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Okay, we are looking at the victory lap being taken (a bit prematurely, methinks) by the BLM trio of marxist founders. Here is BEEB:

Black Lives Matter founders: We fought to change history and we won

Published14 hours ago

The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things – not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world.

The organisation has led huge street rallies and high-profile campaigns against racism and police brutality.

Now the three women who founded the movement have told the BBC they believe it has transformed politics.

“Black people alongside our allies stood up to change the course of history and we won,” said Alicia Garza.

Garza and her BLM co-founders, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, spoke as part of the BBC 100 Women Masterclass 2020, a digital live event of masterclasses, big interviews and guests on 30 November.

If you doubted that this is a Marxism-driven, colour-culture revolution push using Critical Race Theory as key ideological wedge, there you have it from the horses’ mouths.

In short, 4th Gen War:

. . . based on colour/cultural revolution insurgency, including dirty form McFaul programme election manipulation:

Okie, Dec 17, I clip from 1333 below, a focal point:

Just remember, given the realities of 4th gen war, there is now no hard border — no specific, momentous declaratory threshold — between

a: information and influence operations [including, too often “education”];

b: politics, law and power balances stratagems, and

c: full bore high kinetics war.

The intent of all three in ruthless hands, subjugation under a new lawless oligarchy, demands that we understand that tri-polar spectrum, and that we determine to stand for a civilisation of truth, right, honour and liberty in the face of its most insidious, treacherous enemies.

H’mm, Dec 15, let’s add in the Overton Window (with hints of Plato’s Parable of the Cave), to help us understand political/policy thinking in light of BATNA points:

Where, we need to ponder the change challenge:

. . . and the Mountains/pillars of influence mapping model:

Where are we drifting to, why and how?

Now, let us continue the already in progress [for four weeks!] live event . . . from here.

First U/D, the Arizona hearing when I can get it up.

Meanwhile, ponder just what is being said now, and what it implies beyond how they would wish it spun, given their admitted Marxism. BREAKING, CONTINUING (AFTER FOUR WEEKS) . . .

U/D1: Arizona hearings:

https://youtu.be/QfC2T7UpxkI

U/D2: Ms Powell with Mr Dobbs on state of play, a case in VA on the table. Also, even as a restraining order was being debated in a see-saw back-forth, in Fulton County, a Server was taken by a technician on excuse of software update and has disappeared from chain of custody. From CA, a tape has been forwarded to Ms Powell and reveals 550 votes from 270 people, an indication of algorithmic manipulation:

Ms Powell, the entire FBI and Dept of Justice need to be hosed out with Chlorox and firehoses.

F/N: Was the Electoral College simply a way to entrench slavery — merely ramshackle defence of slavery? A discussion on republic vs direct instant effect democracy:

[PREDICTABLY, SADLY, CENSORED]

U/D2, Dec 2, hearings in MI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw

U/D3, Dec 2: HT BA77, we now have chain of custody on ballots going into PA by the trailer-load. The ballots seen coming in at wee hours were in similar containers:

U/D4, Dec 2: Spykman’s framework of heartland, rimland and the outer crescent of maritime Islands and continents:

This is the framework for geostrategic analysis. Desperately compressed, c 1904 Mackinder identified that rail, telegraph, telephone etc allowed mobilisation of continental resources in the heart of the Eurasian landmass that would counterweight the maritime powers, i.e. Britain with the US coming up behind. C20 can be viewed as the history of two German grabs and one Russian one, failed. Rimlands are a belt between, coast and near hinterlands. The outer arc is where maritime power and sea trade dominate. Thus, the chief maritime power guarantees global stability.

I have argued as follows c April 2016, the current US 4th gen civil war with global entanglement is a playing out of this picture. Notice the Iranian push, vulture no. 3. No Ko is a wannabe:

U/D5, Dec 2, Ordinary people have their say (and often get smeared by the media dominant narrative — a comment):

Hannity shows ordinary witnesses.Twitter so no YT link.

U/D6, Dec 4: Here is the Oct 2016 video of independent body blackbox voting dot org:

Note, from commented screen captures:

U/D7, Mr Giuliani requests disciplinary action for defamation violation of parliamentary privilege, regarding dismissal of evidence and attacking his professional integrity:

In the course of this he corrects widespread talking points: 3 cases brought not the 39 being talked about. 2,000 affidavits under penalty of law, and we know now of the video of four suitcases of ballots counted after scrutineers were dismissed, being told that counting was over for the night, in GA.

The member signalling intent to dox and harass a witness by demanding even her maiden name should take due note.

U/D8, Dec 5: Smoking gun? (Video here.) The midnight, unsupervised ballot counting in GA — though strictly, the count from its outset with scrutineers corralled, was invalid:

U/D9, Dec 7, concerns that Dominion machines have flipped votes and on a test run a sequestered machine has continued to do so:

Cf. Expert testimony:

https://youtu.be/ijtaV5Twf6o

Cybersecurity expert, Russell Ramsland is speaking under the umbrella of his affidavit.

