“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics.
Tag: Americans
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
This past week saw major controversy over a reauthorization of the 1978 FISA Act, which has been thoroughly abused to spy on American citizens under the pretext of combating foreign threats.
TYRANNY BY THE NUMBERS: THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOUR MONEY ANY WAY IT CAN GET IT
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it.
THE LANGUAGE OF FORCE: HOW THE POLICE STATE MUZZLES OUR RIGHT TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and send the resounding message that resistance is futile.
THE STATE OF OUR NATION NO ONE’S TALKING ABOUT: TYRANNY IS RISING AS FREEDOM FALLS
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
THE GREAT ELECTION FRAUD: MANUFACTURED CHOICES MAKE A MOCKERY OF OUR REPUBLIC
The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot.
SUICIDES HIT RECORD IN U.S. LAST YEAR, DIRECT RESULT OF LOCKDOWN NOT COVID PANDEMIC
About 50,000 Americans killed themselves last year—at a rate of about 14.3 deaths per 100,000 people, which represents the highest level in eight decades.
WHAT IF THE CONSTITUTION NO LONGER APPLIED? FREEDOM’S GREATEST HOUR OF DANGER IS NOW
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
WE THE EXPLOITED: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BUYS AND SELLS ITS CITIZENS FOR PROFIT AND POWER
Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists.
ZELENSKY SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME
Most Americans do not understand how the United Nations functions, or does not function as the case might be, preferring to think of it as some kind of debating society where the 193 member nations representing the world community can vent over issues that they rarely have control over.