“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” ― Robert Anton Wilson
“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
― John Muir
Image by Rich Jarvis
President Biden announced in October that he was pardoning all people convicted of simple cannabis possession at the federal level.
111 days later, the Justice Department still hasn't posted the application to obtain a pardon.
They're not even trying to hide it anymore--Zelensky just comes right out and says it: "Sending Ukraine tanks represents a "BIG BUSINESS" opportunity for US corporations:
Addressing a Chambers of Commerce meeting in Boca Raton today, Zelensky thanks BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and others for their support of Ukraine. Adds that sending Ukraine heavier weapons, like Abrams tanks, represents a "big business" opportunity for US corporations
Several friends have warned me that impersonator accounts continue to appear and that certain entities or people are claiming proximity to our family to gain followers and influence. No-one speaks for me. Social media is a playground for psyops and scammers. Beware.
The power he refers to would ultimately be in the hands of the same types who wield it now: sociopaths motivated by a visceral addiction to power, wealth & disconnection to empathy & our natural world. It puts godlike powers in the hands of spiritual cavemen.
Earth's inner core has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, a research is suggesting
[read more: https://buff.ly/3iXNK5P]
I keep bringing this up because I really don't think most people get it. People really don't seem to understand that nuclear war would mean the end, and that the end would mean it won't matter whose fault it was. The only thing that would matter is that humanity let it happen.
“Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.
Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Politics is simply the reflex of economics. The economic master is always and everywhere, has always been in every age and always will be, the political ruler. In other words, the owners of things are the rulers of men. This seems strange, but it is nevertheless a fact of history
There is no free press without a free Julian Assange.
Watch my speech at the Belmarsh Tribunal here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_QqpYATupw…
It's time for others to break their silence over this travesty of justice.
“I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential,have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy.”
Graham Hancock
#Psilocybin
"The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary."
-Carl Jung
#OtD 22 Jan 2018 legendary anarchist author Ursula K Le Guin died aged 88 in Portland, Oregon. An ardent feminist and advocate for diversity in literature and publishing, she won numerous awards for her work. We have made available some of her books here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/ursula-k-le-guin…
I notice some people seem outraged by cop cars set on fire, but don't seem outraged by the endless cases of cops murdering & brutalizing innocent civilians.
It's this inability to acknowledge the underlying disease that leads to increasing authoritarianism to deal with symptoms.
The owning and ruling class hold the keys of the prison the same as they do the mill and mine. They are the keepers of both and their exploited slaves are the inmates and victims of both.
published leaked US gov't documents detailing a range of criminal and unethical acts, from the slaughter of civilians to acts of espionage against foreign heads of state. Since then, the persecution of Julian Assange has not ceased
If you do one thing today, read this powerful piece about Tortuguita, the protester murdered in Atlanta as part of a coordinated campaign of state terror against the movement against the construction of Cop City.
Belmarsh Tribunal D.C.
'..Anti-literacy laws kept slaves uneducated & ignorant..we see the same thing with how the Espionage Act is being used against whistleblowers & Assange.
White slave owners knew the truth, an educated slave won't be a slave for long".
- Jeffrey Stirling
Organic radical inspiration John Ruskin died 123 years ago today.
William Morris described him as one of the few people of his era “in open rebellion” against the industrial system, its thinking and its tastes.
https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/john-ruskin/…
The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is the technique for stripping them of their power.~CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
INVESTIGATION: Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, has been touting his role in boosting the latest round of US regime change ploys targeting Iran. Hundreds of his Starlink systems have been making their way into Iran.
MPN Senior Staff Writer Alan MacLeod reports.
BREAKING: Activists in Atlanta say that police are lying about what happened when a protester was shot and killed Wednesday.
The activists say police were hit with friendly fire when raiding their encampment, and that the activist killed, Tort, did not shoot them.
What an image from France. 🇫🇷
Yesterday, trade unions organised coordinated strikes and protests over controversial plans to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 64 while also requiring 43 years of employee contributions for a complete pension.