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Best of the Web: Gaslighting: How leftist psychopaths demonize and demoralize their opposition

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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We have all heard this time honored cautionary mantra: "All governments lie". It's not a theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time. I would only expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all corporations, all corporate media, all think tanks, and all corporate funded activist groups lie. There is a reason why public trust is at all time lows for the majority of these organizations, and it's not because they are managed by good and honest people.

If you operate on the assumption that these groups are lying to you most of the time then you will find yourself on the right side of history. That said, there are questions we need to ask ourselves if we ever hope to change the world for the better and remove these liars from power: Why do they lie? Why has this become a rule to live by? And, how are they able to lie and get away with it so often?

Well, it's not because power corrupts. That cliché might be true to a point, but I think it's a way for people to dismiss the bigger problem because they are afraid to address the ugly truth. The reality is, power does not necessarily corrupt; it's that the corrupt seek out power.
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Fail Hydra! Captain America is now so woke he's fighting a Jordan Peterson parody rather than Nazis hell-bent on world domination

Zachary Leeman
RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:44 UTC
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© Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Chris Williamson / Getty Images(L) 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) Dir: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (R) Jordan Peterson
The author and clinical psychologist was surprised to learn that Steve Rogers' nemesis Red Skull now appears to be modeled after him, but this painfully obvious liberal pandering has been infecting mainstream art for years now.

When the character of Captain America was at the height of his popularity in the comic book world, he was best known for punching Nazis in the face and extolling the virtues of patriotism.

Today, however, Captain America is as woke as just about every other character being pushed through the dying comics industry. With more and more agenda-driven writers landing gigs with big wigs like Marvel, his duty has now become to drop the overt patriotism and take on the loosely defined Nazis of today - aka anyone with a slightly conservative perspective.

Comment: Happily, the satirists are right on Ta-Nehisi Coates uber-woke heels:

In new Captain America, Steve Rogers is swayed by Red Skull videos - takes responsibility, cleans room

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The West lies about everything it claims it values: The treatment of Julian Assange proves it

Caitlin Johnstone
RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:18 UTC
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© ReutersWikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January 13, 2020
The Western world has a very high opinion of itself and its supposed values, and its treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a lie of it all.

Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our society upholds with the utmost reverence, and that we are very fortunate to have been born in a part of the world which holds such virtue.

You see this haughty self-righteousness pop up on a daily basis in the most influential circles on earth, from the way US presidents are still to this day referred to as the "leader of the free world", to US Secretary of State Tony Blinken recently babbling about the "shared values" of the "free and open rules-based order", to Magnitsky Act manipulator Bill Browder recently referring to the US-centralized power alliance as "the civilized world" in a bid to get Australia up to pace with the rest of the empire's China hawkishness.
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Lockdowns have worsened inequalities in US, across the Americas - Amnesty International

Don Johnson
UPI
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:04 UTC
January 31, 2020
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© Leigh Vogel/UPIJanuary 31, 2020:
National Institutes of Health official Dr. Anthony Fauci (C) speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C. Health and Human Services Secretary Alexander Azar (L) announced that the United States is declaring the virus a public health emergency and issued a federal quarantine order of 14 days for 195 Americans.
COVID-19 has increased social and economic inequality in the United States and other countries of the Americas, watchdog Amnesty International said Wednesday in its annual report on the state of human rights.

The 400-page analysis says North, South and Central America has been worst hit by the crisis, with about 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths to date.

The United States, Brazil and Mexico have the world's highest death tolls, partly because their governments, the report says, struggled to give consistent health guidance, failed to protect the most vulnerable populations or failed to provide full transparency.

Comment: As noted above, lockdowns have exacerbated and accelerated problems already present in the system, and, with governments continuing to enforce them, despite the evidence showing that they don't work, one can only conclude that these measures and their disastrous consequences are serving an agenda that has nothing to do with stopping a virus:

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April in? Paris turning into 'open dump' as furious locals share pictures of graffiti and overflowing bins

Rachael Bunyan
The Daily Mail
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:37 UTC
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Thousands of pictures have emerged on social media in the past few days of piles of rubbish filling the streets of the historic city under the hashtag 'SaccageParis' - meaning 'trash Paris'
Furious Parisians have turned on their Socialist mayor with a Twitter campaign where they are accusing her of gross mismanagement which as left Paris looking like a 'rubbish dump'.

Thousands of pictures have emerged on social media in the past few days of piles of rubbish filling the streets of the historic city under the hashtag 'SaccageParis' - meaning 'trash Paris'.

Parisians have claimed the city has been left 'abandoned' by their Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo and they are fed up with living in an 'unmaintained dump' which some have likened to a 'shanty town'.

Comment: Paul Joseph Watson dares to name the real problem

Paul Joseph Watson: Paris is a Sh*thole (VIDEO)

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George Floyd murder trial day 7 wrap-up: Prosecutor has a horrible day

Andrew Branca
Legal Insurrection
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:07 UTC
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© court proceedings in MN v. ChauvinMPD Lt. Johnny Mercil testifies at Daniel Chavin murder trial
Prosecution visibly shaken after cross-examination of MPD force & medical experts

Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the Minnesota murder trial of Derek Chauvin over the in-custody death of George Floyd. I am Attorney Andrew Branca for Law of Self Defense, providing guest commentary and analysis of this trial for Legal Insurrection.

