NATION
‘National Popular Vote’ Scheme Aims To Erase Electoral College’s Protections For States
National Guard Captain Testifies: Forced to Stand Down Until 5 pm on J6
NPR Chief Bragged About Taking Censorship Orders From Feds As Head Of Wikipedia Editorial Query: Why are we still funding these grifters?
Video/Pic: US Army ammunition plant catches fire
Big Box Illegal Bandits [As opposed to legal bandits, Howie?]Make Off With $238,000 In Loot Howie Carr
1300 Africans Swarm NY City Hall Demanding Hotel Rooms
Is the Overton Window Real, Imagined, or Constructed?
What I had not understood was just how far-reaching this effort to manufacture consent is in real life. What illustrates this perfectly has been media and censorship over the pandemic years in which nearly all official channels of opinion have very strictly reflected and enforced the cranky views of a tiny elite. Honestly, how many actual people in the US were behind the lockdowns policy in terms of theory and action? Probably fewer than 1,000. Probably closer to 100.
But thanks to the work of the Censorship Industrial Complex, an industry built of dozens of agencies and thousands of third-party cutouts including universities, we were led to believe that lockdowns and closures were just the way things are done. Vast amounts of the propaganda we endured was top down and wholly manufactured.
Third, the lockdown experience demonstrates that there is nothing necessarily slow and evolutionary about the movement of the Window. In February 2020, mainstream public health was warning against travel restrictions, quarantines, business closures, and the stigmatization of the sick. A mere 30 days later, all these policies became acceptable and even mandatory belief. Not even Orwell imagined such a dramatic and sudden shift was possible!
WORLD
Germany: Arson attack against AfD politician’s business results in massive inferno
European industry groups warn of shuttered factories from Biden LNG pause
Cyprus issue looms large in Türkiye-EU relations
Majority of Young Muslims in UK Want Islamic Law
China Continues to Subsidize Fentanyl Precursor Chemicals According to US Congress
HEMISPHERE
Axe the Tax protesters near Calgary: ‘Carbon tax’ increasing homelessness, addiction, panhandling (YT)
Police arrest six, seek three others in Canada’s largest gold heist
How Statism Destroyed Argentina
HEALTH
The Prevalence Of Active Military Personnel Prescxribed Weight Loss Medication
MACRO
Will the World’s Most Pro-Bitcoin Politician Embrace Gold?
How Chicago got buried under a mountain of pension debt (Mainstream)
Illegal immigrants in California could have a new path to homeownership (Mainstream)
MICRO
Ford Recalls Over 450,000 Vehicles Over Potential Battery Detection Flaw
Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security
Are You Sure Your Game Meat Is Safe to Eat?
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Are 100-Year Mortgages Next? Effects of Negative Real Interest Rates on Nordic Housing Bubble
TOP 25
Top 25 Quotes Of Thomas Szasz (Of 125)
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
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