'Ebony' and 'Ivory' are living in a near perfect disharmony in America these days. And Americans have good reason to be angry and distraught over the explosion of our once comitous, constitutional culture as a result of the rise of liberal fascism in our institutions and groups such as Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and even in the Democratic Party (DP). But decades ago, postmodernism in the universities, education system, media and general culture planted poisonous seeds of a 'liberal' mix of communism and fascism or communo-fascism. These were contained somewhat cryptically in postmodernism's two essential elements of multiculturalism and deconstruction and their offspring — critical race theory and Black liberation theology. Rooted in the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt school of culturologists, sexologists, and sociologists founded in 1923, multiculturalism holds in its overt form that all cultures were equal, self-sufficient, autonomous, and to some extent biological. But covertly, under multiculturalism some identities were designated 'more equal' than others. Non-European culture supersedes European culture, which is plagued by an aspiration to domination and violence expressed in imperialism. Black culture supersedes white culture, which - ditto. Female culture, even biology is superior to male culture, which - ditto. These relations form the social structure of 'oppression' by inferior but more 'aggressive white male' culture, economy, and social structure, according to this ideology of racial Marxism. This culture, economy, and society must be destroyed, in the view of the new racial communism.

The biological element of this 'system' of covert multiculturalism and its successor racial theories in particular always held within it the grave danger of racial Marxism or simply communo-fascism: the primordial view of nationality that tends to pervade ultra-nationalist and fascist movements. Focused on 'blood', this view of national identity downplays the cultural and even linguistic elements of national identities and the extent nationalities can be formed or 'constructed' - witness America, for example.

Loyalty to China's Communist Party will be key to deciding if a Hong Konger is a "patriot", a senior Chinese official said Tuesday, as Beijing draws up new laws to vet the finance hub's politicians.

China has acted to quash dissent in semi-autonomous Hong Kong after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy demonstrations swept the city for months in 2019.

Its latest plan is to impose sweeping changes to Hong Kong's already limited election system, barring anyone not deemed loyal enough and reducing the influence of the small number of directly elected positions.

Dubbed "patriots governing Hong Kong", Beijing says the changes are needed to restore stability and to plug loopholes that accommodate "anti-China" forces.

Critics see it as another nail in the coffin for Hong Kong's democracy movement as Beijing presses ahead with a widespread campaign against dissent.

President Donald Trump issued a fiery statement on Monday night calling on his supporters to no longer give money to Republicans who oppose his Make America Great Again agenda and directed donations to his campaign website and the Save America political action committee, instead of the Republican National Committee (RNC).

"No more money for RINOS," Trump said in a statement, using an acronym for Republicans in Name Only. "They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base — they will never lead us to Greatness. Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com. We will bring it all back stronger than ever before!"

Trump's missive appeared to be a response to the RNC, which, according to The Hill and Politico, brushed off his cease-and-desist letter demanding that the committee stop using his name and likeness to raise funds. The president sent similar letters to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to a Trump advisor.

The French government has said that the level of Covid-19 vaccine uptake among those working in healthcare settings "is not acceptable" and said it could make the jab compulsory if vaccination rates don't improve.

"For the last year our health workers have been heroic, but the vaccination rate among them today is not acceptable," Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, told Le Parisien newspaper on Sunday.

Echoing the words of the Health Minister Olivier Veran last week, Attal said getting the jab was the responsible thing for healthcare workers to do.

"It would be irresponsible to refuse to be vaccinated when one is a health worker... Everyone is rolling up their sleeves to get us out of this epidemic. Now they have to roll them up to the shoulder to get vaccinated," Attal said.

The US Supreme Court on Monday tossed the last of three cases brought by former President Donald Trump challenging his 2020 election loss, ending his quest for vindication through the courts - hardly any of which actually considered the evidence presented, and instead dismissed the cases on technical grounds.

Without comment, the highest court in the land rejected Trump's appeal challenging thousands of Wisconsin absentee ballots, where he lost to Joe Biden by over 20,000 votes, according to Reuters.

The Israeli occupation forces converted more than 400,000 dunams of land in the Jordan Valley into closed military zones and established 97 military sites there. It also planted hundreds of agricultural dunums in the Jordan Valley with landmines.

