Quick Take…the “Social Media Addiction” Verdict
The verdict has come back in California’s landmark “Social Media Trial”, and it should come as no surprise at all to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention…
GUILTY!”
In a landmark ruling against the notions of either personal or parental responsibility, the jury found Google/YouTube and Meta/Instagram liable for a teenagers alleged “social media addiction”, because the companies purposely employed “product design features that harmed the plaintiff’s mental health”.
Essentially blaming the companies for making their apps and algorithms addictive.
The end result is that the social media giants are faced with a combined payout of six million dollars which is…almost nothing, really. A rounding error on the balance sheet of either Google or Meta, let alone for both of them combined.
But while the financial impact of the verdict is as close to non-existent as makes no difference, the precedent being set is very important. And very, very well timed…from a globalist authoritarian’s point of view.
It’s actually the second big legal loss for Meta in three days. Earlier this week a New Mexico court found Facebook had “put children at risk of harms including sexual abuse”. That payout is reportedly over 375 million dollars, but making far fewer headlines.
Consider just how many countries around the world have either introduced social media bans or are considering introducing them. It is now a matter of official record that social media companies are responsible for harming children.
That means social media bans – and the universal digital ID/age verification measures required to enforce them – are suddenly a moral duty to “protect teenagers”. They are a public health measure, and we know how much state overreach people will permit in the name of public health.
So we expect California proposed “social media restrictions” to fly through the legislature on the back of this verdict, and other states will absolutely follow.
It’s unlikely to be limited to state-level. The Washington Post is headlining…
A bipartisan agreement is brewing to protect children online
And suggests the combined verdicts will lead to the passing of the Kids’ Online Safety Act 2026.
This verdict is perfect legislative lubrication.
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It’d be difficult to deny, that there are plenty of aspects of social media, that have negative impact on health of minors (by the way- also on adults). I’d point in particular dark patterns, that create addictions. Social media also facilitate young people to spread psychical violence towards each other.
Personally I think, that combating these phenomena would be more appropriate, than banning social media (for me social media resemble playground or yard- space where children can encounter threats, but also build social relations).
In wider context it’d be valuable to reflect on, if social media- due to lack of physical contact- ensure their users possibility to build deep relations.
Big Tech has been “brought to heel”! Take that, Zuckerborg! Line up to throw those rotten tomatoes at today’s approved villains….
https://dumptheguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/mar/28/week-that-brought-big-tech-to-heel-meta-youtube-google-instagram-facebook
Whose heel? Our democratic representatives? Can anyone say that without hollow laughter now?
Why this? Why now? How long has the designed addictiveness of social media been known? Years…. if not decades. So why now? Because parents are (or can be presented to be) hopeless addicts themselves so the kindly state is just forced to step in instead.
One final thought: which First World city will be the first, and when, to have a weaponised drone flying over it? Trials are advancing with the usual lab rats:
https://www.intellinews.com/haiti-security-forces-killed-over-1-200-people-with-drones-in-ten-months-hrw-says-430876/
“Anti-Social Media”
(A superior definition)
Apparently there’s a huge outbreak of ticks in Belarus and Western Russia right now, seasonal? or a Plum Island legacy attack on both nations?
Social media is a marketing tool of exploitation of human nature. It presents a false promise of community. It is as impossible to to have community on the internet as is to have community outside physical encounters in public. You can see and talk to your neighbors at home and in public. So if you cannot be social friends with hundreds, thousands, millions or billions in analog reality how is it possible to do so digitally? It isn’t. It’s a ruse to keep people addicted to an illusion. The technological promise sold to us now is illusion. The internet allows access to information, but not social connectivity. That can only happen in physical space where we can experience full spectrum Life. The place, the weather, the people, the atmosphere, ,their feelings and emotions from body and mind and how the whole proceeds. Full spectrum Life. Billions of people squeezing through one channel, monitored by corporate algos to make sure they extract profit while faking you in a virtual reality of their manufacture? No ability to sense, or make sense. Just a Room Full of Mirrors. What a farce. The telephone has always connected people to stay in touch in a more meaningful way, but now “progress” is going to get rid of that analog connectivity, digitize it to the internet so it can be surveilled like your smartphone? Welcome to THEIR Company Store!
Agree completely. There can be exceptions, but the main tools are built to physically disconnect, disengage and isolate people, whilst offering them a soft version of community, cohesion and connection.
I feel my wellbeing has been supported for never having had a facebook, twitter/X, instagram etc.. account. Though it does mean that I have to make extra effort if I want to remain in physical contact with friends/aquaintences who live their relationships predominantly in online groups!
You’re lucky then. I was shadowbanned in FB for years then they wanted extreme security measures. I refused to submit. My Instagram i tolerate to get some of my art out there but i’m Meta shadowbanned there as well. Internet searches have been near impossible to get anything of value. Their AI’s are dangerously inaccurate. All the other social media are streaming click bait false realities. I have no idea why people hang there. My wife is an avid FBer to stay in touch with far flung friends. But I think the 1% management of the internet is collapsing in upon itself. Magically believing people will continue to accept ever less until there is nothing. There’s near nothing already as far as I can see. I don’t carry a smartphone and am happily free of that leash. I am hoping people will decide to throw those surveillance collars away and get their heads out of screens and back in physical reality again so we can have a society of people.
I fear we’re currently living through the gap between the previous controls being phased out and new, stronger measures of control being implemented. As people reject the enclosures of the device and social media which are visible and capture attention: ‘you want to be here’; AI is being implemented at infrastructure scale, so the capture becomes: ‘you have no choice but to be here’.
