The U.S. government would like to inform you that Western civilization is not, in fact, collapsing. If you’ve ever suspected otherwise, if you’ve looked around and noticed widespread signs of material and cultural decay, you should seek a narrative reset immediately. Because chances are, you’ve fallen victim to a false narrative injected by the Kremlin’s “disinformation and propaganda ecosystem…into the global information environment.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/foggy-narratives/
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other things, in order to create or access online accounts with the agency.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/irs-require-facial-recognition-view-tax-returns
In 2015, during a public debate on behavioural science in Lucerne, I was accused of supporting tactics befitting an unsavoury authoritarian regime. At the time, knowing how well-intentioned my colleagues were, I thought this was, quite frankly, nuts.
I remain a supporter of the use of behavioural science in public policy, and of the Behavioural Insights Team, more commonly known as the Nudge Unit. However, witnessing how the UK and other governments have responded to the pandemic, I can now appreciate the vulnerabilities of well-intentioned, democratic regimes, and the potential for behavioural science to be used inappropriately.
https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-the-government-abused-nudge-theory/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=06d853cff2&mc_eid=6dd6139103
for this collection of Tweets
Something’s wrong with this picture. I hope people begin to wake up even if they’re mildly entertaining such deranged ideas:
Recently, a new Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey found that US Democrats appear even more hardened against the vaccine-free. The results are shocking:
Anti-Visions 