The American kleptocracy: A government of liars, thieves and lawbreakers. From The Rutherford Institute. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”—H. L. Mencke
The psychology of totalitarianism. From: Brownstone Institute. The unimaginable became reality: we witnessed the abrupt pivot of nearly every country on earth to follow China’s example and place huge populations of people under de facto house arrest, a situation for which the term “lockdown” was coined.
New law punishes doctors who challenge the established narrative on COVID-19. From: The Free Thought Project. More evidence that disinformation can be rebutted but truth must be censored.
The common thread: They want you to be afraid. From Eric Peters Auto. Two such things, seemingly – superficially – unrelated are the weaponization of hypochondria (marketed as the “pandemic”) and the weaponization of environmentalism (which is itself the weaponization of what was once something benign and even laudable you almost never hear about anymore, that being conservationism).
The FBI: A campaign arm of the Democrat party. From: American Thinker. When did the FBI, the largest and most heavily armed law enforcement agency in America, now inserting itself unconstitutionally into American politics, pivot from fidelity and integrity to partisanship and dishonesty?
Biden's transfer of wealth to the wealthier. From: Creators. President Joe Biden acted as if he was being compassionate to people suffering economic hardships when he announced last week his plan for forgiving student loans. What he is actually doing is transferring wealth from people who earn less to people who earn more.
We're being trained to worry about 'Russian propaganda' while drowning In US propaganda. From: Caitlin Johnstone/Substack. One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about "Russian propaganda" — which barely exists in the west — while ignoring the fact that we are spending every day marinating in billions of dollars worth of US empire propaganda.
Report: Wall Street bigwigs are left-wing activists using your money to push their politics. From: The Federalist. On Aug. 9, the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a nonprofit governmental watchdog, published a 47-page report chronicling Wall Street ties at the “Big Three” asset management firms, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, with Democrat politicians who have a history of radical activism.