They Must Have a Good Reason
Todd Hayen
There is a strange idea hovering about that if you don’t know something then it doesn’t exist. Kind of like the image of the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand. But it goes beyond denial. Ignorance is when you don’t know something at all, denial is when you know it, but you ignore it.
What I am talking about here is when you know something and do not deny it, but simply rationalize it away with a statement like “they must have a good reason for doing that,” or similarly, “maybe we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/15/they-must-have-a-good-reason/
Todd Hayen
There is a strange idea hovering about that if you don’t know something then it doesn’t exist. Kind of like the image of the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand. But it goes beyond denial. Ignorance is when you don’t know something at all, denial is when you know it, but you ignore it.
What I am talking about here is when you know something and do not deny it, but simply rationalize it away with a statement like “they must have a good reason for doing that,” or similarly, “maybe we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/15/they-must-have-a-good-reason/
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OffG’s Quick Take: The Pentagon “leaks”
The news the last few days so has been about the “leaked” Pentagon documents concerning the “special military operation” in Ukraine, and the apparent arrest of the young man responsible.
As our editor tweeted, the leaked documents were so covert, and their contents so damaging that they were covered in detail on the frontpage of the BBC or the subject ofexplainer videos from Sky News:
The arrest of the young man supposedly responsible was such a closely guarded state secret it was headline news all over the world…
…there were multiples videos released ofhis…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/15/offgs-quick-take-the-pentagon-leaks/
The news the last few days so has been about the “leaked” Pentagon documents concerning the “special military operation” in Ukraine, and the apparent arrest of the young man responsible.
As our editor tweeted, the leaked documents were so covert, and their contents so damaging that they were covered in detail on the frontpage of the BBC or the subject ofexplainer videos from Sky News:
The arrest of the young man supposedly responsible was such a closely guarded state secret it was headline news all over the world…
…there were multiples videos released ofhis…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/15/offgs-quick-take-the-pentagon-leaks/
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
John whitehead
We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The US government is funding its existence with a credit card.
The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones being forced to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity.
According to the number crunchers with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the government is borrowing roughly billion a day.
As the Editorial Board for the Washington Post warns:
“The nation has reached a hazardous…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/16/fiscal-insanity-the-government-borrows-6-billion-a-day-and-were-stuck-with-the-bill/
John whitehead
We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The US government is funding its existence with a credit card.
The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones being forced to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity.
According to the number crunchers with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the government is borrowing roughly billion a day.
As the Editorial Board for the Washington Post warns:
“The nation has reached a hazardous…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/16/fiscal-insanity-the-government-borrows-6-billion-a-day-and-were-stuck-with-the-bill/
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WATCH: Meeting People is Easy – #SolutionsWatch
Previously on #SolutionsWatch James Corbett has looked at Building Community as a key part of the solution to the issues that we face . . . but how do you find that community in the first place?
On the most recent episode of the de-program James goes through just a few of the many, many, many different ways you can start finding, meeting and connecting with like-minded people in your area and around the world.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/16/watch-meeting-people-is-easy-solutionswatch/
Previously on #SolutionsWatch James Corbett has looked at Building Community as a key part of the solution to the issues that we face . . . but how do you find that community in the first place?
On the most recent episode of the de-program James goes through just a few of the many, many, many different ways you can start finding, meeting and connecting with like-minded people in your area and around the world.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/16/watch-meeting-people-is-easy-solutionswatch/
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Pentagon “Leaks”: 5 ways to tell REAL from FAKE
Kit Knightly
We promised a longer take on the Pentagon “leaks”, and here it goes. Regular readers will probably be familiar with my view on leaked documents in general, but if you’re not allow me to quote my own 2019 article on the (absurd) “Afghanistan papers”:
An awful lot of modern “leaks” are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation […] carefully making sure the “establishment” and the “alternative” are joined in the middle, controlled from the same source.
That’s not to say ALL “leaks” are automatically and ubiquitously narrative control exercises, clearly some…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/17/pentagon-leaks-5-ways-to-tell-real-from-fake/
Kit Knightly
We promised a longer take on the Pentagon “leaks”, and here it goes. Regular readers will probably be familiar with my view on leaked documents in general, but if you’re not allow me to quote my own 2019 article on the (absurd) “Afghanistan papers”:
An awful lot of modern “leaks” are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation […] carefully making sure the “establishment” and the “alternative” are joined in the middle, controlled from the same source.
