

We've given your free market a good long time to do the right thing, like since Reagonomics. We are talking half a century here. It has consistently done the wrong thing in terms of humanity. It has helped an increasingly smaller and smaller amount of people garner more and more of society's wealth while sentencing the remainder to what amounts to indentured servitude.

Yes, people are free *not* to work in which case *not* eating, *not* having a place to sleep, and *not* getting medical care that is worth the name, *not* having these things is also *free*.

Or are you going to blame the public sector for private gains.

Who do you think writes the laws the politicians vote on? You think they get those off the back of cereal boxes? Corporate lobbyists do that work (and that is well documented).

Who do you think funds the focus groups and PACs that kill any reform that might in any way dilute the power structure that keeps these one way taps flowing? I would say do the research and look it up but I suspect you know that special interests by and large pay for those things to push their agendas without them getting their hands dirty.

In which case you'd be talking out of your ass to push an agenda yourself most likely of small government/less regulation and couching it in 'Yippee Small Business' rhetoric and give it a folksy feel because why exactly?

Let me guess. In your view powerful people have throughout history shown that when given the opportunity to grab more power they turn it down, right?

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Yes, I am.

I never claimed that "what [you] write has less credibility than [me]." And I believe that your opinion is just as valid as mine.

But we have *not* had "my" free market for a good long time. Reagan did NOT reduce the size of the public sector and free the markets. He was right in focusing on the supply side, not the demand side, in economics. That is the road to true Capitalism.

The body of your response here indicates that you think individuals have a right to all that they *need* to survive, and they cannot ever obtain those things without the State providing it for them. That Socialism has always failed, and led to such destruction of wealth that humanity has suffered immensely. This is obvious, so I refuse to respomd here.

Your last sentence is so ridiculous that I will only respond by requesting that you stop putting words in my mouth.

We disagree profoundly on the nature of human economic reality, and what social system will lead to the best solution. That is all. It's okay for us to disagree, isn't it?

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Just like you say we have never had *true* Capitalism, I can safely say we have never had *true* Socialism. For the same reasons I might add. People able to take advantage of a system to garner personal gain for themselves at ther expense of others and to the detriment of those same people have done so. There are oligarchs everywhere in the world.

Remember, I never painted myself with the Socialist brush, *you* did. *You* also labelled yourself a died in the wool Capitalist. For me, political left or right never enters into this equation. For you, this discussion can't be had without it.

There, my friend, is our difference.

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"As soon as Parler rose to the top spot, Democratic politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and censorship activists groups such as Sleeping Giants demanded that Google and Apple immediately remove Parler from their app stores, preventing any further downloading."

Speech, like ideas, should rise and fall on its own merits. And the only arbiter of what I should read and hear, is me. When four corporations, with the aid of the federal government, get to use state-sponsored bully tactics to silence competition -no matter under what cock-and-bulls**t guise- we need to call it what it is...FASCISM.

Oh, and AOC coming down on the wrong side of history...AGAIN?!

THE HELL YOU SAY!

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Ocasio-Cortez and her Squad are phony progressives. Their job is to sheep herd progressives into the Democratic Party, thereby neutering them. Members of the Squad almost always say the right things, while hypocritically supporting the Democratic Party establishment with their votes and what they actually do.

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We as individuals need to start discussing and finding ways to expanding this platform and reach others. Of course I share good pieces. I wonder if we each printed a hundred copies of really good articles and inserted them in waiting room magazines or in the free paper magazine racks we see everywhere. Or, just handed them directly to friends. A good number of our American revolutionary's were pamphleteers.

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The same can be said of Bernie Sanders, tough talk, and then he votes with Democrats. If Sanders' brain could be combined with Manchin's balls---WOW!

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I've never liked Sanders that much, though he clearly used to be substantially better than the average Democrat. Now he's just like them.

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I admit I was a Bernie Bro' during one of his campaigns. Like you, I thought he was the best of a bad bunch of options. Bernie talks the heartfelt talk, but he doesn't walk his talk.

Sanders=all matzoh, no balls.

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He's bad on foreign policy, though not quite as much as establishment Democrats or Republicans. I would have held my nose and voted for him if he'd won the presidential nomination in 2016, but not in 2020.

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"He's bad on foreign policy." Divided loyalties?

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I wonder how much AOC sold her behind for? The Best Congress that money can buy.

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I suspect she was made an offer she couldn't refuse...

