Archive for the 'Elite' Category
“The Storming of the Capitol”: America’s Reichstag Fire?
January 9th, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: The media are already spinning a narrative around the events in Washington DC. One that bears no resemblance to reality, does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny and will have massive, far-reaching consequences for all of us. They’re calling it “one of the darkest days in our nations history”, a day […]
Amazon Boots Parler Off AWS
January 9th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: And so the hammer has come down late on Saturday, when Amazon officially kicked Parler off its cloud Web hosting service, AWS according to Buzzfeed. The suspension means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday, the website – which as of this moment is still up – will be offline until it […]
The Opening Act Of The New “War On Domestic Terror”
January 9th, 2021Via: The Last American Vagabond: Backup:
Twitter Permanently Suspends President Trump’s Account
January 8th, 2021Update: Google Suspends Parler Social Networking App from Play Store; Apple Gives 24-Hour Warning Via: Reuters: Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation from the app favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. — Update: Twitter […]
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
January 1st, 2021Via: Glenn Greenwald: Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in […]
Five Times this Year the New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
January 1st, 2021Via: AIER: The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control. This article highlights the exceptions.
“Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet”
December 30th, 2020Here we go. Via: Bloomberg: Covid-19 vaccine recipients in Los Angeles County, a major virus hot spot, will be offered a digital record that will help ensure they get a second shot and could, eventually, be used to gain access to concert venues or airline flights. The offering is being provided starting this week through […]
Social Engineers Use Weaponized Psychology to Push Unproven Vaccines
December 30th, 2020Via: The Daily Bell: In a recent Gallup poll on Americans’ willingness to submit to a COVID-19 vaccine, a mere half of the respondents said they would be willing to receive the vaccine once it becomes available. This hesitancy on the part of the American public poses a potentially unforeseen dilemma for pharmaceutical firms and […]
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
December 30th, 2020Via: Glenn Greenwald: The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. … The hysterical Trump-as-despot script was all melodrama, a ploy for profits and ratings, and, most of all, a potent instrument to distract from the neoliberal ideology that gave […]
U.S. Poverty Jumps the Most in 60 Years
December 30th, 2020The pandemic did this. The pandemic did that. Wrong. Governments caused this disaster. –A Communist Christmas Via: CBS: Of the various measures of the coronavirus pandemic’s comet strike on the U.S. economy, one especially reveals the size of the crater: Over a six-month period, nearly 8 million Americans have tumbled into poverty. The nation’s poverty […]
