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Gad Saad dismantles "forbidden knowledge": Pursuing truth must be deontological (absolute, like Kant's imperatives)—never okay to suppress facts for "greater good" consequences. He contrasts: - Deontological: Never lie. Full free speech. Presumption of innocence. Journalistic integrity. - Consequentialist: Lie to spare feelings (e.g., "Do these jeans make me look...

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Listen to what Bret Weinstein is saying here. It’s one of the most gut-punch breakdowns I’ve heard about why the people inside these broken institutions can look at devastating evidence of harm to children… and still choose silence. He calls himself a “de facto atheist,” and yet he sees something most people refuse to admit: When you don’t believe in anything bigger than yourself, it becomes far too easy to make peace with evil. How do you ignore when studies show severe harm to kids? How do you watch the vaccine program keep rolling when the data screams danger? You tell yourself the same lie they all tell themselves: “It won’t make a difference anyway.” “The system is too corrupt.” “If I speak up, I’ll be destroyed.” “No one’s going to listen. The government won’t act. Institutions are untouchable.” That’s the utilitarian calculus they run: “The greater good is keeping the machine running, even if it crushes a generation of children.” And once you accept that logic, you can justify literally anything...slavery, genocide, medical experiments on kids. History proves it. Here’s the part that hits hardest: Faith in a higher power is not gameable. You can lie to yourself. You can lie to your colleagues. You can lie to the public. But you cannot lie to God. You cannot convince an all-knowing Judge that “it wouldn’t have mattered anyway” or “I had to protect my career.” That internal moral compass - knowing someone is listening to your thoughts - keeps you from crossing lines that pure utilitarianism happily sprints across. Brett nails it: Science displaced faith in the modern world, but we never replaced what faith actually did, especially when it comes to the heavy moral lifting... This is why the cover-up continues. Because too many of them have no fear of anything higher than a paycheck, a title, or peer approval. We are in a spiritual crisis masquerading as a scientific one. Watch Brett lay this out below 👇—it’s raw, it’s real, and it explains exactly why we can’t wait for the system to fix itself. Share this far and wide. Our kids deserve adults who still believe some things are more important than self-preservation.

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It takes a big man to admit he was wrong. Ryan McBeth just published an incredible video titled “I Was Wrong About Israel.” I’ll link the full piece below, which I highly recommend watching. But this part was my favorite: "You know, we talk about Israel like it's this abstract news story, but when you're standing there looking at 2,000-year-old coins, shaking hands with Muslims who are just trying to live, you realize this isn't an academic debate. This is survival. History doesn't lie. Jews have been in this land for thousands of years. They're not going anywhere. So, yeah, I was wrong about Israel. I thought this was Northern Ireland with a really different accent, but it's not. In Northern Ireland, both sides could live together in peace once the guns went quiet. Here, one side has been taught from childhood that the other side shouldn't exist. And that’s a problem you can't solve with a treaty, a UN map, or a feel-good slogan. Maybe that makes me a Zionist, whatever the hell that word means, or a shill, or whatever label people want to throw at me, but it doesn't make me a liar. I do not support Israel. I support democracies. I do so because every American should support democracy, especially against authoritarianism. And they should support these democracies whether they're in Ukraine, whether they're in Taiwan, or whether they're in Israel. The truth is simple. Israel is not perfect. No country is. But it is a democracy. It is diverse. It is fighting for its life. And that's a truth I can't ignore." Full video in next tweet 👇

