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In 1961, Liberty Bell 7 sank after Gus Grissom's flight; 38 years later, crews recovered the capsule from more than 15,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=in-1961-liberty-bell-7-sank-after-gus-grissoms-flight-38-years-later-crews-recovered-the-capsule-from-more-than-15000-feet-beneath-the-atlantic-ocean
<p>For thirty-eight years, astronaut Gus Grissom&#039;s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft lay lost beneath the waves
#liberty #grissom #capsule #beneath

@CakesOfPan

Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.

Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.

After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.

Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).

http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/

I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.

Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?

https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/

Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.

In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.

250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.

Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.

Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,

1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.

Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."

https://youtu.be/j8DxdibHibU

Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied #justice in the #courts of the occupiers ( #USA ).

All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).

Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.

Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.

In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. #Biden ; December 14, 2022 )

Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious #imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.

#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
#rebel #rebellion #revolution #HumanRights #Equalrights

A quotation from Voltaire

As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
 
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers

Fabis Statue of Liberty (1986) by American pop artist Andy Warhol. In the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. #andywarhol #andywarholmuseum #theandywarholmuseum #fabisstatueofliberty #opart #popart #popartist #yellow #liberty #ladyliberty #france #francesgift #giftoffrance #giftfromfrance #statue #famousstatue #civicstatue #civicgift #foreigngift #art #arting #artist #artmuseum #pittsburgh #city #allamericancity #modernart #greatart #greatartist

🏴‍☠️ Listen up! Double @workingclasshistory podcast episode on the Golden Age of #Piracy with historian Marcus Rediker. ⚓️ Those legendary #pirates weren't just thieves – they were reckless rebels who confronted colonial empires and the systems of power behind them. 🔥 Resistance, refusal of authority, and freedom for working-class life – listen here 🎧 https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e103-pirates #Resistance #ClassStruggle #Anarchism #AntiImperialism #Liberty #AntiColonialism

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #savagery #perspective #civilrights #cruelty #dishonesty #enslavement #fourthofjuly #holiday #hypocrisy #independence #injustice #insincerity #liberty #pretense #slavery

A quotation from Benjamin Banneker

   This Sir, was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a State of Slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition, it was now Sir, that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publickly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remember’d in all Succeeding ages. “We hold these truths to be Self evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happyness.”
   Here Sir, was a time in which your tender feelings for your selves had engaged you thus to declare, you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great valuation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings to which you were entitled by nature; but Sir how pitiable is it to reflect, that altho you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of those rights and privileges which he had conferred upon them, that you should at the Same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the Same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) American naturalist, surveyor, almanac author, mathematician
Letter (1791-08-19) to Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote: wist.info/banneker-benjamin/57…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #DeclarationofIndependence #equalrights #equality #hypocrisy #liberty #life #pursuitofhappiness #rights #slavery #enslavement

Protect your ability to think independently, make conscious choices, and live according to your values. Freedom is essential for personal growth and fulfillment. #Freedom #Liberty #KhalilGibran #PersonalGrowth #HumanPotential #PurposeInLife #FreedomOfChoice #LifeLessons #InspirationalQuotes #SelfDevelopment
https://stayingalive.in/thought-of-the-day/the-spirit-of-freedom-and.html

Hype for the Future 282/284: Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/hype-for-the-future-282-284-liberty-township-butler-county-ohio/

This is such a straw man and false dilemma fallacy. People don’t have to work for either private capitalists or the state/collective/society. There is another alternative where people work for themselves individually or jointly: #EconomicDemocracy. This position isn’t justified with appeals to collective authority, but rather liberal individual inalienable #HumanRights theory.

https://youtube.com/shorts/x-lIb2MGQ2w

#politics #individualism #individualist #socialism #capitalism #communism #liberty #mutualism

A quotation from Herman Hesse

Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity, he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses; anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule. Therefore, he has substituted majority for power, law for force, and the polling booth for responsibility.
 
[Der Bürger nun schätzt nichts höher als das Ich (ein nur rudimentär entwickeltes Ich allerdings). Auf Kosten der Intensität also erreicht er Erhaltung und Sicherheit, statt Gottbesessenheit erntet er Gewissensruhe, statt Lust Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt tödlicher Glut eine angenehme Temperatur. Der Bürger ist deshalb seinem Wesen nach ein Geschöpf von schwachem Lebensantrieb, ängstlich, jede Preisgabe seiner selbst fürchtend, leicht zu regieren. Er hat darum an Stelle der Macht die Majorität gesetzt, an Stelle der Gewalt das Gesetz, an Stelle der Verantwortung das Abstimmungsverfahren.]

