i've a confession to make some of theconfession is already out there having dripped through what I've said on here over the weeks and months just passed but it should be more Frank for most of
my life I was unaware and therefore silent about so much that's wrong events unfolded and I was too busy in my ownlittle world I missed what was happening for much too long
but not knowing is Not Enough Ignorance is no defense just the other day someone mentioned theWest Wing the US drama series about thefictionalized goings-on in the WhiteHouse I watched episodes of that showmore than once over the years we havethe box set now I can't look at it at
all and I doubt if I will ever look atit again sounds like a silly detail in the scheme of things but the West Wing is one of many trivialities I can no longer bear because each is a reminderof a bigger problem The West Wingbelongs to that time when I took it for granted just as a for instance that aDemocrat White House meant the good guys but that was then and this is now it'snot just the West Wing of course there are whole piles of movies and TV shows Ican't look at now because the Sight andSound of them makes me cringe with the memory of my naivety and my downright
dumbness during the years when I enjoyed them admitting naivety and dumbness is adamned hard bullet to chewso much of what's wrong in the world is moving faster and faster but all those neoliberal Stooges and their tiny tinysuits with their good hair and 100 Grandwrist watches the ones that all went to the same sort of schools and belong to the same sort of private clubs that were mentored by the same elderly Ghouls and so have the same connections to the same
transnational entities and corporations all those identical placemen and women pretending to care about equality and diversity while focused only and always on playing their parts and securing yet more wealth and power for others likethemselves all of them are Running
Scared Now and for good reason the internet helped them enormously indeed the grab for power and mountains of cash during the past three years would not have been possible without it but internet is a double-edged sword and double-edged swords are sharp on bothsides never before have so many of us had access to so much information about all that's going on those neoliberals those Neo feudalists like to Brand everything that doesn't help their cause as misinformation but they would say that wouldn't they modern more of us have rumbled them though those prototyrants and many dictators and they know it and it's already too late for
them to put the genie back in the lamp and so all they can do is take more and more Liberties pass more and morelegislation to let them build the wallsthey hope will protect them protect them
from us it's like a Supermarket Sweep as theyhurtle up and down the aisles desperately piling anything and everything into the trolleys before the time Runs Out
Right ON.
https://thomasabraunrph.substack.com/p/criminality-for-50-years
They'll never run out of "threats" to attack us with.
It won't matter if they have no POWER. That's what we need to figure out.
Me, I think it's high time that centralized govt's are tossed into the bin, For Good.
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i've a confession to make some of theconfession is already out there having dripped through what I've said on here over the weeks and months just passed but it should be more Frank for most of
my life I was unaware and therefore silent about so much that's wrong events unfolded and I was too busy in my ownlittle world I missed what was happening for much too long
but not knowing is Not Enough Ignorance is no defense just the other day someone mentioned theWest Wing the US drama series about thefictionalized goings-on in the WhiteHouse I watched episodes of that showmore than once over the years we havethe box set now I can't look at it at
all and I doubt if I will ever look atit again sounds like a silly detail in the scheme of things but the West Wing is one of many trivialities I can no longer bear because each is a reminderof a bigger problem The West Wingbelongs to that time when I took it for granted just as a for instance that aDemocrat White House meant the good guys but that was then and this is now it'snot just the West Wing of course there are whole piles of movies and TV shows Ican't look at now because the Sight andSound of them makes me cringe with the memory of my naivety and my downright
dumbness during the years when I enjoyed them admitting naivety and dumbness is adamned hard bullet to chewso much of what's wrong in the world is moving faster and faster but all those neoliberal Stooges and their tiny tinysuits with their good hair and 100 Grandwrist watches the ones that all went to the same sort of schools and belong to the same sort of private clubs that were mentored by the same elderly Ghouls and so have the same connections to the same
transnational entities and corporations all those identical placemen and women pretending to care about equality and diversity while focused only and always on playing their parts and securing yet more wealth and power for others likethemselves all of them are Running
Scared Now and for good reason the internet helped them enormously indeed the grab for power and mountains of cash during the past three years would not have been possible without it but internet is a double-edged sword and double-edged swords are sharp on bothsides never before have so many of us had access to so much information about all that's going on those neoliberals those Neo feudalists like to Brand everything that doesn't help their cause as misinformation but they would say that wouldn't they modern more of us have rumbled them though those prototyrants and many dictators and they know it and it's already too late for
them to put the genie back in the lamp and so all they can do is take more and more Liberties pass more and morelegislation to let them build the wallsthey hope will protect them protect them
from us it's like a Supermarket Sweep as theyhurtle up and down the aisles desperately piling anything and everything into the trolleys before the time Runs Out
and so Emmanuel macron slips his luxury
watch off of his wrist and into his
trouser pocket on live TV
while he
thinks no one's looking and after making
it illegal to film and share footage of
the French police in action as they beat
French people with batons and spray tear
gas into their faces
the mainstream
media there here and elsewhere pushes
the line that the French peasants are
revolting in the face of changes to the
pensionable age what aren't nonsense
this latest unrest in France this
revolution is hard about pensions
have
you seen the age of the protesters 20
somethings he surely care not a jot
about what pensions they may or may not
receive in four decades time
this is the continuing War by the yellow
vests
those regular people sick and
tired of everything macron stands for
who see through his hollow can't about
egality and diversity all the way to the
heart of what's really going on which is
to say A desperate last dash for the
power to crush in silence dissent
no wonder
he had to cancel the visit by
King Charles to lose one king or for his
head is unfortunate to lose two would be
downright careless
here in the UK we're
careering through the cost of lockdown
crisis led by prime minister Rishi sunak
a man richer than that King a veritable
poster boy for the Hedge Fund Class with
all his ties to big money and bigger
business
a man who cheers on digital
currency a man whose father-in-law owns
Infosys a company behind all the tech
necessary for Central Bank digital
currencies digital IDs and a social
credit system
in the U.S where former president Donald
Trump has been indicted President Joe
Biden's Administration desperately goads
a hundred million Americans going to any
length that would seem to provoke some
other insurrection
that will justify further Draconian
crackdowns on opposition
when the might of the U.S state is
focusing so much effort on coming up
with a reason to arrest a focal point of
that opposition a person really does
have to wonder about the state of
democracy and Justice in the so-called
Land of the Free
former speaker Nancy Pelosi said on
social media last week that Donald Trump
was entitled to a trial and I quote to
prove innocence
correct me if I'm wrong
but the last time I looked a person
living in a democracy was presumed
innocent until proven guilty I believe a
faux pas like pelosis is described as
saying the quiet part out loud
maybe if
she should extend the same entitlement
to Joe Biden and his family and have
them proved their innocent of dodgy
dealings in Ukraine and China and
elsewhere what source for the goose
after all
and if there's a walking metaphor for
the moral and cognitive decline of the
west then surely it's Joe Biden
Shuffling from Podium to Podium plainly
wondering where he is and why
as if we needed more proof the powers
that be have lost their way that they
are without any moral compass whatever
contd =Transcript= there it is
in the evident dementia of
the 46th president of the United States
of America
U.S vice president Kamala Harris has
been in Africa on what they call a charm
offensive alarmed by the growing
influence on that continent of other
powers she's there to talk to Africans
about the importance of democracy
since she represents a U.S that has
toppled multiple governments in Africa
over the years this takes some judspa or
perhaps just unmitigated temerity and
unparalleled goal
in Canada the
strutting popinjay that is just in
Trudeau awarded himself emergency powers
to crush the truckers protest remember
the truckers protest including freezing
and seizing the bank accounts of the
truckers and those supporting their
efforts but the truckers are still there
just as
the farmers and the tractors are
still in the roads in the Netherlands
and those yellow vests are still out and
about in France and the people of Israel
those same people explicitly used as the
laboratory of the world during the
pandemic are out on the streets of Tel
Aviv and elsewhere
I said the internet was a double-edged
sword and lamented more and more people
are talking about and worried about AI
artificial intelligence
and rightly so
no doubt chat GPT and the rest of
whatever Tech is coming down the line
will put even more people out of a job
many predict an existential threat for
the species and maybe the right
sometimes though I think AI is just the
same old same old made unimaginably fast
and voracious drawing upon everything
our species has learned so far and
repurposing it reflecting back at us in
a fraction of a femtosecond the
distillation of what it took our
ancestors Millennia to learn
and then
sometimes I wonder if fast is
all it is I was beaten out of arithmetic
by the first calculator I encountered 50
years ago computers are faster than made
everything under the sun and I'm still
here like the rest of us AI is living
inside the body of a whale there's
plenty for it to eat for now but only
because there was a whale
at the same time good old Homo sapiens
mark one is stubbornly continuing to
evolve the better to adapt to its niche
don't stop yourself celebrating stubborn
and resourceful Homo sapiens wherever
you find him or her here in the UK in
the United States in France in the
Netherlands in Germany in Africa in the
Middle East everywhere
between 1811 and 1816 skilled Tradesman
Rose in Rebellion here in the UK to
protest the loss of their livelihoods to
machines Weavers took to Smashing loons
that put them out of a job those Rebels
are remembered as ludites in 1812 the
Tory prime minister Spencer Percival
made frame breaking a crime punishable
by Death
Lord Byron spoke against the move it was
his Maiden speech in the Lords and he
used it to lament how a once loyal and
industrious body of the people had
become miserable men driven by nothing
but won't
you made a You may call the people a mob
he said but do not forget that a mob
often speaks the sentiments of the
people
neoliberal Studios with the right
connections pretending to care about the
people but only focused on securing more
wealth and power for others like
themselves
there is nothing in the face
of those who have right on their side I
was blind to what was going on for most
of my life I admit as much freely now
but it seems to me it matters to say so
if the world around you just feels wrong
at the moment if it makes you
uncomfortable in your skin it's not
because you're going mad but because you
know the difference between right and
wrong
and so much is so wrong
it's
absolutely not the job of governments
and leaders to make so many people so
unhappy so frightened of the future
it's
utterly wrong that meaningful influences
in the process are being seeded to
transnational bodies comprised of
unelected unaccountable placemen and
women the World Health Organization the
world economic Forum
it's time to assess
whether they're fit for purpose
NATO the
United Nations and the rest any and all
groups can and do go wrong and when they
do it's the responsibility of everyone
to say so and to do something about it
the internet is a double-edged sword and
cuts both ways the rich and Powerful
plainly do not understand the new tech
of social media failed to see it would
Empower not just them but all of us as
well
American comedian George carlin looked
at those in power in his own country and
said it's a big club and you ain't in it
it might be a big Club in terms of power
and money but its members are few in
number we are many and we are right
while they are wrong and in the wrong we
know it and deep down they know it too