January 15, 2021


Institutionalized obedience: Americans & the lockdowns

fromTheImaginativeConservative: Why do Americans, the rugged individualists, obey edicts issued at the whim of “King” Newsom or “His Majesty” Cuomo, without a questioning of the legitimacy of those mandates?


California is worse than you think

fromMises For example, the California legislature effectively decriminalized theft as long as thieves take less than $950 worth of merchandise, officially reducing such theft to a misdemeanor but in effect making it legal, since progressive California prosecutors don’t like to be bothered by petty criminals.



Unity president calls on Senate to pursue impeachment

fromCNN: Biden appears to be no more than a lapdog to party extremists.


Poland slams social media deplatforming of Trump as government readies anti-censorship law

fromRT: Free speech still matters in Poland. Their government has decried social media platforms’ mishandling of US President Donald Trump’s accounts and prepares to pass its own legislation to stop ideological censorship.


Texas charges election fraudster after Project Veritas report

fromOAN: On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said supposed Republican operative Rachel Rodriguez was arrested for allegedly harvesting ballots for Democrat candidates.

        

January 13, 2021


Parler ban coordinated effort 'to put a competitor out of business'

fromFoxNews: by Maria Bartiromo. The FOX Business anchor says Big Tech’s suspension of Parler 'is a perfect example' of antitrust abuse.


VIDEO: Edward Snowden - Domestic Surveillance is Not About Terrorism

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Whistleblower Edward Snowden explains why mass domestic surveillance is a useless tool in the fight against terrorism. However, he does not dispute that it has its own utility.

The Government is Not Us

Twitter allows 'hang Mike Pence' to trend after banning Trump for 'inciting violence'

fromPJMedia: If not for double standards, the media would have no standards at all.

Media Bias on Parade               Indoctrination and Censorship

YouTube will ban all videos highlighting voter fraud

fromFederalist: They want the sheep to believe that those thousands of signed affidavits under penalty of perjury were all in your imagination.

Media Bias on Parade               Indoctrination and Censorship

The origins of America’s secret police

fromStrategicCulture: When will the American people realise that the biggest threat to American freedom is not from without but from within its very own walls, where it has been prominently residing for the last 112 years…

Police State America                 The Government is Not Us

Trump campaign no longer able to send out emails after mail service suspends access

fromNationalistReview: The move effectively cuts off communication between his team and his core supporters. What is not clear however, is what other services have banned his team. To sustain lies, truth must be censored.

Media Bias on Parade               Indoctrination and Censorship

       

January 11, 2021


Why Trump voters don't trust the people who count the votes

fromMises: The FBI has already demonstrated their officials are willing to break and bend rules to obstruct Trump. So, why believe the administrative class when they insist elections are fair and all above board?

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

MSM already using Capitol Hill riot to call for more Internet censorship

fromCaitlinJohnstone: The New York Times has published two new articles, both arguing for more heavy-handed restrictions on speech from Silicon Valley tech giants.

Indoctrination and Censorship

What to expect in 2021: Madness, mayhem, manipulation and more tyranny

fromRutherfordInstitute: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”―George Orwell, Animal Farm

The Government is Not Us

Minimum wage hikes kick in across the country—at the worst possible time for small businesses

fromFEE: Good news for Amazon and Walmart as government gives small business yet another kick in the teeth.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

Twitter permanently removes Trump’s account from its platform

fromTheEpochTimes: If free speech matter, you should remove Twitter and replace it with Parler.

Indoctrination and Censorship                 Media Bias on Parade

Singapore police access COVID tracing app data for criminal investigations

fromCNAInsider: Of course, the police are using the app in this manner.

Police State America

      

January 9, 2021


2020: The year the tree of liberty was torched

fromRutherfordInstitute: Government corruption, tyranny, and abuse coupled with a Big Brother-knows-best mindset and the COVID-19 pandemic propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown police state in which nationwide lockdowns, egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, censorship, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, indefinite detentions, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, and pay-to-play politicians were accepted as the norm.

The Government is Not Us              Police State America

Violence in the Capitol, dangers in the aftermath

fromGlennGreenwald: From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian "solutions" are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.

