And I trust you know that if Biden awoke one morning with the intent of freeing Assange, he would be smacked-down and ignored, right? ... Biden has no power here ...
Hedges has become THE most predictable of the "sell-out play-it-safe pseudo-progs" ...
As grossly unfair as the treatment of Assange has been, you'd still have to stand on your head to make the case that his plight is a top-tier working class issue ... but Hedges continues to HIDE behind it ... an unemployed divorced mother of four never gives a thought to Assange and Hedges knows it ... the Assange case has no DIRECT bearing on her ability to find dignified work at a living wage in union environment ...
Hedges refused to stand with the working class against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... on this topic he has only said: "it's a tough decision" ... and then he brazenly took sides with big pharma just one month after the explosive FDA FOIA release:
On DEC 2, 2021 ...
The FDA was compelled by a court ruling to release Phizer's internal vax data that revealed 1,223 post-jab deaths and 34,762 adverse events in the first 10 weeks of its trial ... The FDA attempted to delay the full release of this data for 75 years!
On JAN 1, 2022 ...
Chris Hedges made the following comment right here on SubStack on the Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (Episode #54) - go to the 1:08:48 mark ...
"I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ...
Chris Hedges DID NOT have to take sides on this issue ... he could have said it's a personal decision, but he chose to play it safe and recklessly stand with big pharma ... and then, after abandoning us on the mandates and passports, he made this comment just 3 months later in his "PIMPS OF WAR" post here on SubStack on April 11, 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" ...
My twin sister also is an underemployed if not unemployed divorced mother of four and she tells me to keep my head down and not write anything political nor copy her into should I do so; she just accepts that the state can silence us or take us out at any time and that resistance is futile. She’s also cares only about her own health not being degraded by vaccination and exercises her Christian Puritanism from the UK by agreeing with Trump. So perhaps we would not benefit from being compelled to make her notional constituency the arbiter of whether or not what Chris Hedges is saying about Assange is important.
PITA Contrarian’s invention of such stereotypes (noting here that people divide into two types, those that do so divide and all the others) reminds me of the English comedian Andy Hamilton’s story of how he wrote a joke which his editor found funny but “spiked” on the grounds that he didn’t think his grandmother in Bolton would get it. “ Well, let’s just phone her up and find out!”, suggested Andy. “ Er, look, it’s a figure of speech,” replied his editor, “she’s dead now, and anyway, she didn’t live in Bolton”. “Well, don’t you think you’re setting the bar for my joke a bit high if it has to appeal to someone who is dead and didn’t even live in Bolton?” replied Hamilton.
PITA Contrarian’s use of this rhetorical device has the hollow ring of one of Trump’s “lots of people are saying” remarks in support of his arguments. Our correspondent should be able to see how Assange’s destruction brings the house down on top of us. Perhaps he or she prefers a De Santis world of libraries emptied in case anyone should sue them for displaying the “wrong” book. After Assange’s extermination is complete we will indeed be that larger societal fractal of a person without a memory.
Thanks Roland ... I really appreciate the civil tone of your comment ...
BTW, I'm an independent progressive who walked away from the DEM party after the 2000 election ... and I did not vote for either of those sexually-obsessed bullies in the '20 election ...
All free thinkers defend freedom of thought, and freedom of the press. You are currently free to disagree with Chris, with your attitude, I think you want a dictatorship in America that will take away everyone's freedom to disagree. Move to Russia or Hungary instead of bringing it here!
Is that all ya got, is that the best you can do? ... it seems you would like to take away my freedom to disagree ... so let me tell you something, Bob ...
There are one hell of a lot of people on this planet who would never tell another person to walk the plank if they knew better ... but that's exactly what Hedges did here ... didn't you know? ... the average trial period for a vaccine is 10 years and the COVID vax was rushed to market after only one year! ... Hedges knew exactly what he was doing ... he knew about FDA FOIA release, he knew about the unacceptable trial period, he had to see those videos of the vax-injured ... but he recklessly, carelessly, cynically and unnecessarily chose to take sides on this issue anyway ... I used to love Hedges, followed him so very closely for the past 10 years, that it was impossible to NOT notice a dramatic change in him once the lock downs were declared ... Chris Hedges threw the working class under the bus with COVID ... and you can bet the ranch he knew the risks ... that's why he continues to glue himself to the Assange case at the expense of the more pressing issues of tyranny which are now in our face ...