Workflows, customer service, benefits, health, travel, education; our dependency is being restructured -evolved- in a way that refusal to participate becomes almost impossible without serious friction to living. Instead of platforms you visit, it becomes places you inhabit: cars, workplaces, smart buildings, retail… home – ‘the Internet of Things’.
I’ve had some small inconveniences over the years as I dodged the social media enclosures. I really don’t know how I’m going to be able to structure my life in a way that avoids the AI enclosures. It becomes even more a choice of ‘off-grid’ or ‘outsider’ living, with potential for significant consequences if you’re not enclosed within the system.
There’s going to have be some serious compromises made by many in the next few years if they want to continue to push back against the encroachment of the system into our lived spaces. Once this current gap closes it will be almost impossible to resist from within the new enclosures of control. You can see how spaces like this and others would cease to exist at all without identity being linked to every comment and monitored. Bentham’s panopticon completed -we will modify and moderate our behaviour because we are certain we are being watched.
The solutions will have to come from small communities willing and able to exist on the fringes of the enclosures. I expect that’s why community cohesion has been under attack and slowly eroded over the years; all the better to prevent assembly and resistance.
Strange times indeed. And I didn’t even mention the robots…
Agreed. But for their LOCKDOWN2 to be in place everyone must use their devices and their webbing. Non-participation will disable the connectivity of the net they are casting. They need the total connectivity that RF, wifi, smartphones, IoT and digital cash provide. Fibre optic cabling; hardwiring everything rather than RF; landline, no smartphone use other than during employment; and local currencies can disable their Matrix net. There a thousand other ways we have not yet explored. We need to be smarter than them and deploy our right of consent or refusal. Imho.
The French bow to US pressure – because SA is a major player in the genocide case against the Zionists/Israeli’s – Macron replaced SA with Kenya.
“South Africa has accused France of withdrawing an invitation for President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend a Group of Seven (G7) gathering in June following pressure from the US. Paris has denied the claims of yielding to Washington’s influence.
The G7 comprises major advanced economies, including France, the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada. It typically invites a number of non-member countries to attend selected sessions. South Africa, widely considered Africa’s most advanced and industrialized economy, attended the group’s outreach summit in Canada last June, where Ramaphosa took part as a guest.
READ MORE: South Africa has no reason to cut ties with Iran – official
Pretoria said it had initially been invited to take part in the group’s meeting, which France is set to host from June 15 to 17.
On Thursday, Vincent Magwenya, spokesperson for the president, told AFP that “the Americans threatened to boycott the G7 if South Africa was invited.””
There is a tendency, temptation or trend to frame ‘Them’ as a unified evil entity.
That may say more about us, if we learned to look within…
Technologism may be frenemy with Monopolism or Utilitarianism, but only insofar as sharing a common enemy, threat of vector of risk.
So as any pretence of democratic accountability falls away to reveal a fist shaped by the dictates of systems capture, by which we have no (effective) voice and thus no true accounting. The competition for WHO GETS TO ‘call the shots’ can only intensify.
I don’t teach victimhood as a grounded basis for living – no matter what the shock that shapes our human lives. But I still recognise to intent to coerce and deceive as a destructive act that needs be checked by law in our hearts and minds and thus in our social institutions. Without the former, the latter becomes a weapon of manipulation – as if a better world is made by enacting more laws or emitting more ‘money’ to mitigate, compensate and medicate the negative effects of a loveless social order to which life must adapt or in effect be sacrificed to.
Technologism is not what is claims to offer or sell but a mindset of manipulated thinking to which its mindshare or markets are harnessed and led. Its a delivery service to system capture EXCEPTING that the law or contractual obligation serves the Living. Else the Living is sacrificed to rules set blind, and thus corrupted by the wish of cultic insiders who sell blindness as protection against demonised light.
Masking against hated or feared truth is not special to ‘Them’ buta part of our current collective psychic and social ‘order’.
Monopolistic controls operate to protect and milk or predate upon a captive mindshare.
But how can any tech company or innovation that offers alternatives to being consumed grow under the financially enforce canopy of regulatory scarcity?
Addiction is a worthy model or lens by which to look at human behaviours. Assignment or accusation of evil – is much less so – for the behaviour is assigned to the agent and not to the terrain or cultural context. Asymmetrically empowered agents then consolidate as a hierarchy of controls within an already active state of dependencies.
The system becomes a black box or sealed unit with no user access. IT seeks to unify in circular self referencing lies (as documented extensively by escape key on substack), but lies demand sacrifice of truth and this true function, relationship, communication, fulfilment and life.
It cannot stand, but must fall into its own contradictions.
Yet this pattern repeats as the wish for control set over and apart from love and living.
The ‘Ring of Power’ in Tolkien’s mythic creation, is of Technos given worship.
Its impossible quest was the undoing of the Ring at the place of its creation. Impossible for any ‘self-will’ to achieve, for such is the root and nature of ‘technos’.
That there is a true will beneath and beyond the distortions of a ‘prison planet’ is what the mind of control denies in order to usurp or mimic in hollow forms that run a ghastly masque of life to which the en-tranced are addicted as the only self and life they have.
I don’t follow Californian events. But the system predicts risk in order to coopt it as a managed asset. So the limits of media-addiction may be sensed as the opportunity to run the counter-narrative – which will never lead from the system.
Those who walk away from Omelas are in a sense alone relative to the social order of joining in hate while masking in virtue. But love is never alone in truth – only in concept bound.
Organised love turns to hate – because love cannot enter where it is not welcome.
Yet where given welcome is recognised to have never left!
Am I addicted to writing as I do?
I live the sketching out as unfolding fulfilment. Not unlike a musical expression.
To be truly moved and to be the movement is quite distinct from a coercive attempt to get and outcome or a result.
