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April 30, 2021 Advertisement China is the quintessential surveillance state: cameras perch on every street corner and bots monitor every corner of the internet. Chinese officials believe these measures will enable them to anticipate and preempt threats to the regime. But might Beijing’s growing reliance on surveillance actually weaken the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s hold on power? China’s surveillance network is expansive and pervasive. Chongqing, for example, holds the dubious distin...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC The China lockdown of 50 million citizens overnight was a key element in the long-standing plan to foist a fake pandemic on humanity. That lockdown provided the model for the rest of the world. We are now in phase one of Lockdown Civilization. The "scientific" rationale? THE VIRUS. The virus that isnt there. The virus whose existence is unproven. But the story line works: "We have to follow the China model because the pandemic is sweeping across the globe..." Close on...

Though 2020 was dominated by big, hairy societal change, science and technology took significant steps forward. (File photo: Thomas Kinto/Unsplash) This time last year we were commemorating the end of a decade and looking ahead to the next one. Enter the year that felt like a decade all by itself: 2020. News written in January, the before-times, feels hopelessly out of touch with all that came after. Stories published in the early days of the pandemic are, for the most part, similarly naive. Th...