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By David Swanson
The Alien and Sedition Acts were laws created in 1798 to carve out exceptions to the 1791 Bill of Rights, by banning statements against the government, making it harder to become a citizen, allowing the imprisonment and deportation of non-citizens, and — the bit that is still on the books (albeit, I think, pretty clearly unconstitutionally) — allowing the imprisonment of non-citizens during wars or “invasions” or “predatory incursions.” Be prepared for the rest of it to be brought back.
The intent was supposedly to be able to urgently halt the malicious work of foreigners working for mass-killing, mass-destruction, or the undemocratic overthrow of the government. Of course, from the start that was not the actual function, and new laws were not needed for such purposes. Anyone guilty of such crimes could always have been arrested and charged with the protections of the Bill of Rights respected. Instead people’s rights have been abused, most famously by imprisoning Japanese-Americans during WWII, an act that the U.S. government declared in 1988 to have been based on race prejudice and war hysteria. A monument within sight of the U.S. Capitol promises not to repeat such horrors.
Ned Lud
Code, Consent, and Carnage.
A Manifesto in the Shadow of Revelation
Exploring the Digital Apocalypse: Surveillance, Algorithms, Gaza, and the Coming Collapse of Empire
There is only the high-definition feed of an airstrike in Rafah, streamed live to the Situation Room, buffered by six seconds of plausible deniability. We live not in history, but in its simulation—hyperreal war zones where bodies pixelate, and children vanish under the blue glow of predictive analytics. A hellscape curated by the content moderators of Empire.
We are no longer governed; we are managed. Not by ideology, but by logistics—middleware governance, algorithmic mercy, and behavioral nudging stitched together by firms whose names sound like prescription drugs: Palantir, Anduril, NSO. Ours is a world where Facebook knows when you’re pregnant, and Israel knows when you're about to resist.
By Mark Aurelius
Trump calls Harvard ‘a joke’ while threatening funds
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5251335-trump-harvard-funding-joke/
““Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should not longer receive Federal Funds,” Trump wrote early Wednesday in a post on Truth Social.”
“Harvard was the first university Monday to openly reject the Trump administration’s demands to change its policies.” …
“ “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard University President Alan Garber said.”
By Cathy Smith
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
In the epoch of noise, silence is treason.
The so-called "mainstream" media — a festering menagerie of corporate whores, ideological janissaries, and risk-averse stenographers — no longer reports the truth. It launders power’s lies, polishes the boot that stamps the human face, and sells ignorance as virtue.
They are not merely complicit. They are architects of amnesia.
What you are about to read is not a manifesto of paranoia; it is an indictment.
Thirteen invisible fronts where the media does not merely falter — it betrays.
Thirteen blackouts where narratives are forged in darkness.
Each a wound to the body politic. Each a dagger twisted silently into the ribs of democracy.
Here, the curtain is ripped wide.
Here, you see what they murder daily: memory, outrage, and resistance.
1. Poisoned Plates: How Food Safety Became the MSM’s Favorite Dirty Secret
You are what you eat, they say.
What they forget to mention is: you are also what they hide from you.
By Tracy Turner
Safeway. Albertsons. Vons. Trader Joe's. Aldi.
These household names conjure an image of bustling aisles, fresh produce gleaming under fluorescent lights, healthful "organic" labels waving like holy banners over shining apples and waxy cucumbers. The mythos: wholesome, untainted abundance. The reality: an unholy amalgam of deception, chemical contamination, and industrial sleight of hand.
You, the unsuspecting consumer, push your sanitized cart past rows of "GMO-Free!" stickers and "All-Natural!" slogans, believing you are voting with your dollar for purity. But what if you were told you that the majority of products under these virtuous labels are a toxic shell game — riddled with pesticide residues, fortified with Euro-banned chemical additives, and adulterated with third-world counterfeits? That the grand cathedral of American grocery commerce is in fact a Trojan horse?
Let us dismantle the lie.
The Phantom Divide: European Standards vs. American Deregulation
Chapter One: The Lords of War and Waste
By Ned Lud
It begins not with a bang but with a gleam of wealth, ambition, and steel-fisted dominion hidden behind thousand-dollar smiles and conference hall handshakes. They gather the Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, World Economic Forum titans, Rothschild emissaries, Davos whisperers, and Council on Foreign Relations architects—the very names we were taught not to question, the same faces we were trained to trust.
These modern Ferengi—butchers in bespoke suits—plot beneath shimmering chandeliers from Chantilly to Lisbon. The fruits of their meetings are death and debris. Refugee trails lined with the skeletal remains of children. Rainforests reduced to ash. Oceans choked on plastic. Skies smeared in the black oil of empire. Fields salted with debt.
And when we point to them—to Henry Kissinger (Bilderberg regular, architect of Southeast Asian slaughter), to David Rockefeller (founder of the Trilateral Commission, kingmaker of global finance), to Klaus Schwab (engineer of the "Great Reset"), to the Rothschild banking dynasty (brokers of war and peace at a price), to Eric Schmidt (Google), Alex Karp (Palantir), Jeff Bezos (Amazon-Defense), Bill Gates (vaccine tsar and farmland collector)—the Mockingbird Media squawks back: "Paranoia! Conspiracy theory!"
Ned Lud dedicates this to Mark Aurelius
Netanyahu: The Prime Minister of Permanent Emergency
The Godless Horseman: War Eternal, Peace Never
He doesn’t ride in on a white horse—he arrives in Merkava armor, draped in Holocaust memory and wrapped in the Iron Dome of impunity. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is not just the souless horseman—he is the conductor of this apocalyptic orchestra, the Netanyahu Doctrine incarnate: permanent siege, permanent justification, permanent war. He is the architect of an Israel where the boot never lifts, and the algorithm never blinks.
Since October 2023, Netanyahu’s military has executed a campaign of digital and kinetic annihilation in Gaza, marshaling AI tools like Lavender and Gospel to generate so-called kill lists with a margin of error written in blood. Lavender—designed to flag tens of thousands of potential targets within minutes—was not a tool of precision but of “mass assassination,” according to whistleblowers reported by +972 Magazine and The Guardian (Lavender AI, 2024).
by Janet Campbell
Image via Freepik
Children on the margins rarely have the luxury of being heard. Their needs are either diluted in policy debates or romanticized in feel-good campaigns that vanish as quickly as they arrive. But improving the lives of vulnerable children doesn’t require sweeping legislation or grand gestures. It starts at the intersection of awareness, proximity, and everyday action—rooted in empathy rather than saviorism.
By David Swanson
Late last century I figured out that I needed to work on a job dedicated to making the world a better place. I know not everyone can find such a job if they try. I appreciate all the other useful jobs that millions of people do — if not the useless and destructive ones that millions of other people do. But I do want people to use some of their spare time to help out with the cratering world. In every moment of the past quarter century there have been people diligently creating catastrophes — wars, ecosystemic destruction, mass incarceration, poverty, etc. — and yet there have been moments in which people in my corner of the world have increasingly said things to me along the lines of “Wow it seems like maybe soon I’ll need to ask you about that activism stuff.”
By Mark Aurelius
One can feel the anger. One can feel the rage and disgust. It is a resentment severe but it is far from being some kind of blind hatred.
Who could have thought Trump’s White House and Cabinet picks would be this fr..king frustrating, and display this incompetence and hubris show so quickly into his second game?
There was supposed to have been some positives to outweigh all the inordinate risks.
[Note: the word ‘frustrate’ comes to the English language by way of Latin frustratus, from frustra (adv.) "in vain, in error," which is related to fraus "injury, harm," a word of uncertain origin (see fraud).]