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  • Washington Governor Jay Inslee Poised to Kill Free Speech

    Residents of the Evergreen State will soon be able to report their neighbors for expressing “bias.” The governor of Washington is poised to sign a bill that ends free speech in certain counties – and the rest of the state probably sometime thereafter. Recently passed by the Washington state legislature, this measure creates a “bias incident hotline” to the State Attorney General’s Office. You read that right: American citizens in the northwestern state will soon be able to turn in their friends, neighbors, family members, or even strangers for not only physical “hate crimes” but also expressions of “bias.” Substitute...
  • Endless Lawfare Against Trump Is Driven by Marxism and Fear

    02/23/2024 5:59:51 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 30 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 23 Feb, 2024 | Jeremy Frankel
    A disgusting, Stalinist sham designed only to help the Democrat Party. The latest in Democrat lawfare against President Trump is nothing more than a disgusting sham. The “ruling” in the New York civil trial, where a leftist judge, who has allegedly donated exclusively to Democrats, told Trump, at the behest of a state Attorney General whose sole purpose is to be a “real pain in the ass,” that he must pay $355 million and not do business in the state for three years as punishment for a made-up “crime,” is nothing short of totalitarian. It has been argued by many...
  • Yellen Defends Spying on MAGA [semi-satire]

    02/11/2024 9:38:32 AM PST · by John Semmens · 6 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 11 Feb 2024 | John Semmens
    Treasury Department investigators in its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) demanded that banks scour customer transactions for key terms like MAGA and Trump. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said "FinCEN was created to stop money laundering, not spy on Americans. Why would they be targeting Republicans' purchases at Cabela's, Dick's Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops?" "Senator, you are forgetting that President Biden has declared that Trump and MAGA are enemies of democracy," Yellen replied. "The President's assessment was the logical inference from Trump's incitement of his MAGA followers to seize power after his defeat...
  • Maine Bill Allows Authorities to Take Kids Away from Parents Who Resist Transgendering Children

    01/18/2024 5:40:10 PM PST · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Jan 2024 | WARNER TODD HUSTON
    A bill being debated in Maine’s state legislature would give authorities the power to take children away from parents who oppose allowing medical providers to impose “gender-affirming care” onto their children. The bill, LD1735, is explicit about this startling new power In its summary, for instance, directly states, “The bill authorizes a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.” There seems to be no provision made for religious objection. Parents would have no parental rights on the issue; either they allow their children to be exposed...
  • WEF Calls for AI to Replace Voters: ‘Why Do We Need Elections?’

    01/16/2024 5:38:41 PM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 68 replies
    World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and chairman Klaus Schwab has called for members of the general public to be excluded from election processes, arguing that voters could be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).Schwab made the chilling calls during a WEF interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
  • China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge

    12/06/2023 7:56:37 AM PST · by Dr. Marten · 57 replies
    Politico ^ | 12.06.2023 | Politico
    Something is rotten in the imperial court of Chairman Xi Jinping. While the world is distracted by war in the Middle East and Ukraine, a Stalin-like purge is sweeping through China’s ultra-secretive political system, with profound implications for the global economy and even the prospects for peace in the region.The signals emanating from Beijing are unmistakable, even as China’s security services have ramped up repression to totalitarian levels, making it almost impossible to know what is really happening inside the country.The unexplained disappearance and removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers — both Xi loyalists who were handpicked and elevated...
  • Moscow puts popular Ukrainian singer on wanted list, accusing her of spreading false information about Russian military

    11/21/2023 4:22:40 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 21 replies
    The Associated Press, via CBS News.com ^ | November 20, 2023 | Staff Report
    Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list, state news agencies reported Monday. The reports said an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being sought for violating a criminal law. The independent news site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights issues, said Jamaladinova was charged under a law adopted last year that bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine. Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. Jamala, who performed at the Kennedy Center Honors...
  • One-Party Domination (for a While, Not Forever) Is Good for Democracy

    09/26/2023 2:48:28 PM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 18 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | September 26, 2023 | Matt Lewis
    Talk about being too close for comfort. The 2024 presidential race is all tied up, according to the latest NBC News poll. This survey (unlike some polls), is no outlier. The race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has been effectively tied for months. Looks like we’re in for another nail-biter. On one hand, this stalemate makes perfect sense. As Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter reminds us, Trump won the 2016 Electoral College by about 79,000 votes in three states, Biden won in 2020 by less than 45,000 in three states, and Republicans won the House by a very narrow...
  • Republican takes Jan. 6 and Justice Dept. claims to new places (Awesome Rep. Victoria Spartz / R-Ind.)

    09/20/2023 6:28:21 PM PDT · by jacknhoo · 23 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Aron Blake
    Conservative efforts to downplay the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and allege the political “weaponization” of the government seem to ratchet up with each passing week. But rarely have they reached such a fever pitch, at least at the official level, as they did Wednesday with Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.).
  • Georgia DA Fani Willis Publishes Trump Indictment Charges Before Grand Jury Has Even Voted.

