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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note – The Stasi
The Stasi were the secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990 and their reign of terror collapsed along with the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall. The Stasi was one of the most hated and feared institutions of the East German communist government and was...
Random Note — The Frankfurt School, Repressive Tolerance
Back in a previous life I used to talk about, at least in broad brush, overview terms, as well as Antonio Gramsci ,The Frankfurt School. The attitude from many listeners I hate to say was pretty much, ho hum....that kind of thing will never happen...can’t...
Random Note — The Reichstag fire, The Twitter ban and Parler
Isn’t Twitter’s banning of Trump and Amazon’s taking down of Parler, simply fuelling further anger and outrage and inflaming passions amongst seventy five million Trump voters, in and of itself, provocation and incitement to violence? Isn’t this a digital...
Random Note — Julian Assange
The acclaimed economic theorist, John Maynard Keynes, when confronted over some inconsistency in his thinking once said: “..When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?” This brings me to the subject of Julian Assange. Twelve months ago...
Random Note — Fact Checkers — AKA Orwell’s Thought Police
Thinking recently about the Facebook and Twitter Thought Police, aka, “Fact Checkers" and it occurs to me how “fact checking” by supposed “independent” fact checkers, at least at the industrial level we now see them operating, are a recent phenomenon, a recent...
Random Note — To SCOTUS: If not you, who? If not now, when?
To rework Simon and Garfunkel's, Mrs Robinson: “a nation turns it lonely eyes to you”. And The Supreme Court turned away and squibbed it. What a gaggle of milquetoast mediocrities they turned out to be in this hour of greatest need in the national interest of the...
Random Note — The Media
It’s very easy to blame the media for their bias and misinformation and it really does exist but I think we need to assume that that is already baked into our assumptions and drives our skepticism and that it’s up to each person to ferret around and find out what’s...
Random Note — What’s Wrong With This Picture?
In every respect it is a production. A production worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, the producer of Hitler’s propaganda films. As fraudulent or as counterfeit as an 18th century Potemkin village.
Random Note — Saying it is so, doesn’t make it so
There seems to be a deliberate attempt to misunderstand and misconstrue events and their sequence so as to maintain the freight train media narrative as a fait accompli. Trump hasn’t lost until any pending court cases are resolved and the electoral college convenes...
Random Note — The Media and The President (we’ve seen this movie before)
Given the revelations in Peter Schweizer’s book Secret Empires and those of recent weeks on the laptop from hell combined with the separate Tony Bobulinski trove of texts, emails, audio files and the breadcrumb trail of evidence of times, dates, people and places, it...