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There are forces at play here that this whole public health thing is just a facade, a ruse. I’m completely convinced the reason why so many of these policies make no sense from a public health standpoint is they’re not about public health.
It’s the largest federal retirement package in history. An unprecedented golden parachute made possible by career-end salary spiking.
Online censorship is becoming increasingly normalized as growing restrictions, deplatforming and its other manifestations have become so pervasive that many have simply come to accept it.
Top-ranking Biden administration officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — and five social media giants have 30 days to respond to subpoenas and discovery requests in a lawsuit alleging the government colluded with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech “under the guise of combatting misinformation.”
In each case, these ID systems are promoted as tools to eliminate poverty and promote peace, but critics see that as the sugar coating of the core purpose: the growing use of biometrics, tracking, and monetary and physical control over citizens.
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]).
The US is the only nation on earth whose entire economy is built on arms manufacturing and security guarantees to tyrannical Gulf states. It’s not just correct to call the US empire a uniquely evil power structure, it’s correct to say it’s impossible for it not to be.