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Even Orwell’s Thought Police didn’t go as far as Trudeau

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Matt Taibbi writes about Canada’s Online Harms Act (C-63) which provides $20,000 bounties for those who turn in those who are successfully prosecuted for “Hate Speach”:

this is where it trips over into as yet unimagined dystopian territory. If the courts believe you are likely to commit a ‘hate crime’ or disseminate ‘hate propaganda’ (not defined), you can be placed under house arrest and your ability to communicate with others restricted. That is, a court can force you to wear an ankle bracelet, prevent you using any of your communication devices and then instruct you not to leave the house. If the court believes there’s a risk you may get drunk or high and start tweeting under the influence – although how is unclear, given you can’t use your phone or a PC – it can order you to submit regular urine samples to the authorities. Anyone who refuses to comply with these diktats can be sent to prison.

Cooking the Books: Exposing the lunacy of the Green New Math™

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Doomberg describes how government technicalities has resulting in 6 generators in the UK switching from coal to wood:

By government decree, burning wood no longer produces more CO2 than burning coal. It apparently produces no CO2 whatsoever, at least according to the carbon counters in Brussels and London—surprisingly convenient for those in the burning business instructed to care about CO2 emissions. Not actual CO2 emissions, of course, just the ones the government has decided to count

Roosevelt 4 Freedoms

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For that very reason, the Declaration of Independence does not speak of the attainment of happiness, but of the pursuit of happiness. The question, then, is of what the ruler should do for the happiness of citizens

Gulf War: babies in incubators — Nayirah Episode of 60 Minutes

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I happened to be over at the White House the afternoon later in the evening after the afternoon of the hearings and the president said that he had seen it on CNN and that he was shocked at some of the things that he had heard and they were thrown out of the incubators. President Bush repeated the incubator story at least 10 times in the following weeks babies pulled from incubators and scattered like firewood across the floor.

 

Cited by Senators

In the senate the war resolution passed by five votes and incidentally six senators referred to the baby incubator story as a reason to go to war.

 

Craig Fuller who until last week was president of Hillary Knowlton was George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff when he was vice president andi was involved in President Bush’s campaign.