https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-revolution-has-come-for-joe-rogan
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Author: MCM
Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/06/nostalgic-for-the-future/ Feb. 6, 2022
Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated with treacly sentimentality, defeatism, and spurious spiritual inclinations.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, the Biblical writers, and their ilk would demur, of course, but they have been dead for a few years, so progress’s mantra urges us to get on with it. This is now.
But now is always, and like its twin – exile – nostalgia is perpetual.
The aching for “home” – from Greek algos, pain + nostos, homecoming – is not simply a desire for the past, whether in reality or imagination, time or place, but a passionate yearning for the best from the past to be brought into the future.
Click on the link for the rest.
“Team up” may not be quite right.
Ottawa Police announce digital surveillance of Freedom Convoy protesters, supporters, and donors
The Ottawa Police Service has announced a new operation where it is partnering with federal intelligence agencies to create “enhanced intelligence operations and investigations” that will target individuals who are taking part in and supporting the Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy. The Ottawa police said that it’s partnering with the US’s FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate “online threats.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/ottawa-police-announces-digital-surveillance-of-freedom-convoy/
Another “white supremacist” sounds off.
This could be deemed a warning to the party if it doesn’t change direction, if our voting system weren’t completely rigged.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-voter-explains-disgusted-with-president
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Todd Gitlin, R.I.P.
Although we had not been close for years, this news is very saddening to me. Todd helped bring me to NYU.
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Ottawa police cut off supplies to truckers
Ottawa Police
@OttawaPolice
IMPORTANT: Anyone attempting to bring material supports (gas, etc.) to the demonstrators could be subject to arrest. Enforcement is underway. #ottawa#ottnews
https://twitter.com/search?q=ottawa&src=typed_query
Now that GoFundMe has stiffed the truckers—no doubt illegally—the gremlins are disabling possible alternatives.
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1489980084006137857?s=21
That exchange is staggering; and Jimmy Dore was in rare form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNVJkihhmLk