> "The United Kingdom has chosen coercion.  Law enforcement agencies in the U.K. spend more resources policing public debate on social media platforms than they do curbing illegal immigration or protecting children from rape gangs.  Citizens who express unapproved thoughts that contradict official government policies put themselves in legal jeopardy.  U.K. health authorities continue to defend their COVID totalitarianism as a reasonable emergency response backed by “scientific” expertise.  In the U.K., protections for free speech, dissent, and freedom of conscience are dead." [Nobody Knows What’s Real, by J.B. Shurk](

Nobody Knows What’s Real

Censorship and information warfare have destroyed public trust in institutions.

#UK

> When we acknowledge that government institutions have knowingly and willfully targeted the American people with disinformation campaigns meant to achieve strategic objectives, we are acknowledging that these institutions have made war against us exactly as military planners would wage war against foreign enemies.  That is a sobering, terrifying, and unforgivable betrayal of the U.S. Constitution.   [Nobody Knows What’s Real, by J.B. Shurk](https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/nobody_knows_what_s_real.html) The US #GovtIsTheProblem

HIS HIGHNESS: Jeeves... JEEVES: Yes, Your Grace? HIS HIGHNESS: Do I still amaze you? JEEVES: (sigh) Your Grace still amazes me.

Non-Christians seem to be able to really enjoy sin. I don't think a #Christian really can. They might in the moment, but afterwards there is sorrow...

I'm not a 'publican but these were kinda funny: (From X, of course) #Trump

> "We know that already 43 days after conception there is brainwave activity. So even at that point the soul is present, and so abortion would be killing a human person. --William Lane Craig https://www.youtube.com/live/T6ou9yo0W1M

> "As long as there are governments powerful enough to maintain national boundaries and national political postures, then there will be the absolute risk, if not the certainty, of war between them. Even the possibility of war seems far too cataclysmic to contemplate in a world so ripe with technology and prosperous potential, ripe even with the seeds of extraterrestrial exploration. Violence and the institutions that alone can support it should be rendered obsolete." -- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)

> "Like Linus, neither liberal nor conservative can bear the thought of giving up the blanket--of giving up government and going it alone as residents of a planet, rather than of a country." -- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)

I was just talking to my dad the other about how his father, my grandfather, was able to raise 11 kids on just his income (and he wasn't wealthy) and have have his wife stay at home, while today, earning what looks like more in dollars, it can be a challenge to afford to raise even one child, with both parents working! When you see that median earnings per year in gold are now 1/15th of what they were in 1971 it makes sense (assuming gold was/is properly valued)... 😩 View quoted note →

> He who says “state” means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. - Ludwig von Mises, *Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War* (1944) #anarchy #voluntarism

For the noobs, one beautiful thing about #Nostr is that when one app isn't working (like #Amethyst here) You can switch to another app (like #Primal here) that does work: #newstr

> The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its own violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime". Max Stirner, *The Ego and Its Own* (1845) (Max Stirner sketch by Friedrich Engels)

#tunestr

> "Just a few hours ago, #Trump announced the deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” from Duhmeetry Medvedev. A social media spat—yes, a damn tweet—has now triggered a U.S. nuclear escalation. This is no longer political theater. This is nuclear war posturing in real time, and it’s not coming from shadowy generals or faceless bureaucrats—it’s coming from the man many believe is returning to power. > > "And the Russians? They didn’t laugh. They didn’t flinch. Medvedev responded not with a threat, but a prophecy. He invoked “Dead Hand.” To most Americans, that sounds like Cold War fiction. But to anyone who understands nuclear doctrine, it’s the most terrifying phrase imaginable. It’s not a metaphor. It’s a machine—designed to destroy the world automatically if Russia’s leadership is ever taken out in a first strike. > > "And Trump? He’s positioning U.S. nuclear submarines for exactly that kind of decapitation scenario. > > "The Dead Hand—formally known as Perimeter—is a Cold War-era Russian system created for one purpose: to guarantee that #Russia would still launch a full nuclear counterattack even if Moscow were reduced to ash. If command and control are gone, if Putin and his staff are dead, if communications are severed—Dead Hand takes over. It launches everything. > > "And Trump has just brought us inches away from activating it."

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> "It will take a few months for the American citizenry to begin feeling the deleterious and disastrous effects of Trump’s maniacal punitive tariffs, but feel it we will. Tariffs are taxes on consumers. That’s us! If #Trump stays the course of using tariffs as personal, vindictive international retributions, before this time next year, many store shelves will be empty, and the cost of everything will be higher than any of us can now imagine."

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