One of the more detailed articles arguing against a split of America into two (or more) nations, a March 2022 Newsweek piece, posited that doing so would be economically catastrophic. There is an ever-growing divide between how red states and blue states envision hot button issues like abortion, medical mandates, gun rights, military interventionism, and...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
NY TIMES TRIES TO REHABILITATE GOVT DISINFORMATION BOARD Poor NY Times. They were so close to being a disinfo paper of record. It was not to be, as the Biden Administration’s Disinfo Governance Board went down in flames this spring. A 6 July article tried to spin the failed initiative as a victim of the...
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SHINING LIGHT ON ELITE TAX AVOIDANCE
The tax schemes of the rich and powerful revealed in the “Pandora Papers” were only the latest revelation regarding how elites preserve and grow their own wealth at the expense of the rest of us. The policies of the COVID pandemic, often backed and even developed by elites like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Klaus...
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THE FARMERS SHRUG: EURO PROTESTS SPREAD
Farmer protests against radical green agenda regulations spread from where they began in the Netherlands, to other countries in Europe this past week. Next-stage green initiatives designed to radically cut fossil fuel use, nitrogen fertilizers and raising cows, among other things, touched off a massive protest in the Netherlands in early July (See “DUTCH FARMERS...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
CHINA COVID APP CONTROL NOW EMBEDDED AS THE CHINESE WAY China was the first with COVID, which pretty much everyone now concedes or at least suspects originated in a Wuhan Virology lab. They were also on the cutting edge in 2020 with a phone app that dictated the limits of citizens based on their possible...
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DUTCH FARMERS DEMONSTRATE TO SHOW CLIMATE AGENDA IS A LOAD OF CRAP
The internet blew up over the weekend with videos of farmer protests in the Netherlands. There were columns of tractors and equipment filing down roads to government offices, literally flinging fertilizer to demonstrate resistance to measures which would likely end business for many of them. At issue are the projected effects of climate legislation which...
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GUNS AND WORD’SES: THE MURDER OF AMERICAN RIGHTS
Many people believe that citizens should either not be permitted to own firearms, or that their right to possess them should be severely limited. They say guns enable and exacerbate violence. Many of those same people also argue that speech they don’t like should be banned for being “dangerous” and a form of “violence.” In...
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BEAT THE ELITE: TRENDS IN PREPAREDNESS
BASIC MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARE A MUST There’s gold, and then there are items worth their weight in gold in an emergency or situation of need. Basic medical supplies certainly fit that description. In times of shortages and uncertainties, it’s prudent to make sure the following basic items are on hand. Unopened First Aid Kit: Basic...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
COVID ZEALOTS TAKE A U-TURN ON BIG TECH TRACKING Recent events at the Supreme Court may give a boost to legislation introduced in May to break up major components of some of the largest U.S. tech companies. The “Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act” would specifically force companies like Google, Meta and Amazon to...
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ELITES: THIS LAND IS OUR LAND
How much land should one person, one corporation, one foreign power, or one domestic government be able to own? Those are questions that Americans trying to escape horribly run cities, only to find themselves priced out of options in suburbs and rural areas, should be asking. This past week Bill Gates made news (again) for...