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The way people are acting like trust in media-sanctioned narratives should be a given after those institutions literally JUST discredited themselves in front of everyone is insane. You don't have to believe anything odd about the virus or the vaccine to understand the distrust.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people

There's nothing more enraging than a system which treats the homeless like the problem rather than homelessness.

Reading by Tim Foley.

To be absolutely clear, there is not actually any legitimate reason for any normal person to refer to these machines as a "robotic dog", or a "high-tech canine", or by a cutesy cliché name for a pet. These are robots. Robots that are being used by police forces on civilian populations. If the robots being used had two legs, or eight, they would not be able to apply such cuddly wuddly labels, and public alarm bells would be going off a lot louder.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/theyre-normalizing-robot-police-by

Proving once again he doesn't care who he has to step on to claw his way to rock bottom, fallen liberal media hero Keith Olbermann has called for the complete removal of left wing comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore from all internet platforms.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/keith-olbermann-wants-jimmy-dore

I don't think I talk enough about how cool our setup is here. I can't tell you how freeing it is to be able to write and make anything we want without an editor, but, more importantly I'm coming to see, without the extrinsic motivation of money.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Focusing on individuals instead of the system creates the illusion that if you replaced the individuals you could fix the problems with the system. The individuals are symptoms of the disease.

Reading by Tim Foley.

In what was already being called the harshest pandemic restrictions in Australia, New South Wales police have requested 300 Australian Defense Force troops to help enforce lockdown rules in eight local government areas in the suburbs of Western Sydney.

Reading by Tim Foley.

A poem.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret government information about America's psychopathic civilian-slaughtering drone assassination program.

The sentence was much harsher than Hale's defense requested but not nearly as harsh as US prosecutors pushed for, arguing that longer prison sentences are necessary for deterring whistleblowing in the US intelligence cartel.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/for-every-whistleblower-they-make

Featured image via Backbone Campaign, Creative Commons 2.0

Basically we're looking at a race to see if the deterioration of material conditions inherent in capitalism leads to mass-scale revolution before the plutocrats have the technological and legal ability to roll out robot and drone security forces.

Reading by Tim Foley.