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"...she couldn't refuse."? Or, she wouldn't refuse? Yes, in this nation, anyone who stands up for honesty, integrity, and decency, will pay a price (probably poverty). But the choice is yours to make.

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Nice behind. I'm sure she got a nice, fat sum.

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I'd wager 1,000 pieces of silver is what it took. Now she is the swamp rat's mascot. It's sad, that she was willing to abandon everything she claimed to believe in for popularity, money and power.

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I'm sure that in her own mind, she is a hero suffering for the masses. Never underestimate what people are willing to believe about themselves.

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Thanks. I was wondering if you were ok. I actually searched you last night, wondering if you’d gone missing or been arrested, and I was relieved to see some recent activity on your Twatter account.

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I genuinely appreciate the concern. The slow pace over the last couple months wasn't planned. I've been producing articles at an extremely rapid and intense rate since I moved to Substack in October, 2020 -- almost two years ago now. And, as I indicated in the introductory paragraphs to the last freelance article we posted, I have been working intensively on a new project that we're about to unveil that is very exciting and, I hope and believe, will make a huge impact. So my lack of output here was more just about needing a little bit of a rest and having less time than I planned, as well as a spontaneous need to slow down for a bit to keep my batteries charged and ready, along with the planning needed for launching this new project coming very shortly. We do have our freelance program but it's not really an adequate substitute since my writing and journalistic approach are pretty idiosyncratic and it's noticeable when the articles aren't mine. In any event, I should be back up to the normal pace very soon.

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Always good to hear you Glenn. Peace.

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Yes, Glenn, take care... we love you and we need you.

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I'm glad you are alright, I had thought you had decided to take a vacation as well, even if you are doing something you love, it will still burn you out if you continue to do the work of five journalists day and night, and that isn't good for anyone.

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I too had been worried and missing your voice if sanity.

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Just put up a "GON' FISHING. BE BACK SOON."

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Oh, I understand. It wasn’t an accusation or something. I personally don’t use T and somehow (wrongly) figured you were banned from it anyhow. It takes very little time/energy to post a tweet vs what you do here. Not comparable. It was a funny coincidence though that you popped up right after I looked for signs of life. I understand Zelensky named you as a “Russian disinformer”, which is both funny/not funny. Not sure if that’s a signal to Azov or just to the propaganda machine. System Pigs, as Lira would say. Hence my concern. Looking forward to what you are working on, when it may be ready. Be well!

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Zelensky had Greenwald, Gabbard and Rand Paul put on a disinformation 'blacklist'. If anyone involved in this conflict has to go, it's him. He's the one who demanded joining NATO and who continues to push for war, something the Swamp Rats are all too happy to reply to by sending a gravy train of money and weapons. It makes me wonder if he has some kind of financial connection to the Bidens...

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Oh, I totally agree. I am certain he is in bed with the govt/cartel, of which Brandon is “The Big Guy”. (The Big Guy doesn’t mean “The Godfather”, that’s too far a leap for Brandon though. More like Scranton Joe is a bag man who carried big bags, but using his som and brother’s hands, to keep his off radar). Wasn’t Z groomed to be Ukrainian President while VP Brandon was point person to Ukraine? I am fuzzy on specific dates concerning Z’s rise in the Ukraine, but the CIA intervention that was the Maidan coup originated then, for sure. When Zelensky got picked to play President on tv, then a political party was created just for him, then selected him to play candidate for that party, then won, was playing out during Brandon’s time. I saw the Oliver Stone doc and read more but all the threads in the tangled web of corruption are just too many to keep track of now. Peter Schweizer’s books help in grasping the extent of corruption and Dan Bongino’s “Follow the money” is also good in respect to understanding the Ukraine-Obama era DC connection.

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I am not denying any of what you say there took place, in fact I'm with you in the opinion that the 'coup' was engineered,

But I think the Zelensky, that may have been gung ho to be America's puppet at the beginning might not be the same guy we are dealing with now.

Watching your countrymen die all around you changes a person who is not used to their actions having those consequences.

I could be completely wrong here, I'm not in the guy's head, but I also know that Noam Chomsky is pretty thorough in his sourcing. If he says that Zelensky has been trying to get a peace process started fror months and the U.S. has shut him down at every turn, I have a hard time dismissing it outright.

