TPTB are pretty good at suppressing dissent because they control the media megaphone. Those who can think, see through the propaganda. Sadly most Americans are ill informed.

The streaming platform, Rumble, has been seeing a good deal of growth because of YT censorship. That's a good sign.

It is the last warm day for awhile. Yesterday was 80F. Rain and cooler weather on the way...maybe even a freeze next week.

Hope you all have a nice day. Thanks for the OT.

Propaganda having a heyday, pushed by MSM and social media; please add to your list today's iteration of the Birch Society, led by the Koch enterprise especially in this country, although the movement is worldwide.

Fox example, for decades the Koch's have created think tanks, advocacy groups and purchased university chairs--growing their BS subtly in plain sight

The Kock's created the Tea party in 2004 and fueled it around 2008 and swept state houses in elections by heavily bankrolling legislative candidates 1n 2010. Witnessed this first hand in the mountains of NC as i was an advocate and elected democratic official in our county and political journalist. District races that were up until 2010 run on average campaign coffers of $3,000, republicans and democrats alike had a sudden, unexpected turn of events.

Undercover, the Koch enterprise funded the 'citizen' republican candidates and quietly waited until the last two weeks before election day to spend $100,000 plus in hundreds of district campaigns resulting in republicans sweeping to majorities for the first time in decades across the country giving the far right the platform upon which they rule today.

More insidious and dangerous, imo, are their 'intellectual' White Paper 'deciminators' whose supposed authority on subjects-wide issues feed their right-wing press with mistruths, sometimes veiled, other times blatantly lending credence to conspiracies.

Often working together, these false intellectuals, experts, begin to boil up their propaganda in Europe in small presses, picked up eventually by Social Media and eventually Sinclair, Fox and so on.

Pure evil manipulation, a propaganda machine sophisticated digitally working together globally in broad daylight and i suspect with the secret services of a few countries, Obolensky and Manafort come to mind--Ukraine and USA.

In NC, Art Pope, dime-store king, and a former Board member of Americans for Prosperity, rules the legislator and after 2010 moved on our university system, donating money and by so doing purchased UNC chairs and greatly influences the Board of Governors of the consolidated UNC system having had his legislators push out moderate and liberal voices on the board. A shame upon shame what they have done to the system in a few years, tearing down centuries of work along the way. Same in elementary and primary schools.

Could go on and on here, but much to do today

Cheers for your continued work here and fair winds to you.

cataract edit

or two on polls, rona and the people being tired of it and moving on.

70%(roughly) of USstan population got jabbed, a Sizable proportion of those;
Vilified the unjabbed(neighbors, friends And family) as typhoid marys, the Unclean, carriers of diseases(like rats?)

Tried to get the unjabbed segragated, purged from society(Chomsky), cut off from from hospitals(late night), schools, grocery stores(no soup for YOU!) churches, etc. . .

Maybe what the polls indicate in Reality is that, perhaps, there Might be a tad bit of Guilt hanging subconsciously?
Maybe some Embarrassment for actions taken?
Maybe some Denial?
Maybe even some Remorse at having Been jabbed(adverse events, depending on age cohort, 1 in 600-900 for Survivors! dead folk tell no tales).
So of Course I’d expect folks would like to move on, put it behind them, look forward not back. And tell pollsters rona is like So yesterday.

Here’s the thing; the Jabbed won’t be Able to.
Not when your nephew drops dead on a playing field.
Not when your wife wakes up Dead Suddenly next to you.
When your neighbor that you smugly congratulated each other for taking said jab gets diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and is told they have 3-6 months to live.
Happening All Around us Now, in real time.

Excess mortality in the most jabbed countries In The WORLD is climbing(Ed Dowd)
nobody knows why, nobody seems to care, nobody has Any curiosity.

BUT! They Know it’s Not the JAB(safe AND effective)

Booster uptake DOWN
Excess mortality Still climbing

There is writing on that wall and I Just Can’t decypher it.
Yet.

I’ll loan you my glasses

Voices of dissent...we sure do need them because the status quo is so dysfunctional.

'Nother bunch of voices of dissent:
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/cna-condemns-state-decision-t...

California Nurses Association (CNA) condemned today’s announcement by California Department of Public Health (CDPH) that mask and vaccine requirements would be lifted April 3 in the state’s health care settings, just eight days after California reached the grim toll of 100,000 Covid-19 deaths.

“In no uncertain terms, this is a failure of public health leadership,” said Bonnie Castillo, RN and executive director of California Nurses Association. “Abandoning these standards is a counterproductive and unscientific approach to curbing the spread and evolution of Covid-19. This decision endangers the health and safety of nurses and other health care workers, hurts their ability to access personal protective equipment from employers, and ultimately exacerbates the health care staffing crisis that political leaders have vowed to tackle.”

Once again it is the working people who pay the price for bad policy and the recklessness of the policy-makers. Obviously those in charge do not care about the people who actually do the work of this society. This is the same story we have just seen play out with the railroad workers. The ones who do the actual work were saying "wait, this situation is dangerous" but the ones in charge just said "so what, we don't care". What exactly does that mean when employers ensure that the work environment is dangerous to worker's health and even their lives? (Rhetorical question)

“This is an attack on frontline health care workers, who will now face greater risk of Covid-19 infections, reinfections, and long Covid,” said Cathy Kennedy, RN and president of California Nurses Association. “The more Covid infections someone has had, the more likely they are to develop long Covid. It’s surreal that political leaders would put nurses, patients, and community members at greater risk of developing chronic conditions like heart disease, stroke risk, diabetes, pulmonary embolism, cognitive impairment, and long-term immune dysfunction.”

Thanks for the OT, love the beaded mask.

Monday. Lots of bathroom use.
Yesterday, the commode clogged.
Now, I was unsuccessful in in the unclogging process.
So, I asked my Husband Extraordinaire to come and solve the problem. He was hesitant, said he did not recall the task being contained in the Wedding Vows. I reminded him it was on Page 11, near the bottom of the page.
Now, I have to make a plan to get into the courthouse safely in the morning. My client is a wife who filed for a divorce, husband is making some noise about he would kill himself, that they would never be apart. Good grief.

Heads of CIA, FBI, National Intelligence testify on global threats to U.S. security

China's government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate hearing, saying the Chinese-owned video app 'screams' of security concerns https://t.co/035LziYMuP pic.twitter.com/CVNyRRl2b4

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 8, 2023

have our Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech.

Just as long as we aren't stupid enough to actually try to *use* it in any mass-market public forum...

Erin Brockovich has been right for a long, long time. Hey, so was Karen Silkwood.