I am very proud of the opening monologue I have prepared for this evening, it is very moving. I also have a couple of really great reads from other outlets which I'll share with you. Here's a teaser from the open, and I'll plan on seeing you tonight at 9:30pm on Odysee, Rumble, or our other platforms. Today being Memorial Day, it might be fitting to speak a bit about military service. Of course, the martial character of human conflict emerges elsewhere besides the military, and perhaps it would be still more fitting to speak in such a broader generality. There exists no shortage of bold men who will not be hailed as heroes, despite courageous sacrifice, be their names known or not. Some, the news records as villains, and our task is in some measure to see history do them greater justice.  The United States is not the only country with a monument known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. No culture survives without reverence for its warriors. Some do a better job than others of recovering their dead, but whatever their military prowess, combat is unpredictable, and people go missing. It is both fitting and important then, that there be some shrine to their sacrifice. In the United States, ours is at Arlington National Cemetery. It is guarded, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard.” They perform a visually impressive routine when changing guard, and Sentinels, as they are known, have a creed which reads; “My dedication to this sacred duty is total and whole-hearted. In the responsibility bestowed on me never will I falter. And with dignity and perseverance my standard will remain perfection. Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements, I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability. It is he who commands the respect I protect, his bravery that made us so proud. Surrounded by well meaning crowds by day, alone in the thoughtful peace of night, this soldier will in honored glory rest under my eternal vigilance.” While there are over 4,000 unknown soldiers buried at Arlington, the monument contains the remains of but three. One from World War I, another from the second World War, and one from the Korean war. An empty third crypt represents missing service members from Vietnam. When power changes hands, perhaps it would be best to leave the Arlington Memorial to those who died in uniform overseas, but it might also be fitting to establish a new one for those who died, or otherwise had their lives destroyed, right here. The menace we face has surely left more than 4,000 corpses in its wake almost entirely unremarked upon. Many millions more yet walk, but are no less dead, disappeared, and forgotten.  I don't want to give the rest  away, so please tune in for the live show at 9:30pm Eastern. If you can't catch the live broadcast, be sure to catch the podcast.  Other ways to listen https://SurrealPolitiks.com/start Become a member https://SurrealPolitiks.com/join GiveSendGo https://GiveSendGo.com/spm Newsletter https://SurrealPolitiks.com/newsletter Twitter https://Twitter.com/TalkRadioGod Telegream https://t.me/surrealpolitiks

Last week I had to skip our session to attend our first listener meetup. I am happy to report that things went well, and I hope you enjoyed the piece on Internal Monologue which I released in its place. This week I am home and I will be with you this evening, as we do every Wednesday, at 9:30pm US Eastern time. However, if I may be frank with you, my mind is occupied with technical and organizational matters which would not at this juncture make for good radio. So this evening I will be sure to have a few things to say and some news stories at the ready, but I will leave the direction of the conversation largely up to all of you. If you're not a member yet, you can become one at https://SurrealPolitiks.com/join for just $6.70/month if you use promo code agenda33 at checkout. Once you're a member, you can join us every Wednesday at 9:30pm Eastern in our Member Chat here https://surrealpolitiks.com/member-chat/. If you miss the live show, you can always catch the replay in the member content section here https://surrealpolitiks.com/category/membersonly/.

We are nearing the conclusion of Radical Agenda Stage Six. There are no plans for Stage Seven.  This is not to say you will have heard the last of me anytime soon. SurrealPolitiks will continue. I will produce uncensored content in some other fashion separately from that branding. Some of it will be members only content available to those with a SurrealPolitiks membership.  In truth, the Radical Agenda ended a long time ago. The show has not been the same since the events of 2017, and I have long struggled with the apprehension that I might be ruining this body of work by straying too far from the work of art that was once so popular.  Being deprived of business services and promotional means, the trajectory of listenership and financial support has steadily declined. More importantly, this has had the effect of turning the phone lines into a ghost town.  Having been typecasted as edgy politics, we have been relegated to an echo chamber wherein ideas stagnate and grow stale. In my view, it is boring. None of this is conducive to political success. While suffering through tedium and inglorious tasks and painful events is worthwhile in service to a higher purpose, it has become clear to me that we are not approaching anything of the sort. With nearly a year and a half having passed since my release from prison, I am met with the grim realization that I have not accomplished almost any of my goals in that time, and being now well into my 40s, I am hyper conscious of time's scarcity.  This decision weighs heavily on me. It is difficult to think about much else. Writing passionately with this on my mind has proven largely impossible. Those bursts of inspiration I have had in recent weeks have left me with a number of high quality but unfinished drafts, and I am unsure when I'll have the faculties to complete them.  But I am still pretty good on the fly, so today, and likely on episodes in the immediate future, I'll be seeking conversations online with strangers through a variety of means, and playing them on the show with you. I'll read some news and improv and go from there. 

