Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation
June 2nd, 2020Via: The Rutherford Institute: Brace yourselves. There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country. Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better […]
Pandemic Effects Could Leave 54 Million Americans Without Food
June 1st, 2020Via: Guardian: A record number of Americans face hunger this year as the catastrophic economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic looks set to leave tens of millions of people unable to buy enough food to feed their families. Nationwide, the demand for aid at food banks and pantries has soared since the virus forced […]
From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency
May 30th, 2020This opening excerpt is grim, but, if you are raising children, his prescriptions are worth a read. Via: The Rutherford Institute: Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation. Pity them because they […]
Flu Vaccine Deadlier than Covid19
May 30th, 2020Via: Highwire:
Hong Kong Security Law Is Going to Devastate Its Economy
May 27th, 2020Via: Nikkei: China’s announcement last week that it plans to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong raised grave concerns about the city’s democracy. But the economic toll could be sizable, too. At the very least, Hong Kong can kiss goodbye its status as the world’s second-freest economy, a halo bestowed by the Heritage Foundation. […]
Lockdown Suicide Data Reveal Predictable Tragedy
May 26th, 2020Via: American Institute for Economic Research: On March 28, the American Institute for Economic Research ran a terrifying article that didn’t receive the attention it deserved, even though the research behind it was impeccable and detailed. It was Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown. On suicide in particular, […]
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns
May 26th, 2020Via: Real Clear Politics: In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as […]
Scared Americans Desperate to Travel Are Buying Up ‘Covid Campers’
May 26th, 2020All mainstream media are pushing the “second wave” scenario. Via: Bloomberg: Cooped-up Americans desperate to get out after months of lockdowns are dreaming of doing something—anything—that resembles a vacation. But a majority of them worry a second wave of the coronavirus is coming, and think politicians have pushed too fast to reopen. Unsurprisingly, when it […]
Taxpayers Are on the Hook for 98 Percent of the Fed’s $6.98 Trillion Balance Sheet
May 26th, 2020Via: Wall Street on Parade: In other words, an institution controlled by five unelected people, with the insane power to create money out of thin air by pushing an electronic button, have put taxpayers (and the next generation) on the hook for $6.85 trillion. Related: How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
Precomputed Contact Chaining: Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
May 26th, 2020Via: Wired: If anyone could become an intelligence target, Mainway should try to get a head start on everyone. … The NSA had built a live, ever-updating social graph of the US.