As the terrain changes, so do the modes and forms of living cultural expression.
But a will-less society cannot move or be moved without the grace of a true willingness.
Use it – or lose it…?
What I see is that my wallet are empty, and their wallets are full of dollares. They laugh all the way to the banks, while I am living on a sour stone and rainwater.
If this is not evilness against an innocent hard working man who have done nothing wrong, I dont know what it is
I don’t argue with what you see, but that you let it be the only way to see.
Evil consequences are not in question.
Human lives are never free of change and challenge, and the world has never lived up to our terms and conditions but for temporary alignments that then change.
I feel for innocence of being.
But in the human world guilt is used to frame relative ‘innocence’ as morally justified grievance & vengeance. Such a jack in the box has been wound up tight and regardless the masking of appearances will unravel – ie toxic debts, unhealed conflicts and ancient hate – all coming up now.
You came into the world but the world knew you not.
Perhaps the difference between us and Jesus – is that we took it very personally such as to learn masking defences over a pain of love broken betrayed or lost.
Some of us have less blocks to a sense of living connection or communion that also guides and sustains. Insofar as you are alive, you can be curious. But if you give THEM the power to shut you down, is that Your decision or theirs?
This world is in may respects a lunatic asylum.
Yet it can be an opportunity to receive and share blessings.
We all carry some sense of “I WANT IT THUS!!” that does NOT find fulfilment and can then polarise in a sense of being deprived, violated rejected abandoned and etc. I can see it very readily in my own life, but perhaps that’s because I recognise that this voice does not speak for who I am, and so I learn or practice of not engaging with it.
You set the terms of knowing in the frame of evil power or agency.
I recognise that pattern, but choose to simply and honestly NOT know and be released of an arrogant assumption of telling reality what it should be as my unmet demands. What rises as the moment of awareness through such a release is a living perspective that grows as we give it honour and recognition.
An inner gaslighting cynicism will tell you that nothing I say means or is worth anything.
I see that my own fears & past experience of lack of love are the voice of inner gaslighting – which also attracts outer manipulation.
i wrote something to you that may or may not speak outside the box of what you thought you said. But I also know the experience of being excluded, denied, rejected, betrayed and etc. But that’s not what I’m living from.
Live the day and the moment at hand.
What would ‘deliver us from evil’ mean, specially boosted self-immunity?
Or better, the undoing of the backdoors through which it finds us?
I don’t see that we can fake a sense of self-worth, but that we are always living from who and what we are accepting ourselves to be.
Bottoming out, is not necessarily a death spiral, but may be the undoing of vested self-illusions that feels very much like dying.
But whenever we release something we don’t need that has burdened or conflicted our lives, we always wonder ‘why it took us so long?’.
Growing awareness is not boosting unconsciousness under self-gratifying cover story – but initially it can be much more painful or emotionally turbulent —even disturbing. Just like coming off meds etc.
The tool of survival in this world is beauty. Beauty is everywhere notwithstanding who you are or how much you have.
God is beauty and he made beauty all around us. Yes when we go with the devil we can make ugliness out of the beauty.
But when we go with God we can make beauty too. Beauty can and will heal us because beauty is God. Zakharova – Carmem https://yandex.ru/video/preview/8204692707000891708
Survival may be too limited a word here, But now you are aligning in the Good, the beautiful and the true. Not in a negative worship which can be seen as drawing personal virtue, credit or worth from an evil fear, therat of experience. There’s a ‘devil’ that runs dark to while boosting the self-certainties of personally invested hatred.
That I meet hatred in myself and others does not mean I regard or accept it as a primary agent or power by which God is limited.
But our awareness of God can be distorted by a lens of conflict.
an innocent hard working man who have done nothing wrong?
They let this happen
The perception of life as ‘happening to me’ is our story.
We are free to engage in stories but we cannot release the script while insisting stories are true.
Your comment is a gift. It didn’t ‘happen’ to me – but reached to me as a call for love.
Did you ‘let your life happen’ or is it a gift?
Are we cursed with existence?
Or does thinking make it so?
Giving a blessing receives in like kind.
It’s easy in this world to curse ourselves, our tools and others.
But we can recognise our mistake and release it.
Now it can be that those who share in a curse or negatively framed oath, join in hate against the light of freedom.
What is hate but pain of love denied, lost or betrayed?
That is to say it is not a special thing made against love so much as a special way of calling for the love it actively denies. A self-destructive loop of love framed in guilt, pain, struggle and death.
Is that Our Father?
To me, anyone who believes it’s just to wield power over another is evil, and goes against not only Natural Law but also against the age-old axiom: Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Perhaps the current difference in our thought is that I hold the thought false and evil derivative.
You hold the thinker evil and thus split the Creative to ‘good and evil’.
Giving power to evil assigns it power of Cause.
So why stop at Natural Law – when God is True power and Cause?
The ‘foundation of the world’ (to coin a phrase from Rene Girard 😉 lies in the justification of attack and thus assignment of pain, limitation and loss or sacrifice as salvation in the frame of a personal cause set in our own corrupted or distorted and false thought.
That we cannot see the mind of which our thought is derived, is that we will not relinquish the power or control over and apart from life framed weak, unworthy, treacherous, and false. But this is not Life – this is what we made – and make – of life.
Self-hatred is in truth absurd – for it can only be cast or acted out in concept – yet self-conflicts are the very drivers of seeking solutions externally – in which the ‘victim’ reiterates a past as its ‘solution’. The stamp of the boot on the face of the present (into a future…forever), sets the basis of an object continuity in time and space. Linear thinking becomes a means to an end as distinct from a wholeness unfolding of and within itself.