U/D, Dec 10, Lou Dobbs on the “Russian intelligence”/ “conspiracy theory” dismissive talking points on Mr Hunter Biden (with implications that his chief asset on offer was access) and Ms Powell’s unleashing of the Kracken:

https://youtu.be/IQjjjrR9QUY

[PREDICTABLY, CENSORED]

U/D11, Dec 11: Here is a framework for addressing media spin and gaslighting, agit-prop etc:

As it is such a glaring example on what was said in the “fine people” remarks, and as Sandy brought it up, let me add this correction from the record . . . yes, transcript, on Charlottesville:

U/D13, Dec 12, here is a backgrounder on Alcibiades which also gives a useful survey of the Peloponnesian war. One hopes, this will not be censored:

U/D14, Dec 12 HT BA77, Dominion demonstrations, part 1:

. . . and part 2:

5:04 on in this part 2 shows scanning in then voting a BLANK ballot, which the operator says “totally bothers me.”

She demonstrates also how adjudicated ballots can be voted.

We separately know that the scanner can mark ballots, sold as a feature for the visually impaired.

In short there is now no responsible doubt that the sort of manipulation discussed is a real capability — means. Frustration of scrutineering creates opportunity and decisively undermines integrity of the election vote counts. Motive is easy, power in the midst of a 4th Gen Civil war, in the form of a colour-culture revolution push, theme colour black. The testimony of many witnesses, statistical red flags etc point to actual occurrence, but recall, this is secondary. The primary issue is massive injection of effectively uncontrolled mail in ballots with 3rd party ballot harvesting and similar frustration of scrutineering implying dubious chain of custody.

All of this then points to the 26 years of history going back to the PA case of 1994 and through the exposure of election gadgetry since the early 2000’s, then rejections by CA and TX as well as links to Venezuela and more.

I strongly suggest, download the videos for yourself before they vanish into the censorship black hole.

U/D15: Hima’s testimony, something needs to be fixed here:

U/D16, Dec 13: I think it is profitable to look at a backgrounder on Mountains/pillars of influence, dominant worldviews and agendas, the change challenge and the crooked yardstick effect. First, the seven mountains, a mapping model for dealing with a corrupt culture as a remnant of soundness under God (originally, Schaeffer et al, 1970’s):

Linked, the Machiavelli change-timing challenge:

Underlying problem: crooked yardsticks vs plumb-lines:

Deeper background, a sounder view on political spectrum:

Further deeper understanding of an en-darkened civilisation, adapting Schaeffer’s vision:

Our civilisation is at obvious kairos, a hinge of history, with major dangers and opportunities. It is time to be good people of the remnant in the face of an Ac 27 storm.

U/D17, Dec 14, Ms Powell on the state of the American Courts and Republic on a date that most likely will live in infamy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKfK8jkSwPA

(Has this ALREADY been censored?)

Lou Dobbs with Ms Powell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEmSMLgVeY

U/D18, Dec 16: A summary of the lesson of 1876/77, on the price paid for a devil’s bargain that swallowed electoral fraud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbSgCpPors

Yes, the Democrats refused to acknowledge fraud and a devil’s bargain was struck over 20 electors that stopped Reconstruction in a way that opened up the abuses that lingered to the 1960’s.

U/D19, Dec 19: a summary of red flags from the Navarro Report, so we can see in the context of being an evidence summary:

U/D20: The “Solar Winds” Cyber attack, apparently in progress for 6 months, with direct entanglement with the tainted election (cf. 17:00 on):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=869&v=3T9VDichLPM&feature=youtu.be

[predictably, poof!]

China is named, along with Iran and North Korea. As well as, of course, Russia having been widely deemed suspect no. 1. This is an obvious example of an information-influence operation as act of 4G war, connecting the local civil conflict in the US to the global conflict, de facto WW4. Forbes comments:

The recently discovered cyber attacks against numerous U.S. government departments and  thousands of public and private sector entities around the world, via a compromise of SolarWinds software, underscore the risks associated with third party vendors and raise questions about liability. The attacks were allegedly perpetrated by Russia and were highly sophisticated . . . .

The attackers compromised the software “signature” of SolarWinds’s Orion network monitoring software and distributed malware as a software update. Public and private encryption keys are used to “sign” software. A software update is “signed” using an encryption algorithm and the developer’s private key, which creates a hash “signature.”  This “signature” is validated by the receiver of the software update by using the sender’s public key. The signature process assures the integrity of the update and instills trust in users of the software. 

In a December 14 SEC filing, SolarWinds said that of its more than 300,000 customers, they believed that less than 18,000 entities may have downloaded the Orion update during the March-June 2020 timeframe [–> the 6 months timeline], which likely included the malware. The malware operated stealthily and exfiltrated valuable intellectual property, confidential and proprietary data, emails, and other valuable information from victims’ systems. It was unknown until prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye, also a victim of the attacks, discovered the malware and reported on the attacks on December 13, 2020.