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Moksha in Advaita Vedanta: Not a Destination, but a Recognition In Advaita Vedanta, Moksha is not described as a place to reach, a world to escape to, or a future reward after death. Moksha is knowledge — the clear seeing of what has always been true. It is the end of ignorance, not the acquisition of something new. According to Advaita, the fundamental mistake of human life is adhyāsa — the superimposition of the non-Self upon the Self. We take ourselves to be the body, the mind, the roles, the doer, the sufferer. From this misunderstanding arises fear, desire, attachment, and the sense of bondage. Moksha is the dissolution of this misunderstanding. Moksha Is Not “Going Somewhere” Advaita Vedanta firmly rejects the idea that liberation is a journey to another realm. The Self (Ātman) is already free, eternal, and complete. If liberation were something to be attained, it would be impermanent. But the Upanishads declare: “You are That” (Tat Tvam Asi) This means that Brahman, the absolute reality, is not separate from you. Therefore, Moksha cannot be an event in time or a change in location. It is the recognition that bondage itself was never real. Bondage Was Never Real The statement “the bondage that seemed real never actually existed” is central to Advaita. The world of suffering is compared to mistaking a rope for a snake in dim light. The fear feels real, the reaction is real, but the snake was never there. Similarly, ignorance (avidyā) creates the illusion of limitation. When the right knowledge (jñāna) arises, nothing physically changes. The body remains, the world continues, actions happen — but the false identification collapses. The individual no longer takes the body or mind to be the Self. The Body Is Not Abandoned, the World Is Not Escaped Advaita does not teach rejection of the world through physical renunciation alone. Liberation does not require the body to be destroyed or society to be abandoned. What falls away is the belief that “I am this body” or “I am bound by this world.” The liberated one (jīvanmukta) lives fully in the world while knowing it as mithyā — not unreal, but dependent, temporary, and not absolute. The world continues to appear, but it no longer binds. Moksha as the End of Forgetfulness Moksha is often described as smṛti — remembrance. It is remembering one’s true nature as pure awareness (chaitanya), untouched by birth and death. Nothing new is gained; rather, something false is lost. This is why Advaita says: You do not become free You discover that you were never bound Fear ends because there is no second thing. Desire ends because completeness is recognized. Suffering ends because the sufferer is seen as an idea, not a fact. Knowledge Alone Liberates In Advaita Vedanta, liberation is not produced by rituals, actions, or even meditation alone. These may purify the mind, but Moksha arises only through knowledge of the Self. This knowledge is not intellectual belief but direct insight into one’s own being. When ignorance ends, Moksha is immediate. There is no waiting, no afterlife requirement, no qualification of time. Conclusion Moksha, in Advaita Vedanta, is not escape — it is clarity. Not renunciation of the world — but renunciation of false identity. Not the destruction of life — but the destruction of ignorance. Nothing leaves. Nothing arrives. Only the truth is seen as it has always been. And in that seeing, freedom stands revealed.

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“You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater!” How many times have you heard advocates of censorship say that? Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz repeated it last night in his debate with Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. In so doing, Walz spread misinformation. It’s not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s a myth. The expression refers to a 1919 Supreme Court opinion superseded by the 1969 Brandenberg v. Ohio decision. Tim Walz had previously claimed that spreading misinformation about elections was illegal. It’s not. How could it be? If the government censored disfavored views on elections, how would we ever know if our elections were truly free and fair? I debunked Walz’s claim on X last night, and it’s happily now been viewed over 10 million times. As satisfying as that is, it’s still not enough. If Walz and Harris get elected, they may attempt to ramp up the censorship we have been documenting and denouncing. As such, all of us who care about freedom of speech must push ourselves to find ways to persuade our fellow citizens of the benefits of free speech over censorship. Now, you might not feel like making the case for free speech personally to friends and family, and you certainly don’t need to. But many people have emailed me over the last three years expressing dismay at how many Democrats they know are in favor of free speech. I share their dismay. Support among Democrats for government censorship of online misinformation grew from 40% to 70% between 2018 and 2023. It was shocking to testify before Congress on free speech issues last year only to discover how many Democrats wanted more censorship. And so I made this video for people looking for a way to talk to friends and family about censorship, one of the greatest threats to our democracy. After working on free speech issues three years ago, I realized that I had taken my support for free speech for granted. I had forgotten that my parents and others had taught me the importance of free speech. It wasn’t something that came naturally. I still remember when my father explained to me why the Supreme Court let Nazis march through a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors. I remember being shocked by this and thinking such a thing lacked compassion. Only gradually, over several years, I saw the wisdom of free speech, not simply in allowing fundamental human expression but also as the best response to lies and hatred. That raises a few questions: Will the same approach that worked with me work with people today? Who needs to be persuaded, exactly? And what appears to move them? Over the last few years my colleagues and I have read through the public opinion research, interviewed, and spoken with hundreds of people in the West. One significant finding is that the people in favor of censorship today tend to be more female than male and more on the political Left than Right. And I’m happy to say that I finally feel confident in explaining what moves them to favor free speech and more opposed to censorship. The research on support for free speech is mixed. Initially, older adults were more inclined to favor restrictions, but polling by the Pew Research Center shows that this gap has closed. Similarly, a 2022 Knight Foundation survey indicated that younger people, while valuing free speech highly, have become more supportive of limiting online harmful content. However, a recent 2024 survey of Australians found that younger people were more supportive of free speech and against censorship than older people. The main reason women and people on the left are more supportive of censorship appears to be to reduce harm. This is consistent with the research by psychologists Jonathan Haidt and others that where conservatives tend to hold a broader set of traditional values, progressives have reduced the number of core values they hold strongly to just one: compassion. Earlier research found people on the Left also hold the value of freedom, but it is notably selective, as rising Democratic support for censorship shows. “Women are more supportive of illegalizing insults of immigrants, homosexualindividuals, transgender individuals, the police, African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, Jewish people, and Christians, and are more supportive of banning sexually explicit public statements and flag burning,” noted psychologist Cory Clark in Psychology Today in 2021. “One likely reason for this pattern is that women are more averse to interpersonal harm and have a relatively stronger concern for protecting others.” So, to move people to support free speech, we should first appeal to compassion since it’s the core value of Democrats, progressives, liberals, and people on the Left today. After you anchor people in compassion, you can make the intellectual case for why free speech is more compassionate than censorship. This approach is also critical to avoid triggering cognitive dissonance, which is the discomfort individuals feel when they realize they hold contradictory beliefs or are confronted with information that challenges their existing views. If people feel attacked or cornered, they often respond by doubling down on their beliefs to reduce this discomfort, a phenomenon known as "motivated reasoning" or "defensive processing." Avoiding accusatory language, empathetic listening, and framing the conversation around shared values can prevent defensive responses and encourage reflection. “If you must present evidence threatening to the audience’s worldview,” wrote a team of psychologists in 2016, “you may be able to reduce the worldview backfire effect by presenting your content in a worldview-affirming manner.” Readers of Public may recall what I discovered when interviewing people on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, about free speech. Simply slowing people down and forcing them to engage in “slow thinking” rather than “fast thinking” made them more receptive to free speech arguments. Slowing people down allows them to relax, remember the past, and imagine potential futures. And simply asking questions demonstrates respect and triggers a feeling of obligation by most people to offer truthful answers. How you approach the topic will depend on whether you’re talking with a friend or relative or moderating a presidential debate, but it should include affirming shared values. You might say, “There’s been a lot of debate about censorship and misinformation. Most of us, myself included, care a lot about protecting vulnerable people and countering bad information while protecting people’s right to free speech. I’m curious how you think about these issues, and I wondered if I could ask you how you think about them.” Assuming you get permission to go further, here are the three key questions I would recommend... 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Michael Shellenberger