There’s plenty in the news today, and I am inclined to recycle some social media and blog posts I’ve made in the last couple of days. For example, this email to my PO, and this detailed demonstration that Google and Microsoft are abusing their spam filters for political purposes. There are also some pretty troubling stories coming out of Ukraine, like Zelensky calling off elections, and a growing problem of harvesting organs from children. What is perhaps most striking about the Ukrainian election issue, is how little attention has been called to it. I just looked for a text source on the story after hearing about it on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show, and a search of Google News shows no results save for references to Tucker Carlson’s observation. Apparently it is now uncontroversial to call off elections. My attention at the moment is focused closer to home, however. I am subscribed to a website called LowEndBox which helps keeps me apprised of the latest developments in the world of web hosting. You’ll be unsurprised to know that I am particularly interested in stories of deplatforming and the means by which the resilient overcome such challenges, and they have been very useful for this purpose. I recently got an email from them about KiwiFarms, an online forum which has drawn some criticism for being host to “hate speech” and what is alleged to be targeted harassment. I have some history with KiwiFarms, and there is no love between us. I understand that I was made to be one of their “Lolcows” – a term they use to describe the targets of their ridicule – as I was dealing with the aftermath of my trip to Virginia in August of 2017. There exist few services in the world that can protect a website from what are known as DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attacks online. DDOS attacks use networks of hacked computers to flood a server with bogus requests until that server can no longer service regular users. They are criminal acts punishable by time in prison. While I was without Internet access, one of my neighbors was doing time for precisely this. DDOS protection services obscure the actual address of the server being targeted, and filter traffic to that server to prevent the server from becoming overwhelmed. The most well known of these services is called CloudFlare. I use this service, and my sites would quickly cease to exist absent their protection. I have been targeted for DDOS attacks for as long as I have had my own websites, and it wasn’t long before I discovered the need for such a service. Owing to pressure campaigns stemming from their content, KiwiFarms has been kicked off of CloudFlare and its small number of competitors. For the last two months, the site has only been able to exist on the so called “dark web” as a Tor hidden service, operating much like criminal drug markets such as the famous and long deceased “Silk Road”. Back in 2018, I published a blog post titled “Goodbye Normie Web”, predicting that a time would arrive when the entire Internet simply operated in this way. That prediction has yet to be proven true, and there exists ample cause to doubt its inevitability. But the entire Internet need not go dark to give lend credence to the substance of what I was then saying. All that has to happen is, a sufficient number of services are relegated to this means of communicating, that use of the service becomes a routine part of some percentage of Internet users daily lives, and it becomes integrated with normal Internet usage. Once that happens, being relegated to the dark web ceases to be a meaningful form of deplatforming. At a certain point, that seems inevitable, and the results of this will be a mixed bag. On the one hand, dissident views become more difficult to censor, and this will be good news for people with dissident views. On the other, I predict, it will have the effect of further polluting the information environment. I’ll gloss over for now the part of combating censorship, since that is hardly a new subject to anyone listening to me. Polluting the information environment, is more interesting, in my view. News agencies and other sources of information have so discredited themselves in recent years that I have remarked about the downsides of this. Specifically, that it is becoming nearly impossible to form any consensus as to facts. Without such a consensus, it is impossible to debate the merits of inferences and interpretations, which have historically been the subject of good faith political discourse. If the sources deemed most credible are relegated to anonymity, and therefore beyond the reach of legal action, discernment becomes much more difficult for information consumers. But if the legal system is abused, and law abiding people are deprived protection of the laws, then such credible sources have little choice but to be so relegated. They won’t be deplatformed ultimately, because they’ll be available and easy enough to find in the near future, but