Posted on 11/15/2022 7:11:28 PM PST by ransomnote
My doctor, that suddenly started pushing the vax on me, is black. She’s in her late 50’s. It’s hard for me to believe any black person that is old enough to remember Fauci would push anything he had his hands on. She is probably a Dem, but she’s super educated, married for umpteen years, and put three daughters through college. She’s not your typical “hood” type.
Wonder if there is a study somewhere that concludes that intelligent people such as doctors and surgeons are the first to succumb to propaganda.
Why, yes! Yes, there is.
This covers much more than lying. It helps explain why it is so hard to change people’s minds.
Unfortunately, it’s now behind a paywall. :(
I’m wondering if the delta between Trump tweets will be the same (or related to) the delta between Q posts. That would be super cool.
ATTENTION ALL DIGGERS!
New tools. (Well, probably old tools, but new to me.)
Long video describes them (a little disoranizedly) here:
https://rumble.com/v1utz78-big-dig-energy-ep-1-wed-730-pm-et-.html
What I gleaned from watching:
1. Google tools.
Yes, I know, we hate google. I haven’t used it in many years.
BUT, I’m willing to take advantage of their tools if needed for a dig.
described here: https://somebitchtoldme.com/instructional-using-targeted-web-searches-to-find-information-fast/
You can add qualifiers to your G search such as :
+ site:.edu
+ site:.gov
+ filetype:pdf
+ site:weforum.org
to greatly restrict your search.
G likes to put the “good stuff” on page 5384 of the search results where we would never see it. Adding qualifiers like this eliminates a lot of the crap so that the “good stuff” is all that is returned.
EASY TO USE. ANYONE CAN DO IT.
2. snscrape
Tool for scraping tweets. That means you can look for specific things in tweets without scrolling through zillions of them. Find tweets from particular people, etc.
Python code. Found here:
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-scrape-tweets-with-snscrape-90124ed006af
I haven’t tried this yet. I plan to soon.
The woman in the rumble video uses Visual Studio to do this. VS is free. I plan to use Xcode.
I know all of this sounds very “programmer-ish” but if you are willing to play around a little bit, it’s not that hard. You DO NOT need to be a programmer. Just be willing to mess around and try stuff.
If you try it and are having problems, I will try to help you if I can. Better yet, all of us who try this can help each other.
3. Graphing the network.
Another one I haven’t tried yet. I’ll just put the link here.
Helps keep track of who is connected to whom.
That’s true they do want us to be slaves,no doubt.
OkKKKKKKKKKKK!!
I can’t quite make out the date on that WaPo edition, can you?
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 01/04/2023 Vol.444, Q Day 1895, RitaOK wrote: Now THAT is community organizing! Sincere congratulations! 👏
Ignoring the foul and disgusting has brought America down APATHY TRAIL, about long enough, buried in losses to the pig’s trough we are in today.
And cutting the branch out beneath our own feet will set us free.....
There is no comparison between the move to defund Free Republic until the board owner is 'brought to heel' and the apathy that brought America down.
I wrote a response to the current issue re troll that I was going to put on the thread but its long and some despise such long posts. So I'll post my entire post in Festival and just link it here.
From the first fist-shaking 'demand' posts that the board owner allow Q to be posted throughout the forum, I thought to myself that this particular tactic/tone will not work at all. Later, demands that funds will be withheld to force FR into compliance underscored my belief.
There's more than one reason I see this issue the way that I do. For example, I have long suspected that so long as FReeQs actively contend with Q thread trolls, admin doesn't usually push them off our thread. To the outside observer, it looks like a 50/50 fight if it's joined in progress and I suspect that when FReeQs walking away or ignore trolling is taken as a signal 'we're no longer participating' and beyond that, if a troll is nagging with no reasponse, they stand out in a crowd and are pushed off the thread. Just my theory.
I base part of my world view on experience with forceful demands as MQD. Some issue arose and a collection of FReeQs/FReepers wrote me to criticize me into behaving (intervene with a contentius person on-thread) and threaten to leave the thread if I didn't. Meanwhile other people wrote to sneer that if I was enough of a narcissist to think I had the right to intervene, then they and all their friends would leave the Q thread.This actually helped clarify things - every action pro or against has a cost. It made the unavoidable task of just doing the best that I could, no matter who threatens to leave, a bit less unpleasant.