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A lesson to ALL grifters “Donnie Discerned edition” and why intentions are the only thing that matter. Even though I share many views with Donnie, I made the choice to expose him. Why? Because the truth is simple and brutal: ANYONE WHO GETS PAID OR IS FINANCIALLY INVESTED IN PUSHING A CERTAIN NARRATIVE CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED. In the audio below, we finally hear Donnie being forced to admit what I’ve been saying all along. This, of course, came only after I gave him the chance to own up, and he chose the coward’s route—blocking, hiding, anything but facing the truth. Now, his only concern, his only regret, is that his family might suffer financially. That’s the bottom line for him—money. Not the truth, not integrity, just his cash flow. You’re welcome, Donnie. I forced that fork in the road, and now you’re choking on it. This is exactly why I have ZERO respect for grifters profiting from their so-called “truth.” Whether it’s a rabid Democrat, a Conservative sellout, a delusional Q cultist, or any clown in between—it’s all the same garbage. The moment you tie your worldview to a paycheck, you’ve sold out. It’s only a matter of time before you start lying to the people you once called your followers, now just clients—all to keep the funds rolling in and the fantasy alive. Truth and money don’t mix. They can’t. There is no world where you can profit from “truth” and still walk the straight and narrow. Sounds obvious, right? And yet, how many of you still follow scum like The Rubber Duck ™ (Who runs his mouth in massive, out-of-place rants, only to then go on a blocking spree and hide like a cowardly C U Next Tuesday? All of it just to protect his precious followers from any counter-narrative that might shake their fragile little bubble.) fully knowing he’s making a living off the lies he’s feeding you? Ask yourself, is he really speaking to help you? Or is he speaking to keep himself in business and/or is he a tweaker like most of them? All these MAGA accounts celebrating the so-called defeat of Donnie Darko aren’t doing it because a lying grifter got exposed—they’re celebrating because I, Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) took down someone who threatened their own grifting narrative. Every single one of them hijacked this moment and twisted it into a “Trump was right” victory lap, instead of acknowledging the cold, hard truth about the situation. Not a single one mentioned the fact that the person who exposed Donnie Darko is also a huge Trump critic. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their little story, and sure as hell doesn’t serve their agenda. They can’t tell you that without risking the collapse of their entire fan club built. They’d rather spin this into another win for their cult than admit the truth: Donnie Darko was exposed for the sake of truth, not Trump, not their MAGA fantasy. Keep it at that, keep it real. They won’t compromise the cash cow and friendships now more akin to SHACKLES, & that’s why they won’t tell you the whole story. Once you’re compromised by cash and “group-think”, your words are twisted, your truth diluted. You’ll ignore anything that might threaten your money stream or companionship, every single time. Your so-called “truth” is just another product for sale, and hopium addicted suckers are paying for it. Truth doesn’t bend to comfort or convenience. It stands tall, and it requires courage. If we all had the guts, the world would be a much better place. But truth is uncomfortable. It doesn’t care about your feelings, your bank account, or your fanbase. It’s the only thing that matters. And beyond truth? Intentions. Because let’s be real—most of us are wrong about a lot of things if not everything. You can twist facts to paint different pictures, just like the serpent didn’t lie to Eve but twisted the truth to deceive her. What separates the good from the bad are intentions. And once you bring money into the mix, intentions can never be pure. You’ve sold out your soul to the root of all evil, and it shows

Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳)

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WATCH: FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff's Opening Remarks to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Tuesday, February 6, 2023 Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Plaskett, and distinguished members of the select subcommittee: Good morning. My name is Greg Lukianoff, and I am the CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or “FIRE,” where I’ve worked for 23 years. FIRE is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that uses litigation, scholarship, and public outreach to defend and promote the value of free speech for all Americans. We proudly defend free speech regardless of a speaker’s viewpoint or identity, and we have represented people across the political spectrum. I’m here to address the risk AI and AI regulation pose to freedom of speech and the creation of knowledge. We have good reason to be concerned. FIRE regularly fights government attempts to stifle speech on the internet. FIRE is in federal court challenging a New York law that forces websites to “address” online speech that someone, somewhere finds humiliating or vilifying. We’re challenging a new Utah law that requires age verification of all social media users. We’ve raised concerns about the federal government funding development of AI tools to target speech including microaggressions. And later this week, FIRE will file a brief with the Supreme Court explaining the danger of “jawboning” — the use of government pressure to force social media platforms to censor protected speech. But the most chilling threat that the government poses in the context of emerging AI is regulatory overreach that limits its potential as a tool for contributing to human knowledge. A regulatory panic could result in a small number of Americans deciding for everyone else what speech, ideas, and even questions are permitted in the name of “safety” or “alignment.” I’ve dedicated my life to defending freedom of speech because it is an essential human right. However, free speech is more than that; it’s nothing less than essential to our ability to understand the world. A giant step for human progress was the realization that, despite what our senses tell us, knowledge is hard to attain. It's a never-ending, arduous, necessarily de-centralized process of testing and retesting, of chipping away at falsity to edge a bit closer to truth. It’s not just about the proverbial “marketplace of ideas”; it’s about allowing information—independent of idea or argument—to flow freely so that we can hope to know the world as it really is. This means seeing value in expression even when it appears to be wrongheaded or useless. This process has been aided by new technologies that have made communication easier. From the printing press, to the telegraph and radio, to phones and the internet: each one has accelerated the development of new knowledge by making it easier to share information. But AI offers even greater liberating potential, empowered by First Amendment principles, including freedom to code, academic freedom, and freedom of inquiry. We are on the threshold of a revolution in the creation and discovery of knowledge. AI’s potential is humbling; indeed, even frightening. But as the history of the printing press shows, attempts to put the genie back in the bottle will fail. Despite the profound disruption the printing press caused in Europe in the short term, the long-term contribution to art, science, and again, knowledge was without equal. Yes, we may have some fears about the proliferation of AI. But what those of us who care about civil liberties fear more is a government monopoly on advanced AI. Or, more likely, regulatory capture and a government-empowered oligopoly that privileges a handful of existing players. The end result of pushing too hard on AI regulation will be the concentration of AI influence in an even smaller number of hands. Far from reining in the government’s misuse of AI to censor, we will have created the framework not only to censor but also to dominate and distort the production of knowledge itself. “But why not just let OpenAI or a handful of existing AI engines dominate the space?” you may ask. Trust in expertise and in higher education—another important developer of knowledge—has plummeted in recent years, due largely to self-inflicted wounds borne of the ideological biases shared by much of the expert class. That same bias is often found baked into existing AI, and without competing AI models we may create a massive body of purported official facts that we can’t actually trust. We’ve seen on campus that attempts to regulate hate speech have led to absurd results like punishing people for simply reading about controversial topics like racism; similarly, AI programs flag or refuse to answer questions about prohibited topics. And, of course, the potential end result of America tying the hands of the greatest programmers in the world would be to lose our advantage to our most determined foreign adversaries. But with decentralized development and use of AI, we have a better chance of defeating our staunchest rivals or even Skynet or Big Brother. And it’s what gives us our best chance for understanding the world without being blinded by our current orthodoxies, superstitions, or darkest fears. Thank you for the invitation to testify and I look forward to your questions. 🎥: Weaponization Committee

FIRE

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The evidence is now beyond dispute. The Prime Minister lied to Parliament about the grooming gang inquiry. Baroness Louise Casey never ruled out a judge to lead the Rape Gang Inquiry. Nigel Farage has now confirmed exactly what we uncovered and yet, the media still remains silent. This isn’t just another scandal. It’s the moment truth itself is being tested inside Parliament. If this lie goes unchallenged, it becomes official. Any MP can demand the Prime Minister correct the record. They can use one or more of the four formal routes open to Parliament: - Table a written or oral question asking the Prime Minister to correct his false claim. - Raise a Point of Order after PMQs citing Casey’s actual evidence. - Request a referral to the Committee of Privileges to investigate whether Parliament was misled. - Ask the Home Affairs Select Committee to recall Baroness Casey or Jess Phillips to confirm the truth on record. When a Prime Minister lies to Parliament, he lies to the people. When that lie protects those responsible for the industrial-scale rape of children, it becomes something darker. It becomes a betrayal of justice itself. There can be no compromise on this. Either Parliament forces Keir Starmer to correct the record, or it becomes complicit in the cover-up. It is no more complicated than this. Raja 🙏 _________ My name is Raja Miah. It’s been seven years since I began exposing how politicians protected the rape gangs. In that time; - the police have tried and failed to prosecute me - Politicians have tried and failed to silence me - The mainstream media has smeared me, and when that failed to stop the truth from coming out, now blacklisted me - Pakistani gangsters and Islamists have openly called for my murder. And yet; I’m still here. Still speaking. Still fighting for the truth. Everything I publish is shared for free. There are no paywalls. No corporate sponsors. No hidden backers. If my work has ever helped you make sense of a broken system, if it’s ever made you feel seen, heard, or hopeful, please don’t scroll past. 🔴 Support the work. The fight is far from over. 👉 If you can afford to do so, just £3/month or £30/year. That’s 75p a week. Pennies to most, but everything to help keep this work alive. Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 – Raja 🙏

Raja Miah

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THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP & EPSTEIN. The truth must be stated and not overlooked. Yes, Trump is in the Epstein files but not as many would think. So technically, Elon is not lying. Trump just is not implicated in the Epstein files in a nefarious sick way like many others are such as have half of Hollywood and people like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and other wealthy elite individuals are. Everyone always shows the same video and same couple pictures and say's, see? He's guilty. But this couldn't be farther from the truth. Yes Trump is had another wealthy person at his events and knew Epstein before he was ever arrested in 2005-2006 for sexual crimes against a minor, Trump broke off his relationship and banned him from ever stepping foot in Mar-a-Lago ever again for hitting on another members young daughter. When it comes to being on the flight logs, yes, Trump is on it as well from the little time they spent together before anything was ever known or public or before he was ever even arrested. Epstein's own pilot admitted that Trump did fly from West Palm Beach to Newark New Jersey, on January 5, 1997, and it wasn't even on the Lolita Express that was the Epstein Island's main shuttle jet. It was on a completely other aircraft. Finally another huge revelation is the prosecutor in the Epstein case who admitted that out of every single person, politician, and celebrity he asked for help to prosecute Epstein, Trump was the ONLY ONE who helped him prosecute Epstein to make sure he made it behind bars and cooperated and gave him as much time as he needed. All the victims of Epstein and others also all supported Trump throughout the case and his presidency and many have stated that Trump has never done anything to them and that they have never seen him on the Island. Do you really believe if Trump was guilty in anyway, all his dirty laundry wouldn't have been aired out in 2016, or the 2 previous elections with Biden and Kamala? Give me a break. They'd be watering at the mouth the first chance they'd get to drop the news. There's nothing there folks. Stop buying everything at the surface level. This operation has never ended. Sometimes you need to force or push your opposition to make a move or expose themselves. Remember, there are layers, optics, and timing to everything you see happening. Don't buy everything at the surface level. Think deeper. Lastly, I am strictly for the people, the children, the country, and the truth. It doesn't matter who you are, what side your own, or your beliefs. As long as your for the same things, your good in my book. And if Donald Trump was involved in a nefarious way, then he can go down too. But one thing I will tell you is that many would have never supported him if he was ever guilty in the first place. The man can not be bought and is not compromised. He genuinely cares about people and his country. Think bigger people. The show must go on. There are no coincidences.

The SCIF

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