TV doctor Sanjay Gupta at a loss for words at Rogan line of questioning

Just think about this: All the TV personalities on every major network, shaping the worldview and perception of reality for hundreds of millions of people, are unable to answer even the simplest of questions on their own. Just like Gupta here. And yet Gupta is a wonderful actor when he’s on his stage at CNN, teleprompter feeding him his lines. Off the set, and away from the smoke and mirrors, the aura vanishes. We’re left with a bumbling hack who can’t function on his own.

In defense of Ben & Jerry’s Israel boycott

The ice cream brothers are being castigated everywhere for this interview where they’re asked some tough questions regarding apparent inconsistencies regarding their stance on Israeli apartheid. If they boycott Israel, why aren’t they boycotting other places? The one brother to speak during the interview is at a loss for words at this line of questioning during much of it, and this is apparently evidence that they are morons who can’t defend their position.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

I’m sure they have plenty of things they’d like to say, but don’t want to lose their investors or their customer base. Journalists like the nobody interviewing them here have nothing to lose. The co-founders have quite a bit to lose in an interview that could go awry quickly.

Is the systematic dehumanization of over a million human beings, corralled and controlled in an open-air prison on the same level as more regulation of abortion? I’d say that it doesn’t come close. I’m sure B&J would like to say something like that, but they are smart, and don’t say anything.

Their company is also private. They can do whatever the F they want. B&J could’ve told the interviewer as much, but it would result in fallout. Private companies need to make a profit to survive. Taking an absolutist stance on every single issue would result in their company closing permanently. Everyone picks their battles. B&J are doing that here.

I don’t have to agree on every single political principle of the person I’m buying from or selling to. I can choose to boycott someone if I want to, it’s my decision. I don’t have to justify it to anyone. Neither does B&J, and especially not to a drive-by journalist far too eager to watch livelihoods burn as a result of an interview.

Israel is a US welfare colony, whose values are not in any way similar to the values that gave birth to American independence. They have extensive propaganda networks throughout our own country, and use intimidation and threats to silence any criticism. They exercise far too much influence on our own government, which brings them riches galore and allows them to maintain a perpetural war footing with the neighboring countries. They don’t make any attempt at peace because they can afford not to. American taxpayers foot the bill, as they always have, and our leaders turn a blind eye to flagrant atrocities committed by this ethnic apartheid state.

The mandate was never about the virus

Unbelievable to witness the amount of social destruction occurring globally, inflicted purely by governments. The totally avoidable destruction of entire industries is happening before our eyes. I personally don’t like to bring up things that I’ve said in the past as a way to toot my own horn, but I did say that eventually world events would reach a point where it could be clearly seen that government actions were no longer about a virus. Think about it: does anyone think that any of this is about a virus anymore? Every service worker forced to wear their dirty, disgusting cloth masks as a condition of employment, even after they’ve been vaccinated? This is about subjugation. Dehumanization. It’s about compliance to a technological totalitarianism. Every nation that implements vaccine passports now will in the near future merge their databases into a global passport. A true prison planet.

Amazon’s new autonomous robot Astro will patrol your house and surveil everything

As we bear witness to a sci-fi techno-dystopia unfurling before our eyes, we have quickly discovered that most people welcome the total surveillance state into their homes willingly. Gladly. They’ll even shell out $1,500 for the privilege. That’s the price tag on Amazon’s latest tech horror, “Astro”, a robot that rolls around your house and records, catalogs, and make decisions about what it is capturing. And amid our ultra-hedonistic, present-oriented paradigm, bringing a pricey corporate surveillance gadget into one’s home is perfectly normal.

My only question, which is a broader, more fundamental question, is where does it stop? At what point will we have achieved peak connectivity? 20G phones with our own personal cell towers by the microwave? Sunglasses that automatically stream television 24 hours a day, vehicles that are indistinguishable from the phones in our pockets, nothing more than driveable computers?

Digital devices are draining us of our two most precious possessions, our attention and our time. It’s ugly to watch so many people staring at their phones while walking, while eating, while driving. The vibe I get is one of a soul being sucked through ones eyes into the screen. I’m no better. I stare at my devices mindlessly, always checking for meaningless updates, because I took have developed the addiction. But imagine what it will be like in 10 years. We know what it will look like if we continue down this path of rapacious, philistine technological progress, the cell towers encroaching on every once-sacred public space, the digital world pushing its way further into this realm, our lived experience becoming less real, while our simulated life fast becoming the only life we know. We have to pull the plug in our personal lives, if we are have a meaningful lived experience at all. Reject the robots, reject the phones, reject the “smart” vehicles, push back against this stealth corporate tech intrusion into your life. Pull out the opiate IV and fight your way out of the mental prison that has been slowly erected around your life. Unplug, wake up.

The authoritarian model in action: import cheap, obsequious foreign labor to replace striking workers

It’s almost too insane to even believe what has happened to Australia. They let the genie out of the bottle entirely, and have no intention of ever stuffing him back down again. Technocratic fascism, enabled and now easily implemented with the Aussies’ new COVID passports. The vaccine doesn’t even matter; it’s getting the digital yoke around the necks of the citizens that is key. Once in place, the passport functions as a behavior corrective: do what we say or we push a few buttons and presto! You can’t go buy groceries, or leave your house, for two weeks. For the striking workers, fire them and replace them with obedient, imported slave labor.