According to FireEye, once installed in a system, the malware remained quiet for a couple of weeks and then masqueraded as the Orion Improvement Program protocol. It stored data from its internal activities within actual SolarWinds files on the system, thereby making its detection all the more difficult.  The malware had highly credentialed access to the system and could disable system services, reboot machines, exfiltrate data, execute files, change system configurations, and perform actions usually taken by a highly privileged system administrator.

That sounds rather familiar, and illustrates what happens if a trusted supplier is compromised. Gen Flynn’s remarks at 16:05 on are worth transcribing:

When we talk about our election security . . . I think this is all part of it, because there is a relationship between this solar winds attack; which has basically penetrated our entire critical infrastructure as well as our election security. So we have to look at everything we’re doing . . . okay with all of the egregious behaviour that we’ve seen on our election security we cannot stand for foreign influence, which we have direct evidence of foreign influence. We also have direct evidence now from other countries, from other foreign partners who have evidence.

In fact they were watching the attacks on our election system, on our election process on the 3rd of November and they are willing to provide that directly to the President.

So we now have that evidence and have received that today. It’s very important.

So there are foreign partners and allies that are willing to help us with our election security and this Solar Winds system is really really dangerous and more has to be done.

The likely allies obviously include Israel, likely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and possibly Australia given the focus on China.

Again, we are back to whose report do you believe, why.

U/D21, Dec 23: It was not possible to find the 1984 Movie through a Google search (yes, they are that unconscious of the irony) but DDG showed it, here is a colour version at YT, this may be pretty important holiday viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4kt4kUE88

If that gets purged, here is Web Archive.

U/D22, Dec 28: Understand the anger of the perpetually manipulated:

One does not have to endorse the above across the board to see that it has a telling point or two about the “Uniparty” and the issue of fundamentally unaccountable elites, leading a manipulated march of folly. Here, the lesson of Ac 27 is again all too relevant.

U/D23: A Canadian Lawyer and an American Lawyer discuss — as an example — the dismissal of the Wisconsin care; an example of how the election fraud concerns are being sidelined:

U/D24, Jan 3, what the Ukrainians have to say about corruption and investigation, through an Interfax press conference. Such needs to be soberly addressed in detail:

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73 million sheep? Doesn't 73 million unhappy people mean 81 million happy people? Forgive me, but wouldn't that mean that Democracy has won?marquez8
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That inflexion point was 1650 – 1787-9. It is no accident this is also the root of rights based reform movements.
I consider that period the birth of rationalism and Freemasonry - where Protestantism began to die off as thinkers applied reason to Christian doctrine and eventually, the collection of reformed Christian theologians ended up denying (collectively) every supernatural-based doctrine and accepted only what was conformable to human rationality (and even that did not escape the critical filter). Freemasonry just filled the gap, providing a solid basis for the US Government, in the Deist belief that humanity must have "liberty" and that all religions are basically the same, under a God of some kind. That's the American religion of today. Liberty, reason and a god somewhere out there who requires no district worship. It's basically Talmudic Judaism in essence. Its the religion of the enlightenment which is really just the breakdown of Protestant subjectivism. In the worst case, it ends with the atheism that we see widespread today. If everyone can decide for themselves, and one Christian theologian can freely contradict any other on every possible doctrine, then there's no real reason to accept any of it. Catholicism teaches that sanctifying grace confers the power to accept doctrine which transcends reason. So, the Christian faith cannot be subject to rational analysis. It's not a theorem in that sense.Silver Asiatic
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How do you know? A book?
Catholicism is based on a community who witnessed divine events and the teaching that followed from those events. A book came after the community already existed - and the same community has existed for 4000 years (Catholicism is the fulfillment of Judiasm), handing on the testimony that was witnessed. Christ's resurrection was proclaimed by people who witnessed Him and who were taught by Him about the divine moral law. God is the arbiter of what is right and wrong - the creator of all human life, and the final judge of human behavior in the end. The meaning and purpose of human life comes from God. Without God, there is no real meaning, and moral norms are arbitrary and purposeless. No one has a moral obligation to follow moral laws that were created by other human beings. What gives those moral arbitrators the right to create moral norms? Why can't anyone just create them for themselves? If there is no God, then that's what results.Silver Asiatic
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Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin
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As for the attempts to disparage the BLM
You realize you just validated that the United States is the least racist country in the modern world. And that the BLM movement has nothing to do with improving the lives of blacks. So is it an anti black movement?jerry
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Moral arbiters? Who else but humanity can arbitrate? Which religion is correct? (Sorry, I know, It's Christianity, isn't it?) How do you know? A book? Why is your book better than another's book? Ken Ham is unconvincing. Martin Luther hated science, and Rationality. Screeds of ink are not convincing, at least, not to a rational, uninfected, mind.marquez8
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SA, in the OP you will see a modified political spectrum based on the cube analysis I did years ago here. Anarchy is a repeller pole and tends to push to the other extreme, autocracy and its natural evolution, lawless, power driven autocracy. This is the natural social state. As Exod 18 shows, no one person can truly rule. Hence oligarchy. Until the printing revolution, the vernacular Bible, the reformation, the ferment, rise of bills and newspapers, coffee shops and widespread literacy, representational constitutional democracy was not possible. That inflexion point was 1650 - 1787-9. It is no accident this is also the root of rights based reform movements. Premises of moral government are tied, and link onward to the intelligible natural law and analysis of what sort of world accounts for responsible, rational, significantly free morally governed creatures:
We can readily identify at least seven inescapable first duties of reason. "Inescapable," as they are so antecedent to reasoning that even the objector implicitly appeals to them; i.e. they are self-evident. Namely, duties, to truth, to right reason, to prudence, to sound conscience, to neighbour; so also, to fairness and justice etc. Such built-in . . . thus, universal . . . law is not invented by parliaments, kings or courts, nor can these principles and duties be abolished by such; they are recognised, often implicitly as an indelible part of our evident nature. Hence, "natural law," coeval with our humanity, famously phrased in terms of "self-evident . . . rights . . . endowed by our Creator" in the US Declaration of Independence, 1776. (Cf. Cicero in De Legibus, c. 50 BC.) Indeed, it is on this framework that we can set out to soundly understand and duly balance rights, freedoms and duties; which is justice, the pivot of law. The legitimate main task of government, then, is to uphold and defend the civil peace of justice through sound community order reflecting the built in, intelligible law of our nature. Where, as my right implies your duty a true right is a binding moral claim to be respected in life, liberty, honestly aquired property, innocent reputation etc. To so justly claim a right, one must therefore demonstrably be in the right. Likewise, Aristotle long since anticipated Pilate's cynical "what is truth?": truth says of what is, that it is; and of what is not, that it is not. [Metaphysics, 1011b, C4 BC.] Simple in concept, but hard to establish on the ground; hence -- in key part -- the duties to right reason, prudence, fairness etc. Thus, too, we may compose sound civil law informed by that built-in law of our responsibly, rationally free morally governed nature; from such, we may identify what is unsound or false thus to be reformed or replaced even though enacted under the colour and solemn ceremonies of law. The first duties, also, are a framework for understanding and articulating the corpus of built-in law of our morally governed nature, antecedent to civil laws and manifest our roots in the Supreme Law-giver, the inherently good, utterly wise and just creator-God, the necessary (so, eternal), maximally great being at the root of reality.
The sort of shut-up you're a hypocrite rhetoric so commonly seen (and which, sadly, pops up above) in fact inadvertently demonstrates this. That palpable cognitive dissonance behind the shut-up hypocrite rhetoric inadvertently reveals the force of the point. We need not expand on the history of radical revolutions that fail to soundly address moral government, moral struggle and the intelligible natural law. It should be obvious that if ruthless scheming, deception, lawfare and violence are the road to power, then you have reverted to lawless oligarchy. Often, shielded behing 1984 style agit prop and secret police tactics. Abolish the oppressive police is the cry - oh, the euphemism is, defund -- but beyond, what will come in the place? History says, again and again, secret terror police, show trials, guillotines, firing squads and gulags. What we need is instead, sound, principled reformation. And, there is abundant reason to see that we face a dirty form McFaul colour-culture revolution push. Colour theme, black. See OP. KFkairosfocus
