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Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*
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2024-06-16 / notes
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2024-06-16 is 2024-W24-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*
it’s all about inequality and narrative control, as Einstein pointed out in a 1948 article*
Caitlin Johnstone: I often say, “I write about the end of illusions,” because …*
Clips like this are coming out on a near-daily basis now, and the important takeaway is not "This man isn't mentally competent enough to run the United States", it's "The president does not run the United States". The elected government doesn't run things.pic.twitter.com/bBedhlu2Ra
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) June 13, 2024
Give New York To The Mormons
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) June 12, 2024
"Mormonland has a right to exist. Mormonland has a right to defend itself."
Reading by Tim Foley. pic.twitter.com/rohzpJJY5m
Like a magician's sleight of hand, the NYT and many Western media outlets have consistently made the murder of Palestinians disappear. The MSM can easily make bad events appear good and good events look bad. @caitoz explains how in her latest article. #Gaza https://t.co/TkDkGbSDsw pic.twitter.com/rkbQiiivWF
— Aisha (@Aishalifett) June 9, 2024
The Economist: "China has become a scientific superpower"
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 14, 2024
Rare for me - maybe even unprecedented - to praise the Economist but this might be the seminal article on the current status of China's scientific might.
Let's take a look 🧵https://t.co/LufhWQGJBh
continuing to treat Palestinians as subhuman enables the genocide to continue*
Elon and Peter Thiel and Zuckerberg under control / Geoffrey Hinton (!?) – AI guy*
less than 4 percent of the total came to North America / Slate (!?) – Atlantic slave trade
British prison hulks (!?)
“attack surface”: a term that denotes the target area for online crime (!g) / QR codes*
again, it’s the narrative: in the here and now nothing tells you it’s okay to kill children*
“Quadcopter drones darted in and out firing machine guns at the crowded streets.”*
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