The Israeli occupation forces stormed yesterday evening, Sunday, Khirbet Homsa in the northern Jordan Valley, and launched a campaign of confiscations of citizens' properties.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces confiscated the vehicle of the representative of the assembly, the citizen Harb Abu Al-Kabbash, after confiscating his family's personal identities card and mobile phones.

So, we're almost a year into the "New Normal" (a/k/a "pathologized totalitarianism") and things are still looking ... well, pretty totalitarian.

Most of Western Europe is still in "lockdown," or "under curfew," or in some other state of "health emergency." Police are fining and arresting people for "being outdoors without a valid reason." Protest is still banned. Dissent is still censored. The official propaganda is relentless. Governments are ruling by edict, subjecting people to an ever-changing series of increasingly absurd restrictions of the most fundamental aspects of everyday life.

And now, the campaign to "vaccinate" the entirety of humanity against a virus that causes mild to moderate flu-like symptoms or, more commonly, no symptoms at all, in over 95% of those infected, and that over 99% of the infected survive (and that has no real effect on age-adjusted death rates, and the mortality profile of which is more or less identical to the normal mortality profile) is being waged with literally religious fervor.

"Vaccine passports" (which are definitely creepy, but which bear no resemblance to Aryan Ancestry Certificates, or any other fascistic apartheid-type documents, so don't even think about making such a comparison!) are in the pipeline in a number of countries. They have already been rolled out in Israel.

The US CENTCOM's (Central Command) highest commander, General Frank McKenzie, recently revealed the accuracy of the 1,000-pound Iranian precision ballistic missiles fired more than a year ago in retaliation for the unlawful assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. Since World War II, this critical and historic event marked the first direct strike from any country (Iran) against the US. It was an Iranian act of boldness and a shocking decision to confront the strongest superpower on Earth overtly. It indicates that Iran was ready for war when it bombed that US Ain al-Assad military base, the largest in Iraq. Why did the US publicly sharing these facts a year later? US recognition of Iran's bombing accuracy is nothing new because Iran itself announced it a year ago, and the destroyed sites were all over the news. What did the US administration want to show, and what is the message behind Mackenzie's old but new revelations?

It is all about the nuclear deal: the four-star US General released a quantity of essential information received by the US drone. At the same time, Iran launched its missiles, demonstrating and sending different messages. Indeed, disclosing the details confirming Iran's power could be part of the US way to prepare Iran's path to return to the nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA). It shows that the US recognises Iranian regional power and acknowledged its missiles' efficiency and deterrent effect. On the other hand, it could also explain to Iran and the world why the US wants to introduce amendments to the 2015 JCPOA agreement and contain Iran's ballistic missiles and include this issue on the negotiating table.

The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state

One of China's largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai.

In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban and rural areas — more than 28,500 in total by 2016. Even the smallest villages had at least six security cameras installed, according to state media.

Those cameras weren't just monitored by police and automated facial recognition algorithms. Through special TV boxes installed in their homes, local residents could watch live security footage and press a button to summon police if they saw anything amiss. The security footage could also be viewed on smartphones.

In 2015 the Chinese government announced that a similar program would be rolled out across China, with a particular focus on remote and rural towns. It was called the "Xueliang Project," or Sharp Eyes, a reference to a quote from communist China's former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong who once wrote that "the people have sharp eyes" when looking out for neighbors not living up to communist values.

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has cancelled all sentences against the country's former leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, restoring his political rights to run again for office ahead of next year's election.

Supreme Court judge Edson Fachin ruled on Monday that the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba, which had convicted Lula of money laundering and corruption, actually had no jurisdiction over the cases.

The judge annulled all sentences handed to the 75-year-old in relation to 'Operation Lava Jato' (Car Wash) - a major anti-graft investigation in which three ex-presidents and numerous officials were indicted.

Monday's ruling means that Lula's political rights have been restored, making him eligible to run against Brazil's current leader, Jair Bolsonaro, in the presidential election in 2022. The country's so-called 'Clean Record Act' bars those with convictions from holding public office, a measure which already cost the veteran politician a spot in the 2018 presidential race.