The split mind or ego casts the conflict in victim and victimiser both – yet never the twain to meet in or recognise the whole of which they are drawn from.
The mind of judgement is not aware of -or discounts and minimises its ‘attack’ or denial of life and others as a justified and self-evident sense of self and world.
Yet when it receives in the measure of its own giving, the ‘attack’ is suffered as ‘at the hand of another’ upon an ‘innocence’ thus framed. Only the truly joyous recognise the cost of judgement. But ‘who binds unto himself a joy’ shall hate lose it to rivals, persecutors and enemies – real or imagined.
Justified hate claims innocence as right to attack as countermeasure.
But such a fake virtue signal has no virtue of healing or making whole – but only boosting a vain and blind attempt to join or unify in hate.
The social ego of mob or insider cult draws its rights not from Natural Law, but by defences raised against selected evils.
Thus runs the device of persisting in lies given power, as the duty and necessity or overriding dictate of attacking our sins in the Other. Who is disqualified by a perversion of the Golden Rule – running as a contract of conditional permissions for partial and limited ‘love’.
Yet as we hate ourself so do we unto others. The Law is always operating – but awareness of Law is lost to a negative or segregative self-specialness.
The ‘wokeness’ of self-justification runs a selfie script seeking to maintain inclusion via mutual or social ‘contracts’ of internalised performance relative to guilt. It’s a ghastly facade! But its sold by false praise set against fear of pain of loss.
There are real insights to the way evils can run fallacies and contradiction of our thought, perception and behaviour. But the resort to moral judgement set over others is an example of such deceit. Suppressing harms is not wrong, but if the root is thereby hidden it runs protected and active—but dark.
If you give power to another – thinking thereby to get what you want – they have all the power you gave them.
If you give love —that is the recognition and acknowledgment of freedom—you share and grow in what you give as the measure and the quality of giving and receiving life.
Judging evil pre-empted (and resets) the ‘Fall’ (Separation or Split).
But discernment Is within life and serving life whole.
Truth or false with-ness is choice, and yet only truth is whole.
‘Whole’ is invoked because a partiality is active.
Only truth Is.
What seemed to be, never was.
So what of our vested, defended and masking self-illusions?
It’s my witness, that what we give to God (acknowledge and accept in truth) is ‘given back to us’ or revealed in new light.
Even lies have to be woven from some denied distortion of truth.
There is no way to be truly lost, but many ways to lose awareness of truth to fear of pain of loss. Tyranny and terrorism are rooted in a breakdown of living communication and relational honesty.
Guilt short-circuits the mind by stamping out thought.
Funny how they only discovered social media was a bad thing when it led to at aleats some people being able to call bs on things like this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/new-covid-strain-uk-variant-vaccine-b2946014.html
I wonder if they could make this retrospective. I remember some 68 years ago being frightened by Pinky and Perky there was something about theses ugly wooden pigs and noises they made the that really scared me . I may have been addicted to the flower pot men and little weed. Was Andy Pandy Muffin the Mule . Aqua Marina from Stingray was an early sexual fantasy. Where was the age verification back then letting a impressionable youngster get addicted to children’s TV
I thought Muffin the Mule was a sexual perversion…
ARE THE MANY SHIPS THAT WERE TRAPPED WHEN IRAN WAR STARTED
near where Saturday’s hostilities will be?
I guess they’ll find out. Around 1900 ships stranded:
https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2026/03/26/around-1900-vessels-remain-stranded-around-strait-of-hormuz
https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
Facebook actually wants these universal digital ID/age verification laws and is actively lobbying for them. This will theoretically help them to identify any of their users beyond any doubt. And yes, the fines are nothing.
Tho Trump has extended deadline for Iran to open the Strait in order to avoid attack on its power grid, there’s no reason to think the invasion is postponed, too. UAE has made public statements consistent w US view of Iran & expressing UAE solidarity w US.
It’s likely to form some sort of forward base for the ground invasion. There are two UAE islands which are quite close to Iran.
Iran has announced that if UAE participates in military hostilities w US that Iran will attack ceaselessly, make its existence impossible economically, militarily & politically.
Analyst on Iranian TV says Iran is TRAINING to invade UAE & Bahrain.
Danny Haiphong’s link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I9Zwhjq2xI
Best map I could find is here & Saturday is the probable attack.
The straight of Hormuz is in between Persia and Oman, not the exclusive territory of Iran. Even more it is an international sea way just like the straights of Gibraltar, Malacca or Taiwan. If Trump would close any of these all woke hell would have broken loose.
You can blame him for having a foreign government assassinated: some example.
The US wants to make most of the world’s oil its exclusive property. It has taken possession of Venezuela’s oil by means of controlling the regime. (It takes all sales revenue & gives Venezuela “an allowance.”) It hass long controlled the investment of much of the profits from oil production thru mandating that the MidEast countries invest those profits in the US & US securities– in addition to selling oil only in dollars..
The US would have done the same to Iran if Iran had not taken possession of the Strait. We are not talking about “What would be the correct action by Iran in a just world?” We are talking about “What should Iran do in the middle of aggression by US & Israel?”
I don’t get it. If it’s addictive, why limit the age, why not just ban it?
And, so what if it’s addictive, brewers, vapes, tobacco get away with it.
Heck, cocaine is used in parliament!
How to build a ‘terrorist proof’ building:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvLCzk7nh4
Larry Silverstein should know (59:00).
Larry Silverstein, Barry Goldstein, John Copperstein, David Diamond, Sarah Rubinstein. Just saying.
The mathematics and economics of losing a war:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zAIf3-4hOlg&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD
The human cost incalculable.