That’s not to say ALL “leaks” are automatically and ubiquitously narrative control exercises, clearly some…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/17/pentagon-leaks-5-ways-to-tell-real-from-fake/
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin
It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be killing of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chaos reigned as Lyndon Johnson lied and Richard Nixon matched him in verbal and actual treachery.
A war between Middle America and the elites running the government was breaking out across the country. A great divide between whites and blacks, rich and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/18/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
Edward Curtin
It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be killing of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chaos reigned as Lyndon Johnson lied and Richard Nixon matched him in verbal and actual treachery.
A war between Middle America and the elites running the government was breaking out across the country. A great divide between whites and blacks, rich and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/18/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality
Colin Todhunter
Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition.
In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling 3 billion over the next few years.
As a result, almost three-quarters of Africa’s governments have reduced their agricultural budgets since 2019, and more than 20…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/20/hunger-profiteers-granny-killers-and-skin-deep-morality/
Colin Todhunter
Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition.
In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. Oxfam and Development Finance International also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling 3 billion over the next few years.
As a result, almost three-quarters of Africa’s governments have reduced their agricultural budgets since 2019, and more than 20…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/20/hunger-profiteers-granny-killers-and-skin-deep-morality/
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Putin still "playing along" with the West's scamdemic?
When is he finally going to do the long-awaited big reveal?
I mean - isn't it getting just a little silly? ⬇️
When is he finally going to do the long-awaited big reveal?
I mean - isn't it getting just a little silly? ⬇️
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Site Announcement: recent DDoS attacks
Hi all – You may have noticed our site has been slower than usual, and occasionally our servers have been offline. This is because OffGuardian is being targeted by repeated DDoS attacks, our server management team have confirmed.
These DDoS attacks are designed to create a bottleneck in our servers, which can slow the site down and sometimes take it offline entirely.
We’ve been experiencing small attacks like this for weeks, but since midweek they have become much worse. Consequently we’ve had to switch on our Cloudflare security shields.
This is why you’re being asked if you’re human atm!…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/22/site-announcement-recent-ddos-attacks/
Hi all – You may have noticed our site has been slower than usual, and occasionally our servers have been offline. This is because OffGuardian is being targeted by repeated DDoS attacks, our server management team have confirmed.
These DDoS attacks are designed to create a bottleneck in our servers, which can slow the site down and sometimes take it offline entirely.
We’ve been experiencing small attacks like this for weeks, but since midweek they have become much worse. Consequently we’ve had to switch on our Cloudflare security shields.
This is why you’re being asked if you’re human atm!…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/22/site-announcement-recent-ddos-attacks/
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Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry. What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us.
Speaking one’s truth doesn’t have to be the same for each person, and that truth doesn’t have to be palatable or pleasant or even factual.
We can be loud.
We can be obnoxious.
We can be politically incorrect.
We can…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/23/speak-your-truth-dont-let-the-government-criminalize-free-speech/
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry. What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us.
Speaking one’s truth doesn’t have to be the same for each person, and that truth doesn’t have to be palatable or pleasant or even factual.
We can be loud.
We can be obnoxious.
We can be politically incorrect.
We can…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/23/speak-your-truth-dont-let-the-government-criminalize-free-speech/
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This Week in the New Normal #61
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. You will go nowhere and be happy
The age of “cheap flights” is over, Bloomberg reported this week. They go on to say that the cost of flying to Europe from the UK has already increased by over 30%, and that’s not just a temporary bounce thanks to the “pandemic”.
Tellingly, the article does not in any way consider this a bad thing…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/23/this-week-in-the-new-normal-61/
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. You will go nowhere and be happy
The age of “cheap flights” is over, Bloomberg reported this week. They go on to say that the cost of flying to Europe from the UK has already increased by over 30%, and that’s not just a temporary bounce thanks to the “pandemic”.
Tellingly, the article does not in any way consider this a bad thing…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/23/this-week-in-the-new-normal-61/
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No, Saudi Arabia did NOT do 9/11
Kit Knightly
The bombshell 911 news this past week, is that a freshly-published court filing from Jul 2021, has revealed at least two of the 19 alleged “hijackers” may have been recruited by the CIA.
Now this isn’t exactly “news”, after all it has long since been established that the CIA, FBI and/or any other US alphabet agencies simply must have been involved. It couldn’t have happened without their involvement.
Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, the new release doesn’t go that far. Instead, the testimony from Donald C Canestraro Declaration – former lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/24/no-saudi-arabia-did-not-do-9-11/
Kit Knightly
The bombshell 911 news this past week, is that a freshly-published court filing from Jul 2021, has revealed at least two of the 19 alleged “hijackers” may have been recruited by the CIA.
Now this isn’t exactly “news”, after all it has long since been established that the CIA, FBI and/or any other US alphabet agencies simply must have been involved. It couldn’t have happened without their involvement.
Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, the new release doesn’t go that far. Instead, the testimony from Donald C Canestraro Declaration – former lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/24/no-saudi-arabia-did-not-do-9-11/
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A subset of journalism has always been those who construct complex narratives through navel-gazing over-analysis of “leaked documents” or court-ordered releases, without ever acknowledging the possibility that the source of this information makes it potentially entirely false.
These same people lambast “conspiracy theorists” for making things “too simple”.
But sometimes the truth is very simple, and even in complex events there is usually a kernel of causation at its heart that can be summed up in one sentence.
Analyzing the illusion is not the same as seeing the reality.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/24/no-saudi-arabia-did-not-do-9-11/
These same people lambast “conspiracy theorists” for making things “too simple”.
But sometimes the truth is very simple, and even in complex events there is usually a kernel of causation at its heart that can be summed up in one sentence.
Analyzing the illusion is not the same as seeing the reality.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/24/no-saudi-arabia-did-not-do-9-11/
OffGuardian
No, Saudi Arabia did NOT do 9/11
Kit Knightly The bombshell 911 news this past week, is that a freshly-published court filing from Jul 2021, has revealed at least two of the 19 alleged “hijackers” may have been recruit…
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“Arcturus Variant”: Russia revives Covid scam, right on cue
Riley Waggaman
Russia is bracing for a wave of highly infectious Arcturus, the newest and trendiest “COVID subvariant”, Rospotrebnadzor chief Anna Popova announced on Thursday.
Fellow BRICS member India is currently experiencing an “intense” outbreak of this computer model, and Russia—which has already registered four confirmed cases!—should expect its own Arcturus surge by the end of May, Popova predicted.
A sharp uptick in hospitalizations is not anticipated, but just in case, Russia’s healthcare system is ready for “additional stress and overload,” she reassured the public.
Do ordinary Russians care at all about the Dreaded Virus? No. But the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/25/arcturus-variant-russia-revives-covid-scam-right-on-cue/
Riley Waggaman
Russia is bracing for a wave of highly infectious Arcturus, the newest and trendiest “COVID subvariant”, Rospotrebnadzor chief Anna Popova announced on Thursday.
Fellow BRICS member India is currently experiencing an “intense” outbreak of this computer model, and Russia—which has already registered four confirmed cases!—should expect its own Arcturus surge by the end of May, Popova predicted.
A sharp uptick in hospitalizations is not anticipated, but just in case, Russia’s healthcare system is ready for “additional stress and overload,” she reassured the public.
Do ordinary Russians care at all about the Dreaded Virus? No. But the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/25/arcturus-variant-russia-revives-covid-scam-right-on-cue/
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WATCH: National Citizens Inquiry – #SolutionsWatch
The National Citizens Inquiry is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is hearing testimony from Canadians and experts examining the nature, the legality and the effects of the Canadian governments’ COVID mandates and restrictions.
In the most recent episode of #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett talks to the volunteer-run inquiry’s volunteer communications director, Michelle Leduc Catlin, about the inquiry itself, what it is seeking to accomplish and how Canadians (and people around the world) can support it in its endeavours.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/25/watch-national-citizens-inquiry-solutionswatch/
The National Citizens Inquiry is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is hearing testimony from Canadians and experts examining the nature, the legality and the effects of the Canadian governments’ COVID mandates and restrictions.
