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Quote often attributed to Jefferson but actually by Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu from his 'Spirit of the Laws' 1748. A wise insight. Thomas Jefferson transcribed it into his Commonplace Book during his early legal studies (circa 1760s–1770s).

@WeTheBrandon @GenFlynn Seems to me that Dan B is an information guy. His appointment to FBI was to manage narrative. When it didn't really work out all that well they put him back on his podcast which has more reach. He is always managing narrative to keep MAGA aligned with the Establishment goals.

So now Devious Dan is claiming that American hero @GenFlynn is "running counter-programming against President Trump." Flynn is a man who essentially committed career suicide (and destroyed his finances and risked jail time) to stand firm with Trump through the darkest days of persecution. He is now being accused by Devious Dan, a man who has sacrificed NOTHING for MAGA, of being disloyal to POTUS. Devious Dan is a sick, sick, sick man. Just look at his pallor and the way his eyes dart around the place all the time. He's shifty. He's Devious Dan. And he's now running a cheap variant of Russiagate on the OG Trump guys as part of his attempt to Karate Chop Blackpillers. But Dan is so painfully stupid that he doesn't understand what he's doing...is demoralizing MAGA by going after such an icon like Gen. Flynn who has DONE NOTHING but support Trump. If Devious Dan is looking for someone running "counter programming" against Trump, look to me, buddy. Because I think Trump is a giant retard, judging from how badly he's crapped the bed in this war, and I won't stop messaging that until Trump desists from his retardation (which might be terminal at this point). Thanks.

@Jvnior Pax Judeica

🚨 LIVE NOW IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Palestinian: "I have documents this is my house." Ben Gvir: "I don’t care. Leave in 2 hours or die."

@AndrewBrindle2 Heaven - we view from below Earth - we view from above Man - the green in between!

forgiveness in the stillness of dawn spring rain #haiku

"We’re all apertures through which the universe is looking at itself." BINGO!!!

@DA_Stockman I hope you are right. Whether by accident or design, Trump's major contribution thus far has been helping Americans understand just how corrupt their nation has become - it is barely a republic at all any more. If he can break the Empire, that would make him the best Pres ever!

No, he doesn't know it but the gods of history have anointed him to discredit and dismantle the Empire, close the bases, scrap NATO and each and every unnecessary alliance, bring the troops home and thereby usher in MASA (Make America Solvent Again). He's way ahead of schedule, but just hasn't been told yet.

@IslanderWORLD Jeffrey Sachs is sincere but obviously knows little about power at the level of the elites. Nor I, but at least I know enough not to presume as he does either that everything Trump says he means or that any US President is actually in charge. Sachs should relax!

God Save The World From WWIII Trump is Mentaly ILL Man Jeffrey Sachs: Trump confabulates, meaning that he lives in a delusional world. I believe he is a mentally ill man. A lot of psychologists believe suffering from the frontotemporal dementia combined with the underlying, pathology of, malignant narcissism, meaning the guy's a megalomaniac, the guy is a narcissist, the guy is a psychopath, and that's been true his whole life.

@ArmstrongEcon I think there is a Joker in the mix but that card has yet to be played.

So, we must face reality. The ONLY way this war would be over soon is the total destruction of Iran and the end of the Islamic Republic. There is no possibility of long-term peace without regime change. Trump may be looking for an off-ramp, but he has been played.

@IhabHassane I begrudgingly admire how so many Jews forthrightly express how they feel, what they think. Here he clearly shows that his understanding of the word 'innocent' has an entirely different meaning when seen through the lens of hyper-partisan tribal loyalty.

Israeli MK Yitzik Kroizer on the killing of a Palestinian family by the Israeli army in Jenin: "There are no innocent civilians in Jenin, there are no innocent children in Jenin. I support the IDF soldiers in every situation, even if the incidental cost is children or women."

@mtracey The God in the Old Testament is a tribal jealous god who grants victory and success to those who sacrifice to him. The God in the New Testament is of an entirely different nature, more philosophical, impersonal, not tribal but universal, aka 'catholic'. Pete worships the old god.

Pete Hegseth, at today's Christian Prayer & Worship Service at the Pentagon, prays for Almighty God to "pour out your wrath" and "break the teeth of the ungodly." He begs the Almighty to sanction "overwhelming violence" against "those who deserve no mercy"

@KavitaMirth @solari_the Thanks for heads up. I follow the real account and didn't notice this was different.

