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I’m with you 😊🙏 and yes it’s our future!

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After reading every word of the Twitter Files and listening with revulsion to the hearing of the Committee on the Weaponization of the Government, it is disconcerting but not totally surprising to find out that the particulars of the German version of the American dystopia are so similar. Same story In the UK, where journalism is an arm of intelligence services. I tremble for the future of my children and thank heaven for the alternative press and Substack.

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Amen.

Like Nikki Lachs wrote (above), it's amazing how little money this actually takes.

I'm also guessing that this amount--1.5m Euros--is merely the proverbial tip of the iceberg, i.e., that which couldn't plausibly be denied/swept under the rug.

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There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine *a needle being jabbed into a human shoulder* — forever.

Fabian Spieker, 2021

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Sigh.

On the 'upside', Bill Gates bought Heineken Corp. shares--if you'd like to fight him and his ilk, stop drinking Heineken.

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Ehy Prof, you made me cry a second time in few days!! 😉

Wonderful piece, love it, I did publish the italian translation today.

What else I can say: "resistance, resistance, resistance!" like that great Prosecutor said the day he retired.

P.S.

Forget to have any italian party do that kind of enquiry here...

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Well, the AfD isn't exactly an 'opposition'. Also, like the FPÖ in Austria, they'll only do this to get back into the feed-lot.

Cheers!

And: corraggio as well!

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"If you can't tell what the product is that's being sold, it's you."

"Free" press...

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Exactly.

Drug-user.

Internet-user.

'News'-user.

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Not actually that much money. I'm guessing there was more influence wielded, somehow. But thank you !

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As in the post, most of the names and money are covered by " reasons of State"...

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Exactly.

There's nothing to see here, move on folks.

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Of course, my ministerpresidentin, SPD politician Malu Dreyer is on the board of the public service channel ZDF.

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And that, of course, doesn't constitute a 'conflict of interest' that must be disclosed because 'reasons of state'. (/sarcasm)

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I have to wonder if this is legal or constitutional in Germany?

That a political party might hire journalists for puff pieces is nothing special, but when it does so as part of governement, well it's not the same thing.

Then again, being swedish I'm so used to things like this I just feel jaded and a sense of "Well that's just normal, what's the fuss?".

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I'm a bit unsure about the 'legality' of it (my hunch is it's not, or at least not expressly forbidden, but that's besides the point). My bet is that this is as limited as a hangout can be.

It's at the very least troubling in terms of the 'we're not like them' posture so willingly and virtue-signallingly taken up by the powers that be.

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Yeah I can't help, but feel like we're being herded.

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Neocon warmongers shaping humanity into a machine.

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Only if we let them do so.

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Neocons oppose free will individualism as originally promoted by neoliberals. Blaming the neoliberals is convenient - we should string up those individualists!

More than a mental prison also graphinated and electrified into the machine.

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