Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
‘Sensitivity Readers’
March 20th, 2023Via: AFP: It’s a profession which is increasingly under the spotlight as the culture wars rumble on: “sensitivity readers” — editors who identify insensitivities or stereotypes in manuscripts — are becoming a lightning rod for the publishing industry. Such readers have worked in the wings of the Western literary world for years now, though they […]
CDC Bought Phone Data to Monitor Americans’ Compliance With Lockdowns, Contracts Show
March 17th, 2023Via: Epoch Times: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms. The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users. The contracts, approved under emergency […]
France: Rioters Outside Macron’s House After Forcing Through Retirement Age Increase Without Parliament Vote
March 17th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: Rioters threatened the home of French president Emmanuel Macron after he bypassed parliament to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Thousands took to the streets across France last night to express their fury at the move, setting fires to property and fighting the police. The demonstrations in Paris, Lyon, Marseille […]
ICC Judges Issue Arrest Warrant for Putin Over War Crimes in Ukraine
March 17th, 2023Putin: Add it to the list. Via: Reuters: The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during its one-year invasion of its neighbour. In its […]
FBI, State Department Miss Deadline to Produce COVID Origin Information to House Panel
March 14th, 2023I consider the Wuhan lab leak revelations to be a limited hangout at this point. The goal is to prevent a wide understanding that the whole thing was premeditated. Via: Epoch Times: The FBI and U.S. Department of State didn’t provide documents by the deadline in response to a congressional request for information on the […]
10,000 Dutch Farmers Protest Government’s Crippling Nitrogen Emissions Target in The Hague
March 13th, 2023Famine is a common result of maniac big state policies. Via: ReMix: Thousands of Dutch farmers protested on Saturday against the government’s policies to reduce nitrogen emissions, warning they will put farms out of business and affect food production. Hundreds of tractors from across the Netherlands could be seen driving to the event in The […]
FBI Finally Admits to Buying Location Data on Americans
March 12th, 2023As disturbing as this Ars Technica piece is, the actual situation might as well be infinitely worse. In 2013, we learned that law enforcement was “laundering” data collected through U.S. national security intercept systems for use against Americans, U.S. Communications Intelligence Secretly Shared with Law Enforcement for Use Against Americans in Criminal Investigations: “It’s just […]
Iran and Saudi Arabia Agree to Restore Relations
March 10th, 2023Via: Al Jazeera: Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months, according to Iranian and Saudi state media. The agreement was reached on Friday during talks in Beijing. Iranian state media posted images and video of Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of […]
America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
March 9th, 20231. TWITTER FILES: Statement to CongressTHE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX pic.twitter.com/JLryjnINXS — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023 Via: Michael Shellenberger: Our findings are shocking. A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it. … These organizations and others […]
U.S. Worries China Will Use Supply Chains As Weapon
March 8th, 2023My commentary from, U.S. Seeks Allies’ Backing for Possible China Sanctions Over Ukraine War: If this really kicks off, you should be ready for extremely serious problems. Outsourcing so much of the supply chain to China was a strategic mistake. Countless people have warned about this over decades, to no avail. The collective-West put itself […]
