Nicholas Bradfield (@theknightwhosaysnini) • Hey

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https://www.racket.news/p/covids-origins-and-the-death-of-trust?publication_id=1042&post_id=135309998&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false It is a tragic time to be alive - not only are we witnessing the death of liberalism (free speech, freedom of the press, bodily autonomy, right to dissent/question/whistleblow, etc) to the onslaught of inverted totalitarianism, but we also have to be surrounded by apathetic enablers who dare not question the tyranny of authority nor lament the loss of our liberties to corporate monopolies fused with a runaway Stasi spy state bureaucracy. RIP America.
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Another great visionary and leader banned, silenced, 'fact-checked', deplatformed, censored, slandered and canceled by the neocon/neoliberal orthodoxy due to her stance on vaccines and GMOs. The real revolution won't be televised. It will be mocked on prime-time news 24/7 so that you're trained to hate it. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/28/fighting-giants-eco-activist-vandana-shiva-on-her-battle-against-gm-multinationalscanceled
Newest music video! https://bafybeicjg6aexxkfmmy56cg7x2czxt6z7df5ygq5tcvacn3bnkgpgk6yxy.ipfs.w3s.link/ipfs/bafybeicjg6aexxkfmmy56cg7x2czxt6z7df5ygq5tcvacn3bnkgpgk6yxy/Home%20-%201080WebShareName.mov Anyone know how to embed longer videos into Lens?
A new looping track created by Nini and Vivi. We're going home. To the eternal place within us all.
My new favorite term for neoliberal/neocon authoritarianisn: "Sovietization" [News Blackout in Effect](https://www.racket.news/p/news-blackout-in-effect) The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors
Our corrupt totalitarian government gets all the privacy it wants to spy on us, censor us, propagandize us, and wipe their asses with our Consitution, but whistleblowers and journalists like Julian Assange, Manning and Snowden who uncovered this heinous corruption? Off the to the gulag for them! Trump and Biden are both petty mobsters and pawns for this corrupt white nationalism that seeks to criminalize all dissent and cover up the crimes of our oppressors.
"Please bro, just one more weapons spending bill for Ukraine, this time is different, we're the good guys this time, we're actually not lying to you u this time, there's actually no Nazis there, we promise, please bro, just cut the food stamps program, just print more money, who cares about inflation or the exploding cost of living, we gotta save the US colonial empire and fight countless endless wars, it's good for Raytheon's stock and employment, please bro just one more endless war for the white/western supremacist neocolonial empire...' - Joe Biden
"Please bro, just one more weapons spending bill for Ukraine, this time is different, we're the good guys this time, we're actually not lying to you u this time, there's actually no Nazis there, we promise, please bro, just cut the food stamps program, just print more money, who cares about inflation or the exploding cost of living, we gotta save the US colonial empire and fight countless endless wars, it's good for Raytheon's stock and employment, please bro just one more endless war for the white/western supremacist neocolonial empire...' - Joe Biden
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America in a nutshell
Hey FBI - Have ya'll ever considered doing your job? Maybe that would help? Obama/Biden's stenographer submitted whistleblower complaints against the Biden crime family and yet the government still refuses to let them testify before a grand jury. They are actively suppressing witnesses (refusing to even interview them on record) who are key to the case against Biden's self-dealing/bribes/kickbacks because sadly the FBI has become a political organization - a tool for whichever party can shower them with more corporate money and influence. "10% for the big guy", as crackhead Hunter confessed. Unfortunately, the FBI was too busy licking Biden's boots and helping pressure social media companies to cover up the Laptop Leak to give a damn about hearing from witnesses on all sides of this historic scandal. I'm sure Trump is just as corrupt, but never before have we seen so much actionable evidence of corruption in a sitting president before. Although I think Biden should be impeached, I'm actually very happy he's still walking around the oval office wondering where, or who, he is because Trump and Biden are the perfect opposition for a third party candidate to have any real chance of upending the corrupt duopoly. That's why I'm backing Bobby Kennedy For President. He's the only real chance of finding a leader who can appeal to both sides of the aisle and isn't a total mobster like all the other options we have. He's spent his years litigating for environmental causes, civil rights, bodily autonomy, etc. Political warfare strategists call this opportunity a pincer movement. An alternative left-right alliance that focuses on the core, central things we share in common and doesn't resort to extremism and partisanship. One of the core things a lot of us share in common in libertarian, anarchist, socialist, independent centrist camps is a deep contempt for the corrupt elites in Washington and their increasingly totalitarian spy state apparatus which engages in widespread social engineering, censorship and propaganda. A third party has a real chance to unite the country and maybe start to heal the growing polarity and divisiveness stoked by the uniparty corporate state whose only motto is 'divide and conquer'. The People's Party - let's endorse, shall we? https://mmccormick.substack.com/p/big-news-joe-biden-is-a-criminal
