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Category Archives: Oppressive government
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WITH News Corp providing cover this weekend for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s crazy obsession with extracting from Facebook the encryption keys that prevent him from reading your mail – spoiler alert: if you oppose governments wiretapping citizens, you’re a … Continue reading
Posted in Oppressive government
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The ADF can’t defend Australia
Jim Molan has a very troubling op-ed in The Australian today: Australians need to come to a consensus about the nation we want to be and how we will sustain that in the face of real threat. We should have … Continue reading
Pro-ponzi outfit’s own poll: we want newcomers to integrate
The ABC dobs us in to the “Liberal” government. Alex Hawke says he’ll take “measures” against you soon.
Posted in Culture Wars, Oppressive government
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Ministry of Truth might become a reality
From the New York Times: Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a “reality czar.” It sounds a … Continue reading
Fascism: El Presidente launches assault on Supreme Court
Politico: Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform. Like all liars with a low IQ, Biden will add suspicious embellishments to the bullshit story but the key goals now out in the open are “term limits” and … Continue reading
Posted in American politics, Oppressive government, Rule of law
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Vaping and combustible cigarettes are substitutes
Late last year I pointed out that the so-called gateway from vaping to combustible cigarettes was based on dodgy statistics. Nonetheless the Australian government remains committed to vaping being outlawed – or only available under prescription. In the meantime the … Continue reading
Mass arrests soon?
So now John Brennan is celebrating that The Biden administration is going to be going after libertarians because “they are an insidious threat to democracy” pic.twitter.com/LevpBba8Ag — Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) January 20, 2021
Most COVID fines to be dropped
The Age is reporting the news – unsurprising and welcome … yet still problematic. Police officers who issued fines for breaches of COVID-19 restrictions have been instructed to hand out cautions for unpaid infringements rather than proceed with charges in … Continue reading
ASIC and a policy trilemma
There is an ASIC apologist op-ed in the AFR that contains this gem: Regulators such as ASIC are created separately to carry out their democratically legislated mandate, independently and expertly. Hmmmmmmm. Seems to me that a regulator cannot be democratic, … Continue reading
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Masking the truth
Can this really be true? From No Governments Have Isolated COVID-19 Virus–What Does That Mean?: Is Dr. Anthony Fauci Guilty of Negligent Homicide?, Oct. 27, 2020: “In 2009, Dr. Anthony Fauci co-authored a paper about the Spanish Flu Epidemic that … Continue reading
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