Had I been perceived as 'caving' to either side, then I would have essentially been showing people 'what works' with me, how they should phrase their demands to get the response they want. Word would get out that 'she wouldn't do the right thing until I told her I'd leave...'
I have hundreds of people on the ping list. Each has the capacity (if not the desire) to make such demands. It is impossible for me to satisfy all expectations, or even the expectations of a 2-sided issue. But how many are on the Free Republic website? How many threats to cut funds would the board owner receive for all sides of all contentious issues if he allows the tactic to 'work' for this particular issue?
A friend pm'd me to say that she/he disagrees with me only in that it's a fairness issue, not an 'ignore' issue. It's possible that one or more other issues take priority once the contention is presented in a way that an organizational leader does not want to instill as policy. The issue of fairness, for example. Is it fair to respond to threats of funding cuts in one instance and not in other instances? Isn't it fair to do so in an 'all or nothing' manner?
It's possible that what has been witnessed over the intervening months on both sides of the conflict resulted in raising other issues which took priority, and informed the decision not to delete/ban. If it seemed to passing Admins that 'our side' appeared to have options but continued to go back, and back, and back again to score points, then the priority may switch from "should a FReeper be allowed to treat others this way" to become, "they are over engaging and will be encouraged to do so in the future if I act here."
It's always more complex than it seems. There were times when I was leading a team where I could not tell people WHY I made decisions they disputed.
I could not reveal confidential information
I might make matters worse for harmony if they understood my reasoning (e.g., someone they don't realize was a fault - this person becomes the new target, the originally accused wants payback)
I lay myself out for furture manipulation because I outlined my criteria, then they will shift to manipulating my perception of the criteria
I can't make myself fully accountable to this many people and be expected to meet all their requirements all the time, especially for sensitive information, particularly in a timely fashion
I personally don't like threats and intimidation and will make significant sacrifices to terminate the appearance of the 'usefulness' of this tactic
I know what I know after x years of experience in a variety of fields and sometimes cannot crystalize my knowledge into a tidy explanation on demand (a portion of which I internalized as 'judgement' and no longer remember or perceive as a conscious ideology or 'policy' decision).
etc. etc. etc.
I'm serious when I say our Q threads would not be here if heartfelt insistance, even if 'community organized' heartfelt insistance, that donations would cut until until our threads were deleted, was a strategy that the website wanted to support.
I've thought for some time that the approach/format of various demands posted to me, some of which obviously should have been given to the board owner, or SOME thread posts couched in threats that FR funding will be cut, guarantees they will not be granted. The way I've seen (some of) them delivered seems unsupportable because it would pull apart and/or disrupt more than perceived.
There's so much more than just the problem of "threats work precedent" that others would pursue on other issues (and once again raise the fairness issue - you banned X so you have to ban Y). For example there would likely be threats of funding cuts until he was reinstated (if banned). The only people we're hearing from are on the 'please ban or delete his posts' side; we've yet to hear from the other side. How far back (retroactive?) should this potential post deletion (purge) or banning go? How are such decisions going to be adjudicated in the future? Who will debate the way this situation is different from some future decision (fairness questions).
I think it's more complex than acknowledged, and that after all these years of FR, we can give JR the benefit of the doubt instead of suggesting he or Admin are 'enjoying' watching suffering. That kind of commentary ensures what is sought will not be granted. I say this as someone who worked in a corporate environment for about 20 years - I've never seen tactics remotely like this work; I was considered a highly resourceful organizational strategist.
I've received emails over the past 5 years telling me, based on my inaction in response to certain requests, that I'm not really a Christian, that I secretly am working to supress the truth from getting out, that I support evil, that my ego demands that I destroy the Q thread etc. None of those kinds of comments motivated me to do as the writer wished, although they truly seemed to think that all it would take is just the right innuendo to make me defend my honor by giving them what they want. I have no choice but to do the best I can and expect that some will despise me for it.
