Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow
August 16th, 2021Via: Reason: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bonanza for government officials, allowing them to extend authority that they then exercise with relatively little oversight or restraint in ways that would have been inconceivable in the past. It has accelerated the transformation of previously free societies into permission-based states, where things once done as a […]
Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban
August 16th, 2021Flashback 2009: ‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan And now, here’s an actual AP headline from today, “Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban.” The Afghanistan operation was primarily about shoveling trillions of dollars into the gaping maw of the U.S. military industrial complex and getting kilotons of opium out the other end. Another […]
Taliban Says Afghanistan War Over as President Flees
August 15th, 2021Those guys sure seem to like their new U.S.-provided rifles. I’ve indicated U.S. weapons with green arrows. Nice ACOG too: The Scope That Changed Everything There’s a reason the Trijicon ACOG® (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight) is the official medium-distance engagement optic of the Marine Corps and U.S. Special Operations Forces. Fascinating. This may become the […]
Taliban Enter Afghan Capital, U.S. Evacuates Diplomats by Chopper
August 15th, 2021Biden, last month: "The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." https://t.co/cMx5e2xjtn — Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 15, 2021 Via: Reuters: Taliban insurgents […]
Vaccine Passports for Interstate Travel? “Too Polarizing for the Moment”
August 13th, 2021Via: AP: Still, while more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment. That’s not to say they won’t […]
Why Do Some People Support Tyranny While Others Defy It?
August 13th, 2021Via: Alt-Market: And this is where we find the true key to totalitarianism – It only thrives because there is an inherent portion of any given society that secretly loves it and wants it to exist. We might call these people useful idiots, but it is much more than that. They are not necessarily unaware […]
Australian Capital Canberra Goes Into Snap Lockdown; One Case Detected
August 12th, 2021Via: BBC: The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year. It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07:00 GMT). The lockdown was called for the whole of the Australian Capital Territory – home to around 400,000 […]
You’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Welcome to Chinese Communist Party-Style Techno-Hell
August 12th, 2021Via: The Daily Bell: Welcome to Techno-Hell. This is not Kansas – or Oregon, or New Jersey — anymore. While the flavor of future human enslavement is up for speculation, what is definitively true is that — unless we reverse course, to look back into nature and into ourselves at the individual and community level […]
Newsom Announces Nation’s First Vax-Or-Test Rule For All Teachers And Staff
August 12th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: California has become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school employees to be vaccinated or submit to regular Covid-19 testing. In a Wednesday announcement, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) made official a policy already employed by several school districts, including Long Beach Unified and districts in San Francisco, Oakland […]
‘Poison Death Shot’: Dr. Zelenko Testifies Before Israeli Rabbinical Court
August 12th, 2021Via: America’s Frontline Doctors: Update: Dr. Michael Yeadon at Same Event