    08/14/2023 12:30:52 PM PDT · by jacknhoo · 21 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | Monday, August 14, 2023 | WILLIAM UPTON
    A two page docket report was posted, then removed, from the Fulton County, Georgia court website today concerning the impending indictment of former President Donald Trump. The incident led to corporate media outlets and news wires originally reporting that an indictment has been handed down Monday. It had not. The briefly public docket report revealed that District Attorney Willis will be seeking a range of charges against Trump including racketeering, conspiracy, and making false statements – it is not currently known if additional charges will be included. The apparent errant posting of charges is just the latest in controversies that...
  • Biden Preparing to Declare Pandemic-Like ‘Climate Emergency,’ Energy Industry Insiders Warn

    08/01/2023 1:23:02 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 53 replies
    SLAY ^ | August 1, 2023 - 12:57 pm | Frank Bergman
    Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to declare a “climate emergency” with Covid pandemic-like restrictions on public freedoms, several energy industry insiders are warning. Energy industry groups fear the Biden White House is planning to declare a pandemic-like emergency that will grant the president sweeping new powers. “They’re leaning to that direction,” U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart told Just the News. “If you grant the president’s emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it’s just like Covid.” A “climate emergency” declaration could give Biden and the Democrats “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from...
  • Obama AG rips 'stupid' court order after judge blocks Biden admin's communication with social media companies

    07/06/2023 9:41:40 AM PDT · by antidemoncrat · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/6/202 | Danielle Wallace
    Former President Obama's former AG Eric Holder condemns 1st Amendment ruling against US officials as 'pretty stupid
  • Russia Eyes 5-Year Jail Terms for ‘Russophobia’

    05/19/2023 3:31:40 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 25 replies
    The Moscow Times ^ | May 19, 2023 | Staff Report
    Russian lawmakers are drafting legislation that would punish anti-Russian words and actions deemed as “Russophobia” with up to five years imprisonment, the independent news outlet Vyorstka reported Thursday. The bill is expected to amend Russia’s Criminal Code by adding clauses on “Russophobia” to articles criminalizing public calls for extremism and violating equal rights. Russia’s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, defines “Russophobia” as actions and statements directed against Russian citizens, Vyorstka cited an unnamed lawmaker as saying. Analysts say the Kremlin co-opted the term “Russophobia” to advance its idea of Moscow as a besieged fortress amid rapidly deteriorating relations...
  • Videos: Days Before Being Fired, Tucker Carlson Exposed WEF Efforts To Force People To Eat Bugs

    04/26/2023 1:33:54 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 10 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 4/25/23 | Steve Watson
    Just days before he was fired from Fox News, Tucker Carlson put out an exposé on the efforts of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum to change the diets of people worldwide by pushing bug eating.
  • What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same

    01/07/2023 10:18:37 AM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 15 replies
    Rutherford Institute ^ | 01/05/2023 | John & Nisha Whitehead
    “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopherFor those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality.Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police agencies have already been given access to facial recognition software and databases containing 20 billion images, the precursor to a digital ID. Eventually,...
  • ORWELLIAN: Canada Moves to Ban 'Hate Speech' Online, Punishable by a $40,000 Fine

    06/30/2021 10:23:35 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 06/30/2021 | Tyler O'Neil
    Last week, Canada’s Liberal Party headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed new legislation to criminalize “hate speech” online, punishable by a $50,000 fine (roughly $40,000 U.S.D.), paid to the government. Government officials, including the attorney general and the minister of public safety, announced the new bill on Wednesday. “Canadians expect their government to take action against hate speech and hate crimes. These legislative changes would improve the remedies available to victims of hate speech and hate crimes, and would hold individuals accountable. The actions we are taking today will help protect the vulnerable, empower those who are victimized and...
  • The Credibility Crisis of America’s Institutions (RTWT)

    12/15/2022 2:47:29 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 11 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | 14 Dec 02:00 AM | Daniel Greenfield,
    *snip* Totalitarian governments appear externally omnipotent even while they are internally incompetent. The complete mismatch between their propaganda and their capabilities breeds an even deeper distrust. Instead of the people believing that everything is fine even when the wheat harvests don’t come in, nuclear reactors melt down and caucuses collapse, they accept both the evidence of their own eyes that everything is a mess and the propaganda that says the authorities know what they’re doing, and combine them into conspiracy theories that assume competence and bad intentions. It is only when people finally realize the true incompetence of the regime...
  • ‘Orwellian nightmares’: Professor trained in Soviet Union says U.S. universities becoming totalitarian

    12/01/2022 4:22:29 PM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 15 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 12/01/2022 | Maggie Kelly
    Chemist describes ‘an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology’Contemporary American university life resembles education under the USSR, a Soviet émigrée professor wrote in a November 28 essay for Heterodox STEM.Anna Krylov, a chemist at the University of Southern California, left the Soviet Union in 1991, not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.“I thought I would never again experience an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology, policing of speech and thought, suppression of dissent, compelled speech, fear, and self-censorship,” she wrote.However, her life as a chemistry professor in a contemporary American university has reminded her repeatedly of...
  • ‘Wokeness’ Used to Be Amusingly Eccentric – Now It’s an Authoritarian Bid to Re-Write the History of Western Civilisation

    11/28/2022 2:32:26 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Sky News ^ | November 27, 2022 | Kel Richards
    The Woke want us to eradicate our culture as we know it and replace it with a simplistic worldview in which everyone is either an Oppressor or the Oppressed. “We reject woke ideology. We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. Florida is where woke comes to die.” So said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis when he won a thumping majority in the mid-term elections. That political use of the term “woke” still has many Australians puzzled.
  • Americans Living under Communism

    11/26/2022 8:30:31 PM PST · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 13 replies
    American Thinker ^ | Nov. 24, 2022 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live under communism? Well, now you know. The last two years have seen a parade of dumb and dumber policies, the kind you expect in totalitarian dictatorships. The distinguishing traits are as follows: rulers show contempt for their serfs; policy wonks concoct endless stream of counterproductive ideas; and casual cruelty hurts everyone, day after day. Here are a dozen examples. Think back to Biden's decision to shut down the pipeline bringing petroleum from Canada. Could anything be more irrational than shutting down a functioning pipeline, thus causing higher prices for...