August 19, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. 
The Government is Not Us                                           Defense Versus The War Machine

fromTownhall: Biden reportedly had reports that the situation on the ground was not what he was telling the American people. At some level, we knew throughout the summer that Afghanistan could collapse. Biden insisted otherwise. In April, he said this withdrawal will not be hasty or chaotic.  

fromIssuesInsights: On his first day in office, President Joe Biden embarked on a campaign to rein in domestic oil and gas production. On his 204th day in office, he was pleading with OPEC to increase its production to stem the sharp rise in gasoline prices, to which OPEC said no dice. 

fromReason: Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery. 
Police State America                                                    Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromAmericanThinker: How can any American trust the Intelligence Community in determining the true capabilities and intentions of nations armed with nuclear weapons and the means to launch them? 

fromAmericanGreatness: The only real question here is whether our government is populated by idiots or criminals. 

August 18, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America unrecognizable. 
Regulation Nation                                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromReason: Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed by those in power.
Regulation Nation                                                                  The Government is Not Us

fromTheFederalist: Biden's failure to fulfill corporate media's promises of his competence has made them look deeply foolish as he displays the folly they predicted of Trump.

fromEricPetersAuto: "It is clear the object is not public health but the oppression of the public – by the government."

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Along with a group of heterodox writers, this move is designed to expand the reach of our journalism, support free speech platforms, and enable more reader interaction.

fromRealClearPolitics: FNC's Tucker Carlson comments that the lesson we have learned from the unceremonious end of the Afghanistan war is that we are "led by baffoons" and "imposters" who have "no idea what they're doing."

August 17, 2021                                             

fromHotAir: And so, a precedent for government control of the individual's body is established. Endless inoculations and vaccination passports are helpful tools in the proper herding the human livestock.

fromWashingtonTiimes: The real problem with Dr. Paul is that he openly calls on American citizens to stand up for their constitutional liberties at a time when they are under unprecedented assault by unelected bureaucrats (Fauci).

fromWallStreetJournal: Why would an American president want to subsidize foreign oil production while simultaneously damaging our own production capacity?
The Government is Not Us                                   Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromYahooNews: The belief is that campaign appearances by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, get-out-the-vote assistance and efforts on social media should be able to thwart the recall attempt.

fromBreitbart: Anything that might derail the inflationary pork-filled infrastructure bill should be applauded.

fromAmericanGreatness: Majority leaders urged the radical Dems to switch their votes so as “to create the illusion of a united front on the issue of public health at our southern border within the Democrat Party.”

August 16, 2021                                             

fromAlt-Market: “The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.”
The Government is Not Us                                                 Individual Liberty: America's First Principle

fromWolfStreet: Now it’s new vehicles, restaurants, energy.  Game of Whac-A-Mole as some price spikes slow while others begin. But it’s a lot worse than it seems.

fromWolfStreet: Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or the Tea Party movement over a decade ago.

fromBrownstoneInstitute: Free people produce crucial information. If it proves true that a failure to vaccinate is the path to hospitalization and death, broad societal vaccination will soon enough be a reasonable aim.

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The NSA's independent investigator, Robert Storch, is a long-time D.C. bureaucrat, making it unlikely he'd formally investigate frivolous allegations of "unmasking."

fromJonathanTurley: Now, they refuse to report a major new development with the release of a videotape that purportedly shows Biden claiming that one of his laptops was stolen by Russians for blackmail purposes
Media Bias on Parade                                                                  The Government is Not Us      

August 14, 2021                                             

fromTheHill: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been suspended from YouTube for a week over a video claiming that masks are ineffective against COVID-19. He violated the publisher's indoctrination policy.

fromCampusReform: Racist backers of the notion hold that proficiency levels for math and reading present an unfair challenge for minority students, essentially arguing that that they possess inferior learning and thinking capacity.

fromActivistPost: As Britain’s High Court handed the United States a win in its bid to extradite Julian Assange, human rights defenders renewed calls for the Biden regime to drop all charges against the WikiLeaks founder.

fromSpiked: Eco warriors claim to care about inequality. But they are attacking the world’s poorest.

fromTownhall: As the Biden administration's policies continue to spur inflation, Americans have already seen the impact at the gas pump and in the grocery store over the summer. Data dashboards used to monitor the price of goods and services show inflation spiking at its fastest rate since the 1990s.

fromZeroHedge: Do not take anything you hear from government or media at face value. The "news" they dispense is not designed to inform but rather to persuade you to think a certain way.

August 13, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.

fromCaitlinJohnstone: You're only one person, and the machine is so very powerful and so very deeply dug in, so all you can do is one person's best in each moment. Seize every opportunity you can find to spread awareness and throw sand in the gears of the machine, and rest assured that you've done all you can.

fromReason: Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away. After all, mandates are only required when persuasion has no chance.

fromFoxNews: "California has not had sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud."

fromEpochTimes: "It isn’t due to modest warming, but rather to decades of federal and state mismanagement of publicly owned forests throughout the Western United States, leaving those forests in tinderbox conditions."

fromRealClearPolitics: The two meta-problems—the breakdown of order and erosion of public confidence — are deeply intertwined because we count on our leaders and institutions to give us reliable information, provide a stable environment (so each of us can go about our lives), and abide by the same rules we all do.

August 12, 2021                                             

fromDailyMail: It gives Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg the ability to award grants to local and regional entities 'to carry out pilot projects' of the VMT tax. The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.

fromDailyWire: “We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.”

fromAmericanThinker: Mike Lindell has organized a Cyber Symposium that he claims will prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he’s giving $5 million to anyone who can disprove his data. Lindell plans to unveil computer data in front of politicians, cyber experts, and reporters.

fromReason: Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange                                  Police State America

fromZeroHedge: The record number of job openings stands out in stark contrast to Americans who are still collecting various pandemic emergency unemployment claims, which in the latest week was just above 11 million.

fromNYPost: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable.

August 11, 2021                                             

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.

fromReason: As early as 2026, new cars will have to come equipped with "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology."

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: The real-world data - from Israel, the United States, and everywhere else - are clear. Vaccine protection from infection fades within months against both the original coronavirus and the Delta variant. 

fromTheHill: Thirty-one percent of registered voters in the Aug. 2-3 survey named inflation as what concerns them the most when thinking about the future of the economy. This was followed by the national debt, at 22 percent, and unemployment and income inequality, at 15 percent each.

fromVisualCapitalist: A great way to grasp issues is to see them.

fromMises: Far from being in a position of overwhelming strength, China and its Communist leadership face imminent multifront domestic crises that will threaten the existence not only of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but the existence of the Chinese state as a unified whole.

August 10, 2021                                             

fromCreators: Hate speech bans are unconstitutional in the United States, whose founders had the wisdom to recognize that giving government the authority to censor its citizens is more dangerous than allowing bigots to spew bile in a marketplace of ideas where reasonable people can refute and rebuke them.

fromTheHill: Biden acknowledged the obvious: any new order to extend the moratorium would be unconstitutional. Yet, he added that he was able to find “several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”


fromTownhall: Employers consistently report that new hires fare poorly in writing and critical thinking — essentially, two sides of the same coin. The shift began in the 1980s, as a new form of literary criticism knows as “deconstructionism” caught on in English departments across the country.

fromNationalReview: Two new independent polls on California’s September 14 recall election have a startling explanation for why Governor Gavin Newsom is in trouble. His support among minority communities is crumbling as issues such as crime, COVID restrictions, and a huge unemployment-benefits scandal dominate the race.

fromReason: The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.

August 9, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. 

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
Regulation Nation                                                                                The Government is Not Us   

fromEpochTimes: Dr. Kobi Haviv, medical director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem said that “85 to 90 percent of the hospitalizations are in fully vaccinated people,” and “95 percent of the severe patients are vaccinated.”

fromQuillette: Truth matters. Words matter. What is objectively the case matters. And insofar as our words and concepts can be about the objective world at all, then the shared set of words and meanings that we collectively use and are permitted to use to describe, navigate, and refer to that objective world matters.

fromAxios: The number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in favor of a foreign country hit an all-time high in 2020: 6,707, a 237% increase over 2019.

fromBabylonBee: Blacks tend to be vaccinated at much lower rate than whites. Who can blame them for being wary of government 'experiments'? 

August 8, 2021                                             

fromFoxNews: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again.

fromCharlesHughesSmith: Risk cannot be extinguished, it can only be transferred. Crony capitalism has transmogrified into predatory capitalism as government, finance and the corporatocracy have allied into a seamless (and seamlessly corrupt) elite class that has offloaded systemic risk onto the unprotected class.

fromReason: Small-scale drug possession is now a $100 infraction that can be dismissed with a call to a drug abuse assessment hotline.

fromZeroHedge: Pointing out that the majority of black people in the United States have not yet had a COVID vaccine, Dr. Drew asserted that vaccine passports which ban the unvaccinated from venues like bars and restaurants are a new form of “segregation.”

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events.

fromTheAtlantic: The state GOP’s comeback runs through Latino communities.

August 7, 2021                                             

fromRealClearPolitics: Here are three reasons why the recall won’t happen, and three reasons why it might.

fromJonathanTurley: Do you have a right to leave your home to eat or recreate if you are a “non-vac?”

fromReason: The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

fromRealClearEnergy: Virtue signaling is defined at the act of publicly expressing opinions in order to demonstrate that you are a good person.

fromRedState: A senator (Joe Manchin) is literally funneling a billion dollars of taxpayer money to an organization headed by his wife after she was given an appointment due to his influence.

fromUnderstandingDeepPolitics: “We persuaded our children that they were going to murder their grandma if they dared to be what they are, children. Or if they met their friends. None of this has been scientifically proven.”

August 6, 2021                                             

fromRutherfordInstitute: Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc. This is the slippery slope upon which we are embarking, one that begins with vaccine passports and ends with a national system of segregation.

fromVox: Now, law enforcement simply buys your data. No need for a search warrant.

fromJonathanTurley: National Public Radio, rejecting objectivity in journalism, announced that its journalists can now engage in protests and advocacy.
Media Bias on Parade                                                                           Indoctrination and Censorship

fromActivistPost: If you make a conscious choice to ignore all long-term consequences, managing your personal finances can be a lot of fun.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

fromAmericanThinker: Mask policy in America has become as incoherent as Joe himself.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery

fromGatewayPundit: Finds 8.1 million excess votes in US election and affirms that Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Minnesota.

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