I'm not saying I agree with everything Admin has ever done (e.g., I recall seeing bagster banned for no apparent reason). But that's the exception, not the norm. I know there are sincere people invested in the best outcome for FR who are seriously troubled by the board's decisions. I don't wish to make light of their dedication; only to explain my own reasoning.
All this has no relationship to our failures as individuals, and as a nation, to come to grips with the Satanic evil in possession of power in the US.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 01/04/2023 Vol.444, Q Day 1895, RitaOK wrote: Now THAT is community organizing! Sincere congratulations! 👏
Ignoring the foul and disgusting has brought America down APATHY TRAIL, about long enough, buried in losses to the pig’s trough we are in today.
And cutting the branch out beneath our own feet will set us free.....
There is no comparison between the move to defund Free Republic until the board owner is 'brought into compliance' and the spiritual apathy that brought America down.
I wrote a response to the current issue re troll that I was going to put on the thread, but it's long and some are not interested in the content. So I'll post my entire post in an old Festival and just link it here.
Great post by delta7. Original version of the content below was posted as a thread. I reposted below just to put in paragraphs for my tired eyes. Here's the thread link and the paragraphed article.
The Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone
Dances With Bears ^ | 11 Jan23 | John HelmerPosted on 1/12/2023, 5:08:29 PM by delta7
A leading Ukrainian government official has admitted that a demilitarized zone (lead image, left) to divide the battlefield, protect the Russian east of the country from the US and NATO long-range assault, and partition Ukraine is in negotiation.
“’We are currently being offered the Korean scenario,” Alexei Danilov (lead image, right) announced on January 8. Danilov, a native of Lugansk, is the deputy chairman of the National Security and Defence Council, and second in rank to President Vladimir Zelensky. “[This is] the so-called conditional ’38th parallel’”, he told local reporters. “Here are Ukrainians, but there Ukrainians are not like that. The Russians will now invent anything.
I know for sure that one of the options they can offer us is the ’38th parallel’”. Danilov claimed one of the sources for the proposal is Dmitry Kozak. Officially, he is a deputy head of the presidential staff. In 2020-21 he was the Kremlin’s chief negotiator on the Minsk accords with the Kiev regime and in the Normandy format with Germany and France; for Kozak’s detailed record of those negotiations, read this. Danilov now says Kozak “meets with former politicians in Europe and conveys through them the message that the Russians are ready to make concessions in order to fix the current status quo and force Ukraine to a truce.” Danilov did not say that he, Zelensky and the Ukrainian-US general staff have rejected the idea.
Instead, he claimed the Korean DMZ has proven to be a mistake: “Danilov said that during a recent meeting, Korean representatives noted that establishing the division of the Korean peninsula into two parts along the 38th parallel was a mistake as the concessions made in the 1950s after the end of the war between North Korea and South Korea are currently leading to problems.” It is unclear what meeting Danilov was referring to, if any. US press reporting has identified the mistake of Vice President Kamala Harris last September in misnaming the “Republic of North Korea”.
Moscow sources suspect Danilov is attempting to relieve the pressure now growing on the Ukrainian generals from the US and the NATO command to consider an armistice before the Russians launch their anticipated general winter offensive. By exposing and trying to sandbag the Americans, Danilov’s remark is a signal that the real US assessment is that a much bigger loss of military capacity, territory and viable economy will be the outcome of the Russian offensive – unless the Ukrainians buy time with a ceasefire and protracted armistice talks to commence.
The reaction of the Stavka to that has been President Vladmir Putin’s explicit condemnation of the buying-time tactic after former German chancellor Angela Merkel revealed it last month, and ex-French President Francois Hollande repeated it on December 28. “The West lied to us about peace,” Putin said in his New Year address on December 31, “while preparing for aggression, and today, they no longer hesitate to openly admit it and to cynically use Ukraine and its people as a means to weaken and divide Russia. We have never allowed anyone to do this and we will not allow it now.”
Putin also confirmed the message with a Korean gloss. “Russian servicemen, militiamen and volunteers are now fighting for their homeland, for truth and justice, for reliable guarantees of peace and Russia’s security.” The narrow 4-kilometre depth and short 240-km length of the Korean DMZ are not, Putin implied, “reliable guarantees of security.” Danilov’s disclosure has been altogether missed by the mainstream western media, by the alternative media, and by US think-tankers claiming to favour negotiations. Moscow sources believe Danilov’s signal indicates anxiety in Kiev, not only at the collapse of their front at Soledar and Bakhmut, but at the prospect of the following Russian offensive striking simultaneously north from Sumy to Kharkov and Poltava; in the centre around the E50 highway into Dniepropetrovsk; and in the south to blockade Odessa.
“I have not seen a serious discussion in Moscow about a DMZ at all,” according to a Moscow source and Donbass sources. They believe Danilov is reporting what the Americans are telling Kiev. “Kozak has been de-activated in Moscow since last July”, according to another source. “That’s why it makes all the more sense [for the Ukrainians] to refer to him and not to genuine negotiators, not to a credible Russian figure. Danilov is attempting to refuse a proposal from a non-person. He and Zelensky are putting the Pentagon at that level – in other words, they are sending a message to [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken, [Deputy Secretary Wendy] Sherman and [Under Secretary Victoria] Nuland, or whoever the Ukrainians think will save them from the US military pressure now.”
The Russian sources note there has been no other public acknowledgement of the change in US thinking; they interpret press reporting of promises of US armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), German and British tank deliveries to mean the reverse of the appearances. “Time will have run out for the delivery of the Strykers and Bradleys, Leopards and Challengers in the east. So these press promises of delivery are for the last-ditch fortification of the western lines defending the regime between Lvov and Kiev. That’s between Zhitomyr and Vinnitsa, then Rivne and Chernopil
A North American veteran source urges patience. “The Bradleys may be rushed, so the question now is whether everything the Ukrainians throw into their fight west of the Artemovsk-Soledar- Seversk line to Dniepropetrovsk, including the press-ganging of civilians in Kharkov city, is just a rearguard action to hold up the Russians and create time for the reinforcements to arrive.”
A Canadian military source says that Ontario-made Strykers “have already been delivered to the eastern lines. They know the danger of a breakthrough and are determined to at least stall it. They cannot do that without AFVs.” Russian sources published sighting one on December 31. A Canadian press reporter took a week before acknowledging that 39 Canadian APVs had been delivered, most of them to “rear-area units for training and familiarization”, and then, after they were revealed in the local media, “in thick mud at an unidentified section of the Ukrainian front.”
A veteran of NATO tank operations in Afghanistan adds: “By necessity, the tanks come later. It takes much longer to train their crews, let alone maintenance cells. Setting up the logistics will be much harder too. In Afghanistan it took a lot to support tanks – even just a squadron of them.”
A Moscow source adds strategy: “The Pentagon might want to fend off a general Russian operation with a DMZ but the Ukrainians, the Germans and the State Department want to see the rearguard action because they believe they can exact a heavy loss of life on the Russians. I’m convinced they don’t want a DMZ until the Russians fight their way to the borders of the regions they have already incorporated. Their perception is that the Russians will be too weak to take any more. They won’t mind another meat-grinder like Bakhmut. It’s not their children dying. At worst, the Ukrainians think a DMZ would be inside or at the limit of the Russian zone. That would free them to start preparing for the next big war in a few years.”
The consensus of the Russians sources is: “These are all lose-lose propositions for us and that is why we have not heard this being discussed seriously. What’s needed is Ukrainian capitulation. This is why most Russians see armistice as a Russian surrender because it means none of the stated goals of the operation has been achieved. More than at Minsk in 2015, the Ukraine will be re-armed and prepared for the next big fight.” Danilov’s disclosure puts into quite different context Putin’s Orthodox Christmas truce between January 6 and 7.
“Upon consideration of the address from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill,” the president said, “I instruct the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation to introduce a ceasefire along the entire line of contact in Ukraine from 12.00 on January 6, 2023 to 24.00 on January 7, 2023. As a large number of Orthodox Christians reside in the area of hostilities, we call on the Ukrainian side to declare a ceasefire to allow them to attend church services on Christmas Eve as well as on Christmas Day.” For the text of Kirill’s message, which avoided a recommendation of this kind, click to read.
In retrospect, the truce was dismissed by Kiev, and the Russian side recorded numerous violations, including the movement of heavy artillery into range of Lugansk and Donetsk region targets. “Pigs have no faith”, Dmitry Medvedev, the ex-president and now deputy head of the Security Council, responded. “and no innate sense of gratitude. They understand only brute force.”
Following the fall of Soledar on the evening of January 10, there are signs that the Ukrainian General Staff will not continue following the orders from either Washington or Zelensky and Danilov to continue the meat-grinder defence of the eastern front, at least not until a “second line of defence” can be formed, according to the leak.
The evidence of the battlefield map is that the Russian General Staff has decided to leave open the corridors for NATO troops and arms to be resupplied from Poland, and to let Ukrainian refugees leave. However, the rail and road junctions, warehouses, vehicle lagers, electric grid units, and fuel and other storages are being hit repeatedly, west and east of Kiev.
When Russian and western analysts map the economic and military capabilities of the Ukrainian territory which would lie to the west of the Dnieper River demilitarized zone (UMZ) it becomes clear the rump state will have lost the capacity to feed itself; and will lack the river or sea ports to export corn, wheat, sunflower products or rapeseed without Russian and Turkish agreement.
Lacking seaports and airfields, the western Ukrainian territory, without the farms, mines and smelters to produce food or metals for trade, will be reduced to a gun platform dependent on imported cash and arms for the state’s sole remaining export – permanent war against Russia.
To date, US, Canadian, German, and British politicians have been emphatic that they have the parliament votes and will neutralize domestic opposition to their whatever-the-cost war policy. Russian sources add there is no evidence that in planning the conversion of the special military operation to the general military operation, the Kremlin, the Stavka, and the General Staff are not taking this into account.
What this means, said one source, is that the de-Nazification objective of February 24, 2022, is now practically impossible. “The DMZ is impossible for us because it will leave the Ukrainian nazis to keep rearming, exactly as Merkel and Hollande have said. This means there can be no demilitarized zone – there must be Ukrainian capitulation and surrender.”
A NATO source speculates about the mentality of his counterparts in Washington: “The DMZ needs to be big and deep no matter what the structure of the forces that create and maintain it. The question that looms larger in my mind is how to get the US and NATO to understand that continuing to push their Ukrainian checker will come at a cost on the checkerboard they aren’t prepared to pay?” The evidence from the daily reports of the Polish Border Guard confirms the Russian strategy is to leave the corridor open for the exit of Ukrainian civilians and then strike after the incoming foreign troops and their equipment are deployed at their rear assembly areas.
The highlighted figures for Ukrainian movement to Poland indicate refugees responding to the Russian electric war and the onset of winter. The corresponding, highlighted figures of movement from Poland to the Ukraine include Polish and other foreign troops moving under civilian shield.
Moscow sources comment. “The Russians will not tolerate half-measures. Not like the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, not like Yeltsin in Serbia. Not like Nord Stream or the Crimean Bridge. Not now. Read Putin’s lips.”
This is a reference to Putin’s speech to the enlarged Defence Ministry and military staffs on December 21. “We will not repeat the mistakes of the past, when we harmed our economy to boost our defence capabilities, regardless of whether it was warranted or not. We are not going to militarise our country or militarise the economy, primarily because we have no need to do it at the current level of development and with the structure of the economy that we have. Again – we do not intend to, and we will not do things we do not really need, to the detriment of our people and the economy, the social sphere. We will improve the Russian Armed Forces and the entire military component. We will do it calmly, routinely and consistently, without haste. We will attain our objectives to strengthen our defence capability in general as well as meeting the goals of the special military operation”.
“The big part of the NATO equation,” comments the North American veteran, “ought to be the Russian message – ‘keep on coming. You will all be destroyed.”
Holy Cripes. I sent an email to Rep. Jordan when the House won asking them to take a shot at recalling articles of impeachment based on the constitution.
I mentioned this on a couple of other discussion boards...but as far as I know, I thought I was having a discussing with myself - same as on FR.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4098027/posts?page=493#493
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