📝 🇺🇸 "We are currently witnessing key moment in culture war history as a homeless encampment underneath one of LA’s most trafficked freeways, the 10, caught fire and destroyed the freeway “indefinitely.”
You can tell it’s a big deal cause they’ve trotted out “mayor” Karen Bass, all but absent at all other times, and Newsom himself to tell us that the images were seeing “may not correspond with reality” while obese trans sign language translator fills most of the screen
To put this in perspective, this would be like the 6 train shutting down service in lower manhattan indefinitely, except worse because no way around it (for eg using busses). totally crippling for LA—most restaurants for eg get their food from downtown distributors.
Establishment media minimizes to “traffic nightmare,” and focuses on “how to handle it” type empathy advice, but this will take 6 months to fix. since the city is a corruption corpse with no leadership, it may take longer. Will be interesting to see what happens."
📎 Disgraced Propagandist
IN 2006, RESEARCHER CLEVE BACKSTER — THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CIA'S LIE DETECTOR PROTOCOLS — PUBLISHED 36 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT PLANTS, BACTERIA, AND HUMAN CELLS IN PETRI DISHES RESPOND INSTANTANEOUSLY TO HUMAN THOUGHT AND EMOTION — EVEN AT DISTANCES OF HUNDREDS OF MILES. THE SIGNAL IS FASTER THAN LIGHT. IT DOES NOT DIMINISH WITH DISTANCE. IT IS NOT ELECTROMAGNETIC.
In 1966, Cleve Backster was the world's foremost expert on polygraph technology. He had developed the interrogation techniques used by the CIA, FBI, and U.S. military. He understood galvanic skin response — the electrical conductance of biological tissue — better than anyone alive.
One morning, on a whim, he attached polygraph electrodes to a Dracaena plant in his office. He watered it and watched the tracing. Then he thought: "I wonder what would happen if I threatened this plant." He decided to burn a leaf with a match.
The instant he formed the intention — before he moved, before he lit the match, before any ...
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