The right wing who own the press were pushing covet Hysteria. It turned out, most of the people who suffered the most were elderly and disabled. I always supported mandatory wearing and 95 mass in public. That is what Taiwan did and their economy actually grew during the pandemic. Before Reagan, the healthcare industry was not centered so much around money. America has over 1.1 million deaths so far from covid and there are a lot of people with long covid costing a lot of money. I don't trust the corporations that moved overseas and keep selling contaminated products either. On hindsight I think mandatory wearing of the masks in public and distancing about 6 ft would have worked the best. Are you one of those anti-masker nuts? Do you support a dictatorship in America? Are you an anarchist? If you are, feel free to exercise your right to move to China, Saudi Arabia, Russia or Hungary, are any other capitalist banana Republic.
Are you are referring to me calling the people opposed to wearing masks, "nuts"? The reason I came to that conclusion was because everyone I came across who was anti-vaccine was also anti-wearing n-95 masks above their noses. But you said you support wearing the mask in public, so at least I met one person who was anti-vaccine and pro mask like me. I figure the old and disabled should get a vaccine but I was opposed to mandatory vaccinations for everyone for this virus.
Hedges and Fish stand up for Truth and Justice again! They present the facts in the public interest, which is the noble cause of journalists of integrity no matter what. They never spin the truth to suit special interests and always champion the virtues of a free society "without fear or favor." They courageously keep the citizenry informed about what's really going on in the corridors of Power and explore the alternatives to the corrupt reality of things as they are. Their work takes readers on a freedom ride away from policy based on ideology toward a governance based on evidence and the rule of law in the quest to realize the full potential of the Constitution, which has always been the sacred duty of the Fourth Estate, now unfortunately corrupted by corporate interests. As Newton Minnow, John F. Kennedy's Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said, "If you're going to have a free society, you have to have an informed electorate; I think that's the public interest." In Newt Minnow's "vast television wasteland," these two stewards of freedom and democracy plant the seeds of resurrection that may yet save us from the radical Evil that holds humanity in its lethal grip.
Well, PITA Contrarian, thanks for appreciating the tone of my remarks, and hopefully contributing to setting the tone generally. I tend to defend Hedges in all things and was writing to Kamala Harris to ditch Biden and run on a ticked with him for VP. In my mind Biden was supposed to retire after beating Trump the first time, leaving all to her; and the man clearly destroyed the European supply of natural gas from Russia after threatening to do so. which is costing me thousands. Why would the Russians destroy their pipeline when they have their hands on the taps anyway? A journalist should ask him about that.
I am a bit mystified about the anti-vaccination movement in the face of a pandemic, thinking that a hurried vaccine is better than nothing. If only it were nationalised and cost next to nothing! What’s the point of fearing poisoning when your neighbour might blow you away for asking him to keep the noise of gunfire down ? I suppose it’s from the fear that the vaccines contain sinister politics in the way Russian gas is supposed to.
"Fear the puppet Masters, not the puppets", it's a great quote. That must be why I wanted the 1/6 puppet Masters prosecuted before over a thousand of the poor puppets. For thousands of years, when individuals are allowed to accumulate unlimited wealth, oppression always ensues after all the raw materials and wealth of the nations have been looted. The aborted fetuses are going to be the lucky ones. They will go back to God but the ones who were not aborted will live a living hell. Only an epiphany from all the rich could change the course of mankind currently. They seem to keep doubling down on evil though.
Where there should be outrage there is none,
Compassion none,
Solidarity none,
Empathy none,
Accountability none,
Responsibility none.
This is the noneness,
The nullity of our times.
Note that the Biden regime could free Julian with the stroke of a pen. In fact, Biden is arguably the only person now who can do so.
The dismissive mockery of regime representatives towards Julian tells you all you need to know.