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Jerry, I decided to take the plunge, here is an OCR version, note ~ 80 MB. KFkairosfocus
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Critical Theory
Thank you. Very important background. Critical theory from the Frankfurt School is an attempt to liberate society from oppression. But the liberators in this case, must necessarily be the controllers of the process - although "democracy" is claimed as the power behind the throne. Christian moral constraints are perceived as "oppressive". We might think that anarchy would be the alternative to a morally-based system, but on the contrary, the liberators have their own moral system that they impose for their own reasons. Instead of having originated from the mind of God (as Christian morals), the new moral norms originate from the revolutionaries, who attempt to impose equality and fairness. But the revolutionaries are flawed human beings, not moral arbiters, and they have their own personal interest as stake. Thus, everyone must conform to man-made norms that benefit the few.Silver Asiatic
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Bobby Piton essentially discovered where those 695,000+ illegal ballots came from in Pennsylvania.
Sev asked for skepticism. Certainly. But what can be said? Bobby Piton is lying? He opened his analysis to the public and asked for validation on the results - so not lying. Pennsylvania is a statistical anomaly in favor of Biden? That's the claim that should be viewed skeptically.Silver Asiatic
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PPS: On Critical Race Theory: https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
Critical race theory social sciences WRITTEN BY Tommy Curry Tommy Curry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Curry's contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009) formed the basis of his contributions... See Article History Alternative Title: CRT Critical race theory (CRT), the view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of colour. According to critical race theory (CRT), racial inequality emerges from the social, economic, and legal differences that white people create between “races” to maintain elite white interests in labour markets and politics, giving rise to poverty and criminality in many minority communities.[--> the thesis-antithesis, revolution to synthesis marxist framework should be clear, dialectic materialism flipping Hegel into a theory of revolution] The CRT movement officially organized itself in 1989, at the first annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory, though its intellectual origins go back much further, to the 1960s and ’70s. The launch of the CRT movement marked its separation from critical legal studies (CLS), an offshoot of critical theory that examined how the law and legal institutions function to perpetuate oppression and exploitation. However, instead of drawing theories of social organization and individual behaviour from continental European thinkers such as G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud, as CLS and feminist jurisprudence had done, CRT was inspired by figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and Frantz Fanon. [--> that's a top layer, the roots of critical theories are in Frankfurt School Marxism] Critical race theory advanced theoretical understandings of the law, politics, and American sociology that focused on the efforts of white people (Euro-Americans) to maintain their historical advantages over people of colour. CRT has spread beyond the confines of legal studies to many other fields, notably women’s and gender studies, education, American studies, and sociology. CRT spin-off movements formed by Asian American, Latinx, and LGBTQ scholars have also taken hold.
On Critical Theories in general: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
Critical Theory First published Tue Mar 8, 2005 Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. “Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human “emancipation from slavery”, acts as a “liberating … influence”, and works “to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers” of human beings (Horkheimer 1972, 246). Because such theories aim to explain and transform all the circumstances that enslave human beings, many “critical theories” in the broader sense have been developed. They have emerged in connection with the many social movements that identify varied dimensions of the domination of human beings in modern societies. In both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms. [--> if you believe on history since 1789 that radical revolutions actually liberate, I have some fine Caribbean beach front properties in Montana to sell to you] Critical Theory in the narrow sense has had many different aspects and quite distinct historical phases that cross several generations, from the effective start of the Institute for Social Research in the years 1929–1930, which saw the arrival of the Frankfurt School philosophers and an inaugural lecture by Horkheimer, to the present. Its distinctiveness as a philosophical approach that extends to ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of history is most apparent when considered in light of the history of the philosophy of the social sciences. Critical Theorists have long sought to distinguish their aims, methods, theories, and forms of explanation from standard understandings in both the natural and the social sciences. Instead, they have claimed that social inquiry ought to combine rather than separate the poles of philosophy and the social sciences: explanation and understanding, structure and agency, regularity and normativity. Such an approach, Critical Theorists argue, permits their enterprise to be practical in a distinctively moral (rather than instrumental) sense. [--> what basis for morality do these erect?] They do not merely seek to provide the means to achieve some independent goal, but rather (as in Horkheimer's famous definition mentioned above) seek “human emancipation” in circumstances of domination and oppression. This normative task cannot be accomplished apart from the interplay between philosophy and social science through interdisciplinary empirical social research (Horkheimer 1993). While Critical Theory is often thought of narrowly as referring to the Frankfurt School that begins with Horkheimer and Adorno and stretches to Marcuse and Habermas, any philosophical approach with similar practical aims could be called a “critical theory,” including feminism, critical race theory, and some forms of post-colonial criticism. In the following, Critical Theory when capitalized refers only to the Frankfurt School. All other uses of the term are meant in the broader sense and thus not capitalized. When used in the singular, “a critical theory” is not capitalized, even when the theory is developed by members of the Frankfurt