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Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails
Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails A ’tough letter’ preceded the change. The fact-checking website Snopes changed one of its ratings after pressure from President Joe Biden’s administration, newly disclosed emails show. Snopes on Jan. 10, 2023, said that there was some truth to a claim that President Biden’s administration was planning […]
This Double Whammy Will Unleash Unprecedented Money Printing… or Break the U.S. Economy
This Double Whammy Will Unleash Unprecedented Money Printing… or Break the U.S. Economy Deficits, Deficits, and More Deficits, Unravelling Social Security, Money Printer Going Brrr “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” ~ Gerald Ford The Federal Reserve is gearing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV–‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV January 29, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. ‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society A friend recently posted on my FB timeline the link to an article about the plans of our provincial government in opening up sections of […]
Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe’s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement
Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe’s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement James Rubin also laments that Big Tech doesn’t enforce its terms of service more aggressively. The head of the US State Department’s highly controversial Global Engagement Center (GEC), James Rubin, appears to be on a “press tour” to promote more stringent […]
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech A major attack on free speech was introduced on April 1st. Scotland’s contentious “hate crime” legislation, widely criticized as an affront to free speech, is now in effect. Critics have voiced concerns that these new measures, while designed to address the alleged harm inflicted by hatred […]
German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct”
German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct” The German Interior Ministry continues to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents. The Federal Office for the Protection […]
Irish Government Wants Pre-Election Pact With Tech Giants To Counter Online “Disinformation”
Irish Government Wants Pre-Election Pact With Tech Giants To Counter Online “Disinformation” A move that raises accusations of manipulating Big Tech’s power. Many governments around the world are no longer at least pretending they don’t see Big Tech as a major political asset, or that they will not try to use that asset to their […]
Oh Say Can You See?
Oh Say Can You See? “A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” — Sam Faddi That’s Sam Faddis, retired CIA (quote didn’t quite fit in block). Who […]
Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report
Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report A previously secret (and still heavily redacted) RCMP report warns the Canadian government to expect civil unrest once citizens realize how totally screwed the economic situation is, the National Post reports. “The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier […]
Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State “In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth.”— Martin Luther King Jr. When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII–Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII December 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice Todays’ contemplation has been prompted by the usual shenanigans of government. In this case, the government of my home province of Ontario, Canada. As regular readers of […]
Global News: The Wrap-up Smear & More Nazi Talk.
Global News: The Wrap-up Smear & More Nazi Talk. Yet more propaganda and censorship, domestic and foreign The Wrap-up Smear. Although this Substack is about international news, I want to start with a five-year old old video of Nancy Pelosi describing a tactic used by democrats and the deep state to target and defame conservatives […]
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us?
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us? Passively waiting for centralized powers to “save us” from their own excesses is not a solution. It’s no exaggeration to say that our way of life depends on somebody somewhere saving us from the excesses that are the bedrock of our way of life. What excesses, you […]
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation What if a conversation between Russian officials discussing the explosion of a bridge in Germany had been revealed? Would Western press coverage also treat the leak as something more serious than threats of military attack? On March 1, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya […]
Don’t Just Hope For Adequate Emergency Response
Don’t Just Hope For Adequate Emergency Response Lessons from the Oregon Ice Storm of 2024 Last month, I, along with many fellow Oregonians (and others in the Pacific Northwest), faced the chilling grip of a devastating ice storm. At work, I experienced the test of a power outage. The storm’s fury was evident in the […]
