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<div>Caitlin did it again.  She outdoes herself.  This time a GRAND SLAM!</div>

<div>Thanks, Carl</div>

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<div>MO'B</div>

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From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Caitlin Johnstone <<a href="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com">donotreply@wordpress.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> September 5, 2019 at 6:48:24 PM CDT<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[New post] Meditations On Twitter’s Silencing Of Daniel McAdams</b><br>
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                                Caitlin Johnstone posted: "Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, was banned from Twitter last week. Officially, it was because he used the word "retarded" to describe the odious establishment propagandist Sean Hannity after notin"                 </span>
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                                                                                                                                                                <span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">by <a style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Caitlin Johnstone</a> </span>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; direction: ltr;">A society so healthy that we no longer spend our creative energy figuring out ways to kill and exploit and manipulate each other and instead spend it figuring out ways to collaborate with each other and with our ecosystem for the benefit of everyone.</div>


<div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; direction: ltr;">A natural society, the kind we imagined as small children that we would be inheriting, instead of this insane stew of oligarchic psyops and cultural mind viruses which rewards sociopathy and elevates social cannibals.</div>


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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; direction: ltr;">That society is already here in embryonic form, only hidden beneath a fog of confusion about what we are and where the stable ground of sanity is. Some of that fog was created accidentally, as the result of a species suddenly evolving extra brain matter at an unprecedented speed and stumbling out of the trees into a world of WiFi and processed meats. Most of the fog has been created deliberately, with countless generations of powerful humans inflicting narratives upon their subjects which further advantage the powerful and further disadvantage the powerless.</div>


<div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; direction: ltr;">But sanity is right there, patiently waiting underneath the insanity. Waiting for us to open our eyelids and part the fog and remember our natural state. It's right here, closer to us than our own breath, so simple and obvious that we can spend our whole lives overlooking it.</div>


<div style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; direction: ltr;">It's that comfy homely chair where you can let your bum nestle into the folds of the earth, the vantage point from which you truly don't mind what happens, you're just curious as to what you'll do next.</div>


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