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The Biden Administration refuses to abdicate their emergency powers; they want to keep the “pandemic” narrative alive so the vaccinators can get more shots in more arms – even those of babies and toddlers. But we are not in a Covid-19 public health emergency. In fact, there never was one.
The Council for Inclusive Capitalism bypasses all political representation, all checks and balances and all voter participation.
The government’s “technotyranny” surveillance apparatus has become so entrenched and entangled with its police state apparatus that it’s hard to know anymore where law enforcement ends and surveillance begins.
A new defense bill crammed with political pork smashes records, but you likely didn’t hear the news, because War is Good again.
Maybe democracy resides in unofficial, informal civic structures, extra-legal vernacular institutions, and place-based communities. When the people are strong and determined, when they have a sense of themselves as a people, when they know their own power
We are, I think, in a collective state of despair. So, it isn’t surprising to me that I have a hard time feeling hopeful when asked “How do we fix things?” since despair is the absence or loss of hope (from the Latin “without” [de] and “to hope” [sperare]).