@AshleySCHowes ~ you're talking with a scammer Impersonator account, not Catherine Austin Fitts. The ONLY account for Catherine Austin Fitts is: @solari_the Please report this scammer account as an Impersonator.

@DanielLDavis1 You are a military man and are reflexively underestimating the narrative and/or negotiating value of such operations, both for public relations / domestic consumption and for providing leverage and/or things which can be taken off the table later.

This statement strongly implies that members of Congress were informed by the administration today that ground operations are all but declared on Iranian territory. Let me categorically state: there is nothing of strategic significance such a tiny force of a few thousand marines and airborne troops could accomplish. It will not open the Straits. It will not compel the Iranian gov to collapse or surrender. Sending these men into combat on a militarily unattainable mission is reprehensible. If the president orders this operation, all the casualties that result will be an egregious and flagrant sacrifice of their lives to satisfy one man’s pride and arrogance, but in no way, shape or form, will they have died defending their country. If I were a family member of any of these troops and my loved one was sent to death for the vanity of one man, I would be outraged. As it turns out, I am outraged anyway, and all Americans should be if the lives of our service members are held in such content by our political leadership.

@Rothbard1776 This has been revealed about Nixon already but mainstream narrative shaping has successfully repressed this getting out too much. Same as with how Pearl Harbour was NOT a surprise attack all. Also proven, but not widely known.

Makes you wonder if Nixon (one of the most popular Presidents in history) was framed so they could get him out of office. Might’ve been too obvious if he was taken out just 10 years after Kennedy.

@WeTheBrandon Or: the current Iranian regime is partly a product of various elite factions in the West whose dominance is now under threat - by some of the factions Trump is involved with. youtube.com/watch?v=rfZ7mC…

In the last week, the president has claimed he spoke to a former US president who encouraged him to keep going with this most unpopular/stupid war--all the living former presidents deny ever having spoken w/ Trump about this--the president has announced an end to the war, when in fact, we were escalating, and the president has asserted he had secret negotiations with the Iranian leadership about ending the war, only to have the Iranians deny this ever occurred and to insist that they were continuing this most stupid/unpopular war. In essence, the president does not seem well.

@annvandersteel Sorry, but I think the hot mess has already started and WW3 is now underway. The toothpaste of escalatory chaos is out of the tube! Next shoe to drop? Global financial markets. Then civil unrest. Then crack-downs.

The same demographic of people who run the city of London banking cabal, the government of Israel and the government of Ukraine are trying to foment WW3 into a full on global hot mess. This is their depopulation agenda through pandemics, famine and war. PANFAWAR as coined by @Michael_Yon

@JoshHall2024 Doesn't matter any more. Clock has run out. Too late to do anything substantive before mid-terms; if they try any such thing, they will lose and all get impeached. It's over. They had 18 months and ran the clock out - as intended. This includes the President of course.

🚨BREAKING:🚨 President Trump has reportedly grown FED UP with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her lack of prosecutions of members of The Deep State and is said to be ON THE VERGE OF REPLACING HER. Rumored potential replacements topping the list include Sidney Powell, who EXPOSED THE MASSIVE FRAUD IN THE STOLEN 2020 ELECTION. Do YOU support FIRING Pam Blondie and nominating American hero Sidney Powell to be the next Attorney General of The United States?📢🔥🇺🇸

@BigBrainPhiloso Good argument. You can also do the thought experiment of locating the I: is it the whole body? If yes, what if my hand gets chopped off, or more? If no, then which exact part? In no case can you find a precise location. With time: does a moment have duration or not?