Step by step by step… all towards the end goal of the ghouls: the complete digitilised enslavement of humanity. As most here will know, Australia already bought in age verification restrictions before Christmas to “protect minors”. At least that’s the narrative they want us to believe. And much to my, and others, chagrin, Substack sold its soul to the devil and immediately instituted age verification when they were under no obligation to do so. My response to Substack doing that was to promptly delete the app, and I’ll do so for any other social media platform or site, because I will not comply with this. Not even for YouTube. They can go get fooked. And in recent months I’ve actually gone back to reading books after decades of almost not reading at all, instead of staring at my phone trance like, and aimlessly scrolling social media. Am currently reading a book called The Grand Lodge by David Livingstone. Guess what it’s about?
You Tube does have some great music videos.
Here’s how you can censor the shit:
https://www.androidpolice.com/tame-your-youtube/
Thanks for this Johnny, and yeah, I often watch YouTube for music videos as well as podcasts and channels about subjects like the Jesuits, Freemasons, Kabbalah, Rosicrucians, Zionism, and cough, um, food channels, football clips and travel blogs. Few channels I’ve started following recently are Robert Sepehr, Richard Willets, Geopolitics and The Occult and Bad Hasbara.
Aye don’t black pill bro! The wheels of just grind slowly bro,
The contooshoeshin preserves or human rights against tyranny
The separation of powers protects everyone is equal under the law
No one is above THE LAW!
Finally awareness is rising, if only enough people etc etc
Groomed.
An Australian politician – groomed, captured – deployed…
https://michaelwest.com.au/groomed-captured-deployed
Well, he’s set for a very, very lucrative career.
King of the SICKOPHANTS (sic).
@Admin- every other post goes pending.. am I on a list?! Mar 27, 2026 2:48 AM – thank you!
George hits a six! (That’s like a home run for the USians):
https://substack.com/home/post/p-192218279
Thanks Johnny. I’m not one for blowing my own trumpet and I don’t know if OffG are still taking submissions but I figured they might like this one which refers to them:
https://georgemc189059.substack.com/p/the-coming-of-orwell
From https://english.news.cn/ %5BChina%5D
–Trump extends pause of striking Iran’s energy plants by 10 days.
[I didn’t see this report elsewhere.]
This particular site has lots of UncleSam cartoons mocking Trump & the US re Iran.
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–Pentagon considers sending 10,000 more troops to Gulf area
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–Iran has issued an “ultimatum” to hotel owners in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, warning that hosting U.S. military personnel could make their properties legitimate military targets. The report also claimed U.S. personnel have established a presence at civilian sites across the region, including a logistics base near Beirut’s old airport and advisory operations at Damascus’ Republic Palace, the Four Seasons, and Sheraton hotels. U.S. Marines were reportedly moved this week to Djibouti International Airport via Istanbul and Sofia.
“404” “Not found”
P. Any alternative links ?
https://english.news.cn/ sorry
Exactly what I have pointed out the last 25 years to China and US:
I know initiating peace talks is no easy task, but only through negotiations can more casualties and losses be avoided, which would also help prevent the expansion of the conflict and restore normal navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
I express my gratitude to China for supporting my mediation efforts here on OffG and I emphasize that a ceasefire, ending the conflict, and restoring peace are shared aspiration of many many parties.
However, I do note that the current moment is crucial for restarting peace talks and I therefore urge the international community to encourage both the United States and Iran to return to the negotiating table and find effective tools and solutions for peace.
US and China should share the same goals and positions on the issue, and I personally express my hope that the two countries would work together to play a constructive role in persuading the parties to end the conflict.
I urge both countries to hold an objective and just position on the conflict, with broadly aligned views.
Please stand ready to strengthen strategic communication and coordination, and do make some joint efforts to promote peace and end the conflict, and work together to advance regional peace and stability.
To make a long story short: Talk it over China and US! Talk it over today, and not tomorrow!!
The regional weasels must be very hot under the collar.
They probably really don’t have a lot of choice in preventing the US from using their facilities. Anyway i imagine that UAE probably can’t prevent being used as a forward platform for the insanity of trying for a land invasion. Anyway they’re not known for their courage in saying publicly that they oppose “cooperating.”
I’m hoping that the Pentagon didn’t really say they’re considering sending 10,000 more troops– that the Chinese are just publishing one of Baboom’s blabberings.
Silencing dissent.
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-dissent-was-silenced/
As easy as herding sheep(le).
The embedded gatekeepers (whether knowingly or not) are selling our skepticism back to us – the captured and controlled alternative thinkers – for a tidy profit.
Counter‑hegemonic information that would truly challenge the system, if mass acceptance were the norm, is captured, absorbed, and softened; even though it may not appear that way as it shares some truths with us in a haystack of information. However, the book will not describe the intent of the system – that it was built to do what it does – only that it is corrupted and requires regulation. The system‑threatening truth becomes invisible even to those seeking it: eager doubters, the opposite of the masses. True oppositional knowledge is neutralised in a sea of details – much of which is already known by sceptics – but our knowing is comfortingly formalised by our reading, and we feel validated. Comfort is the opposite of mobilisation.
What is actually reinforced in ex‑BBC researcher Sonia Elijah’s book and those like it? The illusion that the system is broken – hijacked by corrupt individuals – without whom the system would be doing the job it was meant to do: protect us all. This is a myth. The system views citizens as exploitable, expendable livestock. The true counter‑hegemonic narrative is ignored and replaced with an autopsy of the past, diverting us from the present – and from the next phase of control already in progress.
Food for thought?
Sounds about right.
Thanks to the people involved, also Elon Musk, who did their job exposing this! We have not all rotten up..