Herman Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss poet, novelist, painter
Steppenwolf, “Treatise of the Steppenwolf,” ch. 2 (1927) [tr Breighton (1929)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hesse-herman/82858/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hermanhesse #steppenwolf #bourgeois #calm #comfort #convenience #democracy #force #law #liberty #majorityrule #peaceandquiet #power #responsibility #security #selfpreservation #tyrannyofthemajority

Stop and analyse the last election campaign you followed. Now answer [this question]: how many concrete proposals with figures, deadlines and implementation methods did you actually see? How many debates did you attend where the candidates presented technical analyses of complex issues? How many times did you hear a serious discussion about tax structure, monetary policy or financial system reform? Almost none. And do you know why? Because political campaigns are not about reasoning, they are about emotion, about making you feel, not think. Look at the slogans: hope, change, the name of the country above all else, the people in power. These are empty words that mean absolutely nothing in practical terms, but which activate powerful emotional triggers. Hope for what? Change into what? The people in power in what way? No one explains because there is no need to explain. The goal is not to inform, it is to excite. It is to make you identify with a narrative, with a character, with a story that makes you feel part of something bigger. Election adverts are designed like soft drink commercials, with exciting music, images of happy families, smiling children, waving flags. No one is selling you a government plan, they are selling you a feeling, a feeling of belonging, of hope, that this time will be different, and you buy it, not because you have analysed the data, but because the narrative has touched something emotional inside you.

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Politics has ceased to be a space for rational debate and has become a stage for manipulated emotion. Modern democracy has a clever trick: it gives you freedom of expression, but carefully controls the scope of that expression. You can say whatever you want; in theory, you can create your own blog, your own channel, your own social media profile and express your most radical opinions. The State will not knock on your door and arrest you for disagreeing with the government. And that is exactly what makes you believe you live in a free society. But look at what happens when someone actually threatens the system. First, they try to discredit them. If you question the fundamental structures of power, they do not censor you directly, they call you crazy, a conspirator, an extremist, a disinformer. They create categories that make any structural criticism seem like the product of an unbalanced mind. “Conspiracy theory” has become the expression that automatically disqualifies any analysis that connects dots that should not be connected. Most people are afraid of being associated with these categories, so they censor themselves before anyone else has to censor them.

Second, they control visibility. The digital platforms where you express your opinions are not neutral; they have algorithms that decide who sees what, and these algorithms can show you to millions or bury you in oblivion. All this without having to explicitly ban or silence you. You keep posting, you keep writing, you keep talking, but your words go nowhere. It’s like shouting in a soundproof room and believing you are exercising your freedom of expression.

Third, they destroy you economically. If you have too much reach and insist on questioning what should not be questioned, they don’t need to arrest you. They demonetise your channels, cancel your bank accounts, cut your contracts, put pressure on your advertisers. In a society where money is survival, cutting someone off economically is more effective than any classic state censorship, and the best they can do is maintain the facade that we live in a free country.

Peter Thiel wrote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" in 2009. Then he built Palantir with CIA money. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, was the company's first outside investor. For two years, it was the only one.

Snowden documents revealed Palantir built XKEYSCORE Helper, a tool that imported data directly from the NSA's global surveillance pipeline. By 2010, three members of the Five Eyes alliance were using Palantir to process surveillance data from across the planet.

The domestic track record speaks for itself. In 2019, ICE used Palantir to execute the largest workplace raid in recent history. 680 workers arrested across Mississippi chicken plants on the first day of school. Children came home to empty houses. Edgar Lopez spent 11 months detained, was deported, and died trying to return to his family.

LAPD's Operation LASER used Palantir to assign risk scores. A 2019 audit found one-fifth of "chronic offenders" had zero prior arrests. In six months, LAPD killed six men in LASER zones. New Orleans ran Palantir's predictive policing secretly for six years without city council approval.

The money keeps flowing. Palantir's federal contracts grew from $4 million in 2009 to nearly $1 billion in 2025. The Army consolidated 75 contracts into a single $10 billion deal. A former ICE official warned that federal IT infrastructure now requires Palantir to function. They're locked in.

This isn't partisan. Palantir worked across #Obama, #Trump, #Biden, and Trump again. The surveillance state transcends elections. Your rights are inherent. No government grants them. But governments can violate them, and this one is. Nobody is coming to save you.

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, before introducing Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), reflected on how Renee Good, by coming to the aid of her community during an ICE action in exercising her constitutional rights, was “shot in the face three times for it, and labeled a terrorist” to send a message to those protesting the “Fascist takeover of our government.”

