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Mar 21Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

....if only it would stop....

There is only one way to destroy the "Manchurian Candidates" - APPLE, AMAZON, DNC, FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT, WALMART, etc.. Unfortunately, we have become an arrogant, soft, lazy, couch-sitting, me-me, blame it on others people unlike Revolution era colonists who picked up any weapon they could find and drove the power-hungry blood sucking throng from our Republic.

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Remember Google Glass from around ten years ago? It was a flop. There is hope yet.

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Yet another profound essay. Thankyou Karen.

I try to only read articles from people like you who exemplify Philippians 4:8.

Truth and love( and the greatest of these is AND!) You get 10/10

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

The negative high frequency beings who inhabit the controllers are curious about emotions, which they don’t have, and are creating devices to learn about the human being's emotional ability, so they can replicate it for themselves. I agree. Don’t use anything that wants your biometrics. I say this with irony typing on an iPad. Sigh!

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The name Apple was chosen by Steve Jobs because he worked in an Apple orchard in Oregon in his so called college days at Reed College. Please don’t change the story.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I was doing some contract work recently and saw how the employees of a meat packing plant are required to punch in with their fingerprint....that would be a no-go for me, but the employees there don't seem to mind...I think they see it to be a technological advance. Creepy.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I really wish you would find a better, more appropriate term for these parasites than “elites.”

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Boycott Amazon.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

wull how'd ya like them apples? thanks fer shinin' a light on Apple without any polishin'!

The magnitude of the con (on us!) is commensurate only with the magnitude of the profits for "corp-orations" (tho' they don't speak for ALL our bodies!) like Apple. I had no idea just HOW MUCH the power an' profits increased durin' covid--more 'n I'd have guessed...dang. Meanwhile we kin barely afford gas, food, basics...

The thing is, it's purdy interestin' they call them'selfs apple as there's always been a kinda Janus-Faced aspect (symbolically speakin' ) ta the famous fruit... Thinkin' how apples have always had dual meanin' an' purpose--kinda like the covid jabs--both health "measures" (ostensibly ta help n' heal us--ha!) an' "countermeasures" (military-commissioned bioweapons ta be used against the enemy--i.e. US!)

The apple has always been known ta be healthy (an apple a day!), a symbol of love 'n affection (apple of one's eye, love apples!, apple-cheeked children) an' symbolisin' the harvest--mother nature's gifts! An' yet, too, the association with original sin / "sinful" knowledge, shame, rot (wormy apples)

My hometown the "Big Apple" where every day folks once took juicy bites--ended up bein' the Rotten Apple (rotten to the core, I'm SO sorry ta say)--moldy an' teemin' with vermin too (literally...) I'm also thinkin' of the apple-as-symbol-of-deadly-temptation an' how poor Snow White was poisoned by an apple--would the story have been the same if it wuz, say, a pear 'er peach? Nah....

It (a)muses an' bemuses me why Jobs (did 'e have the patients of Job? sure took a loooong time ta see them billions...) chose APPLE as the name of his company--the company that would transform life on Earth, literally (in biblical perp-portions!) I think the image will (at least for some time...) be always co-opted by his product--you say apple an' ya think not just the fruit but the product--which is sad....

Apart from all the evils ya list (an' boy golly, many there are!), Apple is also known fer child labor, an' the minin' of the "rare earth" minerals that make the blasted devices of course literally devastate otherwise arable land, towns, an' the health of all who "synthetically harvest" the stuff--

I DO use a 'puter (which I'm sure contains rare earth minerals of it's own) but the only kinda apple that appeals ta me is the real kind... (NOT coated with Apeel (tm) gm Gates-funded trackin' nano coatings either!)

They've taken away our real-not-virtual comfort an' way of life, our fruitful human connections!, our seeds (veggie, fruit--all tainted...) and human (-seeds, i.e. fertility), our peace too...

I truly hope these chump'anies fall an' fail an' folks drop their weapons (not swords but apples!) an' turn 'em inta plowshares (or food co-op shares instead!) -- hopefully some of us who remain wary of all things Apple kin be "seeds of change" an' grow back reality (!) from the one Truffula seed remainin' as we've all figgered out the Lorax wuz right...

ps the soul-suckin' of these deVICES sound like JK Rowlings Dementors--they suck your soul out leavin' you as just an inert shell.... I wunder whut she wuz thinkin' about when she created them--thinkin' about pure evil for sure... (HP fans this fam...)

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

The following quote is now very standard for some odd reason, but not true, "______ years ago, no one could have imagined______________". Present conditions are an approximate result related directly from someone imagining this scenario and obtaining the appropriate funding to make it happen. Whether or the not Ruling Families are driving this train or not I do not know. The modeling and engineering of our shared reality is the core directive for all commercial enterprises now. Government is a commercial enterprise. Homeostatic control processes necessitate a pushback, likely through the growth of spiritual movements that actively seek to reduce the oxidative effects of excessive commercialism in our lives. Money/Financial Technology has become too centralized and this threatens biological integrities across many scales, both time and space.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Thanks KHM. Brilliant work!

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One more thing, a hopeful one, from Ted Gioia:

"Tech leaders gathered in Austin for the South-by-Southwest conference a few days ago. There they showed a video boasting about the wonders of new AI technology.

And the audience started booing."

There's a video of it on X, and it's pretty heartening!

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No robber baron ever amassed a fortune without exploitation, and Apple is no exception. As you astutely mention in this excellent piece, it's a matter of scale -- we've never seen the likes of this kind of consolidated wealth and power before.

For god's sake, wake up, humanity. Take back your attention, your sovereignty, your intrinsic power, before you no longer even remember what those are.

Thanks for this essay, Karen.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I knew there was a reason I don't like Apple (or the other behemoths) Thanks.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

While we sweat the small stuff and bumble around, the Big Guys are working at breakneck speed to create the future they want for us. I don't believe that anyone ever asked me for my input. Clearly, they don't need it or want it. They've already got it all figured out.

Thanks for the alarming news, along with helpful suggestions for how to resist the mad rush to oblivion.

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Mar 20Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Thanks Karen - I’m hearing Google is merging with Apple with their latest AI and plan to put it in iPhone -

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