The Growing Shadow State

Here is great commentary about Apple's NeuralHash from Professor Jonathan Turley:

The controversy over Apple’s new system raises not just privacy concerns but broader concerns over the shifting of power from the government to corporate figures. In critical areas, United States is moving from a democracy to a corporatocracy where critical rights and privileges are effectively controlled by a small number of CEOs. The founding fathers of that corporatocracy are figures like Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Tim Cook (Apple), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). It is an alternative government created by acclamation rather than any constitution. From free speech to Covid mandates, many on the left, including the Biden Administration, have called for policies to be carried out by corporations like a type of shadow state. At the same time, companies like Facebook have been running commercials for months to try to convince people to embrace corporate censorship over their own speech.

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Like authoritarian governments, authoritarian corporations always have an appealing reason for limiting freedoms. Fighting terrorism or child porn or “misinformation” often leave free speech or privacy as mere abstractions. After all, the idea is to “Think Different” about privacy. Indeed, you have to think differently from the original Apple when many of us bought its first computer. Back then Apple was portrayed in its famous “1984” Mac commercial as literally smashing the authoritarian conformity of Big Brother. Now, conformity is good.  After all, as Orwell himself wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

You can read the rest @

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/13/the-shadow-state-neuralhash-and-apples-post-privacy-world/

I would GLADLY give up the Internet to quash this growing dictatorial corporatocracy. How about you?

STOP the surveillance state ... PLEASE !!!

By the way, I never thought Apple would be a force for good. All you had to do was listen to what people said about Steve Jobs to know that.

Quote For The Day - 8/14/2021

"The Taliban’s God is Allah. The golden calf we had on offer was democracy. In the Hindu Kush, their god has proven stronger." - Patrick J. Buchanan

Source - https://buchanan.org/blog/who-lost-americas-longest-war-149906

I don't know if Pat would have been a great president, but he certainly couldn't have done much worse than the last several. Same applies to Ron Paul.

The entire Afghanistan episode should teach us at least these lessons - our military "leaders" appear to be cowards driven chiefly by pride and greed, who seldom if ever tell us the truth, and who NEVER should have been allowed to accumulate the power they now wield over our economy and the fate of most countries in the world.

Cut off their funding and punish the war criminals among them and their Israeli accomplices. The rest of the world can take care of itself.

Here is additional discussion:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56713.htm

https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/08/13/hold-the-generals-accountable-this-time/

Obama's Real Legacy

Matt Taibbi provides an honest perspective on Barack Obama ad-Dajjal:

Obama was set up to be the greatest of American heroes, but proved to be a common swindler and one of the great political liars of all time — he fooled us all. Moreover, his remarkably vacuous post-presidency is proving true everything Trump said in 2016 about the grasping Washington politicians whose only motives are personal enrichment, and who’d do anything, even attend his wedding, for a buck. Trump’s point was that he, Trump, was already swinishly rich, while politicians have only one thing to sell to get the upper class status they crave: us.

Obama did that. He sold us out, and it’s time to start talking about the role he played in bringing about the hopeless cynical mess that is modern America.

You can read the rest @

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-vanishing-legacy-of-barack-obama

Barry didn't fool me. I knew he was a freak from the moment I first saw him. How about you?

Sadly, the same people who protected Barry are now shielding "Joe Biden" and company from any meaningful scrutiny. I don't think it's even possible for our political system to provide us with any better leaders.

And that's a crying shame.

Can The Globalist Reset Be Defeated ???

Here is an essay about how to defeat the globalist reset - just satisfy your own needs with local production:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/the-way-to-defeat-the-globalist-reset-local-production-for-local-consumption/

Note well, however, that TPTB resisted Trump on this issue for four years and eventually drove him from office. And now, in spite of serious threats to their global supply chains they STILL are not going to bring production facilities back to the US:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shippers-frantic-after-chinas-busiest-port-shuts-container-terminal-due-covid

Does this make any sense when you consider TPTB are going out of their way to demonize China, a cohesive nation which could CRUSH the US economy at any time just by cutting off deliveries and dumping their US investments?

Further COVID lockdowns will destroy remaining US small businesses, leaving mostly large multinationals in control of everything we need to survive; and they're not about to fight the great reset. They'll use the coming shortages/famines to apply further pressure on us to do what they want us to do.

Something's not right with this picture. At the very least, it makes no sense that We the People have allowed corporations to amass such power that they can do whatever they want to us. I always thought that when corporations were granted charters it was understood they would NOT act against the public interest. Whatever happened with THAT concept?

Blue Hydrogen Is Dirty

According to this report, "blue hydrogen" made from natural gas is dirty:

https://autos.yahoo.com/study-shows-hydrogen-made-natural-193600827.html

Wouldn't it make sense just to burn the natural gas itself in ICEs? That was a common practice where I used to live in TX until hybrid cars became widely available.

Beware: Seldom do "new" technologies receive a full and impartial analysis of their impact. And when the true impact eventually is discovered, it's often impossible to go back to the way things were.

"New" may or may not be better, but it's usually more expensive. Don't let the brain-dead Biden administration and Pelosi-Schumer congress wreck our energy and transportation infrastructure. If they do, you'll sorely regret it.

Update - 8/17/2021

Here is additional discussion:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210809-how-your-phone-battery-creates-striking-landscapes

Most technologies have a dirty underbelly somewhere in their life cycle, but you won't see them if you never look.

One Brave Doctor

The doctor in this video lays out in detail how the official narrative for the COVID pandemic is counter-factual and counterproductive:

https://tv.gab.com/channel/standonprinciples/view/dr-destroys-the-entire-covid-narrative-611132777b022aa59dd65777

We are in this mess because too few doctors are willing to risk their reputation and their license to practice by telling us such truths.

Doctors as a group are strict conformists. They may have different specialties, but western medical doctors all practice the same form of medicine following the same theory of disease. They seldom experiment on their own.

But how almost all of them can go along with this counter-factual nonsense and the willy-nilly administration of an experimental vaccine in these circumstances is beyond me.

Maybe they should read their Hippocratic Oath again, especially this part:

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

Source - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/

(Hint: Required measures = drugs that work, such as ivermectin; while therapeutic nihilism = an experimental vaccine which seems to have little or no benefit for the patient.)

By the way, the phrase "first do no harm" does not appear in the oath. That may provide the excuse for telling their patients to take a deadly vaccine and to avoid potentially life-saving drugs.

Is all of this depraved indifference, or do they really believe in this nonsense?

How Freedom Dies

Here is an A to Z explanation of how freedom is dying in the USA:

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/08/t-is-for-tyranny-how-freedom-dies-from-a-to-z.html

"Our" government has reduced us to serfs. King George III would have been proud.