Overview: "911? I'd like to report a murder."

Today was a terrible, horrible no good, very bad day for the prosecution, to a degree that I haven't seen since the trial of George Zimmerman.

If you have no more than an hour to watch the video of today's proceedings, then I urge you to spend 44 minutes watching the cross-examination of state witness Johnny Mercil, the state's use-of-force training expert, and 22 minutes watching the cross-examination of Nicole MacKenzie, the state's medical care training expert. In both instances the result can only be called a train wreck of a disaster for the prosecution.
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US trade deficit jumps 4.8% to $71.1B in February


mynorthwest.com
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:18 UTC
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The U.S. trade deficit grew to a record $71.1 billion in February as a decline in exports more than offset a slight dip in imports, with severe weather taking much of the blame from analysts, who were expecting a slightly lower gap.

The February gap between what America buys from abroad compared to what it sells abroad jumped 4.8% above the revised January deficit of $67.8 billion, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The coronavirus pandemic has stifled global trade for more than a year, but those barriers appear to be falling as millions of people get vaccinated and countries start easing operating restrictions for businesses. Total trade after two months of 2021 is just 1.8% behind where it was at this point last year, before the global economy was blindsided by the pandemic.

The U.S. vaccine rollout, which so far as gotten at least one shot into the arms of more than 100 million Americans, is far ahead of other major global economies in Europe and Asia. Should that trend continue, economists believe it will accelerate a return to "business as usual" and an even wider trade gap as the U.S. economy moves into high gear.
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Arkansas lawmakers overrode GOP governor veto of bill banning gender transition services for minors

Alex Nitzberg
Just the News
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:49 UTC
Asa Hutchinson
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesAsa Hutchinson at Republican National Convention in 2016
Both chambers of the Arkansas state legislature on Tuesday voted decisively to overridde Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson's veto of a bill to ban gender transition surgeries and services like cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors.

The state's House of Representatives voted 72-25 to override the veto and the state Senate vote was 25-8.

"In Arkansas, gender reassignment surgery is not performed on anyone under age 18. If House Bill 1570 simply prohibited gender reassignment surgeries, then I would sign the bill," Hutchinson said on Monday. "But the bill is overbroad, extreme, and does not grandfather those young people who are currently under hormone treatment. In other words, the young people who are currently under a doctor's care will be without treatment when this law goes into effect. That means they'll be looking to the black market or go out of state if they can afford it to find the treatment that they want and need. This is not the right path to put them on," the governor said.

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson sparred with Gov. Hutchinson who defended the veto during an interview on Tuesday night's episode of Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight.

"Now, I think of you as a conservative, here you've come out publicly as pro-choice on the question of chemical castration of children — what changed?" Carlson inquired.

Comment: Preventing teenagers from drinking alcohol - acceptable intrusion into the private lives of minors. Preventing their chemical castration - but small government!

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans COVID-19 vaccine passports: 'Don't tread on our personal freedoms'

Sarah Taylor
Blaze Media
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:44 UTC
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has banned government-mandated COVID-19 vaccine passports in a new executive order.

What are the details?

Abbott announced on Tuesday morning the ban on any government-mandated COVID-19 vaccine passports.

The executive order, issued on Monday, prohibits any regulation requiring Texans to show any proof of vaccination.

In a Tuesday morning video, Abbott said, "Every day, Texans return to normalcy as more people get the COVID vaccine. In fact, this week, Texas will surpass 13 million doses administered. Those shots help slow the spread of COVID, reduce hospitalizations, and reduce fatalities. But, as I have said all along, these vaccines are always voluntary and never forced. Government should not require any Texan to show proof of vaccination and reveal private health information just to go about their daily lives. That is why I issued an executive order that prohibits government-mandated vaccine passports in Texas."

"We will continue to vaccinate more Texans and protect public health and we will do so without treading on Texans' personal freedoms," he added.
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Glenn Greenwald's new book on journalism, exposing corruption, and the resulting risks, dangers and societal changes

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:17 UTC
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Glenn Greenwald
In 2015, I travelled to Sweden for an event with former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. It was billed as a conversation about modern journalism between the reporter who had broken the biggest story of the prior generation (Watergate) and the one responsible for the biggest story of the current one (NSA/Snowden revelations).

A couple of years earlier, at the height of the Snowden reporting, Bernstein and I had traded some barbed insults through the media. So before traveling to Sweden, he generously reached out to invite me to dinner in order, essentially, to clear the air so that we could have a civil conversation. The night before the event, we met for dinner at the hotel restaurant. We quickly laughed off the acrimony — it had been a couple of years prior, and both of us have had much worse said about us — and proceeded to have a perfectly enjoyable conversation.
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