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Joanne Coleman's avatar

When we see the corruption all around us in the courts, in the institutions, in every level of society, we can give in to despair, to helplessness, to fear. That is how they work. That is how they continue to succeed. We need to keep our courage up and remember that the truth is crawling out. Actually, it is no longer crawling but is standing up. It is still a brushing off the debris from all the piles of BS it was under, but it is gaining strength and soon will be striding forth for all to see.

BTW, re compost as the best fertilizer, I am heartily in agreement. There is a mushroom farm which gives away its spent horse manure that it gets from the racetrack. Apparently, it is good for only three cycles of mushrooms and the mushrooms remove the harmful chemicals. The Covid thing stopped this as there was no horse racing for two years. Well, it is back and so is the mushroom manure. My neighbor and I picked up bags and bags of it and spread it around generously. What a difference it has made to my garden! I had forgotten how precious the stuff is to plants. Mother Nature work well without the help of chemical corporations!

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Kyle Young's avatar

Yes, we need to dismantle all of the agencies that make all of that corruption possible.

Mushroom compost is great stuff! Wish I had a bulk source nearby.

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Bandit's avatar

Move to D.C. there seems to be lots there. πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜‹πŸ˜Ž

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Kyle Young's avatar

Another good one:)

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anti-republocrat's avatar

A good start at correcting the underlying causes of corruption would be a 28th amendment, stating:

1) Corporations and other collectives, whether government chartered or not, are not "persons" and have no God-given or natural rights protected by the federal or state constitutions.

2) Donations of money are not speech.

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Kyle Young's avatar

That's a possibility. Or we could reinstate our Constituional Republic, which would negate the wacky corporation-is-a-person-free-speech idea.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Well, they've already rejected stare decisis with the abortion decision, so I suppose your suggestion is possible. But I don't think it likely without the shove of an amendment.

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Perry Simms's avatar

You have not yet justified stealing my money to fund your orangutan-dance-therapy 'research'.

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baker charlie's avatar

I supported Aaron Schwartz's drive to make the material on Jstor available to the public. There is no reason a fifty, hundred or hundred and fifty year old document should be nearly inaccessable. Funny thing is, while I was working for a university, I got a few of them. No files. Printed out. Badly. Funny thing is that they didn't always mean what the people citing such rarefied material were claiming they did. There is probably less shocking fact in those docs than there are cherry picked quotes that would become apparent as soon as anyone got ahold of a copy of the thing. But elites gotta elite, right?

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Kyle Young's avatar

Was wondering if there might be some some folks out there who were on top of Aaron's story. I caught bits and pieces of it back when he was active, but never paid it much attention. Then I got a copy of the documentary "The Internets Own Boy", the story of Aaron Schwartz, and was taken with it. He was a true heretic.

You must read Alex Berensen:) - virus gonna virus. But yes, warped minds do warped things.

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Judy T's avatar

MAKE YOURSELF SHEEP AND THE WOLVES WILL EAT YOU. - Benjamin Franklin

Americans don’t know that our form of govt is a Republic – not a democracy. Americans don’t know that the Constitution was written to protect the minority from the majority. Americans don’t know anything about our Republican form of govt and its structure, designed to protect the People’s liberty and rights from being taken from the People by the Govt. Americans don’t know because it’s not taught in the govt schools.

In 2020 the wolves attacked and the sheep fought back. Actually, the sheep did no such thing. The sheep embraced the wolves and the wolves do what wolves always do, they ate the sheep. Question: How to turn sheep into lions? Answer: Abolish the monopoly that govt schools have had since 1852. Let the marketplace have a go at educating American children via private, religious, or home schooling. Or, maybe, abolish formal schooling entirely. But there’s no maybe about abolishing the Dept of Education – another example of the federal govt giving itself powers and authority that the Constitution never intended it to have.

The great men who founded our nation were not victimized by compulsory education, of sitting in a classroom 6 hours a day, 5 days a week for 12 years, having conformity and obedience to authority beaten into them. Their brains were not lobotomized by a bombardment of entertainment that victimizes today’s youth and produces a nation of sheep pursuing a life of ease and comfort while demanding that govt keep them β€˜safe’ from wolves.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Bravo!

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Perry Simms's avatar

I'm now a committed admirer of Judy T. Did time in Colorado as well.

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MoodyP's avatar

Amazing work. One correction. Manning spent 7 years in prison. Obummer commuted the 35 year sentence in 2017 before leaving office. Manning ended up back in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury. Suicide attempt got a judge to agree to a release. Irrespective of anything else, a seriously troubled individual who could have benefitted from mental health assistance versus prison. But our betters would rather throw dissenters in jail.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Thanks Moody. And thanks for the details about Manning. Reading old articles online does not always provide up-to-date info.

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Perry Simms's avatar

Having done the whistleblower thing myself, I can tell you the enemy is real, and vile.

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Watersnake's avatar

Great piece, Kyle. Thanks for telling Aaron’s story. As an American expat living abroad for 42 years, for the first time have been considering returning as an option. So many moving parts - most days my experience is like the music has speeded up in a game of musical chairs.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Thanks Watersnake.

In this time of great upheaval, I think many feel that way.

Any big news from down under?

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Watersnake's avatar

Verry briefly:

- MSM bemoaning the extra tens of millions excess clot shots the grubberment ordered and whatever will be done with them. Given the overall jabbed rate in Australia is roughly 90%, god knows who got bribed in procurement. 🀣

- A courageous young woman named Monica Smit is a freedom leader in Victoria and was jailed for 3 weeks in solitary last year for leading freedom marches every weekend in Melbourne. The cops won’t leave her alone and had her in court again last month threatening her now with β€˜incitement’ charges and demanding she hand over all databases of supporters. She flatly refused and lawyered up and fundraised and…..yesterday the poleece dropped all charges. πŸ˜…

- And lastly, all Ststes are pushing 4th jab but their own data here in my state of New South Wales shows 400+ jabbed in hospital with Covid🦠 and TWO vax-free hospitalised in the same report. This is next level insanity.

And on a natural note, it’s been gale force winds for a week here at my farm and -5 Celsius most nights. Our beautiful native parrots - the eastern rosellas- have created detente with the chooks and are allowed to visit the feeder now when the hens are done. It’s so wholesome here. Keeps me sane!

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Kyle Young's avatar

Thanks for the update. Might use some of that info. Good to hear the native parrots and your birds get on. Wholesome=sanity.

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cheyerra's avatar

Thank you for your well researched article, it's such a sad story of what happened to Aaron Schwartz, but God will repay those who did this and who do evil in this world. On that day there will be only real Truth and justice that will be dealt out to those Psychos and Narcissists who have taken control who seemingly get away with all their hypocritical evil ( Justine Trudeau, Gavin Newscum, Nazi Pelosi, Hitlery Clinton etc), it will be nothing like the fake "justice' we see in the overtly corrupt courts of compromised men .

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Kyle Young's avatar

Thanks cheyerra. Justice will be served, one way or another.

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Christina's avatar

Excellent post on all points. It would be great if we could get the regenerative farming info to RFK Jr. and Dr. Lyons-Weiler. I may be naive in thinking it would open their eyes to their erroneous solutions, but I can hope. Thanks for this great piece.

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Kyle Young's avatar

I can't speak for Dr. Lyons-Weiler, but I have to think that RFK Jr. knows about regenerative agriculture because of his close ties to Dr. Mercola, who is a big advocate of regenerative farming. I can't be positive about why he is taking this wishy-washy stance but if I had to speculate I would say its because he sees opportunities to take the chemical companies to court and get big settlements from them, which he has done in the past. After all, that is how he has funded a large part of what CHD does. Am I saying that's a good or a bad thing? No. Is it the right approach to solving the problems we face? I suppose it could be construed as an option.

But, you're right. If RFK Jr. knows about regenerative agriculture and is honest about presenting solutions, he should be touting it.

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Veronica Eugenia's avatar

Thank you, Kyle, once again, for writing about what is most near and dear to my heart. Bottom line, exposing the truth will get a person canceled, jailed, hounded and or killed. (Glad you qualified the word suicide with "supposed".) I assume it has always been this way but now Pandora's box, like a busted sewer line, is so overflowing with deception and evil that we are neck deep in crap while the majority of folks can't smell the sick soup we are swimming in. Your sanity is pure oxygen. Anymore, my question is WHAT will it take for eyes to open and minds to comprehend?

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Kyle Young's avatar

Repetition. Keep repeating the facts and pointing out the lies... as often as needed.

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Judy T's avatar

CHD has 2 articles re one lion fighting the wolves:

1) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/samuel-sigoloff-military-doctor-exemptions-covid-vaccine-mandate/

2) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dod-covid-vaccine-mandate-army-dr-samuel-sigoloff-exemptions/?itm_term=home

Lions in human form 1) seek the truth 2) base their actions on the truth and 3) have the courage to fight those who seek to destroy the truth. Where did this lion get his training? In the govt schools? As Jacques Cousteau would say: Zis eez naht so noh noh eet can naht bee

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Kyle Young's avatar

Just goes to show, clear headed thinking can overcome government/corporate programming at universities. Sadly, there are far too many who are now mentally challenged with ADHD or ADD or some other affliction from childhood vaccines and are unable to think clearly.

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Bandit's avatar

Or left more damaged by the drugs used to treat those vaxx injuries.

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Perry Simms's avatar

1) Why should I have money stolen from me to fund what some self-styled 'researcher' wants to investigate in the first place? There are no public interests, only private ones. Let them find their own funding.

2) Why should we continue to tolerate patent and copyright anti-law? Information isn't property; It's not a naturally scarce resource. See Stephan Kinsella's writing for more on this.

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J T's avatar

Schwarz got railroaded and is a travesty.

I have zero pity for Snowden, Manning, or Assange. Snowden and Manning willingly signed binding contracts with full knowledge of the consequences of breaking them, before doing just that. Assange agreed as a willing accomplice.

Classified information is classified for a reason. Argue against it all you want, the reality of the matter is that you do so without all relevant information; as such, any opinion you have on the matter is malformed at best. Things like plans for war, the intelligence used to create them, and advanced technical projects used to execute them should not exist in the public domain because they are worthless in that event.

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Justin's avatar

Having worked in an environment with classified materials, it's easy to see how the classifiers can classify anything they want, and literally don't expect any dissension. That' doesn't make the classifiers or classifications correct by national security standards, outside of possibly hiding information that would undermine trust in those who run our nation. But doesn't lying do the same thing? And that is what some classifications are built upon - lies.

Call it naive, but lies should be exposed, and truth shared. There are truly good reasons to classify materials or information, but classifications are not sacrosanct. And when Snowden exposed illegal activities that the government was perpetrating upon the American people (either directly or indirectly by use of 5-eyes cohorts), it doesn't make him wrong. He swore to uphold the constitution, which supercedes all else, where, per our Declaration of Independence, governments are instituted for the PRESERVATION of God-given rights. Those that chose to abuse the letter law (witty and creative they may be), it completely undermines the spirit of the law.

To justify the violation of the law through clever means does not make it right. And that's what's wrong with our country, it's leaders and bureaucrats who operate under the presumption that it's okay if they can find a way to skirt the law.

Just when did we give up the notion that there are rights to be preserved, and that it's the government's RESPONSIBILITY to preserve those rights?

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Kyle Young's avatar

Under our current misguided "democracy", I can see how you come to that conclusion. But in a Constitutional Republic there is no such thing as classified information when there is no declared war. There is only freedom. Those in the deep state who seek to enhance military industrial complex profits by fighting foreign wars while usurping our freedoms, all under the guise of classified information, do not understand how a Constitutional Republic works or what freedom is.

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J T's avatar

This is precisely the kind of misguided ignorance I expected as a reply, but I'm still astounded that you actually believe it.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Guess we agree to disagree. We both have chosen what we think is the best way to remedy things. I have 21 months of work here that reflect that. You turn to the negative by saying I'm misguided and ignorant. I may be. But at least I'm striving for change.

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Judy T's avatar

This is a subject about which I know nothing and therefore I should say nothing until I know something. Regardless … The problem is the Confidentiality Contract. The employee signs the CC BEFORE starting on the job because he does not anticipate or envision the possibility that his employer is engaged in unconstitutional, hence illegal, acts. AFTER he is on the job, the employee discovers that his employer is engaged in illegal acts, but the CC requires the employee to remain silent, which makes the employee complicit in the illegal acts of his employer. The employee, knowing that his primary loyalty is to uphold the Constitution – not protect his employer – makes what he knows public. The employer then prosecutes the whistleblower for violating the CC.

Is the whistleblowers action treason? No, it’s not. An act of treason is when an employee steals his employer’s confidential info and sells or gives it to our nation’s enemies. But nowadays, our govt GIVES its confidential info to our enemies, making our enemies partners in our govt’s illegal activities. It seems to me that it is our govt leaders that are guilty of treason and it is THEY who should be prosecuted.

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Perry Simms's avatar

Snowden, Manning and Assange exposed crimes committed by the government. They are heroes to truth and justice. It is plain to see what you are.

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Veronica Eugenia's avatar

True that! I'm a songwriter so the repetition thing is built in.πŸ˜…

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Kyle Young's avatar

The chorus - good example. For what it's worth, many years ago I sang in a couple choirs. Tenor when younger, bass when older.

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MoodyP's avatar

Indeed. Especially if they are sourced from Wikipedia. LOL.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Yup. Gotta take Wikipedia with lots of salt.

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Alan Kurtz's avatar

FACT CHECK

Biden has not "persecuted" Chelsea Manning and she is not behind bars.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Right. See Moody's comment and my reply.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Truth be told, I wrestled a bit with that word choice. I understand your take, but opted to go with it anyway. Accord would have been a better choice.

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