Plato’s Cave Resurrected

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Bert Olivier

“Having lived through more than four years of systematic subjection to gaslighting as well as misinformation by the mainstream media, governments and non-elected, private global companies, those among us who sojourn in the land of the awake and awakened, would understand the metaphor of ‘looking at shadows.’ And if you do, perhaps some readers might recall that in the 4th century BCE there was an ancient Greek philosopher named Plato, who invented a myth involving shadows to explain the congenitally deceptive character of the human world in space and time.” (03/28/24)

https://brownstone.org/articles/platos-cave-resurrected/

A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes. They’re All From a Republican.

Source: The New Republic
by Tori Otten

“A prominent Georgia state Republican, who has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen, was found to have voted illegally nine times. Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of the state Republican Party, violated state election laws when he voted illegally in nine elections from 2008 to 2010, a Georgia judge ruled Wednesday. At the time he cast those votes, Pritchard was still on probation after being convicted of a forgery felony in Pennsylvania in 1996. Georgia is one of 15 states that bars people from voting until they have completed their sentence, including probation. Judge Lisa Boggs ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine for his illegal votes. He will also receive a public reprimand.” (03/28/24)

https://newrepublic.com/post/180230/georgia-official-vote-illegally

Dems think criminals matter more than you

Source: Fox News
by Greg Gutfeld

“So here in New York City, the subway system is running a special lottery, but … it’s a lottery that no one wants to win. Because with random attacks on the trains rising faster than Truth Social’s stock price, your chances of getting through the subway system without encountering a raving lunatic are about the same as getting through Jesse’s book. New York subway is so dangerous these days, it could be Ukraine or even San Francisco. … So as New York Democrat leaders, all of whom, by the way, have armed protection details, hold press conferences telling us they feel our pain and are praying for the families. What they conveniently ignore is that none of this is actually random … Because it’s the policies of these leaders, most of which were forced through in the wake of George Floyd, that are directly causing all of this.” (03/28/24)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-dems-think-criminals-matter-more

MA: Harvard University removes human skin binding from book

Source: BBC News [UK state media]

“Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l’Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s. In 2014, scientists determined that the material it was bound with was in fact human skin. But the university has now announced it has removed the binding ‘due to the ethically fraught nature of the book’s origins and subsequent history’. Des Destinées de l’Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s. He is said to have given it to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.” (03/28/24)

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68683304

Taylor Swift Makes Billionaire Debut, Joining Elon Musk In Richest List

Source: NDTV

“Joining the ranks of the world’s wealthiest individuals is Taylor Swift, who has entered her billionaire ‘era.’ Elon Musk, propelled by the surge in Tesla stock and SpaceX’s valuation, has reclaimed his position as the world’s richest person in the annual ranking of billionaires, as per Barrons. With a fortune of $231 billion, Musk surpassed Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos ($185 billion) and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault ($175 billion), who held the second and third positions respectively in the 13th Hurun Global Rich Report, an annual survey conducted by China-based media and research firm Hurun. This marks Musk’s third time in four years at the top of the list. Swift made her appearance on the list with an estimated wealth of $1.2 billion, driven by her Eras Tour and earnings from re-recording her albums.” (03/28/24)

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/taylor-swift-makes-billionaire-debut-joining-elon-musk-in-richest-list-5328212

Washington Mystery? Where Trump stands on Israel-Gaza war Washington Mystery? Where Trump stands on Israel-Gaza war

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James Carden & Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

“Trump has revealed little about his views on the Gaza war, from the possibility of a ceasefire to what might happen when the fighting eventually stops. It is difficult to suss out more, as he has offered little elaboration on the campaign trail. He does call progressive Democrats demanding a ceasefire ‘lunatics’ who ‘hate Israel.’ He said recently that Jews who vote Democratic hate Israel and ‘hate their religion.’ … can we actually discern what a U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians might look like if Trump won the November election and was installed as the 47th president in January 2025? Maybe it’s best to go beyond his exhortations and take a look at the record instead.” (03/28/24)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-israel-gaza/

Kamala Harris Touts Secret Service Program Encouraging High School Spying

Source: The Intercept
by Daniel Boguslaw

“When Vice President Kamala Harris toured the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this week, site of the infamous 2018 Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, she pushed for more gun control and called for communities to accept more federal help in stopping school shootings. ‘I will continue to advocate for what we must do in terms of universal background checks and assault weapons ban’ Harris said. But in a land where gun control is politically impossible, the only tangible help the Biden administration offers schools are resources to conduct better behavioral profiling of students, doing so through a Secret Service center founded to study the psychology of presidential assassins. The push, supported by a bipartisan bill that would strengthen the role of the Department of Homeland Security in school violence, would turn America’s schools into another adjunct of the national security apparatus, a veritable school for spies.” (03/28/24)

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/28/secret-service-school-spying-snitching/

US Officials Believe That “We” Are at War With Russia

Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow

“Could someone please tell Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the Senate’s premier warmongers, that ‘we’ are not at war with Russia? Ukraine is. The grandstanding warrior wannabe recently visited Kiev. The Zelensky government is under pressure to expand conscription to bulk up its army. Graham enthusiastically backed the effort. Reported the Washington Post: ”I would hope that those eligible to serve in the Ukrainian military would join. I can’t believe it’s at 27,’ he told reporters Monday. ‘You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving—not at 25 or 27.” He insisted: ‘We need more people in the line.’ We? When did Graham accept Ukrainian citizenship and enter the Ukrainian Rada? Graham is one of many witless American officials who seem to believe that they are to represent foreign countries dealing with the U.S. rather than the U.S. in dealing with foreign countries.” (03/28/24)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/u-s-officials-believe-that-we-are-at-war-with-russia/