I can’t see Elon Musk as saviour; rather that he was -in this example- a system tool used to capture enquiring, sceptical minds and feed them validation; at the same time nullifying deeper lines of enquiry about the system itself – a pressure-release valve with benefits. Musk takes part in framing the system as corrupted rather than functioning as designed.
I make claims about the system and the way it can often capture and absorb system-threatening information. This is because I view the world -in these terms-through the lens of a long-existing global architecture that has been built to dominate us and protect itself. This naturally means that much of what I say in relation to it has a tendency to become unfalsifiable – if Musk suppresses information > he’s protecting the system. If Musk releases information > he’s a pressure-release valve capturing sceptical minds. So I would simply say this: A billionaire platforming certain shocking revelations while remaining deeply embedded in government contracts, defence infrastructure, and platform ownership.. that’s worth some examination, no?
For balance, some practical tips that underlie my charge against books like the one I commented on from Johnny’s link:
If I’m not mistaken, fentanyl was invented and patented by U.S. pharmaceutical company Janssen Pharmaceutica.
It’s development was funded by taxpayer endowment (research grant) through the military for use as a frontline field analgesic.
It would seem that once the patent ran out, in conjunction with overprescription, it’s popularity as a recreational drug skyrocketed.
If they’re expecting to hold social media companies responsible for producing a harmfully addictive product, they should start with the military & pharmaceutical industries.
Speaking of addiction–what is he ON? Did you know that “Iran had 174 ships, and they were good ships, and now they are all resting on the bottom of the ocean.”??
Seriously. He’s worse than Biden. I understand that he’s just a cartoonish mask for people like Peter Thiel, but still. . . .
The way the presidency has become, he is using it to do things those that control and/or support him want done, as well and probably more so in many cases, what is best for him and his family, from what makes him look good to how it enriches him/them. So imo he’s not really a mask, he’s a willing participant at the top of a criminal enterprise.
You’re right: He’s a participant all right. But he’s a mask for his Controllers in that, for the casual observer, it looks like he’s the sole source of his actions, and that those actions have a far more limited goal. But you’re right: He’s a knowing member of a criminal enterprise doing untold harm to so many– and it’s going to get worse.
The definition of his role is that a President is legal responsible for all major actions like these under his oath and during his Presidency period.
That is also why it is required that he seeks advice and majority from the Congress and Senate to carry out these things.
The case is even more grave if he do it by “Executive Orders” as he do.
Here is absolutely no doubt that he is subject to legal personal responsibility.
He cannot claim “I was mislead”, “Someone hand a ring in my nose and pulled me around”.
TV, video games, junk food, sugar, travel, sporting events, gambling, SUVs, pop concerts, 24/7 news channels, drugs (prescription and illegal) booze, cosmetic surgery, superhero movies, inane chatter, gossip, celebrity and influencer tripe _ _ _ _
Addictions? We’re drowning in em.
Children routinely given sweet/fatty junk (over-processed) food become dependent on it later. Says research by Christina Cuesta-Marti et al. in Nature Communications 2026-02
The more time we keep our children away from Facebook and similar TV, the more healthy they have the chance to be!
TO FIND OUT WHAT’S OCCURRING W IRAN WAR
with less of that addicting screen time just follow Danny Haiphong’s videos which is factual rather than chattering.
Iran Downs F-18, PUMMELS Gulf States & Israel as US Ground War Looms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I9Zwhjq2xI
A few bits from this video: 20 US planes lost; the 5 target options for the approaching US boots; Iran warns that it has intell that a Gulf country may serve as a forward base & is warning of Iranian retaliation; comments about the censorship that prevents showing war footage. Finally, he interprets what comes next, significance, etc.
Thanks Penelope. You are a treasury!
A few thousand US troops to secure the Strait of Hormuz? Not enough for a full ground invasion, of course. Difficult to say what exactly the US are intending without being sitting ducks in the Persian Gulf
Agreed, but in the 5 target options Danny mentions other islands & I think at least one may be a UAE island. So if the US forces are using UAE as a forward platform & if their target is only to establish a beachhead on a UAE island. . . .
Sorry; haven’t had time yet to look for these islands on a map; I should think any wd be easier than Kharg.
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btw,can you answer a question for me? When US bases were destroyed, the personnel retired to hotels “& worked from there.”?? What sort of contribution to war can one do from a hotel room?
Might be your imagining bases filled with gun-toting soldiers. Whilst security will be an element, the newly hotel-based staff will likely be things like communications and command; intelligence work/analysis; logistics and supply; admin and personnel – the base support network esentially.
They may be as useful as tenured people “working from home” during “covid”. The bigger the org, the more they loved it. In this case, room service will deliver the junk food and energy drinks.
Depends on wi-fi connection.
Every death the invaders and their running dogs admit is purportedly from debris of an intercepted missile (or an interceptor). So, the debris seems more dangerous than the missiles.
Amazing. I understand they’ve not admitted to a single lost plane either– except one or two that crashed due to mechanical problems.
Don’t know what to make of the Chinese State site that says Blabbermouth has extended his pause against Iran’s electric grid to 10 days. Hope it’s so.
I understand US soldiers’ morale is pretty low; they don’t like risking their lives for Israel, so some of the enterprising higher-ups are telling them that risky military action is “to bring on the apocalypse, return of Christ, etc.” I thought we had separation of Church & State. But I guess if you can mix aggression with holy, you can mix anything.
Boy oh boy.
Jesus and Mohammed are gonna be flat out.
This has to do with the Dominionist sect infecting US military. In 2007, members tried to “steal” 6 nukes. Obama later fired some people involved. This is sensitive territory as most of us don’t want to evaluate our own apocalyptic beliefs too closely.
