Snipers Confess? and Other Stuff

Note:  info on the snipers during the Ukraine “uprising” is at the end of this post.

 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/24/from-an-open-internet-back-to-the-dark-ages-2/

Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the “democratic” west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly – it outsources its dirty work to corporations. – Jonathan Cook

I haven’t even finished the above linked article (okay, I finished it, but it doesn’t change my basic argument), but if we, on what is called “the left”, want to fight (a losing battle?) with the mega corporations who are running things these days, we might think about giving up all our little toys that are enabling the oligarchs to combine with the surveillance state to stifle our dissent.

That could serve as the final blow to the left and its ability to make its voice heard in the public square. – JC

The Left as subservient to our oligarchs? Does the Left have no more imagination than that? Does the Left really need the gatekeeping boy wonders of the Internet to make its message heard? Lefty web sites still who use stuff like FB, Twitter, PayPal, Amazon, Google, or any of the other neo-oligarchic portals to sell their goods, solicit funds, or supposedly encourage debate should be shamed out of contributions from their echo chamber readers. I still visit sites who use Amazon to sell their books, FB for their comments, PayPal to collect donations, but if you think I use any of those billionnaires’ companies to buy anything or support them, you’d be wrong.

If you like what some web site does, send it a check or cash. Or if you’re rich, and agree with them, visit them personally, ask some pertinent questions, then do or do not make your contribution. I know people who have flown cross-country to attend a concert, but do they invest that kind of money, or interest, into what has become our means of communication?

So, okay, the internet, as we know it, has become another tool in the facist toolbox. There exist workarounds, and while being relatively ignorant as to all that stuff, I do know that they exist. There are other operating systems, other search engines that will get you, more or less, where you want to go.

We just have to stop shopping at the WallMarts of the internet. Is that so difficult?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/24/men-in-power-abusing-women-what-a-surprise/

Yeah. But what about psychopaths like la Clinton, who aspire to this same untouchable status? Bill may have been able to actually “seduce” a few here and there (who really knows?), but I have my doubts about his “wife”. Who would want to even get near her? If that was the case, then I guess her cackling about Ghadaffi’s murder might provide a clue.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/24/slaves-and-bulldozers-plutocrats-and-widgets/

This link goes right back to the top link.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/11/our-national-madness.html

Succinct description of US madness.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/11/addictions-social-media-mobile-phones-fall-grace.html

When you have a sick society, addictions like this become almost inevitable. Narcissism anyone?

http://www.thepolemicist.net/2017/10/sticks-and-stones-free-speech-and.html#more

This article by The Polemicist is the perfect antidote to the Twitter-addicted. He takes the time necessary to make an argument. For too many out there, articles like this are too much because they are too long, too detailed, too nuanced, too honest. That’s part of the problem.

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Breaking.

For those of you who might tip toe outside the edges of the MSM, you might have noticed that the lies dutifully transmitted by same concerning the Ukraine are quickly approaching their sell-by date. Take a look here, here, and here.