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Elected officials continue to turn to draconian measures to disappear homeless people. California is moving ahead with a plan that will allow the state to force the unhoused into court-ordered treatment programs for a period of up to two years – and potentially much longer.
The story of economic growth over the last centuries is the story of a conversion on non-monetized forms of wealth—call them natural, social, cultural, and spiritual capital—into monetized goods and services.
The foxes are guarding the hen house when it comes to billions under review by the Commission on the National Defense Strategy.
On Monday, the FDA through its various PR firms announced a “major shift” — that is actually just implementing the plan that they have had for a year — to make Covid shots annual like the failed flu shot program.
In the UK “the electorate” empowers people who are corrupt and/or stupid. This is a democratic principle which the government then protects on the international stage, currently by sending Eastern Europeans to their deaths.
There’s no logical basis for the belief that we’ll get lucky again. Believing nuclear war won’t happen because it didn’t happen last time is a type of fallacious reasoning known as normalcy bias; it’s as rational as believing Russian roulette is safe because the man handing you the pistol didn’t blow his head off when he pulled the trigger.