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January 20, 2021. President Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. The scene, however, is devoid of any human presence. The streets of Washington DC are empty. People had been urged to stay at home and Americans throughout the rest of the country asked not to come. The city is under the protection of 25,000 members of the National Guard, heavily armed. High barriers topped with razor wire surround the Capitol area. In the streets planned for...

Nineteen Eighty-Four has given us a whole slew of shorthand phrases for dystopian or oppressive governments and surveillance, but even if you’ve already read about Winston Smith’s struggle against Big Brother, there are a few facts, stories, and theories about the novel that are worth a closer look. 1. It almost wasn’t called Nineteen Eighty-Four. Before Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, Orwell was wracked with indecision about it. For a while, he considered the title The Last Man in ...

The atmosphere in the United States remains poisonous. Critics claim that stoking in the public is being done on purpose -- to create a false narrative that not only is Trump supposedly a "threat to democracy," but that his more than 74 million supporters are, too. Others, however, claim that the real threat to democracy is actually these serial liars, violators of the Constitution and falsifiers of information. The right to challenge and criticize, which is an integral part of the freedom of s...

March 1, 2021 | How to Play 3D Chess James Corbett The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more. It’s a ridiculous, no good, stupid, rotten meme. You know the idea that every ho...

March 01, 2021 United front: Once the initial shock wore off, mass protests started across the country under the umbrella of a leaderless civil disobedience movement   -  REUTERS/ STRINGER United front: Once the initial shock wore off, mass protests started across the country under the umbrella of a leaderless civil disobedience movement   -  REUTERS/ STRINGER× The country hasn’t had a quiet moment since the military seized power on February 1 * Yangon has been masked up and non-essenti...

© Corbett Report Its a ridiculous, no good, stupid, rotten meme. You know the idea that every horrible move that Precedent Trump ever made (like appointing John Bolton or launching Operation Warp Speed) was actually some super complicated three-dimensional chess move intended to accomplish the exact opposite of what he was actually doing? ("You dont understand, man! Hes appointing Gina "CIA Torture" Haspel because he wants to expose her role in CIA torture!") Well, as much as "Trump the 3D che...

Mad Max: Fury Road injected fresh grit into an overly-glossy genre, writes Tim Robey Credit: Warner Bros When Chaos Walking, Doug Liman’s $125 million adaptation of the young-adult dystopian thriller by Patrick Ness, receives its long-delayed global release, it’ll pose a conundrum. Ness’s story takes place on a decimated planet – maybe it was once Earth – on which only men have survived. Daisy Ridley is the mysterious Viola, who crash-lands in this dangerous landscape and is protect...

The Liberty Times Editorial: ‘Wuhan’ anger exposes the KMT During a Lunar New Year’s Day visit to Xingtian Temple in Taipei on Feb. 12, former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) told reporters that, in his opinion, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should no longer refer to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan pneumonia” (“武漢肺炎”). He also opined: “If China offers [Taiwan] a [COVID-19] vaccine, the government should not decline the offer out of hand.” Members of Taiwan’s pan-green...

Pulling A Bait And Switch With The Word “Revolution”  Share   Share Trending The word Revolution, like the word Republic, has evolved and been redefined. What once meant returning to a point of origin, a rebirth, or renewal, came to signify the utter destruction of the old order in favor of a fresh start, much as Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus, became the Romantic model for the heroic overthrow of the old gods, the old order, the old verities. It is a classic “bait and switch” ...

The case for Ivermectin By Bert Olivier on 18 January 2021 Nineteen Eighty-Four in my lifetime, after the end of the Second World War, which initially seemed to squash such a possibility. In America, during the Cold War, people in the US were largely cowed into silence by the unjust persecution of many for supposedly harbouring “communist” sympathies. The end of the McCarthy era seemed to preclude any future reign of what Orwell called the “thought police”. The thought police were there...