Where is the triangle? Alex O'Connor thinks consciousness is the one thing materialism can't explain away and he has a deceptively simple argument for it. Close your eyes. Picture a triangle. You can see it. The shape, the angles, maybe even the colour. It's right there, vivid and undeniable. Now ask yourself: where is that triangle? According to Alex, this single question cuts to the heart of one of philosophy's oldest problems. A strict materialist, someone who believes everything in the universe reduces to physical matter has to say that triangle exists somewhere in the neurons of your brain. But if a neurosurgeon cracked open your skull right now, they wouldn't find a triangle anywhere inside. "If everything you experience is reducible to the material when I close my eyes and see a triangle, there really is a triangle there. I can see it. It's there. And I think well, where is that triangle? The materialist has to say it's reducible to just somewhere in your brain. But if I cut open your brain I'm not going to find a triangle inside of it." He anticipates the obvious pushback. When he raised this on YouTube, commenters pointed to computers as a counter-example: if you cut open a computer, you won't find the triangle it's displaying on screen either. But the hardware is still producing a real image on a real screen. Alex's response is that this analogy doesn't hold because the mind has no screen. There is no separate interface between the brain's processing and the experience of seeing. The brain is the computer and the screen. Which only deepens the mystery: somehow, purely physical processes are generating a first-person, subjective experience: colours, shapes and images that can't be located anywhere in physical space. "It's as if the computer itself somehow had a triangle in the computer's own first-person subjective experience. Like where is that triangle that you can picture in your head? Where the hell is it?" For Alex, consciousness isn't just another interesting puzzle in the philosophy of mind. It's the big objection to materialism. The thing that, once you sit with it, seems to demand that there is something more going on than matter arranged in clever ways. He points to something as ordinary as dreaming as a case in point. Every night you produce vivid images full scenes, faces, colours without any external input. An entire visual world conjured from nowhere. Where does it come from? Where does it go? "Even just when you have an average dream, it's fascinating to think what's going on there. You've got images in your head, you can close your eyes and you can picture things, you can see colours, you can see shapes in your head. Like where are those shapes?" The triangle thought experiment has a way of making this undeniable. It's not abstract. You can do it right now. And when you do, you run headfirst into the hard problem of consciousness: the gap between the physical description of the brain and the felt quality of experience that no amount of neuroscience has yet bridged. Whether you find Alex's argument convincing or not, the question it raises is genuine: how does purely physical matter give rise to the inner world we each inhabit a world of colours, shapes, memories, and dreams that exists nowhere except in the first person?

@provemewrong411 There are powerful oligarchs in the Ukraine-Russian mix, most of whom are regularly consulting with leadership on both sides (if not outright controlling them). Wars make money for such oligarchs and everyone else with related defence industry contracts.

I’m not sure why Putin allows this to continue. He has a golden opportunity to level everything in that God-forsaken land while everyone is distracted in Iran, yet he still permits zelensky to create chaos. What kind of strategy is this? How many more ports, factories, and other critical infrastructure sites will be damaged because of Putin’s inability to handle the situation properly?

I keep reading stories about all these terrible things done to children. I am ready to believe them to be true. But I have yet to read any myself, just posts by people outraged. I used Webb to give me examples and Webb provided none. Frankly, am baffled. Why aren't these things being clearly published already - with clear links?

I've never witnessed anything quite like these Epstein files in all my years tracking the machinations of the invisible money empire. Raped. Cannibalized. Trafficked. Filmed. Terrorized. Tortured. Murdered. Children, 13, 14, 15 years old. And zero arrests. Not one. How is it that we're not seeing a global revolution right now? The central bankers and their black budget overlords must be laughing all the way to their off-ledger accounts

@disclosetv Sic transit gloria!

NOW - Dame Sarah Mullally is officially "enthroned" as the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, becoming the first woman to take the role in 1,400 years.

@0xcoked Intelligent, well-informed take about ongoing missile tactics.

No, the real reason the IRGC does this is because Israel is attempting to constantly move around its few-remaining L-band radars (Arrow-3 native radar) since all the over-the-horizon X-band radars have already been vaporized by Iranian missiles. Attacking Dimona guarantees those radars will attempt to light-up the missile attack, and thus give away their positions, as Dimona is classified as a MUST-DEFEND site. Ontop of this, they are attempting to ration missile interceptor stocks. To remedy this, Iran began doing the following: 1) Spam attacking Dimona as it is a priority-1 must-defend site that guarantees interceptor launches to defend it (as having the wrong areas damaged would cause catastrophic damage to Israel) 2) Precision attacking bomb-shelters with bunker-busters, such as the Arad attack 36 hours ago, in Israel proper, no matter the area. Both of these are causing Israel to spit out its last remaining missile interceptors, which is why we've seen single-launch missiles from Iran do catastrophic damage in the past 24 hours. This would only happen if Israel was fully out of interceptors, quasiment. This is also how we know Iran has nuclear missiles and nuke warheads ready for action, because this is the situation in which Israel would nuke a non-nuclear nation -- as this is literally beginning to approach critical damage to the Israeli state territory. But they cannot take that gamble, as Iran has nukes, and Iran has strategic depth that Israel lacks. Iran can survive 100 nukes to the head. Israel cannot survive even 1. The end is nigh.