I once loved NPR. Listened to it every day. But when they refused to cover one of the most important stories of our lifetime, the Hunter Biden leaks and the resulting illegal government censorship designed to cover up the crimes of our neoliberal/neocon oppressors, I knew they had been captured by the corrupt establishment. I've never turned my radio back on since then. NPR and PBS are no better than RT or other state-sponsored propaganda networks. When Joe Biden comes a' knockin, they don't ask questions, they just censor whatever it is their overlords tell them to censor. Never would they ever consider questioning authority or doing actual journalism like Julian Assange. They aren't leaving Twitter because Elon correctly labeled them as such, they are leaving Twitter because they know it's no longer a platform controlled by the 'Operation Mockingbird' propaganda ministers or used by unquestioning statists. The bootlickers left when Elon bought it so they have no market there anymore. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is right on point here. Bill Gates is a fascist pig who got rich selling vaccines without informed consent while bankrolling corporate media to enrich himself further and increase sales. He privatized the gains and socialized the risk. Complete liability protection from the government alongside unconstitutional coercive mandates despite the lack of long-term safety studies and one of the worst safety profiles ever for a vaccine.
Matt Taibbi's departure from Twitter marks a sad end to the wild chapter of American history led by Musk's acquisition of Twitter and release of the #TwitterFiles. Although I have always detested Musk's crass and insensitive nature, I held out hope that we might finally have our human rights to speak freely in the public domain and be free from corrupt government censorship and official propaganda. Sadly, Musk has committed political and social suicide with his latest move to block Substack links. He has become the evil he sought to destroy. I am reminded of the Star Wars meme "You are the chosen one... You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!!!!". That's how socialist/civil-libertarians feel right now - A deep sense of betrayal and hope lost for what could have been a glorious turnaround for a platform riddled with corporate/governmental corruption and truly dark, authoritarian, partisan censorship. So while we all watch the slow death of Twitter as the new boss becomes more and more like the old boss, how about we start trying out new social networks like Desofy, Phaver or Damus - peer-to-peer, user-owned and operated social networks that return sovereignty to the voice of the people. Journalists, dissidents and whistleblowers - indeed, the whole American tradition itself - depends on the free and open flow of information. How else can the weak hold the strong to account? How else can David slay Goliath when our corrupt rulers engage in mind control techniques to bury the truth of their crimes and censor/imprison journalist heroes like Julian Assange? How are people supposed to be well informed about political candidates if whatever billionaire(s) currently own(s) Twitter decide(s) to cover up stories the ruling party doesn't like? The Hunter Biden laptok leak was censored and ignored by the neoliberal mockingbirds, but just wait when the right-wing fascists come back to power. Two can play that game, and it saddens me that the Left has embraced the new authoritarian bent without realizing this can and will be used against them when it's Trump's crimes a corrupt government is forcing Twitter to cover up. The 'war on misinformation' is nothing but the latest attempts by our corrupt 'Operation Mockingbird' fascist media industry to usher us into a world disturbingly similar to Orwell's 1984. We are witnessing the tragic death of America and the descent into corporate tyranny. The billionaires have all gone mad... Matt Taibbi sums it up far better than I ever could. "Nearly five months ago I was presented with a rare opportunity, to look through internal correspondence at Twitter. A small group of other journalists and writers soon jumped down the rabbit hole to join the one-in-a-million search. At the time the company was just completing a contentious sale, which featured multiple stops, starts and legal actions, along with competing furious public relations campaigns. New owner Elon Musk accused the old regime of lying about the percentage of Monetizable Daily Active Users (mDAU) on the platform (i.e. how much on Twitter was real traffic and how much was spam), said he was “obviously overpaying,” and insisted he was an advocate of the right “to speak freely within the bounds of the law.” I was amazed at this story’s coverage. From the Guardian last November: “Elon Musk’s Twitter is fast proving that free speech at all costs is a dangerous fantasy.” From the Washington Post: “Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say.” The Post story was about the “troubling” decision to re-instate the Babylon Bee, and numerous stories like it implied the world would end if this “‘free speech’ agenda” was imposed. I didn’t have to know any of the particulars of the intramural Twitter dispute to think anyone who wanted to censor the Babylon Bee was crazy. To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, going to war against a satire site was like dressing