activistpost--2020-07-31--The Rise of World Socialism

The Rise of World Socialism

Throughout the modern era ’ s magic bullet conspiracy , aka the dubious public health emergency named COVID-19 , we have seen…a mysterious commune between the polarising ideals of left and right .
As the puzzling voice of trade unions scuppers the early easing of lockdown , a strange chorus from friends and allies on the left begs to be spared the perils of rebooting the economy one moment too soon , and otherworldly communist ovations for political leaders .
Equally uncanny are the socialist programs running in stealth mode in conservative and republican strongholds .
As authoritarians take over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it entirely ) , migrate from a free market economy to a planned economy , a New Deal has been unveiled , and importantly , Western democracies are following China ’ s lead .
So , who ’ s in charge here ?
Same as it ever was – the customary global hegemony calls the shots and nation states fall in line .
World Health Organization ( WHO ) , United Nations ( UN ) and World Bank .
Vanguards of Capitalism , right ?
Wrong .
Those organisations were founded by socialists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explore .
The same socialism that would ringfence our fast disappearing freedoms under the stockade of totalitarianism .
That ’ s the general trade-off for state ownership of the means of production .
You would be correct to assume…the objective of this polemic is not to lampoon a capitalist system gone rogue .
That ’ s old news and another essay .
The objective here is to ruffle the feathers of capitalism ’ s reputed opponent – socialism , and to demonstrate the boundary line between the two adversaries is fictitious , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to collectivism .
Importantly , the essay does not advocate for right , alt-right , neo-liberal , or whatever state-sponsored political descriptor you wish to throw at me .
Neither is it an endorsement of any mainstream political stance .
Rather , its purpose is to point out – the war is over , and the good guys not only didn ’ t win , they didn ’ t even take part .
Because , the people ’ s representation at political party level , simply does not exist .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideologies .
Which by the way , are not your own .
They are borrowed to you by someone else and designed to fast track their selfish and psychotic drives towards power .
Which is of no consequence to you , the commoner , a political nobody , the non-political party class , the 99 % .
What you are instead is the lucky beneficiary of empty gestures thrown from the political banqueting table , tantamount to popular suggestion and political innuendo .
Designed to steer your consent , unknot and rebind your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to the illusion of choice , along the lines of – which party-politics you should follow , believe in , vote for , permit to continue plundering the earth ’ s precious resources in the name of , called : theirs and their friends special interests .
So , whether capitalist , communist , socialist , fascist , or whatever imaginary political differentiator is pulled from the illusionist ’ s hat that you personally want to subscribe to , it simply doesn ’ t matter… …It doesn ’ t matter because…no matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always wins .
What ’ s more , when you strip it right down – there ’ s nothing in it .
It ’ s all lukewarm air wheezing out of the punctured vacuum .
No real points of differentiation between the cahoots and caboodle of political division .
These guys are bought and paid for by industry , or the promises they made to the club that authorised their initiation .
No matter which way you tell it , or whatever political descriptors you want to use , the proclaimed ideals of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s and hullabaloo ’ s , and their commitments to the people are non-existent .
What they are instead , in no uncertain terms , are good old-fashioned authoritarians , doing what all bully-boy authoritarians do best , and that is…to subvert human nature and forcibly organise a cult around their centralised power structures .
So , in the spirit of ruffling some feathers our journey begins in the poetic and fertile lands of Ireland that has produced some of the World ’ s literary titans , including the social visionary , George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man of his word , Shaw was a prominent member of the Fabian Society .
A founding organisation of the British Labour Party , who have since enjoyed a lasting effect on British politics .
Inspired by Marxist ideals the Fabians , devised a gradualist approach to reforming democracies .
Avoiding the fortissimo emblazoned on the bloody red banner of the their radical counterparts in communism .
Preferring instead to manipulate the democratic process by stealthier and more resolute degrees , best illustrated in their logos , the turtle .
To understand the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ glass window , designed by Bernard Shaw and displayed at the Fabian established London School of Economics .
It depicts the heroic Fabian leaders , ( Bernard Shaw in green frock coat ) , violently forging a new world out of the old with giant hammers .
While a cadre of Fabians kneel worshipfully before a column of oversized Fabian literature .
Note : the telling shield which depicts the ominous wolf in sheep ’ s clothing .
Another totem of Fabianism , which ironically lacks the subtlety of their otherwise aphonic scheme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day ’ s intelligentsia , literati and high society at soirees , prevaricating down to earth working-class reform , such as selective breeding , scientific racism and sterilisation programs .
Apotheosizing how the cult of their far superior brains would ameliorate their downtrodden compadres from the working class .
But beneath their appearance as valiant defenders of working men , the Fabians were a den of vipers , who harboured the most savage contempt for the poorest of the poor , who would be dragged from their wretchedness , whether they liked it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brand of reform – that glimmered upon the social sphere like the razor-sharp edges of a gingerbread man ’ s ferocious cutter – socialism is therefore not the compassionate redeemer of working men .
But rather , the compulsory terms of their freedom .
Designed to ensnare the brooding discontent of the times , from a social segment that were the gravest threat to the particular brand of elitism , which the Fabians belonged to .
The Fabians were playmates with another scurrilous bunch of privileged gentlefolk who also missed the cultural zeitgeist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in their determination to better the race , became the high priests of population control .
One of the co-founders of the Fabian Society , Havelock Ellis , who was also president of the Eugenics Education Society , and later became the mentor ( and lover ) of Margaret Sanger .
Herself the founder of Planned Parenthood , which Bill Gates Senior ( another eugenicist ) was company head .
Later , Bill Junior , would renew his father ’ s life ’ s work by investing billions of dollars into population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Running with the same motif of scientific racism as Havelock and co .
While playing god at the roulette wheel : the vaccine to sustain populations , and the pill to cut them short .
Eugenics was the grotesque creation of Charles Darwin ’ s cousin , Francis Galton .
Who adapted Darwin ’ s theory of natural selection to suit his own fantasy – that society ’ s fate rested on its ability to breed more of the strong ( the fellow inhabitants of Galton ’ s own gene pool ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ encouraging those of greater intellectual ability to have more children while violently urging those of inferior stock – through programs like Planned Parenthood – to reproduce less often or not whatsoever .
The aim was to increase the overall quality of the national herd , by multiplying the wheat and weeding out the chaff .
Another affable eugenicist ( and fellow Fabian ) , was trade unionist and Labour MP Will Crooks , who said affectionately of the disabled working class – they were ‘ like human vermin ’ who would ‘ crawl @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and corrupting everything they touched ’ .
Sentiments that seem almost complimentary , compared to Bernard Shaw ’ s hideous contempt for what we called the ‘ underclass ’ .
Best characterised by his idea that , “ the only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man ” .
Going on to say , the working classes had ‘ no business to be alive ’ .
Advocating the use of a ‘ lethal chamber ’ to solve this great burden to a prosperous society.
’ Shaw , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to soften his views even after witnessing the full horror of the eugenics-inspired Nazi death camps .
Which brings us to collectivism and its assault upon the individual… The Fabians first election manifesto for the labour party envisaged a government run by a ‘ body of experts ’ .
Or as Edward Pease put it ‘ qualified rulers ’ .
According to G.D.H .
Cole – ‘ Bernard Shaw did not care a button about democracy and was apt to admire dictators , if only they would give the experts a free hand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shaw kept a picture of Stalin on his mantelpiece .
The Fabians therefore aligned with all other branches of politicised socialism that view democracy not as an end in itself but as a means to achieve socialism .
Marx himself regarded democracy as the very opposite of socialism , which would be ‘ transitioned to through ‘ the dictatorship of the proletariat ‘ .
In fact , a ruling party of elites is considered the ideal structure for all forms of collectivism , whether Fabian socialism , Marxist communism or Hitler ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes .
So , why then does socialism hold such cachet with those on the left , when it carries many hallmarks of the most abhorrent right-wing ideology ?
Put simply , it is the cautionary tale that socialism would bring about a fairer , more egalitarian society , without class distinctions .
Protect its weakest members , redistribute wealth and nationalise industry gone rogue under capitalism .
Amongst those on the left therefore , socialism is the prized serum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
While all of this looks well-proportioned on paper , it would be wise to ask the questions : ( 1 ) , What price must be paid for these protections ?
And ( 2 ) , What are the consequences of the state flourishing beyond its legal residence – as a limited government that fosters individual freedom – to a tightly disciplined , highly organised , centralist regime , otherwise known as a dictatorship , that controls the means of production and interferes with the social , spiritual and economic fabric , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the modal for society under communism or socialism is compulsory .
To find the answer we can look to the one-party system of the Soviet Union .
Where under the Bolsheviks , only the Communist Party was permitted and even though voting was permissible in workers councils , in practice all candidates were pre-selected by the Party and its secret police .
The Bolsheviks were indeed a shrewd bunch who impaled human rights , and whitewashed culture through the most brutal social engineering programs of the 20th century towards a single state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and any form of dissent was punished , often by death .
Independent political activities were prohibited , including participation in labour unions , independent churches or opposition political parties .
Moreover , Lenin and Stalin used terror to exact civil-obedience and disappearances and mass murder was commonplace .
In fact , once the Bolsheviks seized power in the October revolution ( from the real revolutionaries ) , there followed one of the greatest bloodbaths in history to eliminate their opponents .
With Lenin enthusiastically declaring ‘ it is a great deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the thesis offered by the opposition ’ On the eve of his dictatorship , Lenin promised “ the proletarian state will begin to wither away immediately after its victory , because in a society without class antagonisms , the state is unnecessary and impossible ” Yet , unsurprisingly , once he seized power , Lenin did the very opposite .
According to Eugene Lyons , a correspondent for United Press in revolutionary Russia , who began his career sympathetic to the Bolsheviks : Once the Bolsheviks attained power ‘ most of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revived , usually in more ominous forms , including : political prisoners convicted without trials or the formality of charges ’ .
There followed ‘ savage persecution of dissenting views , death penalties for more varieties of crime than in any other modern nation , state monopoly on press and the most repressive practices which the previous monarchy had outlived for a century or more ’ Are you beginning to get the picture ?
It must be pointed out , the Bolsheviks are not alone , when , as a principle based on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ill-disposed to a free and empowered citizenry .
Instead they firmly maintain : the public sphere needs to be governed with an iron hand .
Because left alone , the unbridled ideals of common people would bring about chaos and compromise the very bedrock of society , whose foundation stone is the state and whose substructure is formed by politicians , like barnacles enjoying the free ride .
Authoritarians are , above all , in-it for themselves , their own partisan views , or the club they belong to .
In their small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be arraigned with the sacrament of state consensus , towards collectivism .
Otherwise known as socialism .
There is simply no place for diversity in this arrangement .
Individualism must be purged from the social fabric , because all citizens must pull their weight as cogs in the machinery .
Under socialism therefore , individualism is sacrificed at the political altar , so the collective may suffer their gruelling mass .
Does any of this sound familiar to our current predicament towards a hidden collectivism ?
Best illustrated through the mandatory wearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven not to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 .
With refuseniks branded narcissists or psychopaths for disobeying petty diktats enforced by groupthink and under threat of a fine , through dubious legislative powers , called Statutory Instruments , which are , in the Fabian tradition , laws enacted undemocratically by small , conniving groups of ‘ qualified rulers ’ , bearing more hallmarks of Leninism than Conservatism .
Now let ’ s step into the jackboots of the political class to better understand their own motivations… As a threadbare minority forcibly ruling over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their tenuous position .
Especially the potential for insurgency amongst non-confirming social groups .
Because if those citizens ever got round to lifting their blinkers , they would soon enough realise the gravity of their situation , and take it upon themselves to violently transform society , in a manner unfavourable to the state .
That would resolutely bring about the end of the political-age as we know it .
Accordingly , politicians ’ resort to arcane methods of manipulation , counterinsurgency and divide and rule , in order to eliminate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be under any false assumptions , politicians are not looking to dilute their market share , they are looking for full market capitalisation .
Otherwise known as collectivism .
Which leads us to…the enduring state of emergency – the modern era ’ s political weapon which armours the state ’ s tenuous position and robs the people of their power .
From 9/11 , through climate change to the pandemic , the harvest of each event suspends democracy and compounds collectivism .
The rise of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany , for example , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for protections against a common threat .
As in the case of the burning down of the Reichstag .
A practice that has been refined over 70-years , culminating in COVID-19 , the most politicized disease in history .
The key to understanding the power of emergencies in transforming individualism towards collectivism , is knowing the influence they have on the public sphere , called : mass hypnosis .
Wherein , under the emergency modal , citizens quickly forget the fundamental legal basis of government , and that is to protect individual freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to limit that freedom .
The US constitution , for example , is founded on the principle of a minimal government for and by the people .
Because the founding fathers knew too well the ambitious nature of the state towards centralisation would only result in tyranny , if the necessary checks and balances were removed .
Causing the state to become the very predator it was mandated to protect the people ’ s liberty from .
We must also acknowledge – the state has always been a predator .
Whether marauding despot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or legitimate authoritarian hiding behind the law .
Not much has changed throughout history , with the exception of the methods used by the state to stalk more power .
These have indeed become more sophisticated .
Because with legitimacy , power becomes authority , skulking behind the virtues of democracy .
Which in times of emergencies ( or universal deceit ) , can be used to advance society towards collectivism .
As in the case of the Russian Revolution – that transferred power from the illegitimacy of the Tsar , to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our current predicament , where the British government has forcibly enlisted each and every one of us .
Thus , organising a cult around their centralised power structure , in the Bolshevik tradition , that means giving up our ill-conceived freedoms for protection against the pandemic .
This collectivism is achieved through the public ’ s inherent desire for a reputedly fairer and safer society and it is based on science .
Or more precisely , the political establishment ’ s obsession with studying human nature as a specimen in a glass jar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , psychology and behaviourism , from the likes of Freud .
That makes government masters at operating our levers , especially those that drive us towards fear and groupthink , using the shock doctrine of emergency , that paints a pretty picture of salvation , waiting in the collectivist wings , once our consent is granted .
This is the gradualist approach to manipulating society : from the closure of non-essential shops , to the lockdown , to mandatory facemasks on public transport , to mandatory facemasks in all public spaces , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previous one .
Until the cannon smoke settles on the battlefield and we can clearly see Fabian devilry at work , as the public is taken through the labyrinth of monumental change , by a ‘ body of experts .
In this instance , SAGE , Imperial College and the WHO .
As we shall explore in Part II .
Dustin Broadbery is an anarchist based in London , interested in social theory and particularly how a mutual society could bring about great advancements in the social fabric .
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By Dustin Broadbery
Throughout the modern era’s magic bullet conspiracy, aka the dubious public health emergency named COVID-19, we have seen…a mysterious commune between the polarising ideals of left and right. As the puzzling voice of trade unions scuppers the early easing of lockdown, a strange chorus from friends and allies on the left begs to be spared the perils of rebooting the economy one moment too soon, and otherworldly communist ovations for political leaders.
Equally uncanny are the socialist programs running in stealth mode in conservative and republican strongholds. As authoritarians take over the means of production (or prohibit it entirely), migrate from a free market economy to a planned economy, a New Deal has been unveiled, and importantly, Western democracies are following China’s lead.
So, who’s in charge here?
Same as it ever was – the customary global hegemony calls the shots and nation states fall in line. World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN) and World Bank. Vanguards of Capitalism, right?
Wrong. Those organisations were founded by socialists on socialist principles. As we shall explore. The same socialism that would ringfence our fast disappearing freedoms under the stockade of totalitarianism. That’s the general trade-off for state ownership of the means of production.
You would be correct to assume…the objective of this polemic is not to lampoon a capitalist system gone rogue. That’s old news and another essay. The objective here is to ruffle the feathers of capitalism’s reputed opponent – socialism, and to demonstrate the boundary line between the two adversaries is fictitious, when in fact, all political pathways lead to collectivism.
Importantly, the essay does not advocate for right, alt-right, neo-liberal, or whatever state-sponsored political descriptor you wish to throw at me. Neither is it an endorsement of any mainstream political stance. Rather, its purpose is to point out – the war is over, and the good guys not only didn’t win, they didn’t even take part. Because, the people’s representation at political party level, simply does not exist. It’s a full-spectrum myth, encompassing all political ideologies. Which by the way, are not your own. They are borrowed to you by someone else and designed to fast track their selfish and psychotic drives towards power. Which is of no consequence to you, the commoner, a political nobody, the non-political party class, the 99%.
What you are instead is the lucky beneficiary of empty gestures thrown from the political banqueting table, tantamount to popular suggestion and political innuendo. Designed to steer your consent, unknot and rebind your own supposed ideologies to theirs, habituating you to the illusion of choice, along the lines of – which party-politics you should follow, believe in, vote for, permit to continue plundering the earth’s precious resources in the name of, called: theirs and their friends special interests.
So, whether capitalist, communist, socialist, fascist, or whatever imaginary political differentiator is pulled from the illusionist’s hat that you personally want to subscribe to, it simply doesn’t matter…
…It doesn’t matter because…no matter who you vote for, the government always wins.
What’s more, when you strip it right down – there’s nothing in it. It’s all lukewarm air wheezing out of the punctured vacuum. No real points of differentiation between the cahoots and caboodle of political division. These guys are bought and paid for by industry, or the promises they made to the club that authorised their initiation. No matter which way you tell it, or whatever political descriptors you want to use, the proclaimed ideals of politicians are nothing more than hoo-ha’s and hullabaloo’s, and their commitments to the people are non-existent.
What they are instead, in no uncertain terms, are good old-fashioned authoritarians, doing what all bully-boy authoritarians do best, and that is…to subvert human nature and forcibly organise a cult around their centralised power structures.
The Fabians
So, in the spirit of ruffling some feathers our journey begins in the poetic and fertile lands of Ireland that has produced some of the World’s literary titans, including the social visionary, George Bernard Shaw, who said –
Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.
A man of his word, Shaw was a prominent member of the Fabian Society. A founding organisation of the British Labour Party, who have since enjoyed a lasting effect on British politics.
Inspired by Marxist ideals the Fabians, devised a gradualist approach to reforming democracies. Avoiding the fortissimo emblazoned on the bloody red banner of the their radical counterparts in communism. Preferring instead to manipulate the democratic process by stealthier and more resolute degrees, best illustrated in their logos, the turtle.
To understand the Fabians we can examine their iconic stained glass window, designed by Bernard Shaw and displayed at the Fabian established London School of Economics. It depicts the heroic Fabian leaders, (Bernard Shaw in green frock coat), violently forging a new world out of the old with giant hammers. While a cadre of Fabians kneel worshipfully before a column of oversized Fabian literature.
Note: the telling shield which depicts the ominous wolf in sheep’s clothing. Another totem of Fabianism, which ironically lacks the subtlety of their otherwise aphonic scheme.
The Fabians rubbed shoulders with the day’s intelligentsia, literati and high society at soirees, prevaricating down to earth working-class reform, such as selective breeding, scientific racism and sterilisation programs. Apotheosizing how the cult of their far superior brains would ameliorate their downtrodden compadres from the working class.
But beneath their appearance as valiant defenders of working men, the Fabians were a den of vipers, who harboured the most savage contempt for the poorest of the poor, who would be dragged from their wretchedness, whether they liked it or not.
According to their unique brand of reform – that glimmered upon the social sphere like the razor-sharp edges of a gingerbread man’s ferocious cutter – socialism is therefore not the compassionate redeemer of working men. But rather, the compulsory terms of their freedom. Designed to ensnare the brooding discontent of the times, from a social segment that were the gravest threat to the particular brand of elitism, which the Fabians belonged to.
The British Eugenics Society
The Fabians were playmates with another scurrilous bunch of privileged gentlefolk who also missed the cultural zeitgeist – the British Eugenics Society – who, in their determination to better the race, became the high priests of population control.
One of the co-founders of the Fabian Society, Havelock Ellis, who was also president of the Eugenics Education Society, and later became the mentor (and lover) of Margaret Sanger. Herself the founder of Planned Parenthood, which Bill Gates Senior (another eugenicist) was company head. Later, Bill Junior, would renew his father’s life’s work by investing billions of dollars into population control programs, mostly in Africa. Running with the same motif of scientific racism as Havelock and co. While playing god at the roulette wheel: the vaccine to sustain populations, and the pill to cut them short.
Eugenics was the grotesque creation of Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton. Who adapted Darwin’s theory of natural selection to suit his own fantasy – that society’s fate rested on its ability to breed more of the strong (the fellow inhabitants of Galton’s own gene pool) and fewer of the weak. Thus, encouraging those of greater intellectual ability to have more children while violently urging those of inferior stock – through programs like Planned Parenthood – to reproduce less often or not whatsoever. The aim was to increase the overall quality of the national herd, by multiplying the wheat and weeding out the chaff.
Another affable eugenicist (and fellow Fabian), was trade unionist and Labour MP Will Crooks, who said affectionately of the disabled working class – they were ‘like human vermin’ who would ‘crawl about doing absolutely nothing, except polluting and corrupting everything they touched’.
Sentiments that seem almost complimentary, compared to Bernard Shaw’s hideous contempt for what we called the ‘underclass’. Best characterised by his idea that, “the only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man”. Going on to say, the working classes had ‘no business to be alive’. Advocating the use of a ‘lethal chamber’ to solve this great burden to a prosperous society.’ Shaw, a staunch proponent of genocide, refused to soften his views even after witnessing the full horror of the eugenics-inspired Nazi death camps. Which brings us to collectivism and its assault upon the individual…
Collectivism
The Fabians first election manifesto for the labour party envisaged a government run by a ‘body of experts’. Or as Edward Pease put it ‘qualified rulers’. According to G.D.H. Cole – ‘Bernard Shaw did not care a button about democracy and was apt to admire dictators, if only they would give the experts a free hand’. Bless his cotton socks, Shaw kept a picture of Stalin on his mantelpiece.
The Fabians therefore aligned with all other branches of politicised socialism that view democracy not as an end in itself but as a means to achieve socialism. Marx himself regarded democracy as the very opposite of socialism, which would be ‘transitioned to through ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat‘. In fact, a ruling party of elites is considered the ideal structure for all forms of collectivism, whether Fabian socialism, Marxist communism or Hitler’s fascism. Indeed, it has been said that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. So, why then does socialism hold such cachet with those on the left, when it carries many hallmarks of the most abhorrent right-wing ideology?
Put simply, it is the cautionary tale that socialism would bring about a fairer, more egalitarian society, without class distinctions. Protect its weakest members, redistribute wealth and nationalise industry gone rogue under capitalism. Amongst those on the left therefore, socialism is the prized serum to cure society of the capitalist plague.
While all of this looks well-proportioned on paper, it would be wise to ask the questions: (1), What price must be paid for these protections? And (2), What are the consequences of the state flourishing beyond its legal residence – as a limited government that fosters individual freedom – to a tightly disciplined, highly organised, centralist regime, otherwise known as a dictatorship, that controls the means of production and interferes with the social, spiritual and economic fabric, to exact its collectivist vision? Remembering, the modal for society under communism or socialism is compulsory.
To find the answer we can look to the one-party system of the Soviet Union. Where under the Bolsheviks, only the Communist Party was permitted and even though voting was permissible in workers councils, in practice all candidates were pre-selected by the Party and its secret police. The Bolsheviks were indeed a shrewd bunch who impaled human rights, and whitewashed culture through the most brutal social engineering programs of the 20th century towards a single state ideology. Freedom of speech was criminalised, and any form of dissent was punished, often by death. Independent political activities were prohibited, including participation in labour unions, independent churches or opposition political parties. Moreover, Lenin and Stalin used terror to exact civil-obedience and disappearances and mass murder was commonplace. In fact, once the Bolsheviks seized power in the October revolution (from the real revolutionaries), there followed one of the greatest bloodbaths in history to eliminate their opponents. With Lenin enthusiastically declaring ‘it is a great deal better to discuss with rifles, than with the thesis offered by the opposition’
On the eve of his dictatorship, Lenin promised “the proletarian state will begin to wither away immediately after its victory, because in a society without class antagonisms, the state is unnecessary and impossible”
Yet, unsurprisingly, once he seized power, Lenin did the very opposite. According to Eugene Lyons, a correspondent for United Press in revolutionary Russia, who began his career sympathetic to the Bolsheviks: Once the Bolsheviks attained power ‘most of the Tsarist practices the Leninists had condemned were revived, usually in more ominous forms, including: political prisoners convicted without trials or the formality of charges’. There followed ‘savage persecution of dissenting views, death penalties for more varieties of crime than in any other modern nation, state monopoly on press and the most repressive practices which the previous monarchy had outlived for a century or more’
Are you beginning to get the picture?
It must be pointed out, the Bolsheviks are not alone, when, as a principle based on experience, politicians are an odious bunch ill-disposed to a free and empowered citizenry. Instead they firmly maintain: the public sphere needs to be governed with an iron hand. Because left alone, the unbridled ideals of common people would bring about chaos and compromise the very bedrock of society, whose foundation stone is the state and whose substructure is formed by politicians, like barnacles enjoying the free ride.
Authoritarians are, above all, in-it for themselves, their own partisan views, or the club they belong to. In their small and terrified minds, the public sphere must be arraigned with the sacrament of state consensus, towards collectivism. Otherwise known as socialism. There is simply no place for diversity in this arrangement. Individualism must be purged from the social fabric, because all citizens must pull their weight as cogs in the machinery. Under socialism therefore, individualism is sacrificed at the political altar, so the collective may suffer their gruelling mass.
Does any of this sound familiar to our current predicament towards a hidden collectivism?
Best illustrated through the mandatory wearing of face masks, which have been proven not to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2. With refuseniks branded narcissists or psychopaths for disobeying petty diktats enforced by groupthink and under threat of a fine, through dubious legislative powers, called Statutory Instruments, which are, in the Fabian tradition, laws enacted undemocratically by small, conniving groups of ‘qualified rulers’, bearing more hallmarks of Leninism than Conservatism.
Now let’s step into the jackboots of the political class to better understand their own motivations…
As a threadbare minority forcibly ruling over a majority, politicians are fully aware of their tenuous position. Especially the potential for insurgency amongst non-confirming social groups. Because if those citizens ever got round to lifting their blinkers, they would soon enough realise the gravity of their situation, and take it upon themselves to violently transform society, in a manner unfavourable to the state. That would resolutely bring about the end of the political-age as we know it. Accordingly, politicians’ resort to arcane methods of manipulation, counterinsurgency and divide and rule, in order to eliminate the power of the people. Do not be under any false assumptions, politicians are not looking to dilute their market share, they are looking for full market capitalisation. Otherwise known as collectivism.
Which leads us to…the enduring state of emergency – the modern era’s political weapon which armours the state’s tenuous position and robs the people of their power. From 9/11, through climate change to the pandemic, the harvest of each event suspends democracy and compounds collectivism. The rise of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany, for example, happened once the people surrendered their rights for protections against a common threat. As in the case of the burning down of the Reichstag. A practice that has been refined over 70-years, culminating in COVID-19, the most politicized disease in history.
The key to understanding the power of emergencies in transforming individualism towards collectivism, is knowing the influence they have on the public sphere, called: mass hypnosis. Wherein, under the emergency modal, citizens quickly forget the fundamental legal basis of government, and that is to protect individual freedom from individuals or groups who would attempt to limit that freedom. The US constitution, for example, is founded on the principle of a minimal government for and by the people. Because the founding fathers knew too well the ambitious nature of the state towards centralisation would only result in tyranny, if the necessary checks and balances were removed. Causing the state to become the very predator it was mandated to protect the people’s liberty from.
We must also acknowledge – the state has always been a predator. Whether marauding despot, kings or thieves unashamedly plundering, or legitimate authoritarian hiding behind the law. Not much has changed throughout history, with the exception of the methods used by the state to stalk more power. These have indeed become more sophisticated. Because with legitimacy, power becomes authority, skulking behind the virtues of democracy. Which in times of emergencies (or universal deceit), can be used to advance society towards collectivism. As in the case of the Russian Revolution – that transferred power from the illegitimacy of the Tsar, to the legitimacy of the Bolsheviks. Comparable to our current predicament, where the British government has forcibly enlisted each and every one of us. Thus, organising a cult around their centralised power structure, in the Bolshevik tradition, that means giving up our ill-conceived freedoms for protection against the pandemic.
This collectivism is achieved through the public’s inherent desire for a reputedly fairer and safer society and it is based on science. Or more precisely, the political establishment’s obsession with studying human nature as a specimen in a glass jar. Weaponizing the best research in sociology, psychology and behaviourism, from the likes of Freud. That makes government masters at operating our levers, especially those that drive us towards fear and groupthink, using the shock doctrine of emergency, that paints a pretty picture of salvation, waiting in the collectivist wings, once our consent is granted.
This is the gradualist approach to manipulating society: from the closure of non-essential shops, to the lockdown, to mandatory facemasks on public transport, to mandatory facemasks in all public spaces, to whatever hideous new regulation lurks behind the previous one. Until the cannon smoke settles on the battlefield and we can clearly see Fabian devilry at work, as the public is taken through the labyrinth of monumental change, by a ‘body of experts. In this instance, SAGE, Imperial College and the WHO. As we shall explore in Part II.
Dustin Broadbery is an anarchist based in London, interested in social theory and particularly how a mutual society could bring about great advancements in the social fabric. Reach him on Twitter: twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCogent1
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activistpost--2020-07-31--It’s Time to Revisit “The Truman Show”

It’s Time to Revisit “The Truman Show”

The Truman Show explores the nature of false reality , manipulated emotions , surveillance and behavioral conditioning .
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The Truman Show explores the nature of false reality, manipulated emotions, surveillance and behavioral conditioning.
Melissa Dykes analyzes the meaning behind the film and the relevance it has to the modern world where everyone is watching, everyone is watched, and perception management is in overdrive.
Aaron & Melissa Dykes are the founders of TruthstreamMedia.com, Subscribe to them on BitChute, like on Facebook, follow on Twitter, support on Patreon.
Watch their mini-documentary Obsolete here and their full-length documentary THE MINDS OF MEN here.
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activistpost--2020-07-31--The Turbulent Times Ahead with Doug Casey

The U.S. and the World are Heading Towards a Serious Crisis Best-selling author , world-renowned speculator , and libertarian philosopher Doug Casey has garnered a well-earned reputation for his erudite ( and often controversial ) insights into politics , economics , and investment markets .
Doug is widely respected as one of the preeminent authorities on “ rational speculation , ” especially in the high-potential natural resource sector .
Doug wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil : his book Crisis Investing spent weeks as # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ copies sold ; surpassing big-caliber names , like Free to Choose by Milton Friedman , The Real War by Richard Nixon , and Cosmos by Carl Sagan .
Then Doug broke the record with his next book , Strategic Investing , by receiving the largest advance ever paid for a financial book at the time .
Interestingly enough , Doug ’ s book The International Man was the most sold book in the history of Rhodesia .
And his most recent releases Totally Incorrect and Right on the Money continue the tradition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ markets .
He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows , including David Letterman , Merv Griffin , Charlie Rose , Phil Donahue , Regis Philbin , Maury Povich , NBC News , and CNN ; has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time , Forbes , People , and the Washington Post ; and is a regular keynote speaker at FreedomFest , the world ’ s largest gathering of free minds .
Doug has lived in 10 countries and visited over 175 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Argentina and Uruguay , and traveling to various dysfunctional hellholes .
Today you ’ re most likely to find him at La Estancia de Cafayate , an oasis tucked away in the high red mountains outside Salta , Argentina .
Cafayate most resembles the isolating beauty of Bryce Canyon , Utah combined with the lush vineyards of Napa Valley .
Residents enjoy economic and social freedoms not found in the US and some of the best wine and golf on the planet .
Government Treats You Like a Milk Cow… Doug Casey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ //internationalman.com/articles/government-treats-you-like-a-milk-cow-how-to-avoid-it/ Do This Before Politicians Make You Pay Your “ Fair Share ” https : //internationalman.com/articles/do-this-before-politicians-make-you-pay-your-fair-share/ Doug Casey Explains the Real Reasons the US Arrived at the Greater Depression https : //internationalman.com/articles/the-real-reasons-the-us-arrived-at-the-greater-depression/ The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination Do all that you say you are going to do and don ’ t aggress against other people or their property .
That ’ s the whole of the law .
I can live with a law like that .
Fear is being used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to accumulate more power and self-importance – and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda .
Democracy is no solution – it ’ s just 51 % bossing the other 49 % around .
For God ’ s sake , Hitler was democratically elected !
Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie .

By Outer Limits Radio
The U.S. and the World are Heading Towards a Serious Crisis
Best-selling author, world-renowned speculator, and libertarian philosopher Doug Casey has garnered a well-earned reputation for his erudite (and often controversial) insights into politics, economics, and investment markets.
Doug is widely respected as one of the preeminent authorities on “rational speculation,” especially in the high-potential natural resource sector.
Doug wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil: his book Crisis Investing spent weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the best-selling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold; surpassing big-caliber names, like Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, The Real War by Richard Nixon, and Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Then Doug broke the record with his next book, Strategic Investing, by receiving the largest advance ever paid for a financial book at the time. Interestingly enough, Doug’s book The International Man was the most sold book in the history of Rhodesia. And his most recent releases Totally Incorrect and Right on the Money continue the tradition of challenging statism and advocating liberty and free markets.
He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News, and CNN; has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post; and is a regular keynote speaker at FreedomFest, the world’s largest gathering of free minds.
Doug has lived in 10 countries and visited over 175. He currently spends most of his time in Argentina and Uruguay, and traveling to various dysfunctional hellholes.
Today you’re most likely to find him at La Estancia de Cafayate, an oasis tucked away in the high red mountains outside Salta, Argentina. Cafayate most resembles the isolating beauty of Bryce Canyon, Utah combined with the lush vineyards of Napa Valley. Residents enjoy economic and social freedoms not found in the US and some of the best wine and golf on the planet.
Website: https://internationalman.com/
Doug Casey Articles
Government Treats You Like a Milk Cow… Doug Casey Shows How to Avoid It
https://internationalman.com/articles/government-treats-you-like-a-milk-cow-how-to-avoid-it/
Do This Before Politicians Make You Pay Your “Fair Share”
https://internationalman.com/articles/do-this-before-politicians-make-you-pay-your-fair-share/
Doug Casey on Anarchy and Voluntaryism
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-anarchy-and-voluntaryism/
Doug Casey Explains the Real Reasons the US Arrived at the Greater Depression
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-real-reasons-the-us-arrived-at-the-greater-depression/
Doug Casey Quotes
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination
Do all that you say you are going to do and don’t aggress against other people or their property. That’s the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.
Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance – and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.
Democracy is no solution – it’s just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God’s sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.
Source: Outer Limits Radio


activistpost--2020-07-31--A Quarter Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government

Following today ’ s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data , Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series , which showed a modest slowdown in personal spending ( to be expected one month after the savings rate in the US hit a record ) , coupled with a modest decline in personal income ( as government benefits and stimulus checks slowed substantially ) .
But while the change in the headline data was indeed notable , what was far more remarkable was less followed data showing just how reliant on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are referring , of course , to Personal Current Transfer payments which are essentially government sourced income such as unemployment benefits , welfare checks , and so on .
In May , this number was $ 4.9 trillion annualized , and while it is down from the record $ 6.6 trillion hit in April when the US government activated the money helicopters to avoid a total collapse of the US economy , it was nearly $ 2 trillion above the pre-Covid trend where transfer receipts were approximately $ 3.2 trillion .
Even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June when total Personal Income was just below $ 20 trillion annualized , the government remains responsible for over a quarter of all income .
See : 177 Different Ways to Generate Extra Income Putting that number in perspective , in the 1950s and 1960s , transfer payment were around 7 % .
This number rose in the low teens starting in the mid-1970s ( right after the Nixon Shock ended Bretton-Woods and closed the gold window ) .
The number then jumped again after the financial crisis , spiking to the high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has officially sent this number into the mid-20 % range , after hitting a record high 31 % in April .
And that ’ s how creeping banana republic socialism comes at you : first slowly , then fast .
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By Tyler Durden
Following today’s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series, which showed a modest slowdown in personal spending (to be expected one month after the savings rate in the US hit a record), coupled with a modest decline in personal income (as government benefits and stimulus checks slowed substantially).
But while the change in the headline data was indeed notable, what was far more remarkable was less followed data showing just how reliant on the US government the population has become.
We are referring, of course, to Personal Current Transfer payments which are essentially government sourced income such as unemployment benefits, welfare checks, and so on. In May, this number was $4.9 trillion annualized, and while it is down from the record $6.6 trillion hit in April when the US government activated the money helicopters to avoid a total collapse of the US economy, it was nearly $2 trillion above the pre-Covid trend where transfer receipts were approximately $3.2 trillion.
Even more striking, is that as of June when total Personal Income was just below $20 trillion annualized, the government remains responsible for over a quarter of all income.
Putting that number in perspective, in the 1950s and 1960s, transfer payment were around 7%. This number rose in the low teens starting in the mid-1970s (right after the Nixon Shock ended Bretton-Woods and closed the gold window). The number then jumped again after the financial crisis, spiking to the high teens.
And now, the coronavirus has officially sent this number into the mid-20% range, after hitting a record high 31% in April.
And that’s how creeping banana republic socialism comes at you: first slowly, then fast.
Source: Zerohedge
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activistpost--2020-07-31--Almost 30 Million Americans Went Hungry Last Week As Recovery Stalls

A depressionary perfect storm continues to crush households as tens of millions of Americans are reporting they didn ’ t have enough to eat last week ( the seven days through July 21 ) .
Bloomberg cites the Census Bureau ’ s latest weekly Household Pulse Survey , revealing almost 30 million Americans went hungry last week .
About 23.9 million of 249 million respondents said they had “ sometimes not enough to eat.
” Around 5.42 million indicated they had “ often not enough to eat.
” This is the highest total of hungry Americans in the survey since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time when food bank lines across the country were swamped with jobless and hungry folks .
Last Sunday , we noted food bank lines reemerged in Baltimore as the crisis in households persists .
See : 177 Different Ways to Generate Extra Income Tens of millions of folks are going hungry in mid-July as the recovery stalled in late June .
At the same time , a fiscal cliff is hitting where $ 600-a-week federal unemployment benefits are now expiring .
Another stimulus bill is set to be rolled out in the near @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at odds over how large the next round should be .
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said both parties are “ nowhere close to a deal , ” one day before the fiscal cliff hits .
This would undoubtedly lead to a decline in overall consumption .
To make matters worse , millions of Americans behind on rent payments , now face imminent eviction as an eviction moratorium expired last Friday .
The disagreement on Capitol Hill about another round of stimulus means no imminent moratorium extension which could lead to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2008 .
The Trump administration can pretend all they want that the economy is on the verge of re-booming for reelection purposes , pointing to the stock market of how great everything is , but everyday Americans are suffering amid the worst depression since the 1930s .
More concerning still is the fact that , as permanent job losses affect millions , the Republican establishment may be forced ( politically – in an election year ) to embrace leftist doctrine ( universal basic income and all its socialist overtones ) , just to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of America ( and a landslide loss in November ) .
This has already angered Tea Party conservatives , and is perhaps among the reasons why gold is soaring to record highs as the dollar sinks .
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By Tyler Durden
A depressionary perfect storm continues to crush households as tens of millions of Americans are reporting they didn’t have enough to eat last week (the seven days through July 21).
Bloomberg cites the Census Bureau’s latest weekly Household Pulse Survey, revealing almost 30 million Americans went hungry last week. About 23.9 million of 249 million respondents said they had “sometimes not enough to eat.” Around 5.42 million indicated they had “often not enough to eat.” This is the highest total of hungry Americans in the survey since early May, which was around the time when food bank lines across the country were swamped with jobless and hungry folks.
Last Sunday, we noted food bank lines reemerged in Baltimore as the crisis in households persists.
behind the scenes: food bank line in Baltimore just getting started – a lot of hungry and broke families as fiscal cliff begins pic.twitter.com/30C1OBJDSP — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) July 26, 2020
Tens of millions of folks are going hungry in mid-July as the recovery stalled in late June. At the same time, a fiscal cliff is hitting where $600-a-week federal unemployment benefits are now expiring. Another stimulus bill is set to be rolled out in the near term, but Republicans and Democrats are at odds over how large the next round should be.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said both parties are “nowhere close to a deal,” one day before the fiscal cliff hits. This would undoubtedly lead to a decline in overall consumption.
“This follows a deep recession resulting from the pandemic, which put millions of Americans out of work. Unemployed Americans have been receiving an extra $600 per week benefit, which is set to expire at the end of July as Congress debates a new relief package,” Bloomberg said.
To make matters worse, millions of Americans behind on rent payments, now face imminent eviction as an eviction moratorium expired last Friday. The disagreement on Capitol Hill about another round of stimulus means no imminent moratorium extension which could lead to an eviction wave, more massive than 2008.
The Trump administration can pretend all they want that the economy is on the verge of re-booming for reelection purposes, pointing to the stock market of how great everything is, but everyday Americans are suffering amid the worst depression since the 1930s.
More concerning still is the fact that, as permanent job losses affect millions, the Republican establishment may be forced (politically – in an election year) to embrace leftist doctrine (universal basic income and all its socialist overtones), just to avoid social unrest among yet another section of America (and a landslide loss in November). This has already angered Tea Party conservatives, and is perhaps among the reasons why gold is soaring to record highs as the dollar sinks.
Source: Zerohedge
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activistpost--2020-07-31--University COVID App Mandates Are The Wrong Call

As students , parents , and schools prepare the new school year , universities are considering ways to make returning to campus safer .
Some are considering and even mandating that students install COVID-related technology on their personal devices , but this is the wrong call .
Exposure notification apps , quarantine enforcement programs , and similar new technologies are untested and unproven , and mandating them risks exacerbating existing inequalities in access to technology and education .
Schools must remove any such mandates from student agreements or commitments , and further should pledge not to mandate installation of any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indiana University , UMass Amherst , and University of New Hampshire—are requiring students to make a general blanket commitment to installing an unspecified tracking app of the university ’ s choosing in the future .
This gives students no opportunity to assess or engage with the privacy practices or other characteristics of this technology .
This is important because not all COVID exposure notification and contact tracing apps , for example , are the same .
For instance , Utah ’ s Healthy Together app until recently collected not only Bluetooth proximity data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unnecessary privacy intrusion that was later rolled back .
Google and Apple ’ s framework for exposure notification based on Bluetooth is more privacy-protective than a GPS-based solution , but the decision to install it or any other app must still be in the hands of the individuals affected .
Further , in many cases , students face disciplinary proceedings and sanctions if they violate these student agreements .
That ’ s why tracking app mandates , particularly by government entities like public universities , have the potential to chill constitutionally protected speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their rights to speak about university policies if they know the university has the potential to sanction them for it .
The speculative discussion of COVID-related technology and schools has obscured a key fact : contact tracing is a long-established medical technique that was effective long before the advent of computers in our pockets .
It involves interviews with a trained person to review a diagnosee ’ s recent travels and interactions .
It is still effective , and it is still necessary .
Exposure notification apps are new , and there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They certainly do not offer a silver-bullet solution .
App mandates also rely on various assumptions : that every person has their own smartphone , that the phone is an up-to-date Android or iOS device , and that it is always charged and close to their body .
These assumptions exacerbate the digital divide , and relying excessively on apps over human contact tracing widens the already stark wealth and racial divides in who is most impacted by COVID-19 .
With app mandates in place , the same students who do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space for remote instruction would likely be unable to meet the smartphone app requirements to attend classes in person .
Universities should strike any app mandates from their existing student commitments , and should pledge to not include them in future student commitments .
If and when a university identifies a specific technology it would like students to use , it is the university ’ s responsibility to present it to students and demonstrate that it is effective and respects their privacy : by sharing privacy policies , by explaining how and by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shared , by making commitments regarding how the institution will protect students privacy , and by offering avenues for feedback before and during decision-making .
Anything short of that abuses the university ’ s power over its students and erodes their rights .
It is not too late for schools to commit to a better path .
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By Gennie Gebhart, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Andrew Crocker
As students, parents, and schools prepare the new school year, universities are considering ways to make returning to campus safer. Some are considering and even mandating that students install COVID-related technology on their personal devices, but this is the wrong call. Exposure notification apps, quarantine enforcement programs, and similar new technologies are untested and unproven, and mandating them risks exacerbating existing inequalities in access to technology and education. Schools must remove any such mandates from student agreements or commitments, and further should pledge not to mandate installation of any technology.
Even worse, many schools—including Indiana University, UMass Amherst, and University of New Hampshire—are requiring students to make a general blanket commitment to installing an unspecified tracking app of the university’s choosing in the future. This gives students no opportunity to assess or engage with the privacy practices or other characteristics of this technology. This is important because not all COVID exposure notification and contact tracing apps, for example, are the same. For instance, Utah’s Healthy Together app until recently collected not only Bluetooth proximity data but also GPS location data, an unnecessary privacy intrusion that was later rolled back. Google and Apple’s framework for exposure notification based on Bluetooth is more privacy-protective than a GPS-based solution, but the decision to install it or any other app must still be in the hands of the individuals affected.
Further, in many cases, students face disciplinary proceedings and sanctions if they violate these student agreements. That’s why tracking app mandates, particularly by government entities like public universities, have the potential to chill constitutionally protected speech. Students may be afraid to exercise their rights to speak about university policies if they know the university has the potential to sanction them for it.
The speculative discussion of COVID-related technology and schools has obscured a key fact: contact tracing is a long-established medical technique that was effective long before the advent of computers in our pockets. It involves interviews with a trained person to review a diagnosee’s recent travels and interactions. It is still effective, and it is still necessary. Exposure notification apps are new, and there is not yet strong evidence of their efficacy. They certainly do not offer a silver-bullet solution.
App mandates also rely on various assumptions: that every person has their own smartphone, that the phone is an up-to-date Android or iOS device, and that it is always charged and close to their body. These assumptions exacerbate the digital divide, and relying excessively on apps over human contact tracing widens the already stark wealth and racial divides in who is most impacted by COVID-19. With app mandates in place, the same students who do not have reliable home broadband connections and study space for remote instruction would likely be unable to meet the smartphone app requirements to attend classes in person.
Universities should strike any app mandates from their existing student commitments, and should pledge to not include them in future student commitments. If and when a university identifies a specific technology it would like students to use, it is the university’s responsibility to present it to students and demonstrate that it is effective and respects their privacy: by sharing privacy policies, by explaining how and by whom student data will be used and shared, by making commitments regarding how the institution will protect students privacy, and by offering avenues for feedback before and during decision-making. Anything short of that abuses the university’s power over its students and erodes their rights. It is not too late for schools to commit to a better path.
Source: EFF.org
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activistpost--2020-07-31--Ghislaine Maxwell Fails to Block Release of Confidential Documents and Epstein Flight Logs

Alleged sex trafficker and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has failed in her last-minute bid to prevent the release of potentially explosive court documents that could publicly reveal damaging details about her criminal involvement with her late ex-boyfriend and notorious pedophile , Jeffrey Epstein .
On Wednesday , US District Court Judge Loretta Preska denied Maxwell ’ s bid to prevent depositions against Maxwell and Epstein from being made public .
The batch of “ extremely personal , confidential ” documents includes hundreds of pages that detail Maxwell ’ s dealings with her notorious partner , including flight logs from Epstein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports from Palm Beach , Florida , where Epstein resided .
Maxwell ’ s attorneys had argued that the documents are “ extremely personal , confidential and subject to considerable abuse by the media , ” including “ intrusive ” questions about her sex life , thus offering “ compelling ” reason for them not to be released .
Judge Preska has allowed for the deposition ’ s release to be delayed until Monday to allow Maxwell time to appeal their release , reports CNN .
The documents are related to Epstein accuser @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roberts Giuffre ’ s now-settled 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell .
Giuffre sued the Maxwell for defamation after she was accused by the British socialite of fabricating the sexual abuse allegations against her and Epstein .
Maxwell was arrested earlier this month over separate allegations that she was involved with Epstein ’ s sex trafficking of young women and minors .
Maxwell , 58 , pleaded not guilty on July 14 to assisting Epstein in the recruitment and sexual abuse of three girls in the 1990s , and of committing perjury by lying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maxwell faces charges of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts ; enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts ; conspiracy to transport minors , and transportation of a minor , with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity ; and two counts of perjury .
She is accused of grooming multiple minors to engage in sex acts with Epstein by befriending them to ask them about their lives and families while building friendships with the young girls alongside Epstein by taking their victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maxwell faces up to 35 years in jail .
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Maxwell ’ s legal team have accused Giuffre and federal prosecutors of violating a protective order from the civil case meant to keep the transcript of Maxwell ’ s seven-hour , 418-page deposition confidential .
Her attorneys claim that Giuffre leaked the deposition “ in conjunction with the government ” in hopes to set up a “ perjury trap ” for Maxwell .
However , Preska said that criminal probes into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already “ loomed large ” when Maxwell opposed unsealing the deposition in June , noting that the need for public access “ is plowed ground.
” Giuffre has accused Maxwell of recruiting her to work as Epstein ’ s masseuse when she was only 15 years old and worked as a locker-room attendant at Donald Trump ’ s private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach .
She was eventually reduced to a “ sex slave ” of the late financier thanks to Maxwell ’ s assistance .
Maxwell is intensely well-connected with various members @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have long circulated of Maxwell posing at social events with figures including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump , giving rise to public suspicion about public figures ’ ties to she and Epstein .
Last Tuesday , President Trump confirmed that he knew Maxwell and expressed positive feelings about the accused child sex trafficker , confirming that he had met Maxwell “ numerous times over the years , especially since I lived in Palm Beach.
” The president also repeatedly said “ I just wish her well.
” In her ruling last week , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a right to know the contents of deposition and that this right far outweighs the “ annoyance or embarrassment ” to Maxwell .
“ In the context of this case , especially its allegations of sex trafficking of young girls , the court finds any minor embarrassment or annoyance resulting from Ms. Maxwell ’ s mostly non-testimony … is far outweighed by the presumption of public access , ” she added .
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By Elias Marat
Alleged sex trafficker and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has failed in her last-minute bid to prevent the release of potentially explosive court documents that could publicly reveal damaging details about her criminal involvement with her late ex-boyfriend and notorious pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
On Wednesday, US District Court Judge Loretta Preska denied Maxwell’s bid to prevent depositions against Maxwell and Epstein from being made public.
The batch of “extremely personal, confidential” documents includes hundreds of pages that detail Maxwell’s dealings with her notorious partner, including flight logs from Epstein’s private jets, and police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein resided.
Maxwell’s attorneys had argued that the documents are “extremely personal, confidential and subject to considerable abuse by the media,” including “intrusive” questions about her sex life, thus offering “compelling” reason for them not to be released.
Judge Preska has allowed for the deposition’s release to be delayed until Monday to allow Maxwell time to appeal their release, reports CNN.
The documents are related to Epstein accuser and former “sex slave” Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s now-settled 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell. Giuffre sued the Maxwell for defamation after she was accused by the British socialite of fabricating the sexual abuse allegations against her and Epstein.
Maxwell was arrested earlier this month over separate allegations that she was involved with Epstein’s sex trafficking of young women and minors.
Maxwell, 58, pleaded not guilty on July 14 to assisting Epstein in the recruitment and sexual abuse of three girls in the 1990s, and of committing perjury by lying about her involvement while under oath.
Maxwell faces charges of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; conspiracy to transport minors, and transportation of a minor, with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and two counts of perjury.
She is accused of grooming multiple minors to engage in sex acts with Epstein by befriending them to ask them about their lives and families while building friendships with the young girls alongside Epstein by taking their victims on social outings or out shopping.
Maxwell faces up to 35 years in jail.
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Maxwell’s legal team have accused Giuffre and federal prosecutors of violating a protective order from the civil case meant to keep the transcript of Maxwell’s seven-hour, 418-page deposition confidential.
Her attorneys claim that Giuffre leaked the deposition “in conjunction with the government” in hopes to set up a “perjury trap” for Maxwell.
However, Preska said that criminal probes into Epstein’s dealings and associates had already “loomed large” when Maxwell opposed unsealing the deposition in June, noting that the need for public access “is plowed ground.”
Giuffre has accused Maxwell of recruiting her to work as Epstein’s masseuse when she was only 15 years old and worked as a locker-room attendant at Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. She was eventually reduced to a “sex slave” of the late financier thanks to Maxwell’s assistance.
Maxwell is intensely well-connected with various members of political and business elites. Photographs have long circulated of Maxwell posing at social events with figures including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, giving rise to public suspicion about public figures’ ties to she and Epstein.
Last Tuesday, President Trump confirmed that he knew Maxwell and expressed positive feelings about the accused child sex trafficker, confirming that he had met Maxwell “numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach.” The president also repeatedly said “I just wish her well.”
In her ruling last week, judge Preska said that the public has a right to know the contents of deposition and that this right far outweighs the “annoyance or embarrassment” to Maxwell.
“In the context of this case, especially its allegations of sex trafficking of young girls, the court finds any minor embarrassment or annoyance resulting from Ms. Maxwell’s mostly non-testimony … is far outweighed by the presumption of public access,” she added.
Source: The Mind Unleashed
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activistpost--2020-08-01--You Can Now Be Fined, Jailed and Assaulted For Not Wearing A Mask (And Other Tyrannical Weekly News)

Are you ready for this week ’ s absurdity ?
Here ’ s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty , risks to your prosperity… and on occasion , inspiring poetic justice .
The pandemic has made Governors so power hungry that they are now telling restaurants what counts as a meal .
States like California and New York are forcing restaurants and bars to only serve alcohol with meals .
That prompted some establishments to add special menu items so that patrons who just wanted a drink didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meal .
But now that tactic has caught the eye of Comrade-Governors Newsom and Cuomo .
They have decided that not only is it within their power to tell restaurants if they are allowed to serve drinks and food , but these Governors also claim the power to dictate what counts as a meal .
The dictator of California officially decreed that buffalo chicken wings are not a meal .
Nor are reheated frozen entrees , “ pizza bites ( as opposed to a pizza ) ” , or “ any small portion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ main course when it is not served in a full portion or when it is intended for sharing in small portions.
” And the dictator of New York said the food available has to be “ More than just hors d ’ oeuvres , chicken wings , you had to have some substantive food .
The lowest level of substantive food were sandwiches.
” There you have it , sandwiches are a meal , chicken wings are not .
So says the politburo .
Click here to read the full story .
Amid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ E canceled its reality TV show “ Live PD ” to try to appease the Twitter mob .
Does this seem counterintuitive to you ?
It does to me .
Following cops around with a camera seems like it would INCREASE police accountability .
But A & E seems to think that if they stop filming the police , then transparency and accountability will improve .
In other news , 2+2 = 5 .
But it turns out bowing to the Twitter mob isn ’ t necessarily good for business .
A & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dropped by over 50 % in the week after the show was cancelled .
And the channel has hardly recovered since then .
Compared to this time last year , A & E has suffered a 36 % total decline in viewers .
“ Live PD ” and its spin-offs were by far the most successful shows on A & E and sometimes made up 85 % of its programming .
The shows brought in almost $ 300 million last year in advertising revenue .
Click here to read the full story .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ its first new general education requirement in 40 years .
Students at all 23 college campuses will now be required to take a class on either social justice , or ethnic studies .
But this new requirement was met with ANGER by the California Faculty Association .
They said it was “ deplorable and disrespectful ” that this requirement was passed without the consultation of CSU Council of Ethnic Studies .
And they were disappointed that the new rule didn ’ t go far enough , because some of the classes that fulfill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ethnic studies .
This is a great reason to absolutely NEVER try to appease the Twitter mob– they won ’ t be satisfied , they will always want more .
And YOU might even become a target for being the wrong kind of woke .
But this is a great way to truly mark the point where a college degree becomes worthless ( especially when you are paying full tuition for online classes ) .
Click here to read the full story .
Woman pepper-sprays couple for not wearing masks during picnic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ park to have lunch .
They set up their picnic , properly socially distanced from other park-goers , and removed their masks to eat .
That ’ s when they began being harassed by an older woman .
She flipped them off , and yelled obscenities about them not wearing masks in public .
Then this woman walked up to the picnicking couple and pepper sprayed them .
It was all caught on camera by another person at the park .
As the culprit walked off , she claimed she was defending herself… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minding their own business , eating lunch .
So now , because of the Covid hysteria , people think it ’ s “ defense ” to physically attack strangers for not wearing a mask .
That ’ s where we are as a society .
Click here to read the full story .
Indiana Executive Order carries 6 months in jail for no mask First it was individual towns threatening jail time over not wearing masks .
Now the entire state of Indiana will force residents to wear masks anytime they are in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hanging over anyone who does not comply .
The Governor of Indiana thinks six months in jail is appropriate for people who don ’ t wear a mask in public .
But he said , “ We are going to continue to try to appeal to Hoosiers to do the right thing… mask police will not be patrolling Hoosier streets.
” So then what ’ s that six months in jail for ?
Click here to read the full story .
… but Mask Police WILL be patrolling Miami streets The mask police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to look for violators showing their dirty faces in public .
Anyone caught without a mask will be charged $ 50 for a first offense , then $ 100 .
A third offense comes with a $ 500 fine , and arrest .
Click here to read the full story .
… yet somehow Federal employees are exempt from wearing masks You can now be fined $ 1,000 in Washington DC for not wearing a mask in public .
But the Mayor exempted lawmakers , judges , and federal employees from the order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to spread the virus ?
That must be why the laws only apply to peasants like us , not to the important people making and enforcing the laws .
Click here to read the full story .
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By Simon Black, Sovereign Man
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Governors proclaim chicken wings are not a meal
The pandemic has made Governors so power hungry that they are now telling restaurants what counts as a meal.
States like California and New York are forcing restaurants and bars to only serve alcohol with meals.
That prompted some establishments to add special menu items so that patrons who just wanted a drink didn’t have to order an entire meal.
But now that tactic has caught the eye of Comrade-Governors Newsom and Cuomo.
They have decided that not only is it within their power to tell restaurants if they are allowed to serve drinks and food, but these Governors also claim the power to dictate what counts as a meal.
The dictator of California officially decreed that buffalo chicken wings are not a meal.
Nor are reheated frozen entrees, “pizza bites (as opposed to a pizza)”, or “any small portion of a dish that may constitute a main course when it is not served in a full portion or when it is intended for sharing in small portions.”
And the dictator of New York said the food available has to be “More than just hors d’oeuvres, chicken wings, you had to have some substantive food. The lowest level of substantive food were sandwiches.”
There you have it, sandwiches are a meal, chicken wings are not. So says the politburo.
Click here to read the full story.
A&E loses half its viewers after canceling “Live PD”
Amid calls for police accountability, A&E canceled its reality TV show “Live PD” to try to appease the Twitter mob.
Does this seem counterintuitive to you? It does to me. Following cops around with a camera seems like it would INCREASE police accountability.
But A&E seems to think that if they stop filming the police, then transparency and accountability will improve. In other news, 2+2 = 5.
But it turns out bowing to the Twitter mob isn’t necessarily good for business.
A&E’s total prime time viewership dropped by over 50% in the week after the show was cancelled.
And the channel has hardly recovered since then. Compared to this time last year, A&E has suffered a 36% total decline in viewers.
“Live PD” and its spin-offs were by far the most successful shows on A&E and sometimes made up 85% of its programming.
The shows brought in almost $300 million last year in advertising revenue.
Oops.
Click here to read the full story.
California State Universities now require Social Justice course
The California State University system is adding its first new general education requirement in 40 years.
Students at all 23 college campuses will now be required to take a class on either social justice, or ethnic studies.
But this new requirement was met with ANGER by the California Faculty Association.
They said it was “deplorable and disrespectful” that this requirement was passed without the consultation of CSU Council of Ethnic Studies.
And they were disappointed that the new rule didn’t go far enough, because some of the classes that fulfill the requirement are not closely enough related to ethnic studies.
This is a great reason to absolutely NEVER try to appease the Twitter mob– they won’t be satisfied, they will always want more. And YOU might even become a target for being the wrong kind of woke.
But this is a great way to truly mark the point where a college degree becomes worthless (especially when you are paying full tuition for online classes).
Click here to read the full story.
Woman pepper-sprays couple for not wearing masks during picnic
A couple went to a San Diego park to have lunch.
They set up their picnic, properly socially distanced from other park-goers, and removed their masks to eat.
That’s when they began being harassed by an older woman. She flipped them off, and yelled obscenities about them not wearing masks in public.
Then this woman walked up to the picnicking couple and pepper sprayed them.
It was all caught on camera by another person at the park. As the culprit walked off, she claimed she was defending herself… against people in an outdoor park, minding their own business, eating lunch.
So now, because of the Covid hysteria, people think it’s “defense” to physically attack strangers for not wearing a mask. That’s where we are as a society.
Click here to read the full story.
Indiana Executive Order carries 6 months in jail for no mask
First it was individual towns threatening jail time over not wearing masks.
Now the entire state of Indiana will force residents to wear masks anytime they are in public, with the threat of jail hanging over anyone who does not comply.
The Governor of Indiana thinks six months in jail is appropriate for people who don’t wear a mask in public.
But he said, “We are going to continue to try to appeal to Hoosiers to do the right thing… mask police will not be patrolling Hoosier streets.”
So then what’s that six months in jail for?
Click here to read the full story.
… but Mask Police WILL be patrolling Miami streets
The mask police have formed a 39-officer-strong unit in Miami to look for violators showing their dirty faces in public.
Anyone caught without a mask will be charged $50 for a first offense, then $100.
A third offense comes with a $500 fine, and arrest.
Click here to read the full story.
… yet somehow Federal employees are exempt from wearing masks
You can now be fined $1,000 in Washington DC for not wearing a mask in public.
But the Mayor exempted lawmakers, judges, and federal employees from the order. So apparently federal employees are unable to spread the virus?
That must be why the laws only apply to peasants like us, not to the important people making and enforcing the laws.
Click here to read the full story.
Source: The Daily Bell
Image: Truth Theory
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