From the week:
Inflation: No longer invisible (Report)
Eviction protest in Detroit (Report) (A beginning?)
Texas: Another view of the power debacle (Article)
U.S. Government: The high cost of using the minimum wage as a form of welfare (Article)
The U.S. economy: 92% of New York City restaurants couldn’t pay December rent (Report)
Government: Enlisting big tech companies to silence COVID-19 vaccine dissent (Report)
Censorship: Congress leans on Big Tech to increase web site censorship (Report)
Texas: A pro explains why so many froze (Article)
New Uork City: Over 89% of shootings in 2020 by non-whites; city 33% white? (Report)
Government: Congressional Democrats target Fox News (Report)
Fragility of Tech: Fed system for interbank transfers went out of service (Report)(Murphy rules)
Congress: New COVID bill pays federal employees with kids at home up to $21,000 (Report)
The U.S. financial system: The debt/deficits are beginning to dry up the lenders? (Article)
California: Collapsing? (Article)
The pandemic: The bankruptcies are piling up (Report)
The economy: Credit cards payment system outage problem (Report) (Risky fragility of high tech)
More economy: Nationwide eviction block ruled unconstitutional (Report)
Still more economy: Federal Reserve market manipulation is terminal (Article)
Cendorship: Re: Congressional Democrats pushing elimination of Fox News (Article)
Portland: Police investigator working crime scene arrested for DUI when trying to leave (Report)
The war on the internet: Microsoft organizing authorship for all net information? (Report)
Restaurants: Kitchens going digital, replacing people (Report)
The economy: Monetary inflation, the next step (Article) (Recommended for those interested in finance)
Chicago: 2 dead, 16 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)
A naked man was arrested in a women’s restroom (Report)
That’s all, folks …
EDITORIAL: A Simple Question
What is the proper political term characterizing a government that:
- Requires citizens submission to police search and approval for travel,
- Restricts/closes any business, school, church or any other operation at will,
- Restricts/forbids citizens gathering,
- Encourage political censorship upon information/communication media,
- Protect employers who discharge employees for their political/religious beliefs stated in conversations or on internet social media and
- Provide questioned election results while refusing t allow independent audits?
Another question: Do you think that this describes the kind of democratic republic envisioned by America’s founders?
OK – dictatorship. But there are no leaders without followers. Hitler would have been just one raving loony without the German populace backing him. I can get nuts to some extent but I don’t get the nuts who follow them and so give them power.
Guessing at “those who follow them”: A mix of those with something to gain, those who believe/hope they have something to gain and those habituated but inattentive?
A friend once said to me – the problem with the human race is not evil, but stupidity. Having a rather dark view of things I wonder if our Machiavellian ruling classes deliberately regularly cull the intelligent by inciting the stupid majority against them.