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In my lifetime, I can't remember a time when a country in an active war can have their first lady pop over to the US Congress to give a speech and then fly back (or maybe it was before) to do a photoshoot for Vogue magazine along with the country's president. How is she gettin out and in along with people like Ben Stiller? What kind of war is this? So bizarre!

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Something's up for sure, Stephen. As kinda a 'home experiment' I went on Fox News' Comments Section and said words to the effect of "hooray for Zelensky: all the countries sitting on the fence will be joining NATO this year" ---got over a thousand 'likes' in 12 hours. I came back and said words to the effect of "Zelensky is a tinhorn who reminds me of a general in a Charlie Chaplin movie" ---- the remark DISAPPEARED for 12 hours before reappearing at the very bottom of their comments section.

The company is in on this war. In a big way. And I use the word 'company' broadly.

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Yes, it's SO strange that countries want to join NATO now.

(Hint: Russia doesn't invade NATO members.)

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The problem with everything involving Ukraine joining NATO is that it pushes Russia into China's hands. With their respective resources, sanctions are next to useless against the two combined. What good are sanctions on Russian Oil when China will buy it all? What good are sanctions on Chinese products when Russia will buy them? By pushing the two together, they become stronger as a unit, or rather Xi's China does. Think of Hitler and Stalin, the British blockade on Hitler prior to his betrayal of Stalin had no effect, as Stalin sent Hitler food, coal, oil and iron.

Xi is laughing watching Russia bleed itself dry and push it's neighbors away from it, all as he laughs at the US for burning money, all but destroying it's reserve AMS systems and being complacent in the conflict. He is using Putin as a stooge to help drain the US. Putin undoubtedly knows this, but has no other alternative available to him as the 'no NATO' for Ukraine is not on the table.

It doesn't have to be that way, as Russia's modern identity was formed as a result of resistance to the Mongols (not something exactly rare). I imagine that plenty of Russians see Xi's China as another 'massive empire on the door that wishes to reduce Russia to a dependency,' yet the foreign policy of the US gives them little option but to follow in that track, as the only thing worse than having a despot for an ally is having no allies at all.

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Yes, if there was any remaining doubt about Zelensky's legitimacy, or lack thereof, it is now removed with his creation of a "blacklist" of those who dare to challenge his narrative, like Glenn.

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Chomsky has been saying for months now that the U.S./NATO flatly rejected Zelensky's proposals for peace negotiations with Putin.

In light of that, putting three foreign influencers on a media blacklist in a country that probably right now doesn't have a power grid in numerous places seems more like a sop to appease the masters than a principled political stance.

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Russia invaded his country 8 (eight) years ago.

I guess you wouldn't have risen to the occasion.

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The Euromaiden coup...and it's aftermath. Why Russia acted then I do not know, though in light of evidence of an emergency, I think it was beyond idiotic on multiple counts as Ukraine is known to have undergone severe repression genocide at Russia's hands and all it did was generate needless death for all parties involved and international bad press for Russia.

If Russia wanted to flex it's muscles, all it needed to do was wait until 2015, the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Armenian Massacre, and proceed to agitate against Turkey until it spat out Western Armenia. Nobody would have risen a finger to help Turkey as doing so would be political suicide (France and Britain were Turkish allies during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, but neither did anything due to public opinion). Conversely, Russia would have been seen as a liberator, especially if it's actions also freed Turkish Kurdistan. Instead though, unless I'm missing something, Russia played it's cards as badly as below average Joe has.

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We are in general agreement, I think, on the course of history, M. Sanford, but not conjecture:

"Nobody would have risen a finger to help Turkey..."

That is absurd. NATO existed, and Turkey was a member, in 2015 (As opposed to 1877!!).

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I'm not quite sure of the point you are making here. Please expand.

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Zelensky's hands are tied. He will not (and should not) surrender to Russian Fascism. He is the leader of the Ukrainians who do NOT want to be Russians. He rises to that occasion.

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The Pulitzer lost all meaning when it was awarded to the 'useful idiot' who said in the 1930s that there 'was no famine'. It has not to this day been revoked.

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That's good news. I suspect that more than a few of us were concerned about your absence.

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Taking this opportunity to say -- I hope your husband recovers well from his hospitalization and that you two will celebrate many more Dias dos Namorados together (while, in between, he may drag you into going to the occasional Pride festival). Hope you're both back at full strength soon.

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Just keep rockin' forward. Making good whiskey takes a while. (Kick their asses Glenn.)

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He just lost Sheeva, one of his favourite dogs.