And I trust you know that if Biden awoke one morning with the intent of freeing Assange, he would be smacked-down and ignored, right? ... Biden has no power here ...
It's a pipe dream!
Thank you - and:
“Trump went into the lion’s den tonight and he ate a lion” -- Kim Dotcom on Trump at CNN
Hedges has become THE most predictable of the "sell-out play-it-safe pseudo-progs" ...
As grossly unfair as the treatment of Assange has been, you'd still have to stand on your head to make the case that his plight is a top-tier working class issue ... but Hedges continues to HIDE behind it ... an unemployed divorced mother of four never gives a thought to Assange and Hedges knows it ... the Assange case has no DIRECT bearing on her ability to find dignified work at a living wage in union environment ...
Hedges refused to stand with the working class against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... on this topic he has only said: "it's a tough decision" ... and then he brazenly took sides with big pharma just one month after the explosive FDA FOIA release:
On DEC 2, 2021 ...
The FDA was compelled by a court ruling to release Phizer's internal vax data that revealed 1,223 post-jab deaths and 34,762 adverse events in the first 10 weeks of its trial ... The FDA attempted to delay the full release of this data for 75 years!
On JAN 1, 2022 ...
Chris Hedges made the following comment right here on SubStack on the Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (Episode #54) - go to the 1:08:48 mark ...
https://krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/p/episode-54-audio-chris-hedges#details
"I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ...
Chris Hedges DID NOT have to take sides on this issue ... he could have said it's a personal decision, but he chose to play it safe and recklessly stand with big pharma ... and then, after abandoning us on the mandates and passports, he made this comment just 3 months later in his "PIMPS OF WAR" post here on SubStack on April 11, 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" ...
Thanks for nothing Chris!
My twin sister also is an underemployed if not unemployed divorced mother of four and she tells me to keep my head down and not write anything political nor copy her into should I do so; she just accepts that the state can silence us or take us out at any time and that resistance is futile. She’s also cares only about her own health not being degraded by vaccination and exercises her Christian Puritanism from the UK by agreeing with Trump. So perhaps we would not benefit from being compelled to make her notional constituency the arbiter of whether or not what Chris Hedges is saying about Assange is important.
PITA Contrarian’s invention of such stereotypes (noting here that people divide into two types, those that do so divide and all the others) reminds me of the English comedian Andy Hamilton’s story of how he wrote a joke which his editor found funny but “spiked” on the grounds that he didn’t think his grandmother in Bolton would get it. “ Well, let’s just phone her up and find out!”, suggested Andy. “ Er, look, it’s a figure of speech,” replied his editor, “she’s dead now, and anyway, she didn’t live in Bolton”. “Well, don’t you think you’re setting the bar for my joke a bit high if it has to appeal to someone who is dead and didn’t even live in Bolton?” replied Hamilton.
PITA Contrarian’s use of this rhetorical device has the hollow ring of one of Trump’s “lots of people are saying” remarks in support of his arguments. Our correspondent should be able to see how Assange’s destruction brings the house down on top of us. Perhaps he or she prefers a De Santis world of libraries emptied in case anyone should sue them for displaying the “wrong” book. After Assange’s extermination is complete we will indeed be that larger societal fractal of a person without a memory.
Thanks Roland ... I really appreciate the civil tone of your comment ...
BTW, I'm an independent progressive who walked away from the DEM party after the 2000 election ... and I did not vote for either of those sexually-obsessed bullies in the '20 election ...
All free thinkers defend freedom of thought, and freedom of the press. You are currently free to disagree with Chris, with your attitude, I think you want a dictatorship in America that will take away everyone's freedom to disagree. Move to Russia or Hungary instead of bringing it here!
Is that all ya got, is that the best you can do? ... it seems you would like to take away my freedom to disagree ... so let me tell you something, Bob ...
