Perhaps it was a subject of discussion while he was visiting the Aum Shinrikyo or NXIVM!
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I don't know that it's necessarily fair to describe this as a purely Western phenomenon. The Lamas were a hereditary elite who ruled over Tibet in a brutal caste system which reduced most of the people in it to the status of serfs, and all with their own particular strain of Buddhism used to justify and excuse it all. On our fridge, my wife has a picture of the Dalai Lama wearing a big fancy watch on his wrist. I always wonder how such a luxurious ostentation is supposed to fit in with what he preaches.
> While the programs he identified may have been bad for democracy and America
The fact that you even use such qualified language to describe mass surveillance of the entire civilian population shows just how far your Stockholm Syndrome has led you to identify with our predatory government and ruling institutions.
You know who else was shady and criminal? All the planners, bureaucrats, functionaries, and even code monkeys who built the NSA's dragnet in the first place. But I'm sure we'll never hear a peep about them from you.
> During his time in Russia, we have seen the whistleblower system work effectively here at home. The details of Trump’s Ukraine call, and the subsequent freezing of security aid seems rather relevant today. More impressively so, this same whistleblower system Snowden criticized worked against a sitting president having no capacity for restraint.
It's just laughable to believe that "the system works" because certain leaks and whistleblowing was permitted in order to harm Donald Trump. Makes me wonder if the author even knows there is such a thing as "the intelligence community" with its own autonomy, imperatives, and loyalties which are not necessarily in lockstep with every sitting POTUS.
It's actually a bit distressing to see that after everything which has happened after the past several decades, someone could still come to the conclusion that Snowden would have been treated the same as Mr. X.
Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.
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Russia's economy is back on its feet
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The Wikipedia article for Michael Aquino would be a great one to see added here. Lt Colonel in the US Army who wrote a seminal paper on psychological operations, had close ties to the highest levels of NATO command in Europe, performed a ritual with an SS dagger at Wewelsburg Castle in Germany, and was an outspoken Satanist who was credibly accused of child abuse in the Presidio daycare scandal. One can see why a lot of people might not mind that his page was deleted and now redirects to "Temple of Set."
Flying insect numbers have plunged by 60% since 2004, GB survey finds
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I haven't seen any solid case for the banning other than "sites shouldn't publish information which is embarrassing to NATO's efforts in Ukraine." Not one person has raised a factual dispute with anything published at either site.
What don't you like about this, exactly? Jon Ronson was saying much the same thing in his book The Men Who Stare at Goats a short time ago.
MKUKTRA was real and its methods and results continue to play a key part in our intelligence services' activities. Some people just don't want to hear how rotten and untrustworthy their society's key institutions have become I suppose.
PayPal Has Begun Quietly Shuttering Left-Wing Media Accounts
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Of course. The New Yorker is just maintaining the good liberal pretext that the objective was anything other than an extended proxy war from the start.
Yes, Relapses After Paxlovid Happen – Now What?
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Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
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U.S. Seeks 'Urgent' Data on Covid Relapses After Using Paxlovid
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Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security
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Ukraine Is Now America's War, Too
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Alterations in microbiota of Covid patients: Potential mechanisms and therapies
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Judge questions if Musk's acquisition may blow up Twitter free-speech lawsuit
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Powell Seen Slowing Rate Hikes After May and June Front-Loading
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