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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (1943)(platoscave.org)
94 points by celtoid 3y ago|69 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
As a longtime Mullvad customer, I'll use this. Using any VPN company and its services in this age of surveillance capitalism is always a sketchy affair. Mullvad is the least sketchy of the non-DIY options that I can find.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Ellsberg was one of the greatest Americans of my lifetime. He was a true believer working in the belly of the national security state and had the courage to both admit that he was wrong and to make his proof public. "We weren't o
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What Is Cede and What Role Does Cede Play in the Trading of Stocks?(smithonstocks.com)
1 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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Anders Breivik Plagiarized Ted Kaczynski(nymag.com)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
Kaczynski is a warning to all intellectuals with an an activist streak. If harming and killing innocents is your solution, you're already off the path. In this regard, he was no different from many of the people and institutions he cri
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by celtoid 3y ago
I've not found the models in the Western tradition to be helpful, few and paltry as they are.
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by celtoid 3y ago
> you can't point to any _one part_ of our being or experience and say that that's the irreducible self. This is why I find Buddhist reasoning superior to "Western" reasoning when the concept of the Self is the topic.
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by celtoid 3y ago
I was living in Charlottesville at the time and I remember this. Charlottesville had just made national news because of a huge drug bust at UVa (Operation Equinox). Monticello was covering its bases.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Great book as referenced in link. "Opium For The Masses" by Jim Hogshire, 1994 [0] [0] https://ia800802.us.archive.org/9/items/armchaircommando/Opi...
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“Spin” by Brian Springer, 1995 – a documentary about media-constructed reality(youtube.com)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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The Last Card? Wernher von Braun on “Aliens”(texasoutlawwriters.com)
1 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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Metallic flying orbs seen around the world, baffling NASA and The Pentagon(globalnews.ca)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
Yard signs are now evidence of financial crimes? 5-0 is really reaching.
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by celtoid 3y ago
A simple fact of history being controversial is a function of bias. The worship of Moloch and its attendant ritual of child sacrifice is attested to in many scriptures.
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Exotic spacecraft, ET materials–and a cover-up:UFO whistleblower’s claim(independent.co.uk)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|1 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
Child sacrifice was part of Semitic culture. The story of Issac and Jacob (Ishmael and Jacob in the Arab scriptures) teaching against the practice of child sacrifice is pretty good evidence that it was an old practice and that Hebrew and Ar
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by celtoid 3y ago
No, you're not insane. That's a more rational explanation than ET is.
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by celtoid 3y ago
This feels like some high level gaslighting. Grusch is either telling the truth as he knows it (and he could be being deceived by higher ups) or he's being deceitful in the way that "former" intelligence have been known to be
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by celtoid 3y ago
Agreed. "A fundamental vulnerability in the Network Processing Unit (NPU) chipset has been uncovered recently, which can be exploited by attackers to eavesdrop on data transmitted over a wireless network, affecting over 89% of real-wor
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by celtoid 3y ago
Needs more pop ups but well done.
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Musk’s Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people(apnews.com)
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by celtoid 3y ago
"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation w
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by celtoid 3y ago
I'm speaking more of these types of photo ops: "Secretary Blinken stands with former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker at Stanford Memorial Church on Thursday." [0] Hillary Clinton also s
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by celtoid 3y ago
Like the old joke goes- Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington? A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Kissinger's friendship with Putin must be a thorn in the side of his many defenders in DC. "Putin and Kissinger, indeed, met regularly – at least fifteen times. Once Putin was even invited for dinner at Kissinger’s home in New Yor
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by celtoid 3y ago
Not just Cambodia. What Kissinger and Nixon did in Chile in 1973 was a crime that brought untold suffering to the people of Chile. "...[What are we to make of] President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger who, having been emboldene
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Spotify, Apple Face Criticism for Removing Mohammed Assaf’s Palestinian Hit(egyptianstreets.com)
5 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
IIRC, Marcus Raskin also coined the term "national security state".
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by celtoid 3y ago
I've posted this link before and I really wish more people were familiar with it. "Democracy Versus The National Security State" (1976) by the late Marcus Raskin is only 32 pages long but it's an excellent overview of th

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