In the most recent episode of #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett talks to the volunteer-run inquiry’s volunteer communications director, Michelle Leduc Catlin, about the inquiry itself, what it is seeking to accomplish and how Canadians (and people around the world) can support it in its endeavours.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/25/watch-national-citizens-inquiry-solutionswatch/
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BBC Musk
iain Davis
There is a whiff of desperation in the air and it is emanating from the BBC. In a car crash of an interview, reminiscent of Kathy Newman’s self-immolating attempt to shoot down Jordan Peterson for Channel 4, the BBC’s North America Technology reporter, James Clayton, similarly implodedin the face of perfectly reasonable questions from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is supposedly one of the richest people on Earth. His purchase of Twitter has brought some public attention to the issue of free speech in so-called democracies.
Musk initially became fabulously…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/26/bbc-musk/
iain Davis
There is a whiff of desperation in the air and it is emanating from the BBC. In a car crash of an interview, reminiscent of Kathy Newman’s self-immolating attempt to shoot down Jordan Peterson for Channel 4, the BBC’s North America Technology reporter, James Clayton, similarly implodedin the face of perfectly reasonable questions from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is supposedly one of the richest people on Earth. His purchase of Twitter has brought some public attention to the issue of free speech in so-called democracies.
Musk initially became fabulously…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/26/bbc-musk/
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Remembering Graeme MacQueen
Kevin Ryan
In the summer of 2006, at the newly formed Journal of 9/11 Studies, we received a submission from a Canadian professor named Graeme MacQueen. The paper was entitled “118 Witnesses: The Firefighter’s Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers.” After peer-review comments were addressed, it was published and has become one of the most important articles in the 9/11 literature.
For the next seventeen years, Graeme went on to lead the 9/11 truth movement through his outstanding scholarship, his thoughtful approach, and his ability to instill trust in colleagues. Along with his remarkable…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/27/remembering-graeme-macqueen/
Kevin Ryan
In the summer of 2006, at the newly formed Journal of 9/11 Studies, we received a submission from a Canadian professor named Graeme MacQueen. The paper was entitled “118 Witnesses: The Firefighter’s Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers.” After peer-review comments were addressed, it was published and has become one of the most important articles in the 9/11 literature.
For the next seventeen years, Graeme went on to lead the 9/11 truth movement through his outstanding scholarship, his thoughtful approach, and his ability to instill trust in colleagues. Along with his remarkable…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/27/remembering-graeme-macqueen/
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On the Day of Departure
Edward Curtin
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash
For my dear friend, Graeme MacQueen, the great 9/11 writer, who departed yesterday from life’s mystery to the other.
When you are ready
And the day dawns
Remember how love
Wraps you in its arms
And the sweet sound
Of grace lifts you up
Lighter than a feather
And places you onboard
The silent ship that sails
Calmly out to sea. Listen
To us calling, “Bon Voyage,
Let us know when you arrive”...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/27/on-the-day-of-departure/
Edward Curtin
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash
For my dear friend, Graeme MacQueen, the great 9/11 writer, who departed yesterday from life’s mystery to the other.
When you are ready
And the day dawns
Remember how love
Wraps you in its arms
And the sweet sound
Of grace lifts you up
Lighter than a feather
And places you onboard
The silent ship that sails
Calmly out to sea. Listen
To us calling, “Bon Voyage,
Let us know when you arrive”...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/27/on-the-day-of-departure/
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Why not the zebra long-winged butterfly?
Sylvia Shawcross
Some things keep us up at night such as the horrifying thought that if they eliminate all this carbon stuff, 20,000 years from now they won’t be able to carbon date our sorry bones.
This is all because of that scary meme—the one that says WE humans are the carbon They are trying to eliminate so they can replace us with robots.
We will have ended history in that sense. They’ll disappear us bones and all. We won’t even have the indignity of being dug up like dinosaurs in some distant time and displayed in glass cases.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/28/why-not-the-zebra-long-winged-butterfly/
Sylvia Shawcross
Some things keep us up at night such as the horrifying thought that if they eliminate all this carbon stuff, 20,000 years from now they won’t be able to carbon date our sorry bones.
This is all because of that scary meme—the one that says WE humans are the carbon They are trying to eliminate so they can replace us with robots.
We will have ended history in that sense. They’ll disappear us bones and all. We won’t even have the indignity of being dug up like dinosaurs in some distant time and displayed in glass cases.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/28/why-not-the-zebra-long-winged-butterfly/
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