Tell me what you mean: apocalyptic beliefs?
Ask yourself why the bulk of Christians across the world (a) support Israel (b) are silent on its genocide and assassinations since late 19th century.
Actually, could someone set me straight? I’m a United States citizen. In our Constitution it explicitly states that only Congress can declare war. Not the President.
I do not read mainstream media so someone please clue me in – has the United States Congress declared war on Iran? Or is this just business as usual?
Because if it is just business as usual, I am going to be one of those people who kept screaming “stop calling it a vaccine – it’s not a vaccine!”
Only I’m going to scream “Stop calling it a war, it’s not a war!”
It’s just business as usual.
Thank you.
Congress has not formally declared war since WWII. Anything after that, Korea, Vietnam, all the crap done in SA and the ME, were called police actions basically. After the Patriot Act, there is the AUMF which allows the US to attack “terrorism anywhere in the world.” I don’t think Congress has to do anything under the AUMF, although it sounds like there is some type of permission where they are supposed to be consulted. If they actually had to vote on this, each one of them would have to be counted as either for or against publicly. Seems they’d rather not do that, and let’s face it, far better for them politically to blame it all on Trump. One could probably make the case that it was the same with Nixon and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos as well. None of them have made any moves to stop this war, and I’ll just call it a war, but one could probably use “kinetic action” as our owners seem to like that one. Yes, it is business as usual.
Its linguistic manipulation with words and rules. You are right. Only Congress can declare war.
But the rules says if an emergency happens and there is no bureaucratic time to call in the Congress, The President can do it solely by an Executive Order.
So the President just call everything an Emergency, and then he govern by Executive Orders.
Later in Supreme Court (which take 2-3 years to set up) he can just claim in his opinion there was an emergency (you know lawyers are good at inventing excuses). Trump makes a bet, evaluating the chances that he might win to pot.
It is that easy man (excuse me, woman)!.
On the one hand, I feel sorry for the millions of kids whose lives have become little more than data wells to be drained by the minute, in a loop of intentional algorithmic luring of their young minds into ever longer and deeper consumption of absolute trash. There is unequivocal evidence of real harms: addiction, social isolation, anxiety, impaired attention/concentration, exploitation, identity confusion, neurological disorders, depression; and the mental damage that can result from being regularly exposed to horrific or shocking content that would make many adults gasp and look away.
On the other hand – and this might not go down well – I blame every parent of every child that lives with them that has allowed their children’s mind and time to be stolen from under their noses and harmed on their watch. It is the primary responsibility of every parent to keep their child safe and well in body and mind. It isn’t always going to be easy – or successful – and it isn’t always going to make them popular; but the complete abandonment of responsibility that’s occurred over the last couple of decades has been unbelievable to witness. Giving up their parenting responsibilities to apps and ‘influencers’, while arguing – ludicrously – that the child will be ‘left out’, ‘everybody is online’, ‘everyone has a social media presence’; as if there is no choice to be had – no freedom to choose a healthier, balanced life for young people in their care. And now they complain because the predators – tech companies – came calling. Of course they are predators; of course they are ‘evil’ and should be punished – they don’t give a shit about your child’s welfare.. that’s your job!!
So, honestly, I’d support a complete ban on social media for all children – so as to force the handing back of the child to the parent to say, ‘do your fucking job’. As it should be, as it always was.
Obviously, adult freedom will be wrapped up and limited within the policies restricting children’s social media use – power won’t miss that opportunity now it has an excuse. Maybe, hopefully, everyone will be a bit more aware of how this works now – Problem, Reaction, Solution. Tricked into less freedom for all – using kids as the bait.
I would bet my life those same parents are not cautious around their child’s use of AI though… and round and round we go.
Yes, I totally agree with you. It all rests on the parents. Most are too tired and stressed and themselves completely addicted. I’m not a perfect mom by any means, but what I am proud of, is that my two young children have been raised as analog as possible in today’s age. I guess that also stems from my own Luddite leanings- I desire to retain my cognitive skills in this age of AI and never use it… But back to my kids, sure they still can watch some TV and if we’re on a crazy long journey they can watch something on my phone but I think the key is that they don’t have their own tablets. That’s the killer imho.
And there’s zero addictive brain rot video games. Every one comments on how great my kids behave. And how articulate they are. And I always say, yeah, but it’s only ’cause we focus on behaviour all the bloomin time! It is definitely hard work. We always eat dinner together as a family with zero screens around and when we’re out eating too. It is a daily training of teaching manners, asking about each others’ day, sitting in one’s chair, using cutlery… it is definitely the more exhausting option when to hand over a screen is much easier but I’m determined! The trickier time will come when they start high school and phones come up. I wouldn’t have a clue how to navigate all that besides giving them just a Nokia brick.
Got a Nokia brick, 4G as well.
Works fine.
Until you cant find them anymore. Printers only on hifi now.
It sounds like you’re doing an awesome job and a credit to your children. You’re right too; like everything in life, the worthwhile road is the harder one – it takes thought, care, time, energy and patience!
I know I was being very harsh on many parents who’ve effectively handed over their primary responsibility to devices. I know many struggle to keep their head above water, battle the daily grind and, as you say, are tired, stressed and sometimes also addicted to devices and apps. However, apart from the devices, many parents have always had it tough and still raised their kids with reasonable boundaries, love and quality time with family. If I were to be kinder, perhaps it’s fair to say that many parents have been duped into giving away some responsibility, even though it may have gone against their instincts and wishes. Maybe it’s arguable that they are also victims of the creep of this type of technology into our lives.
