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  Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class" When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces MATT TAIBBI Retired perfect killing machine Jeff Bridges. Thanks to a great response last week to an article about  Klaus Schwab’s creep-tastic use of the term “transparency ,” I’m pressing forward with a  Devil’s Dictionary -style lexicographical project, tracking multitudinous dystopian alterations to American political speech. I absolutely want the list to be a collaboration with  Racket/ Substack readers, so this and future entries will feature open comments sections. I see this list working best if it also functions as a usage tracker,  à la  the  Oxford English Dictionary.  The best gift my father ever gave me was a full  OED , a monstrous rack of volumes that still sits devouring space in my house, daring me to look up the earliest recorded use of  ...

  Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace ejcurtin   “But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky,  Notes from the Underground Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2.  They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.  Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”  Mind-forged manacles are popular because freedom from the laws of nature, while desired, is feared.  It suggests that liberty is a fundamental existential truth. Don’t get me wrong, I can count.  I am ...

 Thanks to MrZ for recommending this video... German court convicts CJ Hopkins for satirical book cover Satirist and author CJ Hopkins was found guilty and sentenced to 60 days in prison or a 3600 Euro fine by a German court for a single tweet mocking mask mandates, and for the cover of his book, "The New Normal Reich," which examines pandemic restrictions and the propaganda surrounding them as symbols of a new authoritarian order in the liberal West. CJ joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss his conviction for violating Germany's unusual speech codes and what it says about the future of liberal democracy in Europe. Read more about CJ's case from Matt Taibbi: https://substack.com/notes/post/p-136... Source: The Grayzone

  The green war on animals Cattle, sheep and even pets are now in the sights of deranged eco-warriors. Julie Burchill One of the more disappointing developments in British politics over the past two decades – apart from the strange desire of most parties to  pander to the tiny transvestite vote , never seen as vital in the past – has been the decline of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party,  after the death of its founder , Screaming Lord Sutch, in 1999. Still, with the Greens behaving in an increasingly unhinged manner, maybe they might merge? Green is such a lovely colour – not a bit descriptive of a party which seems, like the nature it worships, increasingly red in tooth and claw. The late lord’s party’s handle seems far more appropriate. The latest eco-insanity comes from Ireland, where the government has proposed  a mass cull of cattle  in order to meet its Net Zero targets. Ireland has often held somewhat eccentric views in recent times, such as that u...

  THE JOKER CYCLE BY BRETT CAROLLO & THOMAS MILLARY HOW DEEP STATE INTELLIGENCE REINFORCES ARCHETYPES AND MANIPULATES CULTURE VIA MASS MEDIA, SPECTACULAR CRIME & HOLLYWOOD The weeks leading up to the release of Todd Phillips’s 2019 film Joker were awash with hysterical corporate media warnings about insane killers shooting up theaters at screenings. But this hysteria was not a spontaneous reflex of the media hive mind: it originated with a memo produced by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, warning of “incel extremists” attempting to replicate a 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in which a young man dressed as the Joker armed with tear gas grenades and multiple firearms reportedly killed twelve people and injured 58 others at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. The terrorist incel, of course, is today a major obsession of the US security state and its proxies on the Left. But it’s only the latest incarnation of an archety...

  Shock Retraction of Climate Science Paper Showing No Climate Emergency Draws Comparisons with Climategate Scandal BY   CHRIS MORRISON Shocking details of corruption and suppression in the world of peer-reviewed climate science have come to light with a recent leak of emails. They show how a determined group of activist scientists and journalists combined to secure the retraction of a paper that said a climate emergency was not supported by the available data. Science writer and economist Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has  published the startling emails  and concludes: “Shenanigans continue in climate science, with influential scientists teaming up with journalists to corrupt peer review.” The offending paper was published in January 2022 in a  Springer Nature  journal and at first attracted little attention. But on September 14th the  Daily Sceptic  covered its main conclusions and as a result it went viral on social media with around  9,000 Twitter...