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Is Climate Change a Tool to Eliminate Democracy?
Is Climate Change a Tool to Eliminate Democracy? COMMENT: Your view on denying climate change is supporting the capitalist model. This shows you have no credibility. OD REPLY: Climate is changing and it is part of the normal cycle. You are actually correct that I support capitalism and freedom and am against authoritarianism and totalitarian […]
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Lies We Tell Ourselves Pixabay Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. […]
It’s Not About Democracy: Control Fraud Is the Core of our Political System
It’s Not About Democracy: Control Fraud Is the Core of our Political System The many are finally calling out the abusers of power because there’s no longer any need to pay the corrupting costs of centralization. If we strip away the pretense of democracy, what is the core of our political System? Answer: control fraud, […]
French President Macron Demands Anti-Fake-News Law “To Protect Democracy”
French President Macron Demands Anti-Fake-News Law “To Protect Democracy” Following Germany’s (and Brussels) lead to tyrannical repression of any free speech in Europe, French President Macron said on Wednesday he would overhaul French media legislation this year to fight the spread of “fake news.” As Reuters reports, since he was elected last year, Macron has […]
De-Growth is Feasible: People Want a New Economy
DE-GROWTH IS FEASIBLE: PEOPLE WANT A NEW ECONOMY Branko Milanovic has written a response to my argument. As I read it, I was struck by two things – both quite significant. First, Branko now seems to accept the science on how “green growth” is not a thing, and has backed off his assumption that endless […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States federal Government is, authentically, a democracy […]
The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was Photo by Daniel Huizinga | CC BY 2.0 One of the most steadfast beliefs regarding the United States is that it is a democracy. Whenever this conviction waivers slightly, it is almost always to point out detrimental exceptions to core American values or foundational principles. For […]
Sarnia-born professor looks to future
Sarnia-born professor looks to future (Submitted photo) The world is racing towards a large-scale impending collapse, and if humans want to avoid a future filled with social, political and environmental catastrophe, they would do well to devolve and democratize society’s decision-making process, currently in the hands of a select few. So said Sarnia-born author Kevin […]
Sweden’s New Government Censorship
Sweden’s New Government Censorship In the report, placing the word “refugees” in quotation marks, as well as “unaccompanied children,” is supposedly an expression of “hate”. (Many, if not most, migrants classified as “unaccompanied children” have turned out to be grown men). Government agencies are going out of their way to protect the “integrity” of possible […]
US State Department Admits Plans To Meddle In Hungary’s Democracy
US State Department Admits Plans To Meddle In Hungary’s Democracy As we noted last week, hypocrisy may be the only consistent guiding principle of US foreign policy. The Rex Tillerson State Department will pump $700,000 into Hungarian media to remove Viktor Orban. TheDuran’s Alex Christoforou writes: When another nation state uses media to communicate it’s […]
The End of the Age of Benevolence
The End of the Age of Benevolence The history of democracy, Marxism and feminism is the history of the snake, which, being hungry for more, stalks its own tail and consumes itself. Some evenings I sit on the sofa in the family room with my teenage daughter and watch a TV program with her. I […]
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck This Russia Collusion thing has been going on for one year now. I’m not interested in debating whether or not Trump colluded. I am interested in examining the massive hypocrisy emanating from our government, and on display daily in living color from MSM whores, prostitutes, traitors, teleprompter readers. Who among […]
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health ‘Substance cannot compete with sensation, which must be amplified constantly, lest consumers get distracted and move on.’ Photograph: Anadolu […]