Senator Murphy spoke against the hateful and divisive things happening in America and of how important our immigrant communities are in adding strength to the country along with their hard work and vast cultural and social reservoirs created by immigrants, adding to our unique American experience. “The United States Congress should not fund the Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America,” he said. “They instead are in our cities to seek out confrontation and chaos.”

He accused Donald Trump of fomenting fear and division among Americans by “trying to convince us that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy, to disguise the fact that he [Trump] is the greatest threat to our democracy.”

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), a victim of ICE violence, was roughed up and handcuffed for attempting to enter a room during a news conference in Los Angeles last year to ask a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “Imagine what they are doing when the cameras aren’t on in every corner of the country, if that’s how fearful this administration is with one person with a question. Imagine how fearful they are with gatherings like this.”

Padilla closed by referring to two bills he has authored. The Visible Act, S.2212 he introduced “To require all immigration enforcement officers to display visible identification during public-facing immigration enforcement actions and to promote transparency and accountability.”

And the Accountability for Federal Law Enforcement Act, S.2103, is a remedy for sovereign immunity under which “Victims of constitutional violations by federal law enforcement officers often have no legal means to seek justice because Congress has never passed a law allowing such lawsuits. Unlike state and local officers, who can be sued under a specific statute, federal officers face little accountability. This lack of remedies weakens the rule of law, erodes public trust, and fosters a sense that federal officers can violate rights without consequence.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who went to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison in seeking the release of his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was kidnapped by ICE, characterized Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and JD Vance as “liars headed by the Liar in Chief, the Law Breaker in Chief Donald Trump.”

Going further, Van Hollen said that Trump had originally promised that ICE would only be “going after the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants. That, instead, has become “One of the most lawless and obscene examples of this administration’s abuse against the people of this country,” he noted. “ICE’s own data shows that more than 80 percent of the people they are rounding up pose no public threat.” Once that was revealed, “ICE decided to get rid of the data. We are here to say, not in our country. We will not let this continue to happen.”

"Concerned at the UK Government’s intentions to review the #HumanRights framework and #JudicialReview we have come together to state:

While every system could be improved, and protecting #rights and #freedoms for all is a balancing act, our #HumanRightsAct is a proportionate and well-drafted protection for the fundamental #liberties and #responsibilities of everyone in this country.

The Act guarantees the rights to #FreeSpeech and expression, to life, to #liberty, to security, to privacy, to assembly, and to #FreedomOfReligion or belief. It prohibits torture and guarantees fair trials and the #RuleOfLaw.

Judicial review is an indispensable mechanism for individuals to assert those rights and freedoms against the power of the state." https://humanrightsact.org.uk/

Il titano di Buffalo, municipio degno di simboleggiare il mutamento del canone statunitense

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=41807

#strutture #palazzi #municipi #grattacieli #novecenti #anni'30 #strutture #artdecò #liberty #decorazione #ornamentazione #urbanistica #newyork #buffalo #statiuniti #architettura #storia #città #dalmondo #viaggi #turismo #luoghidiriferimento #monumenti

‘Globalist Power Is No Longer a Moral Authority’: Amir Taaki Responds to Samourai Charges - In an era increasingly defined by surveillance and oversight, Amir Taaki stands ou... - https://news.bitcoin.com/globalist-power-is-no-longer-a-moral-authority-amir-taaki-responds-to-samourai-charges/ #samouraiindictment #crypto-anarchism #cryptoanarchy #darkwallet #amirtaaki #samourai #privacy #freedom #liberty #darkfi #regfi

What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9FRNc9ygpLSDh4pkX/what-if-we-could-redesign-society-from-scratch-the-promise
"… maybe the idea that promoting #governance #competition leads to faster #growth and greater #liberty, will seem just as obvious as the idea that an elected president usually provides better leadership than a dictator or a king. #CharterCities today are focused on making life better for the people who choose to move there."

✊😷🎭⚙️🔨 :blobcatwave:

Mario Savio, of Berkley Free Speech Movement (1964)

#activism #activist #oligarchy #surveillance #privacy #lobbying #politics #FreeSpeech #liberty #freedom #humanrights #rights #corruption #Berkley #MarioSavio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ws3cXogqFE

Rwanda Bill: Most Brits think government does not care about their rights | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-bill-liberty-polling-human-rights-government-doesnt-care/

#HumanRights
#Rwanda
#RwandaBill
#British
#AsylumSeekers
#HumanRightsAct
#Liberty
#JudgesGagged
#CourtsGagged
#SupremeCourt
#Tories
#ECHR
#Jenrick
#JointCouncilForTheWelfareOfImmigrants
#JCWI
#HomeOffice
#GoodFridayAgreement
#GFA