School in the context of their overall project of Critical Theory. It follows from Horkheimer's definition that a critical theory is adequate only if it meets three criteria: it must be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. That is, it must explain what is wrong with current social reality, identify the actors to change it, and provide both clear norms for criticism and achievable practical goals for social transformation. Any truly critical theory of society, as Horkheimer further defined it in his writings as Director of the Frankfurt School's Institute for Social Research, “has as its object human beings as producers of their own historical form of life” (Horkeimer 1993, 21). In light of the practical goal of identifying and overcoming all the circumstances that limit human freedom, the explanatory goal could be furthered only through interdisciplinary research that includes psychological, cultural, and social dimensions, as well as institutional forms of domination. Given the emphasis among the first generation of Critical Theory on human beings as the self-creating producers of their own history, a unique practical aim of social inquiry suggests itself: to transform contemporary capitalism into a consensual form of social life. For Horkheimer a capitalist society could be transformed only by becoming more democratic, to make it such that “all conditions of social life that are controllable by human beings depend on real consensus” in a rational society (Horkheimer 1972, 249–250). The normative orientation of Critical Theory, at least in its form of critical social inquiry, is therefore towards the transformation of capitalism into a “real democracy” in which such control could be exercised (Horkheimer 1972, 250). In such formulations, there are striking similarities between Critical Theory and American pragmatism. The focus on democracy as the location for cooperative, practical and transformative activity continues today in the work of Jürgen Habermas, as does the attempt to determine the nature and limits of “real democracy” in complex, pluralistic, and globalizing societies.
The line to dirty McFaul colour-culture revolutions manipulating elections should be obvious.kairosfocus
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270 pages by Sidney Powell
Had not seen it - thank you. This is significant. The no-evidence and no-fraud voices spoke before even seeing or reviewing this.Silver Asiatic
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As for those who argue that we should be subject to moral governance; I would point out that, for Christians, that includes an obligation to truth
Exactly, yes. In stark contrast to atheist, Marxist or Communist methods which permit lying in order to advance the revolution. This puts Christians at a disadvantage for which they often must suffer.Silver Asiatic
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that’s Alinsky School
Exactly. The principles of the Alinsky school are necessary to understand. One key principle is that the ends justify the means. The means can be to lie and fabricate unfavorable information about your enemies. In fact, voter fraud would be perfectly compatible in an Alinsky scenario. It's based on total-war, with victory as a goal, to be supported by any kind of manipulation, lie or fraud. It's the Communist methodology.Silver Asiatic
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270 pages by Sidney Powell
BREAKING: Sidney Powell Releases Massive 270 Page Document Detailing Alleged Election Fraud
https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-sidney-powell-releases-massive-27-page-document-detailing-alleged-election-fraud/ Should keep people busy for a day. If a repeat, sorry.jerry
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SA, long time no see, trust you enjoyed the season and will have a great new year.
Thank you, KF! Yes, missed you for a while - and wishing you a blessed and happy Christmas season and New Year 2021!
H’mm, let’s extend that to one and all. I doubt there are any Trump enthusiasts here, the NY contractor in chief is a warts and all fellow.
Yes, I see him as deeply flawed and opposed to the good things I would wish for society. He is pro-gay marriage, pro-divorce, pro-contraception and is not very strong in a pro-life commitment (although the best US president ever in defending unborn life). He has a patriotic spirit which I find admirable. But I oppose his preferential favor towards Israel in foreign policy and his crassness and vulgarity towards opponents. But I find him to be a good businessman and man who often shows compassion towards those in need.
Twitter is playing 1984 games. Next to that, there are clear marks of a 4g war dirty McFaul colour-culture revolution push with an ecology of radical groups, organisers, backers, funders and media trumpets pushing a marxist critical theory narrative.
Agreed. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google, among others, engaged in an information conspiracy to manipulate voters. This is a Marxist tactic - hatred of the truth and a program for social engineering.
Iran has the Muslim world so scared that Mr Trump has been able to break through the 70+ year ME deadlock, which has been memory-holed by the media . . . anybody else, Nobel Prize for sure.
Agreed. As above, I oppose his Zionist orientation, but he did create a remarkable agreement which has been memory-holed, as you said.
Russia continues to be a dangerous wild card.
You may be right. I don't see it that way really, beyond unjust aggressions into Ukraine. Russia is an ally now with Iran and Syria as opposed to the US, but I see that as an American flaw (again, favoring Jewish interests at a huge cost) and I can't blame Russia for filling the leadership gap there. We (USA) should have preserved friendships in the region instead of taking sides (easier said than done, I know)
The prize pivot area of that heartland switched from Warsaw Pact to NATO as soon as they could after the Cold War. Now, the game seems to be to destabilise the US to open up power moves not in the interests of ordinary people.
As a side note, I recognize that Puerto Rico voted to be included in American statehood, but that has always been opposed by the States. I find that to be unjust - as Puerto Rico serves American interests (especially as a military base) but does not receive statehood-recognition in return. Perhaps better alliances with Jamaica would yield good results also but these avenues have been overlooked.Silver Asiatic
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Sev, BLM founders directly stated their Marxist adherence on videotape, and are Community Organisers -- that's Alinsky School. Critical Race Theory is Marxist, coming through the Frankfurt School. The operations of BLM have been red guard operations, as have been many of those connected to the Antifa, their stable mate. Of course, the vast majority of those caught up have no idea about such, a fault of unsound education systems, formal and informal. Such is not open to serious debate, what is interesting is your wanting to sideline that. That tells us that you know what marxism implies: exploiting the real concerns of the impoverished and oppressed, not to move to reformation but radical revolution that imposes lawless oligarchy under ruthless nihilistic ideologues and misanthropes. The history of such radical revolutions since 1789 has been uniformly very bad and frankly murderous. But then mass abortion taints us across the board with the worst holocaust in history. KF PS: The story of blacks in the US went through a transformational change from the 1940's to 70's, and those who pretend or suggest otherwise are utterly ignorant or outright deceitful. But then, the revering of Howard Zinn is a sobering sign, cf https://uncommondescent.com/ud-newswatch-highlights/ud-live-event-from-nov-3-us-election-contd-bbc-yes-the-beeb-on-blms-marxist-founders-we-fought-to-change-history-and-we-won/#comment-720967 from just yesterday, where I pick just one key point in his key history.kairosfocus