The Government is Not Us              Police State America

VIDEO: Citizen vs. Government - Vol. V

fromReason/YouTube: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about sports stadium land grabs, excessive force, and streetcars. 1 minute

The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Citizen vs. Government - Vol. VI

fromGlennGreenwald: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about being outdated, mandates, and peacekeeping. 1 minute

The Government is Not Us

Rules for rioters: It doesn’t matter what you do, it’s who you are when you’re doing it

fromRushLimbaugh: Imagine how things might be different today — and I know it’s no fun to play this game ’cause it doesn’t accomplish anything, but I still want to.

The Government is Not Us              Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

VIDEO: Matt Gates - No Democrats today calling to 'defund the police'

fromTatumReport/YouTube: Amid boos and catcalls, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida condemns political violence, pointing out that Democratic Party leaders failed to do  so this summer when called upon.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

           

January 7, 2021


The case against Julian Assange is also a case against a free press

fromReason: Contrary to what the judge who blocked his extradition implied, the Espionage Act does not include an exception for "responsible" journalism.

Indoctrination and Censorship                Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

Questions about the chaos at the Capitol that desperately need to be answered

fromZeroHedge: Capitol police opened the gates and invited the protestors in. "Either the U.S. Congress has the worst security personnel that any of us have ever seen, or this was allowed to happen on purpose."

The Government is Not Us

School choice threatened under Biden

fromNewsmax: The long-time teachers union lackey takes aim at educational independence and parental control.

Indoctrination and Censorship                The Government is Not Us

Facebook, Instagram block Trump for ‘at least’ the rest of his presidency

fromNYPost: With Trump out of the way, Big Tech steps up their war against free speech.

Indoctrination and Censorship                Media Bias on Parade

Republican lawmakers objecting to Biden electors have a point: Americans need to trust elections

fromReason: The best way to secure public trust in the outcomes of our elections is to ensure that our elections are trustworthy. Right now, they’re not.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Biden will fail and voters will quickly realize that they screwed up

fromWashingtonTimes: The reason Mr. Biden will fail so soon is that many more millions than voted for him will realize — and quickly — that they made a mistake.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

          

January 5, 2021


The threat of authoritarianism in the U.S. is very real, and has nothing to do with Trump

fromGlennGreenwald: The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.

The Government is Not Us              Police State America

2021: The geopolitics of vaccination

fromStrategicCultureFoundation: The proposed idea to only allow vaccinated individuals to travel will essentially create a second passport based on an individual’s vaccination record.

The Government is Not Us

“Baseless conspiracy theories” and our knowledge crisis

fromHumanEvents: Evidence, proof, and the will to deceive.

Indoctrination and Censorship

Exclusive: Over 432,000 votes removed from Trump in Pennsylvania, data scientists say

fromEpochTimes: Analysis by the Data Integrity Group, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times, shows votes for Trump—from both Election Day and mail-in ballots—were removed from the totals in at least 15 counties.

The Government is Not Us        Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption


The United States has become a banana republic

fromTheMostImportantNews: Largely due to the destruction of the dollar.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

         

January 3, 2021


New California laws going into effect in 2021

fromSFGate: An overwhelming avalanche of nitwittery is raining down on the hapless residents of the left coast.

Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery            The Government is Not Us

Is it any wonder liberal states are shrinking?

fromWashingtonExaminer: Illinois, New York and California treat their job-creating businesses as golden geese ready to be slain. The overtaxed productive class is voting with their feet.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market            The Government is Not Us

Social engineers use weaponized psychology to push unproven vaccines

fromTheDailyBell: When the vaccine is marked as a pitch to end the pandemic once and for all and save millions of lives, the screws will turn even tighter.

Indoctrination and Censorship

The Kafkaesque imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. myths about freedom and tyranny

fromGlennGreenwald: Absent a pardon by Trump, he will have been just disappeared: silenced by the very governments whose corruption and crimes he denounced and exposed.

Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process            The Government is Not Us

Clemency for Ross Ulbricht, serving double life for a website

fromChange.org: He was never prosecuted for causing harm or bodily injury and no victim was named at trial. Over 250 organizations, eminent individuals and leaders have voiced support for him.

Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process        The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

VIDEO: The Rise and Fall of American Freedom

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: An epic tale of liberty in America.

