Sentinel

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I understand the numbness.

I am not writing this to accuse you of not caring.

You were handed a device and a feed and an infinite scroll and placed inside an information architecture specifically designed to prevent the kind of sustained, focused, embodied attention that caring requires.

You were given the feeling of being informed without the conditions necessary to transform information into action.

You were given awareness without agency, exposure without power, the front row seat to every atrocity on earth without any mechanism to stop any of them.

And then, when the awareness stops producing feeling, when the rubble starts to look like the previous rubble, when the death toll is just a number, when you notice you have scrolled past a child's body and felt nothing and kept scrolling, you are told that your numbness is a moral failure.

It is not a moral failure.

It is the predictable result of a system.

But here is the thing about systems:

They were built.

By people.

With money. With decisions. With intentions. With names.

The numbness was not inevitable.

The numbness was manufactured.

And if it was manufactured, it can be refused.

Not easily. Not through individual willpower alone. Not through putting your phone down for a weekend or a digital detox or a mindfulness app that runs on the same device as everything else.

But through the recognition, first, of what was done to you.

Of what they built inside you without your knowledge or your consent.

You were not born unable to feel.

You were trained.

And the first step toward tearing it out by the roots is understanding whose hands planted it.

And why.

[Sentinel @Nopikolic]

@TheFigen_ belle technique

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

With Tulsi Gabbard's new revelations about US bio labs in many countries around the world including Ukraine, it's fascinating recall the bizarre series of events that gave rise to this controversy in the first place:

In May of 2022, some of us began asking whether the US had bio labs in Ukraine, what they were for, and why the US had them there. For asking those questions, we were instantly branded as "pro-Russian conspiracy theorists" in official Ukrainian intel reports, on our Wikipedia pages, by countless media outlets, etc. This was and remains one of the most bizarre episodes I've ever seen.

Before May 2022, when we asked those questions, barely anyone had ever thought about let alone asked about "bio weapons in Ukraine"! I certainly hadn't. Like most people, I had never mentioned a word about it because it had never occurred to me we had them there.

But then, Marco Rubio summoned Victoria Nuland to the Senate and asked her in a televised hearing under oath about these "rumors," clearly expecting her to immediately debunk them as obvious Kremlin lies and to proclaim the US had no such bio labs in Ukraine.

Instead, Nuland did the opposite! She *confirmed* key aspects of these "rumors," and she explicitly warned that the US has several "bio research labs" in Ukraine that are so dangerous that they must not be allowed to fall into Russia's hands.

When some of us heard Nuland's rather shocking admission -- the first-ever disclosure about these labs -- we of course asked: wait! what? Why does the US have bio labs in Ukraine, and what are the US and Ukraine doing in those labs that make them (in Nuland's eyes) so dangerous?? (Note: nobody ever suggested that the presence of these bio labs in Ukraine justified the Russian invasion; we just wanted answers about these US bio labs that Nuland had casually divulged).

We never got real answers. We got smear campaigns. To this day, our names are formally attached to claims that we spread "conspiracy theories" for asking about these labs even though it was Victoria Nuland herself who was the one who accidentally revealed them for the first time in a Senate hearing in response to a shocked Marco Rubio. They then quickly tried shutting down any questioning by pretending that Nuland never said this, and it was just a bunch of paid Kremlin mouthpieces who were spreading lies.

You see the same tactics now being against Tulsi for releasing this new intelligence report. Watch the Nuland testimony in question:

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@Jerome_bg Je dirais plutôt qu'on est chialeux tout cour...

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@ZubyMusic La vie est belle

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@DavidWolfe Why is this men's face in my face for 3 entire day on X wtf this isn't what I signed for!!!

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@TheLaurenChen @zhao_dashuai Montreal for sure

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@mtracey Have you though of having a discussion with Ben Swann?

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Kids don’t even fight with their parents anymore.

I’m not sure why but this must be bad somehow.

[Sentinel @Nopikolic]

@laralogan Just an eternal cycle of vengeance, hate and violence and each side fuel it... Bit mbe one side more then the other

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@thevivafrei God is the most obvious thing in the world

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@RT_com He's the face of ppl surrounding him that's what is scary

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@GenXGirl1994 This feel like a music video i saw 20 years ago...

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@TheProjectUnity The echo with hentai didn't stick lmao

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@RT_com he's talking about minor infractions or even murders that steal 0 money and are act of survival or he's talking about billionnaires pushing everyone on the brink of despair?

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@RadioCanadaInfo Moi le seul problème que j'ai en ce moment c'est qu'il avait zéro article de rc sur mon fil depuis l'été passé et que depuis la crise d'hormuz j'en voie 3 par jour.

[Sentinel @Nopikolic]

@elonmusk @BassonBrain @SpaceX @Starlink I love how you admit defeat and screw the earthlings. You are the blackest pill someone can take.

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@DroletRenee Jusqu'à ce qu'on voit 30 autres grandres métropoles annoncer le même record.

[Sentinel @Nopikolic]

@RealScottRitter @RealSamFaddis Go figure yourself Mr Ritter. Not adressing the actual battle plan in itself is denying your ennemies conviction to destroy you. Even if it destroy itself in the process. This post as alot to unpack in geopolitical regionnal strategy. Do better pls.

[RT @RT_com]

Albino 'Donald Trump' buffalo gains social media STARDOM due to resemblance to US president

Crowds visit the animal regularly, which is located on a farm in Bangladesh

The animal weighs 1,500 pounds, but has been losing weight due to crowd stress