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Fear of some global, Marxist nonspiracy
I didn't quite follow: 1. Marxism is nothing to be frightened about because ... it's not really a problem. Never has been? Or there's no organized Marxist movement that threatens anything? 2. We shouldn't claim that certain social movements are Marxists because ... Marxism is bad and we shouldn't call people that name? 3. People have suffered and any social movements initiated to redress the suffering are necessarily good - even if Marxist? Or perhaps, if they're trying to care for the oppressed, then they're not Marxist? 4. If you oppose Marxism, you're probably racist? Or at least, you have no real care for what black people have suffered. Perhaps some combination of the above is what you were saying - yes?Silver Asiatic
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SA, long time no see, trust you enjoyed the season and will have a great new year. H'mm, let's extend that to one and all. I doubt there are any Trump enthusiasts here, the NY contractor in chief is a warts and all fellow. My concern is the no-evidence game and that tabulation is pivotal in answering it, opening out very widely on clicking key source links. Twitter is playing 1984 games. Next to that, there are clear marks of a 4g war dirty McFaul colour-culture revolution push with an ecology of radical groups, organisers, backers, funders and media trumpets pushing a marxist critical theory narrative. Theme colour is of course black. I think on geostrategic context too, the US is a theatre of operations in a multidecadal struggle that we should count as WW4, the Cold War being 3. I think China is pushing for blue ocean breakout, with Africa in play as the equivalent of the southern resource base the Japanese were going after c Dec 7, 1941. Iran has the Muslim world so scared that Mr Trump has been able to break through the 70+ year ME deadlock, which has been memory-holed by the media . . . anybody else, Nobel Prize for sure. Russia continues to be a dangerous wild card. The US of course is the stabilising maritime power, successor to the Royal Navy. The European ME, S and E Asian lands are in the rimlands belt around the core eurasian heartland. The prize pivot area of that heartland switched from Warsaw Pact to NATO as soon as they could after the Cold War. Now, the game seems to be to destabilise the US to open up power moves not in the interests of ordinary people. KFkairosfocus
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Mathematician Bobby Piton Finds More Than 500,000 Unique Last Names in Pennsylvania: ‘Sophisticated State Actor Was Able to Optimize Desired Outcome’ By Cristina Laila - December 27, 2020 Excerpt: Piton revealed this weekend that he examined just over 9 million records in Pennsylvania and has identified 521,879 unique last names. In other words, these people have no parents, siblings, aunts, uncles or cousins who share the same last name (phantom voters). Follow this thread: 245,033 or just under 47% of the total last names in Pennsylvania belong to ONE and ONLY ONE PERSON! https://twitter.com/BobbyPiton3/status/1342996474972540928 Pennsylvania has 695,430 Fewer People in the top 1000 Last Names. Bobby Piton found that there were fewer people with common surnames such as Smith, Jackson, Johnson. Bobby Piton essentially discovered where those 695,000+ illegal ballots came from in Pennsylvania. President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by over 700,000 votes on election night in Pennsylvania and within a few days after the election, hundreds of thousands of ballots appeared for Joe Biden. Between 695,000 to 958,000 voters just got up and vanished out of Pennsylvania! https://twitter.com/BobbyPiton3/status/1342996477522673669 Based on Piton’s findings, it appears that a centralized actor was calling the shots. Bobby Piton says a sophisticated State Actor was able to optimize a desired outcome for both the state of Georgia and Pennsylvania. https://twitter.com/BobbyPiton3/status/1343207242011709440 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/mathematician-bobby-piton-finds-500000-unique-last-names-pennsylvania-sophisticated-state-actor-able-optimize-desired-outcome/bornagain77
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As for the attempts to disparage the BLM movement by recasting it as a Marxist insurgency, which outrages me as much as abortion outrages others here, I recently became aware of a movie called The 24th. This is a dramatization of a mutiny by black troops in 1917, during World War 1 in Houston, Texas. These were men who had volunteered to serve their country, who proudly wore the uniform, yet were subject to the most appalling and brutal racial abuse by white police and civilians who were amongst those they had sworn to defend. If anyone is interested, further research will reveal a number of similar incidents in the early part of the twentieth century such as the one in Tulsa, Oklahoma to which the city went to great lengths to erase from its history. Coupled with the thousands of lynchings and persistent, unequal treatment at the hands of the police and the courts, the only surprise is that this did not happen sooner. Fear of some global, Marxist nonspiracy should have no bearing on the justice of the black cause.Seversky
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BO'H: go to a fresh new bank and try to open an account. Note the ID validation requirements etc., for much lower values than a state worth what $ 100 trill? Now that FATCA is a player, it gets interesting, but there were fairly strong requirements even before -- and I keep running into FATCA in three different jurisdictions. One of my most interesting recent experiences was a validation requirement to use utilities bills with street addresses. The Bank's own notices had PO Box (valid for 30 years) and street address, but insisted on 3rd party stuff. Of course we both know that there has been a long-running campaign to treat ID requirements as racist voter suppression and we know there have been issues on illegal immigrants coming into the voter pool through drivers licence use. There is more, as usual. KFkairosfocus
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A lot of unsubstantiated and uncorroborated witness testimony and videos is still a lot of unsubstantiated and uncorroborated witness testimony and videos, whether compiled in a report or archived on a website. We know that people lie under oath and that videos can be faked. In my view, it does not rise to the level of compelling evidence and, much more importantly, the courts agree. As for those who argue that we should be subject to moral governance; I would point out that, for Christians, that includes an obligation to truth, regardless of what it might be, under the Ninth Commandment. That means approaching the alleged evidence for electoral fraud with an appropriate degree of skepticism rather than just accepting it because it suits your ideological preferences.Seversky