The Government is Not Us

        

January 2, 2021


20 numbers from 2020 that are almost too crazy to believe

fromTheMostImportantNews: We experienced the worst global pandemic in 100 years, we witnessed the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, civil unrest erupted in major cities all over America, and we had one of the wildest presidential elections in our history.  Other than that, it was a pretty quiet year.

The Pursuit of Happiness

How your digital trails wind up in the hands of the police

fromArsTechnica: Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests.

Government is Watching Every Move You Make

Hunter Biden laptop lawsuit gives Twitter unpleasant legal choices

fromTheFederalist: The lawsuit alleges Twitter defamed the computer store owner in an attempt to justify its censorship of The New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden selling access to his father.

Indoctrination and Censorship

The great 2020 Seasonal flu/influenza disappearing act

fromStephen Lendman: Because the outbreaks are called COVID.

Indoctrination and Censorship

The biggest example of media malfeasance in 2020 is...

fromTheHill: The New York Post was thrown in social media jail for having the audacity to report something potentially damaging on the Democratic nominee.

Indoctrination and Censorship                  Media Bias on Parade

Wrong again: 2020’s failed climate doomsaying

fromJunkScience: This was a very bad year for experts and their models. The pandemic was not the only example of their uselessness.

Indoctrination and Censorship

       

January 1, 2021


A pandemic of surveillance

fromReason: Americans are increasingly monitored, and COVID health concerns aren’t improving the situation.

Government is Watching Every Move You Make

VIDEO: The Tiny Dot

fromLarkenRose/YouTube: Why do citizens mindlessly comply with tyrants? As lockdowns force citizens under the thumb of government, perhaps this video is showing us the way out.

The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - The Value of Private Property Rights

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: Professor Williams provides a subtle and sophisticated understanding of that pillar of American freedom, property rights.

Individual Liberty: America's First Principle                 Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

The real scandal of spending bills

fromNewsmax: This situation is the inevitable result of a government that tries to maintain the fiction that republican institutions are compatible with a welfare-warfare leviathan.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

CNN chief admits he will not cover Biden administration fairly

fromAIM: What next, Stacy Abrams admitting she is not governor of Georgia?

Media Bias on Parade

Powell: Election fraud obvious when Trump’s landslide broke Dominion ‘vote-switch’ algorithm

fromOANN: Attorney Sidney Powell recently gave a detailed interview on the evidence of election fraud after releasing a 270 page summary of her investigation.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

      

December 31, 2020


The year teachers unions killed the goose that laid the golden egg

fromNationalReview: The United States was virtually alone in keeping schools closed this fall. As a result, public education—and cities—may never look the same.

Indoctrination and Censorship

Chinese citizen journalist sentenced to four years for coronavirus reporting

fromNationalReview: America is not the only place where honest reporting seems to be a crime.

Indoctrination and Censorship

VIDEO: Citizen Vs Government - Vol I

fromReason/YouTube: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about policing, taxes, CDC testing, and marijuana. Under two minutes.

The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Citizen Vs Government - Vol II

fromReason/YouTube: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about home ownership, corn, consenting relationships, and war.

The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Citizen Vs Government - Vol III

fromReason/YouTube: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about taxes, gambling, and social security. 

The Government is Not Us

VIDEO: Citizen Vs Government - Vol IV

fromReason/YouTube: A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about the election, police, and becoming an adult.

The Government is Not Us

     

December 29, 2020


Thomas Sowell: Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

fromCreators: Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.

Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

Suppressing 'hate speech' on social media drives users to new platforms

fromReason: The more that big social media companies act like they can control what people say, the more competition they encourage. Ditch Facebook, join MeWe, the free speech alternative.

Indoctrination and Censorship

Elite hypocrisy is killing small businesses

fromWashingtonExaminer: Big-city shutdown rules make a mockery of science and privilege the rich and well-connected. Lockdowns are simply about control.

The Government is Not Us

Is anyone more annoying or treacherous than Barack Obama?

fromTownhall: Is anything that Barack Obama says on the up-and-up? Is this monster of a politician to be believed? No. Not for a nanosecond.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

Why President Trump should free Ross Ulbricht

fromReason: The Silk Road’s creator has a lot to teach drug prohibitionists.

Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process           The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

VIDEO: Donald Trump - Mainstream Media Nightmare

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From the outset, the mainstream media hated Trump. Obama’s lapdog media morphed into pit bulls. But, perhaps they bit off more than they could chew.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption