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Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1 In this post and the next one I continue exploring the issue of protest, violence, class and the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement I raised in the last one. I engage with some of the responses to the previous post, including one from Peter Gelderloos on Twitter, but rather […]
Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis
Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis Is American politics reaching a breaking point? A recent study by researchers from Brown and Stanford Universities certainly paints a grim picture of the state of the national discourse. The study attempts to measure “affective polarization,” defined as the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward […]
Corruption is Neither Left nor Right
Corruption is Neither Left nor Right QUESTION: The supporters of the left side and of the state/public sector always mention that the private sector is the one that suffers as in general (ex. 2008/2009 AIG case) the public always comes at the end as a fire brigade to save the world. How would we answer technically […]
Some States Looking at Ankle Bracelet to Enforce Home Confinement
Some States Looking at Ankle Bracelet to Enforce Home Confinement Some states are now looking to impose the very same restriction they do with criminals by forcing people to wear bracelets to enforce home confinement. There is just way too much evidence that this virus is so minimal it is insane. There is simply another agenda […]
Australia Pushes New Measure To Detain COVID “Conspiracy Theorists”
Australia Pushes New Measure To Detain COVID “Conspiracy Theorists” Weekend demonstrations have flared up in Australia over the last month, as Aussies have vented their frustrations and attempted to take back control of their communities after a surge in virus cases prompted the government to re-implement some of the world’s most draconian social-distancing measures. And if there is one thing that terrifies increasingly tyrannical […]
Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness
Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness Facebook’s reach is being used to create division, spread hate and harm democracy. And the corporation doesn’t care. ‘Almost three-billion people now see the world through the personalized and profit-driven filter of social media.’ Photo via Shutterstock. In 1486, a German priest named […]
Julian Assange and the Conservative Press
Julian Assange and the Conservative Press Rembrandt van RIjn A Woman Standing with a Candle c.1631To be honest, I didn’t think it would ever happen, even though it’s been so obvious for so long. But all of a sudden, the conservative voices questioning the Russia collusion narrative and all the investigations that followed from it, are finally […]
Food Shortages to Reduce the Population Brought to you by the COVID Triumvirate
Food Shortages to Reduce the Population Brought to you by the COVID Triumvirate This is a photo of the food line beside the Brooklyn Bridge approach in New York City that prevailed between 1930 and 1935. Never before in history have Americans had to cue in line for food since this orchestrated pandemic by Gates, […]
Operation Legend is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities
Police watch while people gather for a labor march on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 2018 in Memphis. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images OPERATION LEGEND IS BRINGING SURVEILLANCE TECH TO CITIES Using federal grants, cities are contracting with companies that hack smartphones and detect gunshots. IN AUGUST, 40 […]
The United States & Its Constitution Have Two Months Left
The United States & Its Constitution Have Two Months Left Bob Woodward writes that Trump’s Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, and Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, spoke together about taking “collective action” to remove President Trump from office. General Mattis said Trump is “dangerous. He’s unfit.” https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-james-mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/ This is the same thing […]
The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The most powerful government in the world is currently conducting a prosecution to protect its right to lie to the public about the evil things that it does, and somehow the public isn’t shaking the earth with unmitigated rage about this. ~ […]
Paris Erupts into Protests Against Macron & Lockdowns
Paris Erupts into Protests Against Macron & Lockdowns Today in Paris, many thousands of “yellow vests” took to the streets to demonstrate against French President Emmanuel Macron and the French government over its draconian lockdowns and CORONA restrictions. This was a massive riot where police not only used tear gas and batons, they were firing both rubber […]
How the left is using the coronavirus to make the world a twisted dystopia
How the left is using the coronavirus to make the world a twisted dystopia Today’s bureaucrats and elitists are striving toward the creation of a global, communistic police state. SHUTTERSTOCK.COM If you were living in a dystopia, how would you even know it? The current situation certainly raises the question, as we experience unprecedented restrictions […]
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates. Fires and tear gas at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse perimeter fence during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. (Tedder, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com […]
