The world needs to calm down a bit from all those conflicts that are hurting millions around the world.

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"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded" - <em>Friedrich August von Hayek</em>

Yeah, fuck Rittenhouse.  If I'd operated on the same rules of engagement in 2020 that he got away with there'd be more dead "libertarians" than I could count on my fingers and toes.  *I'd also probably be as dead as Michael Reinoehl too.*

What is truth?  I think Obi-wan said it best: "You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."  There's plenty of information out there to be found if you know where and how to look for it but truth is a rather different critter.  In a more philosophical mood I'd call truth/untruth a false dichotomy.  Lol, my granny taught me at an early age how to tell the truth and still be deceptive and misleading.  *Comes in quite handy when dealing with law enforcement.*

Information/knowledge can be gleaned from even the most unlikely of sources, even bad/fake news.  I try to use something akin to the intelligence analysis route, taking into consideration context, motivations, past history, etc.  I could tell covid was going to be bad back in January 2020, just based on how the CCP was lying about it (it mimicked their response to the swine flu but fortunately that only affected their hogs).  Are you familiar with OSINT (open source intelligence)?  Although still subject to human error, it doesn't come with the same ax to grind that media seems to.  [Bellingcat](https://www.bellingcat.com) is the best example of that that I know of, they provide details on how they come up with and confirm information.

As for Ukraine, it's all been quite interesting to watch.  Usually we're more than happy to support right wing authoritarians military adventurism, which could do much to explain the GOP's sudden fondness for Russia and Putin.  *That's gotta be a bit of a mindfuck though, coming on top of all that old Cold War programming.*  Israel does the same shit to Lebanon and Gaza on a regular basis but they're our buddies so it's no big deal.  I just wish we responded to *all* aggression/oppression in the same fashion as we do when it's an old nemesis doing it.

> Seeking alternative news sources opens the door to better reporting, but also a morass of utter nonsense masquerading as The Truth. Any hole in the official story will be seized as an opportunity to wedge in pet theories about secret societies, Jewish banker conspiracies, European royal bloodlines, and more. There may be a grain of truth in some of these theories for some of these situations, but often not as far as I can tell.

I share your dissatisfaction with alternative news sources, but mainly for the reason that—like anything we see projected on the "screen"—it serves to distract us from our true mission. I went down the secret society rabbit hole a while back and yeah, some of it is entertaining, but ultimately it's disempowering and a waste of time. Also, pinning the world's ills on a group of "bad" people—whether they be Jewish bankers, European royals, or Russian leaders—only creates more division and does nothing to solve those problems. 

I couldn't have said it better myself. Believe me, I've tried!

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Speaking of lies, The Book of Daniel is considered to be backdated propaganda for the Maccabees by serious researchers.  I do feel you.  What is inexplicable to me is how exactly the jabbed ID/medical information that is going to be attempted to be imposed by the evil overlords is prophesied in Revelations.  How could a 1st Century Palestinian have any concept of the Mark of the Beast without which we will not be able to transact thousands of years ago?

There is more to what we look at than we see.  What I do see is the rise of decentralization.  Where BTC has been allowed to be, or forced to be by big mining pools, utterly subject to centralized exchanges that has allowed 25k accounts to be frozen, crypto such as Rune cannot be so controlled.  By it's nature, Rune is a decentralized exchange.

I think if we want to keep our hive, we'll arrange for atomic swaps on Thorchain with Rune.  Then they can't freeze our accounts without keeping us from getting online.  That's another weak centralized link in the chain, too.  ISPs can just not let us online, which essentially freezes our accounts.  We need mesh networks and IPFS, freenet, or Tor, or something, so that our access to the interenet doesn't depend on BlackRock owned corporations.

But things like solar panels, wind and water turbines, wood gas generators, 3D printers, aquaponics, all enable us to make our own power, fuel, food, and not suffer broken supply lines, inflation, or subjugation to evil overlords.  These are the weapons of freedom.  We have to make them, but then they're ours.  When we do that we're free of evil overlords, who become overlords of no one and nothing.  Just peers.

We will be free.

Thanks!