up in a suit of armor to attack a hot fudge sundae. This was an obvious moral panic and the very real consternation at papers like the Washington Post and sites like Slate over these issues seemed to offer the new owners of Twitter a huge opening. With critics this obnoxious, even a step in the direction of free speech values would likely win back audiences that saw the platform as a humorless garrison of authoritarian attitudes. This was the context under which I met Musk and the circle of adjutants who would become the go-betweens delivering the material that came to be known as the Twitter Files. I would have accepted such an invitation from Hannibal Lecter, but I actually liked Musk. His distaste for the blue-check thought police who’d spent more than a half-year working themselves into hysterics at the thought of him buying Twitter — which had become the private playground of entitled mainstream journalists — appeared rooted in more than just personal animus. He talked about wanting to restore transparency, but also seemed to think his purchase was funny, which I also did (spending $44 billion with a laugh as even a partial motive was hard not to admire). Moreover the decision to release the company’s dirty laundry for the world to see was a potentially historic act. To this day I think he did something incredibly important by opening up these communications for the public. Normally when someone comes to you with a story you ask what it is they want or expect out of press coverage, both so you can understand their motives and to avoid misunderstandings later on. I asked the question, but I can’t say I ever fully understood the answer. It didn’t matter. Within a few days of seeing documents it was clear we were looking at something bigger than us, Musk, or Twitter, more or less completely obviating the motivation question as far as I was concerned. I went into the project expecting to answer a few narrow questions, maybe about how internal content moderation worked, or if federal law enforcement made an inappropriate call or two to discourage high-profile stories. Remember, in the pre-Twitter Files world, Twitter was still denying that it shadow-banned people at all (“We do not,” they’d explained). Also, the notion that there’d been any contact at all between the FBI and a company like Facebook ahead of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a national scandal after Mark Zuckerberg blurted out something along those lines to Joe Rogan. Just one possible recommendation made headlines, let alone regimes of spreadsheet requests. When we got into the Files, we were caught off guard. The content-policing system was more elaborate and organized than any of us imagined. A communications highway had been built linking the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with Twitter, Facebook, Google, and a slew of other platforms. Among other things this looked more like a cartel than a competitive media landscape, and I had an uneasy feeling early on that publicizing this arrangement might create a host of unanticipated problems for everyone involved. Still, there was no question this was in the public interest. So we kept going. About two weeks into the #TwitterFiles project, the company suspended the accounts of CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan, Ryan Mac of the New York Times, VOA’s Steve Herman, and a few other social media personalities like Aaron Rupar, reportedly for sharing information about the movement of Elon Musk’s private jet. My phone instantly blew up with wisecracks. “I must have missed John Stuart Mill’s ‘private jet exception’ passage in On Liberty,” texted one ball-busting friend. After about six ringtones I rolled my eyes, popped an Advil, and turned my phone off, knowing what was coming. The suspensions, even if quickly reversed, were sure to ignite nuclear levels of pearl-clutching and self-pity among the same censorious power-worshipping media jerks who a few months before were howling about Musk because they thought he was for free speech. Bari Weiss decided the situation demanded a public statement. I absolutely respected the decision, but disagreed. I thought the outcry — coming from people who never said a word across years of suppression of the type of people I wrote about in the “Meet the Censored” series, like J6 videographer Jon Farina, Canadian broadcaster Paul Jay, and the World Socialist Web Site — was a bad-faith trap. These people didn’t care about the issue at all, except in a self-interested way, while they probably did care about shifting public attention from #TwitterFiles releases. From that moment the project was a football between two committed antagonists: a sporadically censorious CEO I didn’t really understand on one hand, and on the other, a bloc of vicious uniparty authoritarians who were committed to throttling speech as an ideological goal, whose methods and tendencies felt all too familiar. The latter group isn’t interested in engagement and prefers a strategy of obliteration. This played out in a very real way for new Twitter from the start, in the form of sweeping advertiser boycotts led by groups like David Brock-founded Media Matters, Free Press, Accountable Tech and Color of Change. Twitter Files reporters like me experienced a less personally damaging version of the same deal, through an impressive total mainstream coverage blackout of #TwitterFiles revelations, coupled with a near-constant string of smears and stories assuring the uniparty faithful that all those documents they were assiduously kept from reading about