January 30, 2021


Enemies of the Deep State: the government’s war on domestic terrorism is a trap

fromRutherfordInstitute: We are moving fast down that slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by the government and its corporate cohorts.


Reflecting the authoritarian climate, Washington will remain militarized until at least March

fromGlennGreenwald: Promoting the domestic terrorism theme. Troops in U.S. streets for an extended period of time -- an extreme measure even when temporary -- has now become close to a sacred consensus.


Union that endorsed Biden has buyer's remorse after president cancels Keystone Pipeline

fromYahooFinance: Mark McManus, president of the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters, expresses disappointment with the administration’s decision.


New Mexico shocked by “Biden assault on oil and gas”

fromWaatsUpWithThat: Officials in the state of New Mexico professed to be taken aback last week by President Joe Biden’s day-one decision to impose a 60-day moratorium on all oil and gas-related leasing on federal lands. 


VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - What America is All About

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: More than thirty five years ago, Thomas Sowell wrote this column addressing America's critics and explaining what our country is all about. Would that same answer be correct today?


All hail the reopening!

fromAIER: Given how incredibly political this pandemic has been from the beginning, many people smell a rat. Is it really the case that the reopening of the American economy, particularly in blue states, is so perfectly timed?

              

January 29, 2021


How to deprogram us

fromAmericanGreatness: Why not borrow the current Chinese “social credit system”? The great Victor Davis Hanson speaks.


Can Rand Paul save the Senate?

fromEpochTimes: "Every day in every way I like Rand Paul better. He gives libertarianism a good name by standing for something, unlike almost all his colleagues, right and left."


VIDEO: The Rise and Fall of Freedom in America

fromLibertyPen/YouTube: An epic tale of liberty in America, from the founding ideals to present. 


Why four Democrats are suddenly regretting supporting Joe Biden

fromTownhall: Economic devastation imposed by Biden will severely damage their state (and, more importantly, their hopes of reelection).


Congressional Democrats push $15 minimum wage on struggling businesses

fromReason: Small business owners are largely Republican. Understand that and you understand the politics of COVID policy, overregulation and minimum wage.


Biden signs executive order to ban the term ‘China virus’

fromWhiteHouse.gov: The Kung flu was foisted upon the world by China, no matter how much the Biden administration wants to sugarcoat it.

             

January 27, 2021


Your tax dollars at work: California criminal rings loot billions in unemployment funds

fromCBSSacramento: Article is NOT about the Democratic Party nor is it from the Babylon Bee.


If ‘Facebook is private’ why are they feeding private messages of its users directly to the FBI?

fromTheFreeThoughtProject: Facebook began furnishing the FBI with data on Trump supporters who discussed the events at the capitol on their platform — up to and including their private messages.


Amazon demands in-person union vote after arguing mail-in ballots 'raise risk of fraud'

fromZeroHedge: Suddenly, the hypocritical bastards are insisting on election integrity for themselves. With their boy Biden in power, mail-in ballots are so yesterday.



Another cop is indicted for murder because of a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple

fromReason So far a dozen Houston narcotics officers have been charged as a result of the investigation triggered by the disastrous operation.


All the spin that’s fit to print

fromTheDailyPoster: It exposes the gaping crack in the facade of objectivity — and provides a microcosmic illustration of one reason why new survey data show the public’s trust in media has now hit a new low.


Biden effectively erases numerous U.S. immigration laws, may release 10,000 criminal aliens

fromTheFederalist: Despite the dangers of such a sweeping immigration policy, including a caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants heading to the southern U.S. border that the Biden administration admits it does not have the bandwidth to handle, Democrat politicians have offered their endorsements of the new border rules.

            

January 25, 2021


The capturing of the Capitol

fromUnHerd: Why did no one question the military occupation of Washington?


"Victim-centered" justice is a threat to due process

fromMises: Trauma-informed advocates abandoning the ethical code of conduct, requiring the law enforcement officer to be concerned equally in the prosecution of the wrong-doer and the defense of the innocent.


⭐️ The new domestic war on terror is coming

fromGlennGreenwald: No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.




President Biden's unity has a high price tag

fromReason: Biden's proposed pandemic "relief" package would unite Americans in forced economic pain.

           

January 23, 2021


The boot is coming down hard and fast

fromCaitlinJohnstone: Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot. Say hello to the thought police.


Lockdown was never the only option

fromSpiked: A strategy of protecting the vulnerable could have saved lives without devastating society.


Right on cue for Biden, WHO admits high-cycle PCR tests produce COVID false positives

fromZeroHedge: The idea that asymptomatic spread was a concern as of August was just one of many lies Dr. Fauci told. Trump talked about the false positives for months but WHO was mum.


5 things to watch at Trump’s second impeachment trial

fromPolitico: From questions about trying a former president to whether conviction is a real possibility, the proceedings will be different than the first time.


MSM calls for “new definition of free speech”

fromOff-Guardian: New buzzwords in the mainstream media bubble spell trouble for those who dare think outside of the PC box.


A Soldier’s Defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange

fromAntiwar: "Whether one loves or hates Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange is besides the point. The First Amendment freedom of the press is at stake now."

          

January 17, 2021


Will good people stand by while censorship threatens America?

fromEpochTimes: Speak now, or forever hold your peace.


Rand Paul: 1/3 of Republicans will leave party if GOP senators go along with convicting Trump

fromWashingtonExaminer: He warned of a mass exodus from the Republican Party if GOP senators vote with Democrats to convict President Trump in a second impeachment trial, even after he leaves office next week.


9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail

fromStrategicCulture: What matters is the end result: the manufactured product – “Trump insurrection” – for all practical purposes buried the presentation, already in progress, of evidence of electoral fraud to the Capitol, and reduced the massive preceding rally of half a million people to “domestic terrorism”.


⭐️ How to read the news in totalitarianism

fromAccordingtoHoyt: How to decifer what's really going on in the age of deception and censorship.


Switzerland will hold referendum on whether to strip the government of its lockdown power

fromDailyMail: The Covid-19 Act, passed in September last year, has infuriated the famously liberal Swiss as it grants central government unchecked powers to impose indefinite rules to stop the spread of the virus.


Twitter competitor Gab backed up Trump's Twitter account and recreated it on their platform

fromPJMedia: Here are the platforms Trump supporters are flocking to after Parler was executed by Amazon.

         

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