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"The figures and facts that Hugh marshals, and which he spoke so clearly and eloquently, are not marginal declines in literacy, mental health or child brain development; they are massive troughs that threaten the stability of society itself as the damage works its way through the coming years." I have to wonder if the threat to the stability of society is the point. I keep hoping I'm just paranoid, that someone will prove me wrong. But, like Rosemary's Baby, it is really happening.

(https://thesidewaysthinker.substack.com/p/rosemarys-baby-this-is-really-happening?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 )

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Free speech, freedom of association, free press, freedom to worship, freedom to travel, the right to earn a living, right to be educated--all removed--lots to worry about. re stability--when democratic processes are seen to fail and people's voices are ignored, society reaches a dangerous place.

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"society reaches a dangerous place."

...has already reached and far surpassed that dangerous place...

We are in the killing fields ... again.

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Let us hope and pray that we do not reach Cambodia's nightmare.

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I am praying, as are so many across the World.

Conservative estimates and a number of different sources (as you likely know) point to 15 - 25 million dead (20 - 40:10,000). With sadness, the killing fields (2 - 2.5 million dead) were comparatively a figurative romp in the chamber of horrors

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Jun 11, 2023Liked by Common Knowledge Edinburgh

This system of self regulation through fear has been around much longer than you think. long time before Covid. I encountered it about 12 years ago. It made realize I don't have a country a Government or even a police force that have my interests at heart. The culture/system is rotten at the core and has probably been dead for decades. To be honest when I saw Hugh's talk advertised I at first thought it was about the transgender issue. I don't think venues are refusing him. They are more likely refusing the potential stress of protests and being smeared. You could easily do this by podcast online and arguably reach more people. But its a shame if the live events stop as it is Good to meet each other face to face.

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Jun 11, 2023Liked by Common Knowledge Edinburgh

I could and do share my material by other means, the key point for everyone is surely that in what we assumed was a democracy we should be able to speak in "public" to an audience which can chose whether to come or not. In such a meeting one can be asked questions and challenged. Free speech, freedom of association, free press, freedom to worship, freedom to travel, the right to earn a living, right to be educated--all removed--lots to worry about.

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They removed free speech and the right to be challenged at least 10 or 15 years ago. They do this because they don't have a logical argument. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny. When you get down to it emotion is more powerful than logic. Control someone's emotions and you can slip in any kind of cockeyed logic. The useless idiots have had their values twisted through emotional manipulation. Emotion trumps logic that's why they are winning. The door to brain washing is through emotion.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Common Knowledge Edinburgh

Frankly, all really successful revolutions start in the fresh air. I am a family descendent of the Ironsides who as part of the Chartist movement, ended up winning and transforming themselves into the Labour and Co-operative movements, and on the maternal side of my family, from the Huguenots, who also achieved great things. Battle ON!

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Free speech, freedom of association, free press, freedom to worship, freedom to travel, the right to earn a living, right to be educated--all removed--lots to worry about. re stability--when democratic processes are seen to fail and people's voices are ignored, society reaches a dangerous place.

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Nothing like helping the people who are killing and destroying you.. How much of a coward do you have to be to be intimidated by people who could care less about you and are cowards themselves, and the people who are giving the talk care about you, but you help the people who do not care about you against the people who do care... These societies are good at recruiting commercials to get our young men to fight in wars they start on purpose and LIE about the true purpose to get you to DIE for ELITE rich people whose sons do not fight in those wars. But the people in our society who have benefitted from all the soldiers who have died over the years, they do not want to stand up and fight these EVIL ELITE agendas when their turn comes to fight, so they are cowards just like the EVIL ELITE, who if you could slap one of them, they would piss their pants, but they hide behind the power of their money and buy off and scare cowards like the people helping them do all this and like the people who would not just simply fight back by renting out the venue to TRUTH TELLERS, but I guarantee you they would rent it out or close it like they did to the ELITE and for the EVIL ELITE.. COWARDS all, and the next war and I am a Vietnam vet, these cowards like the EVIL ELITE, these coward doctors, these coward government health people, these coward so called reporters of the MSM, radio, TV, pHARMACEUTICAL Companies, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors pRESIDENT FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO, UN, ABIM and all the rest can fight the next war.. No longer will the people HARMED fight and die for these EVIL people.. NO MORE FIGHTING FOR THE EVIL ELITE AND THEIR COWARD FAMILIARS IN THEIR CONTRIVED WARS.. OUR ONLY FIGHTING IS OUR WAR AGAINST THE EVIL ELITE AND THEIR COWARD FAMILIARS ALL.. That is our only and final war.. WE WILL NO LONGER COMPLY TO COWARDS ALL.. ITS OVER DONE.

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And in Richard's own words---in conversation with Jeffrey Peel.

https://www.thenewera.uk/p/dissent-science-and-scotland

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The ideologues, corporates, bureaucrats, politicians, peons and hubris addled hyper-wealthy narcissists driving all this destruction, either intentionally or merely going along to get along, are cast under a satanic spell, blinded of insight. Since January 2020, the trajectory was as obvious as it is irretrievable. There was never any of usual political and bureaucratic 'wriggle room' so characteristic of those invertebrates. They pursued a course into a tightening wedge, a literal and figurative evolutionary dead end. It may not be too long before they start devouring themselves.

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We NEED to bring back the old SOAP BOX in the PARK speakers in every country in every park or sidewalk or wherever and SPEAK TRUTH ALL DAY EVERY DAY, until TRUTH floods the whole world and washes away ALL LIES and ALLIES OF LIARS!!!!!!!!

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