were nothingburgers. We were never on the same side as Musk exactly, but there was a clear confluence of interests rooted in the fact that the same institutional villains who wanted to suppress the info in the Files also wanted to bankrupt Musk. That’s what makes the developments of the last week so disappointing. There was a natural opening to push back on the worst actors with significant public support if Musk could hold it together and at least look like he was delivering on the implied promise to return Twitter to its “free speech wing of the free speech party” roots. Instead, he stepped into another optics Punji Trap, censoring the same Twitter Files reports that initially made him a transparency folk hero. Even more bizarre, the triggering incident revolved around Substack, a relatively small company that’s nonetheless one of the few oases of independent media and free speech left in America. In my wildest imagination I couldn’t have scripted these developments, especially my own very involuntary role. I first found out there was a problem between Twitter and Substack early last Friday, in the morning hours just after imploding under Mehdi Hasan’s Andrey Vyshinsky Jr. act on MSNBC. As that joyous experience included scenes of me refusing on camera to perform on-demand ritual criticism of Elon Musk, I first thought I was being pranked by news of Substack URLs being suppressed by him. “No way,” I thought, but other Substack writers insisted it was true: their articles were indeed being labeled, and likes and retweets of Substack pages were being prohibited. I asked Substack co-head Hamish McKenzie what was going on. He said he wasn’t sure, but offered that they’d just announced a new “Notes program” the day before. I had to ask, “What’s that?” I had no clue what ‘Substack Notes” was: As many unfortunately know now, my next move was to ask Elon what was going on. He didn’t answer right away, which is fine, the man is busy, but the math on this was pretty simple. Whatever was going on between Twitter and Substack had nothing to do with me or with other Substack writers, and if Twitter was going to label our work unsafe and not allow us to share my articles, I couldn’t endorse all this by using the platform, and said so. This prompted a quick ping! and a furious Signal question: “So you want Substack to kill Twitter?” I thought about asking him if he was okay — Substack is like a thousand times smaller than Twitter — but figured that wouldn’t go over well and tried a Socratic approach. What would he would have me do, if I couldn’t share links and market my work? The answer: post articles to Twitter instead, enabling a subscription plan. I would get more subscribers that way, I was told. This idea had come up about a month before and I’d cheerfully declined, telling them I was happy where I was. I didn’t think that had been a serious request, but now realized it might have been and tried to focus on the next line of text. Skipping over the part where it’s weird and inappropriate to expect someone to leave a job, I moved to a more bottom-line observation, namely that if I moved, “people would say I’m essentially an employee of Twitter and both of us would never hear the end of it.” Then and now, I was genuinely trying to protect Elon from his own ideas. He didn’t see it that way and said that was goodbye. Through a fatalistic laugh I asked if this was because I wouldn’t leave Substack, to which he reiterated it was because I’d chosen to “support a company that wants to kill Twitter.” I was still shaking my head and en route to Disneyland with my kids that night when I heard mid-flight that all of my Twitter Files threads had been disabled (all were frozen last Friday evening). Though Twitter fixed this that same night, I was next subject to what was described to me as a “blanket search ban.” To the outside world this looked like shadowbanning to a degree that was comical even compared to the weirder edge cases we’d seen in the Twitter Files: During this time I was also performatively unfollowed (what grade are we in?), and had my Signal exchanges posted. All this, apparently, because Elon somehow came to believe I was scheming to set aside work on the Twitter Files to pursue my real goal, i.e. helping “kill Twitter” by working with a company a tiny fraction of its size to build a social media app I’d never heard of. I’ve done a lot of drugs and can’t remember ever reaching that level of paranoia. The episode reminded me of Bananas, when Woody Allen’s Fielding Mellish character toils with Marxist revolutionaries in a Central American jungle to change the system, only to see fearless leader General Emilio Molina Vargas lose his mind after seizing power. “From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish,” El Presidente declares. “All children under 16 years old, are now 16 years old…” In doing all this Elon immolated the last remnants of any reputation he had as a free speech advocate and gave immeasurable succor to the assorted David Brocks, AOCs, and Renee DiRestas who view him as an antichrist. All can now point to his outbursts of cartoon censorship and argue individual eccentric CEOs are the real danger to free expression, not squads of executives working in oligopolistic secrecy with the FBI, DHS, and ten million Pentagon-funded Centers for Securing Whatever. It won’t be true, but Elon’s public meltdown will in the short run take a ton of pressure off these villains, while accelerating the piranha frenzy currently skeletonizing Twitter’s profits. Even given the recent craziness, I find myself feeling bad for the guy. So no one who’s interested in continued releases of #TwitterFiles reports doubts it, I would have crawled across broken glass, eaten maggots by the bucket, anything — you can choose your own self-abasing image — to be able to keep doing Files searches. No offense to Substack, but the idea that I would walk away from a story like that to be involved in some peripheral way with building a new social media startup is, to put it gently, bonkers. The disabling of the Twitter Files threads even temporarily made me nervous right away about leaving them to the whims of the company. I know other sites have already copied the TF material, but as of today we’re uploading my threads at least to a number of different platforms, including Facebook, Substack (see the new section atop the face page), and, yes, TruthSocial, among others. As for Twitter Files reports, Elon apparently announced in a Spaces that these are “done, there’s not much left really… we need to move on.” That may be true as far as he’s concerned, but we still have a lot of material, and more reports are coming. Holding up my end of the deal, these will appear on Twitter first. They just won’t be on my account, since I wouldn’t wipe my ass with Twitter after the events of last week. En route to the beach this morning I got a text from a friend teasing me about a news story saying I’d “quit Twitter.” He asked if I was going to write one of those self-pitying “I’m leaving!” essays and requested for his personal amusement that I stretch the text to at least 10,000 words. I laughed, but this isn’t that. It’s more like Office Space. I’m not quitting Twitter. I’m just not going to go anymore. It’s not personal. I just can’t drive traffic for any site that’s censored me. These companies depend on our content to make money, and for years we’ve been rewarding all their dicking around with engagement and reality by handing them more eyeballs to sell. Frankly if all accounts walked away in these situations, the platforms would have to cut this nonsense out pretty quickly. I mean this sincerely: I’ve got nothing against Elon Musk. Thanks to him and the #TwitterFiles, ordinary people know a lot more than they ever could have hoped to about how information is managed in this country. I’ll personally always feel grateful for what he did. But he’s high as Snoop in a weather balloon if he thinks banning commercial rivals is going to solve Twitter’s problems. The whole thing’s really a shame. With apologies to my wife and children, now I really have to go back to vacation."
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Flow State. My latest single! Produced with my wife on our Looperboard and mixed with Logic Pro.
Looking at you #ElonMusk 🙁
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Great news! The American empire is collapsing. https://slkanthan.substack.com/p/beautiful-things-are-happening-in?publication_id=844398&post_id=111181065&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true
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A new loop track from my upcoming album!
A new loop track from my upcoming album!
New loop demos out today!!! Come vibe with me
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Hey you, yes, you! With the Ukraine flag profile pic. You're not a leftist anymore. The left used to be the anti-war party. I'm here to tell you it is still is and we must do our jobs as global citizens to help the poor 3rd world nations our endless wars relentlessly reduce to rubble for the sake of white, western supremacy and corporate profits. I know - the corporate news and journalism you consume has been telling you that anti-war liberals are Putin-apologists or Nazis or whatever slurs they can come up with. But don't mistaken - the people supporting endless amounts of money being sent to Ukraine are not socialists, not leftists, not libertarians or anarchists - they are neoliberals and neocons. They are the fascists of inverted totalitarianism who have taken over our country and are hellbent on global domination via proxy wars with Russia and China. They are the terrorists who blew up Nordstream and triggered the beginning stages of World War 3. What will you tell your kids when they ask you what you did to prevent the nuclear holocaust? "Oh, I was too busy watching MSNBC who told me those anti-war rallies were just far-right Neo-nazi marches". The saddest part about all of this is that those Ukraine billions being siphoned out of our decaying, decrepit cesspool of corruption that is America, are going directly into the hands of Nazis and Banderitas in Ukraine while they used chemical weapons and execute prisoners of war just like they do civilians who dare have Russian ethnicity. They tape them to street poles and let them starve to death as Ukrainians torture them in broad daylight. Joe Biden is a terrorist. A pedophile. A rapist. A warmonger. A white-supremacist. An authoritarian. A corrupt con artist. Which side of history will you stand on? That of the 3rd world, the most exploited and abused by US tyranny? Or the white, old patriarch who's arming Nazis and using Nazi tactics like suppression of free speech, spreading blatant lies through government propaganda, spying on their own citizens, criminalizing journalists like Julian Assange? Take your pick. I know which side I stand on. The old left. The classic liberal view. We haven't changed. You have.
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New logo for Rabbit Hole Studios (.org)!
Behold! Sweet freedom!! No tyrant shall censor my meme thought-crimes!!!