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BO’H: it has been clear that in too many pivotal jurisdictions in the US, there are grossly inadequate arrangements starting with ID requirements.
Well, what are these arrangements? You keep on saying that the scrutiny of elections is poorer than of banks, but you never discuss what sort of scrutiny is actually done. Your argument is worthless unless you actually outline what sort of scrutiny is done in elections, what sorts of audits etc. and then explain why they are deficient.Bob O'H
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(deleted, see the following post. Sorry for any confusion)Bob O'H
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WJM @ 1658 -
Actually, I wasn’t ignoring the Biden numbers. The Biden numbers are the essential point here that is under contention in this debate. Thus, they cannot be used to support any theory on why the election turned out the way it did.
You might want to think about what you wrote...
The theory that there was a massive turnout to defeat Trump, again, is not supported by the evidence (other than the circular evidence that is under contention here.)
Millions more votes were counted for Biden than for Trump. How is that not evidence?
You need other supporting evidence that would serve to indicate those votes were more likely non-fraudulent if it is your claim that the 84 million votes were more likely non-fraudulent.
How about (a) historically election fraud is rare in the US, (b) for the 2020 election there are very few cases of fraud that have been demonstrated, (c) the Attorney General of the USA stated that there isn't evidence for widespread fraud, (d) all complaints of fraud submitted to the courts have been dismissed. The arguments that there have been widespread fraud are, quite simply, unpersuasive. They are so unpersuasive even Bill Barr, someone widely seen as Trump's lapdog, dismissed them. Rudy Giuliani even disavowed them in court. If you are going to say that millions of votes were fraudulently cast, you need to have some pretty strong evidence that it was done, how it was done over several states, and who organised it. All you've got at the moment are bits and pieces that require a particular interpretation of the facts in each case, but haven't stood up to scrutiny.Bob O'H
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Money spent by Facebook, specifically Zuckerberg, on specific areas of certain states. This is how it happened. They started organizing it back in March probably earlier.
I'm not a Trump supporter but it's pretty obvious to me that Zuckerberg and Google engaged in a conspiracy (not together but conspiratorially) to support Biden and oppose Trump. Add the American mainstream media into it and there's enough foundation to support the coverups of fraud.Silver Asiatic
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I point to https://hereistheevidence.com/
Someone did a very nice job in compiling data for that site.Silver Asiatic
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JVL, you didn't answer the question. To put it another way, do you honestly admit that your belief in life spontaneously originating is patently absurd?
“We have no idea how the molecules that compose living systems could have been devised such that they would work in concert to fulfill biology’s functions. We have no idea how the basic set of molecules, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins, were made and how they could have coupled into the proper sequences, and then transformed into the ordered assemblies until there was the construction of a complex biological system, and eventually to that first cell. Nobody has any idea how this was done when using our commonly understood mechanisms of chemical science. Those that say they understand are generally wholly uninformed regarding chemical synthesis. Those that say “Oh, this is well worked out,” they know nothing, nothing about chemical synthesis – Nothing! Further cluelessness – From a synthetic chemical perspective, neither I nor any of my colleagues can fathom a prebiotic molecular route to construction of a complex system. We cannot figure out the prebiotic routes to the basic building blocks of life: carbohydrates, nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins. Chemists are collectively bewildered. Hence I say that no chemist understands prebiotic synthesis of the requisite building blocks let alone their assembly into a complex system. That’s how clueless we are. I’ve asked all of my colleagues – National Academy members, Nobel Prize winners -I sit with them in offices; nobody understands this. So if your professors say it’s all worked out, your teachers say it’s all worked out, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It is not worked out. You cannot just refer this to somebody else; they don’t know what they’re talking about.” James Tour – one of the top ten leading chemists in the world The Origin of Life: An Inside Story - March 2016 Lecture with James Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQXgJ-dXM4
You do realize that people have been 'canceled' by the Darwinian gestapo for refusing to mouth that patently absurd belief in life spontaneously originating do you not?
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (full movie)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5EPymcWp-g
The take home point in all this is that if you refuse to be honest about the evidence for the origin of life, why in the world should we ever expect you to be honest about the evidence for voter fraud? After all, it is fairly obvious that someone being truthful about where all life comes from in the first place is exponentially more important, in the grand scheme of things, than someone being truthful about any particular transient issue in politics. After all, it is source of life itself that we are talking about!
John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
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Kairosfocus: All along, it has been pretty clear that their has been inadequate engagement with or outright dismissiveness towards evidence. All the things you want to cite as being right and proper ways to conduct inquiries into difficult questions should be applied in this case: make very sure of what your sources are, make very sure what you are seeing, make very sure you have tried hard to first find a reasonable explanation for what your are seeing. You have done none of those things. Shame on you. You are choosing to perpetrate a narrative which is not well sourced or established. It's based on a lot of people, like yourself, who want to establish a particular ideological point. So, just like most Twitter or Facebook users, you pass on anything that you think supports your view without practicing due diligence in making sure it's factual and real. Well done. For being the person you most criticise.JVL
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