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Thanks once again for being a truth teller. You are one of the few public figures left in the US who has the courage to be ruthlessly honest about our existential situation. You must feel somewhat lonely. I wish we had more to keep you company!

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"maybe rats will take over the planet and evolve into some new life form. "

Maybe that already happened.

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Whatever the future holds, how can we not grieve the life forms leaving us now....as the climate heats up and complex webs of interdependence break. There is a wonderful documentary about our boreal forest on the Canadian National Film Board site....it's called Borealis I think.

Watch it if you can, and imagine the relationships that exist in that dying world....the red squirrels and the pine trees have evolved together so that the squirrel mothers somehow know when a big harvest of pine cones is on the way....and they have large broods. But in the film, a deviation in climate blows all the cones down....and the squirrels, that don't harvest them on the ground face starvation.

In little ways such as this small example........our boreal is dying. Fire speeds up the inevitable loss. Clear cut logging and other terraforming schemes do what they can to help....but the fate of that northern woodland is likely already written.

And I am grieving the Canadian wilderness......so vital, and still to so many, not that important unless we live there.

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Chris: In this case, I believe you've been conned by the globalists: Watch this video and you will see what the wildfires are truly about: https://youtu.be/mHeoaIh7cx8. It has little to do with climate and everything to do with globalism.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

I just watched the video you provided at the link above ...

And I'm amazed that ANYBODY would have the balls to talk about this ...

I've been saying that the 2018 Paradise fires were THE best indicator yet that TPTB are coming after us ... The Paradise "camp fires" provided the most damning photographic evidence I have ever seen ... the photos were incredible - just absolutely, shockingly incredible! ... I vividly remember a photo of a charred skeleton sitting behind the steering wheel of an incinerated car ... NFW the normal pace of a forest fire could strike so swiftly ...

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

James, your observation assumes Hedges doesn't really know better ...

But I can assure you he knows exactly what's going on ... some years ago he capitulated to corporate pressure to sidestep the true nature of events like this ... I firmly believe he has been asked to distract us from any and all truths that reflect negatively on core DS interests ...

For him, it's the easier, softer way ... it's so fucking easy!

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All true. But ignored .

And now it seems we have Gladiators who want to destroy what democracy built.

Reality is avoided completely. Lies allow us to live for now . But reality cannot be run from . I think of my grown kids with their kids . Who will survive ? Who wants to survive?

My eldest grandchild is 26 . My youngest is almost 3 yrs the five cousins in between 24, 24,12,8 , 5, .

We have betrayed our promise to keep them safe.

Last week we had the worst air quality ever since we’d begun testing air quality in 1999.

I do not hear the birds , or see them . A very few . None on the power lines no young cardinals practicing their notes.

As for those that think Jesus will save us . He sent us the scientists that have told us what to do . The screaming continues so we don’t have to hear.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

Pat ... I hope you at least have someone in your immediate circle you can talk to about this ...

Seeing Hedges sidestep the core issues here does not exactly nourish my state of mind ...

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Hedges is essentially pushing the same climate crisis mush on us here that globalist turncoats Al Gore and John Kerry are pushing ... great company!

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Jun 15, 2023·edited Jun 15, 2023

Hedges IS NOT a truth-teller ...

Pay closer attention to the bigger picture of what he is doing here ...

In this article he foments fear by resurrecting the globalists phony climate crisis narrative ... do we have problems? ... yes, but he wants you to believe that it is an existential threat when it is not ...

And after pointing out many times the problem of divisiveness among us, in his previous article he cynically reached into his bag of wedge issues to resurrect the divisive TRUMP-MAGA connection ... our problem is not TRUMP and MAGA ... the problem is the globalist's relentless pursuit of AGENDA 21/30 ... and on this topic Hedges has NEVER SAID A THING!

But he did say this in 2022: "Let us stand up and resist so future generations will at least say ‘they tried.’ We cannot do this alone ... together we have a chance" ...

BTW, he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the book THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ...

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Hi Chris. Always enjoy listening, thanks.

Just on the part re Kosovo. They were sent to what was then the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), now North Macedonia not to be confused with the most Northern state of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) which has existed for over 2500 years.

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As I write this comment it is Monday evening and my partner and I spent the afternoon in the backyard looking out at our garden in front of large Quebec forest. Five and half hours from the Long Island Ferry and my partner is a aging Jewish philosopher and a Jewish Grandmother. It doesn't get much more Socratic. The only smoke is from a neighbour who insists on burning skunk wood for heating his home and burns it in his garage.

My partner is a UofC PhD and I am autistic but seventy five years ago I didn't exist because there were no vaccines and I would wait for Jonas Salk

My wife loves studying philosophy . I introduced her to Orwell and Twain after all Americans are not supposed to understand Orwell and Twain. Americans don't do truth.

Carter told us the risks in 1979 and America bought Snake Oil and 1984.

The American revolution had nothing to do with democracy. The Toleration Act of 1689 made America Democratic and as Stalin said: "All men are created equal but some are more equal than others."

We are a democracy and today we took all responsibility for Quebec Forests we have owned our waters since 1937. We stop fossil fuels burning in 2030 and Greta Thunberg has replaced John the Baptist as our Patron Saint. The Quebec Act made Catholics full citizens and that was the fifth and final Intolerable Act.

There is nothing more unAmerican than believing all men are created equal. Ask Jefferson . Jefferson believed in evolution not magic and was not a REAL ANGLICAN or the right kind of Protestant and wrote his own American Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. 1820. He believed you needed a new constitution every 19 years.

Science is the study of evolution and there is no design in evolution.

In the 1970s The Ecologist told us of the consequences and Jimmy Carter warned us but America likes Snake Oil. It always had.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton made his fortune writing about Sam Slick in the early19th century.

Sam Slick the Yankee clock maker sold snake oil.

Orwell wrote Slavery is freedom or freedom is slavery and Koch's Kansas has the right to work and Fred C Koch studied under Stalin before he founded The John Birch Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch

I am autistic I have no imagination I can't make this stuff up. The Birch Society helped make Reagan Governor of California

Dr Johnson in his 1755 Dictionary defines cabal as a secret society of Hebrew Rabbins. I am 75 and my father explained to me while I bounced on his knee Hebrew Rabbins don't keep secrets. They make a living spreading gossip.

In Quebec RaCE, GENDER AND RELIGION ARE NOT REAL AND 70% OF US APPROVE OUR LEGISLATION bILL 21. The ACLU of Canada says that is undemocratic and I knew America spoke

Newspeak. Here is the Bill in English. It is the best best translation of Quebecois I've encountered in 75 years.

https://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/projets-loi/projet-loi-21-42-1.html

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