That's hard.

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I missed that news. I am sorry for your loss, Glenn. Losing mine = great sorrow and I know its same for many.

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Ahh yeah, I remember loosing a pet cat who I had since my childhood shortly after he turned 21...the loss of any pet after a long period of time, 5+ years and one you form a bond with is a major loss.

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Yes, for sure. We keep cats, usually four of them. We just lost Isis, our big fat black cat at 13 last December. She was named after Gary Seven's cat in Star Trek, not the assholes. But tell that to NSA.

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It's nice to hear the case has been allowed to penetrate the legal system one baby step further. Please no one get too excited, though. "Discovery" isn't a victory ---it's the place things really go wrong in today's pretend-judicial system [while giving the appearance that things are otherwise]. Google's compliance will be slow or purposefully screwed up. Extension after extension will be granted as Google complains every request is too burdensome, unclear or voluminous. And, worst of all, I promise you, with 100% confidence, that Google will not be sanctioned for dragging their feet.

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"...one baby step further"

One. Then another. Then...

Do you know what a rock-hammer is, M. Guarino?

But you are right. Google will not be sanctioned. But eventually we will force the Feds to stop protecting it, and then the free marketplace will rightfully decide.

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Marketplaces never 'rightly' decide unless you define 'might as right' as 'rightly'.

Let's assume for the sake of argument everything goes right that we want to go right in the Google case.

Files get opened, light is shone on the darkness, evil machinations on behalf of the corporate behemoth is exposed. Headlines are made. Companies are fined and broken up. People are chastised, apologies are made, people even go to jail. Someone writes a book, someone makes a movie about the book, it wins awards. All the things you want to happen, happen.

Want to know what would have preceded all of that?

The people behind the curtains would have quietly pulled their support from Google, parked their money offshore for a few months until they found the next big thing they could use to perpetuate the oligarchy and then ploughed their cash and influence into that.

Because marketplaces rightly decide what is best for us.

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"Marketplaces never 'rightly' decide unless you define 'might as right' as 'rightly'."

Gobblygook.

Marketplaces are EXACTLY the opposite of "might as right." In the free market, the free individual reigns, and force is not allowed.

M. Stephen, imo you don't understand what true Capitalism is. It is the opposite of ANY human being being able to use force.

Edit: And must I add that we have very little Capitalism today. The State (including the State-captured part of the "private" sector) has grown too large, and is naturally destroying freedom.

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Oh I'll give you that point, what we have today is not true capitalism. Given all of the bailouts for thye financial sector I would say for them it is far closer to socialism. But for the rest of us poor sods, capitalist austerity it is.

You keep throwing this on the state but the state was bought and paid for long ago by the 'social oligarchs'. If a politician doesn't stick with the program, he is not a politician for long.

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Yes, the "social oligarchs" (and that is a perfectly accurate term) are, in fact, part of the State, since both are acting in collusion, as one entity in essence. It remains the underlying, most important truth to recognize that these "social oligarchs" could not be oligarchs at all if, IF, we drastically reduce the size and scope of the Federal leviathan, which provides the *force* behing any individual's ability to become so powerful.

The Democrats act to *increase* the size and power of the public sector. Most Republican politicians, and NO lay Republican voter, would do so.

Who are you going to vote for, in order to avoid the coming bloodshed?

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Yes, the "social oligarchs" (and that is a perfectly accurate term) are, in fact, part of the State, since both are acting in collusion, as one entity in essence."

There is only one steering wheel in any one vehicle and ther state is not the one with their hands on it, however much you want to blame the Democrats and big government for all of our evils.

It is your oligarchs who are busily beavering away and reducing the state of all of it's regulatory powers ('EPA on line 1 Mr. Koch') so they can exploit the enviroment and the masses even more than they already are.

First off, again, left and right do not enter into this for me. If forced to choose I would either vote third party or not vote at all, because the entire political machine across the board is in the hands of a powerful few whose only loyalty is to their spread sheets.

Secondly, unless you people colonized Canada when I was asleep, I do not believe I get to vote, though given the extent to which a person's vote actually matters in terms of how your country (and mine) is run by *any* politician of *any* party what good would it do anyway?

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Love GG .. What an amazing human! I found him through Tucker Carlson and will follow him as long as he writes .. Thank you Mr. Greenwald for being a voice in the dark ❤️

Mom to 2 girls born in China

and 2 Fur Babies

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