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Will the Ghost of Duncan Lemp Haunt Gun-Grabbing Politicians?

Will the Ghost of Duncan Lemp Haunt Gun-Grabbing Politicians? by Jim Bovard | Mar 11, 2024 If you post a photo of a rifle on Instagram, tag it to your hometown, and add a caption like “green tip armor piercing gets the girls wet,” Maryland police can cite that to get a no-knock search warrant […]
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2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

John & Nisha Whitehead Big Brother is Watching You.” George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise …

Who Owns Your Children? The Government Keeps Acting Like It Does

Governments across the world continue to take actions that reflect the belief that it is not parents who are the guardians of their children but the state itself. In September, the First Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a high-profile case regarding whether a school violated parents’ constitutional rights by actively encouraging their 11-year-old Read More...

The Criminalization of Dissent (Revisited)

CJ Hopkins Greetings from Thoughtcriminal 231Js1736/23! That’s my official Thoughtcrime Case Number, which my attorney needs to reference in all our official correspondence with the New Normal Thoughtpolice. I think I’m going to silk-screen it on a T-shirt and wear it on my first day in Moabit Criminal Court, “the largest criminal court in Europe with …

Learn about Islam

Quran Rumi The first ten Surahs of the Holy Quran, known as the Al-Mufassal Surahs, hold great significance in the Islamic faith. These Surahs were revealed in the early stages of Prophet Muhammad’s prophethood and lay the foundation for understanding the fundamental teachings of Islam. Let’s explore each Surah briefly: Surah Al-Fatiha (The Opening): Surah […]

What Ended Democracy in U.S.-and-Allied Countries

Eric Zuesse When virtually all of the news-media in a country are owned and controlled by billionaires, those individuals (who are less than a thousand) collectively control the ‘news’-media and thus mentally control the masses and don’t just fund the careers of the winning political candidates but control the entire body-politic — both their public […]

Paranoia: Is it Always a Bad Thing?

Todd Hayen “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Kurt Cobain What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to the psychosis brought about by that particular mental illness. Psychosis is described as a departure from “reality” and being a “paranoid schizophrenic” typically means the psychosis …