If pushed though, I still feel most of the time that it’s a choice, or a layering of many bad choices one after another. The mistakes are usually made very early on, and you’ve mentioned the main issue – ‘but I think the key is that they don’t have their own tablets. That’s the killer imho’. Yes. I know parents who’ve given tablets to kids as young as three or four years – breakfast done, tablet; lunch eaten, tablet, playtime: on the tablet. It’s an early model for complete dysfunction and addiction as they grow.
I’m very grateful that I’m old enough to have avoided the specific tech temptations that capture current generations. They also often miss out on stuff I loved as a kid; regular social interactions with friends and extended family – well, they may sometimes be there, physically, but their gaze is almost always on a screen.
Aside from the impacts on adult freedoms online, it’ll be interesting to see how a wide-spread social media ban for children develops and whether there’s a chance at reversing course and preventing future generations being harmed in the same way. It will really need parents to step-up and take control again if they’re given the opportunity. Let’s hope they will.
I wouldn’t worry too much about high school – you’re already putting all the good foundations in place, so you’re ahead of the mob!
Is Learned Helplessness afflicting much of the citizens of the West – when it comes to standing up and doing the right thing, with such as Epstein’s Paedo’s, war, corruption, theft of public funds and bad governments etc.
Learned Helplessness in action.
illuminatibot (@iluminatibot): “This psychology experiment shows how easy one can induce “Learned Helplessness” in people.” | nitter.poast.org
I like the teacher for teaching her students what to think and what to do, when they meet absurdity.
But whether this really is the 100% form for LH is not cannon clear,
As if we needed any more evidence – that the Covid-19 vaccines killed people, this guy nails it.
healthbot (@thehealthb0t): “42-year-old man took the Moderna shot and died right in front of doctors. DR. MCCULLOUGH: “If this was any other new drug on the market that caused a fatality, it would have been pulled immediately.” But not the COVID vaccine.” | nitter.poast.org
Off course if this is true, this is horrible. Off course there must not be one single dead or injured by injection of any “vaccine”.
But………when this is said……the problem is all the official figures I see, also on the ‘alternative side’ says 1 injured / 1 SADS dead per 1000.
This figure 1/1000 incidents is unfortunately on such a statistic scale that it make it uncertain whether the factual person hit by the incident was pre-disposed with a vulnerability not possible to predict in any healthy healthcare.
So yes, but…..the case is lukewarm.
Trump to appoint Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang to the Science and Technology Advisory Board.
“Trump is the first Jewish President of US”. https://jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/how-donald-trump-became-the-first-jewish-president/2019/07/25/
Kind of stupid you bringing this up, as all of you are more glued to the bullshit than the sheeple. In fact, this alt-media lot consumes more bullshit to the point of addiction.
We are only here out of necessity Sir. I cant impossible live without my daily OffG jab.
This is absolutely not because I and more are addicted, but because we do resolve here all the bad things and challenge up the bad guys which are happening out in this world.
We do this in this a do-gooder manner which means that we are more goodier than most people…..normally.
I mean, someone has to do the job that others dont do yes?
Yeah Starmer, in England is thinking of going down this road the Corporate Controlled Media couldn’t report about the US story enough today – of course the coming restrictions will be used under the guise of protecting children – just as the Online Safety Act is used now, in reality the real goal is to shut up alt-media online sites like this one, to stop people viewing the important articles that help keep us aware of some of what’s going on.
Not only will they try and reduced your traffic flow of viewers, they’ll make it more difficult for us to access sites like this – we’ll need to jump through a barrage of hoops to reach the site, and other like it, such as Mint Press and the GrayZone – both already under attack for their articles exposing some of what is really going on.
The primary attack vector seems to be via the ‘climate change’ denial route..Yes, climate changes over time (sunspots have roughly an 11-year cycle) and yet doesn’t always behave according to any random explosions in space nor even according to any other ‘evolutionary’ BS demands. But invigilators may consider otherwise, if such speculations don’t tie in with accepted political theory nor with the proposed curriculum.
So yes, any site suggesting contrary to the universally accepted doctrine may well be considered anathema
Ah yes, the Climate Changer Denier handle, now where have we heard the Denier handle before – my philosophy is question everything, regardless of what handle they try to pin on you.
Yeah, I get it. These bans are smokescreens for mining our personal particulars.
But Facebook, gah. 90% of the posts on their are scams or just lies.
Not guilty I’d say since I’ve never had an account with any of them
Meaning you support the ban then, yes? Otherwise your statement makes no meaning.
We anticipate you were not destroyed as child because you didnt visited social media.
Or you were destroyed as child without visiting the social media, why you are of the opinion the social media do no fock harm.
Being outside being harmed though, makes Facebook and Epstein Ellison innocents yes?
They didn’t addict me, and hence likely they didn’t addict others. That was the basic point. Those with a basic capacity to resist crassness will do so. Maybe because such types were exposed to the pernicious alternative of ‘books’ from a young age from such suspect intermediaries formerly known as ‘parents’
I get you point. I could say myself could be such a person. But I learned it the hard way.
I were on Facebook, had a lot of friends, like most of my family are and have even today. My family use it fine as a tool of contact and sell and buy.
But I had some bad experiences, jealousy m.m. and saw what it can lead to: group think, spread of rumours, false reality, and jumped out.
Anyway, I am happy to hear we have some people who are completely un-attracted to the case 😃 .
Non-compliance is the only way to beat this. I’m British an it’s coming here just like in the US
So you will feed you children with Tik-Tok porno because you are against the government?
Wedge – thin end of
So, can we expect ‘food’ companies that produce ‘foods’ that are purposely
addictive to be sued by all the fat people who just cant say “No !” ?
And will Digital ID be required to prove you’re old enough to buy purposely
addictive lollies ? And what about dildo makers ?