Occupy

Creeping Repression Starts Galloping

As we slide into complete totalitarianism, we pick up speed.  The new Restrict Act is a major slide.
I discuss the prelude to Jeffrey Siegel's article in tabletmag.com, about the setting up of the new bureaucracy of oppression in 2017.

The Censorship Industrial Complex

Dr. Shallenberger has described the ongoing collusion between the government and Big Tech, which they call a ''public-private partnership'',  to censor citizen's free speech, as a new censorship-industrial complex.
We read from his testimony.

Taibbi and Shellenberger Testify

On the same day Matt Taibbi testified to Congress about the use of federal agencies to stifle public debate and intimidate citizens, an IRS agent showed up at his house to talk about his 2018 tax return.
I read the opening statements of Taibbi and his colleague Shellenberger, made even more relevant by succeeding events.

Aaron Mate Speaks on Douma Reality

We read from the Wikipedia "history", i.e. the Official Narrative, on the deaths at Douma, and then play Aaron Mate's testimony at the UNSC on the suppression of the OPCW inspectors findings and the doctored report put out by the top brass.
The UN should care about this.  The OPCW is part of the UN, after all.  Its corruption and lies should be of concern to the UNSC.   Will they respond?  Inquiring minds want to know (suspicious minds already know.)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Hypocrisy

The US expresses opposition to ceasefires in Ukraine and Yemen, gives an award to a murderer who orphaned two children, and indicts Russians for saving children from a war zone.
Just another week in the Empire.

Chicken Genocide

We discuss the new fear campaign, which we label a psy op designed to get Americans to support the murder of poultry in the US, already ongoing and in the millions.
A new "vaccine" will be pushed, and the campaign is underway, as Meryl Nass points out.

Stomping Out Democracy in Somalia

The best way to control a country is to keep it divided and powerless.
The US is good at that.  I read from Ann Garrison on how the US is making sure that Somalia cannot vote for a national leader.

Congress Attacks Matt Taibbi and Other Journalists

Our ruling overlords are incensed that the Twitter files show the collusion between corporations and state to influence elections, hide data, and stomp out dissent.
Some exceptionally stupid members of Congress hauled the journalists who exposed the rot in front of them, in order to make it even more clear how corrupt the system is.
Or maybe that was just an unintended result.

US Invents Ridiculous Story

That headline is too vague.  Which particular ridiculous story?
The one put out recently that the Nordstream pipelines were blown up by 6 Ukrainians who rented a yacht and sailed out onto the Baltic Sea (a NATO lake) and then dove down 80 meters with explosives.  Sure, dudes.
What is the real reason this story was put out?  Joe Lauria at Consortium News posits that the US is ready to abandon Ukraine and needs a reason, so they made one up.
It doesn't have to make sense.  The Empire creates its own reality, and everyone has to pretend to believe it.

Lab Leak Leaks

We are now able to say the obvious-that SARS 2 was a bioweapon.
The gaslighting over 3 years, starting with the very obvious one, that SARS 2 was said to be a "novel virus" never before seen by humanity, even though it was labeled TWO , which comes after ONE, which was SARS 1, released back in 2003 or so.
Then we were told that it came from man eating a bat in China, and quickly spread from there to Italy, Iran and a Washington state nursing home, even though this respiratory virus was not spread person to person through the air, it was spread by "fomites".   How fomites got from China to Iran was left as a mystery.
Anyway, apparently as part of the war drums beating against China we are now allowed to talk about it, but not all of it.  So we read from the testimony of a DARPA employee who was part of the process.