There are one hell of a lot of people on this planet who would never tell another person to walk the plank if they knew better ... but that's exactly what Hedges did here ... didn't you know? ... the average trial period for a vaccine is 10 years and the COVID vax was rushed to market after only one year! ... Hedges knew exactly what he was doing ... he knew about FDA FOIA release, he knew about the unacceptable trial period, he had to see those videos of the vax-injured ... but he recklessly, carelessly, cynically and unnecessarily chose to take sides on this issue anyway ... I used to love Hedges, followed him so very closely for the past 10 years, that it was impossible to NOT notice a dramatic change in him once the lock downs were declared ... Chris Hedges threw the working class under the bus with COVID ... and you can bet the ranch he knew the risks ... that's why he continues to glue himself to the Assange case at the expense of the more pressing issues of tyranny which are now in our face ...
The right wing who own the press were pushing covet Hysteria. It turned out, most of the people who suffered the most were elderly and disabled. I always supported mandatory wearing and 95 mass in public. That is what Taiwan did and their economy actually grew during the pandemic. Before Reagan, the healthcare industry was not centered so much around money. America has over 1.1 million deaths so far from covid and there are a lot of people with long covid costing a lot of money. I don't trust the corporations that moved overseas and keep selling contaminated products either. On hindsight I think mandatory wearing of the masks in public and distancing about 6 ft would have worked the best. Are you one of those anti-masker nuts? Do you support a dictatorship in America? Are you an anarchist? If you are, feel free to exercise your right to move to China, Saudi Arabia, Russia or Hungary, are any other capitalist banana Republic.
Wrong answer Bob, wrong response ...
Did you have to resort to calling me names? ...
BTW, the is answer is NO to all three of your questions ...
Are you are referring to me calling the people opposed to wearing masks, "nuts"? The reason I came to that conclusion was because everyone I came across who was anti-vaccine was also anti-wearing n-95 masks above their noses. But you said you support wearing the mask in public, so at least I met one person who was anti-vaccine and pro mask like me. I figure the old and disabled should get a vaccine but I was opposed to mandatory vaccinations for everyone for this virus.
Yes.
Hedges and Fish stand up for Truth and Justice again! They present the facts in the public interest, which is the noble cause of journalists of integrity no matter what. They never spin the truth to suit special interests and always champion the virtues of a free society "without fear or favor." They courageously keep the citizenry informed about what's really going on in the corridors of Power and explore the alternatives to the corrupt reality of things as they are. Their work takes readers on a freedom ride away from policy based on ideology toward a governance based on evidence and the rule of law in the quest to realize the full potential of the Constitution, which has always been the sacred duty of the Fourth Estate, now unfortunately corrupted by corporate interests. As Newton Minnow, John F. Kennedy's Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said, "If you're going to have a free society, you have to have an informed electorate; I think that's the public interest." In Newt Minnow's "vast television wasteland," these two stewards of freedom and democracy plant the seeds of resurrection that may yet save us from the radical Evil that holds humanity in its lethal grip.
Great speech pics from the event all free to share! :~)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pameladrew/albums/72177720308012506
Well, PITA Contrarian, thanks for appreciating the tone of my remarks, and hopefully contributing to setting the tone generally. I tend to defend Hedges in all things and was writing to Kamala Harris to ditch Biden and run on a ticked with him for VP. In my mind Biden was supposed to retire after beating Trump the first time, leaving all to her; and the man clearly destroyed the European supply of natural gas from Russia after threatening to do so. which is costing me thousands. Why would the Russians destroy their pipeline when they have their hands on the taps anyway? A journalist should ask him about that.
I am a bit mystified about the anti-vaccination movement in the face of a pandemic, thinking that a hurried vaccine is better than nothing. If only it were nationalised and cost next to nothing! What’s the point of fearing poisoning when your neighbour might blow you away for asking him to keep the noise of gunfire down ? I suppose it’s from the fear that the vaccines contain sinister politics in the way Russian gas is supposed to.
"Fear the puppet Masters, not the puppets", it's a great quote. That must be why I wanted the 1/6 puppet Masters prosecuted before over a thousand of the poor puppets. For thousands of years, when individuals are allowed to accumulate unlimited wealth, oppression always ensues after all the raw materials and wealth of the nations have been looted. The aborted fetuses are going to be the lucky ones. They will go back to God but the ones who were not aborted will live a living hell. Only an epiphany from all the rich could change the course of mankind currently. They seem to keep doubling down on evil though.