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::::*[[Julian Assange]]: [https://thegrayzone.com/2025/12/17/julian-assange-sweden-nobel-venezuelas-machado/ Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado]
 
::::*[[Julian Assange]]: [https://thegrayzone.com/2025/12/17/julian-assange-sweden-nobel-venezuelas-machado/ Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado]
 
::::''By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law.'' [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Recovering Republican]]</sup> 09:44, December 17, 2025 (EST)
 
::::''By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law.'' [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Recovering Republican]]</sup> 09:44, December 17, 2025 (EST)
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===On leadership===
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The whole thing is worth reading. [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/our-modern-spectacle] Excerpt:
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:''"But the current era’s crop of ‘leaders’ have dropped all pretexts of charm and magnetism to become de facto cardboard cutouts for corporate interests and [[oligarchic]] influence—mouth pieces and empty voice boxes merely transcribing manifestos on behalf of their paymasters....Today, the hyper-connected [[financial]]ized [[globalism]] of our age has created a vast matrix of manipulation that has normalized the dilution of both [[meritocracy]] and genuine [[political]] and [[democratic]] processes to the point where modern leaders are no longer elected by the dint of their personal [[courage]], magnetism, or accomplishments, but rather selected by corporate special interests on the basis of their servility."''
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The point is, we should be wary of creating the impression some foreign leaders are "democratically elected" by a foreign "conservative populist" movement. "Democracy" doesn't work anymore. Least of all, as has been proven with the [[Biden Putsch]], in the [[United States]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Recovering Republican]]</sup> 12:52, December 21, 2025 (EST)
    
==[https://archive.is/wvufz#selection-93.0-473.39 Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tragic triumph]==
 
==[https://archive.is/wvufz#selection-93.0-473.39 Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tragic triumph]==
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