Today, free speech online is under siege from all angles. From the state, with its ever-expanding hate-speech laws. From tech companies, who see it as their moral mission to ‘protect’ users from ‘harm’. And from the media, who present the online world as a cesspool of ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’, in need of ever-tighter moderation. Now these forces have combined, as part of a new push to regulate the interactions of online gamers.
Attendees of the World Government Summit at Dubai may be returning home with the slogan “Shaping Future Governments” ringing in their collectivist ears. Elon Musk, though, is emerging as the leader for those who see national sovereignty and individual rights as the best tools to safeguard liberty.
“I know this is called the World Government Summit,” YouTube records Mr. Musk, one of the richest men in history, telling the gathering, “but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.” This set fire to the conventional wisdom that Big Government is good and the bigger the better.
The late Robert Conquest adumbrated three rules of politics. Perhaps the most famous (also known as O’Sullivan’s law) is that ‘Any organisation not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing’. I would like to add a fourth law: ‘Any programme set up by government will inevitably metastasise unless consciously cut back by observant officials.’
… When I first saw these documents I felt a sort of white-hot anger. But then I read on and saw that these same taxpayer-funded fools provide lists of other books shared by people who have sympathies with the ‘far-right and Brexit’. Key signs that people have fallen into this abyss include watching the Kenneth Clark TV series Civilisation, The Thick of It and Great British Railway Journeys. I need to stress again that I am not making this up. This has all been done on your dime and mine in order to stop ‘extremism’ in these islands.
Good read. Britain’s anti-radicalization program “Prevent” was advised by an organization called “Hope Not Hate” very similar to the SPLC, ADL or in Canada’s case The Anti-Hate Haters Who Are Violent Antifa Lovers or whatever the hell it was called.
Needless to say all three are scams peopled by assholes that seek to criminalize your views. Unfortunately they often find fellow travelers in the media and government.
A bit more on Ms. Raquel Evita Saraswati
And do have a look at the “Raquel Evita Saraswati Fan Club.” Apparently she was exposed in 2008 but somehow managed to carry on!
I note she has made her twitter account private.
Barely a day had gone by from Ukraine’s successful request for German Leopard-2 tanks when the government in Kyiv called on Nato countries to yet again prove their solidarity by supplying it with US-made F-16 fighter jets. While military experts doubt these vehicles will significantly alter the situation on the battlefield, Kyiv touts them as important symbols of Western political resolve.
Are you a Nazi sympathiser, or are you a nonce enabler? Because judging by last weekend’s furore over a performance of Drag Queen Story Hour at a London art gallery, those are your only two options.
The author’s books have been edited for fear of offending. Kids should be allowed to read them in their full, nasty, colourful glory
I grew up devouring Roald Dahl’s stories. His wonderful imagination, his ability to turn a phrase, his brilliantly colourful characters all fostered a love of reading that led me towards a career in books.
As a seven-year-old, I saw myself as Matilda more than any other character and spent a considerable amount of time trying to move objects via the power of my brain.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre praised the “courageous whistleblowers” in Canada’s security apparatus for leaking top-secret documents on China’s interference in the 2021 federal election, as he levelled criticism at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “covering up the interference of the authoritarian regime in Beijing.”
On the morning of September 2, 2014, Sally Lane received a phone call from her teenage son that would change the course of her life.
“Mum, I’m in Syria,” Jack Letts, an A-grade student from Oxford, told her over a crackling line.
“You’ll get killed, you’ll get beheaded,” she remembers screaming at him before the connection dropped. “You stupid, stupid boy.”
Ya think?
Is Canada turning into an electoral autocracy?
I ask this question in all seriousness. We’ve just witnessed the final chapter to the Emergencies Act invoked almost a year ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Friday afternoon declared legitimate in the report by Commissioner Paul Rouleau who headed the Public Order Enquiry Commission.
Florida teacher makes students participate in a series of tiktoks mocking the FL Dept of Education for removing books from schools containing pornography, CRT, and gender ideology pic.twitter.com/i8BzdhFsbw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 17, 2023
Young Thug and Gunna don’t want their own words to be used against them
Last May, a rapper who performs under the name Young Thug was arrested and named in a gang indictment in Atlanta. Right now, the trial relating to that arrest, the YSL RICO case, is underway. Fellow rapper Gunna and no less than twenty-six other young men associated with their Young Slime Life music collective, have been arrested and charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization, or RICO, statute for “alleged gang activity.”
In the post-Black Lives Matter era, the case has become something of a cause célèbre, with prominent figures in the entertainment industry and beyond arguing that Young Thug and Gunna are essentially on trial because they are flashy young black men – who, in Thug’s case, may also be gay or bisexual.
Interesting read, the DA is a lefty, who’s also gone after corrupt teachers who cook minority school grades.
A Battle Points To Major Russian Military Problems
By one account, nearly three dozen Russian tanks and armored vehicles were reduced to smoldering rubble. By another, as many as 500 Russian troops may have been killed. Relatives of soldiers from one unit are frantically trading text messages and social-media posts trying to locate their loved ones.
More than two weeks after a major clash between Russian and Ukrainian forces, details are slowly emerging as to what exactly happened in Vuhledar earlier this month.
Once they see the error of their ways, they have to deal with the trauma of having mutilated their bodies.
Their number may not be legion yet, but it will be, and soon. They’re the people, most of them extremely young, who were convinced by parents, friends, teachers, school psychologists, online “influencers,” psychotherapists, and/or doctors that they were transgender — only to realize, after subjecting themselves to puberty blockers, sex hormones, and perhaps even radical surgery in the name of “gender affirmation,” that they’d made a tragic mistake.
In the splendid new documentary Affirmation Generation, which is viewable for free on Vimeo starting today, we meet several such men and women.
We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
