Just a Sheep

Shepard lost their marbles and the herding dogs won't bite the hand that feeds them. Gave them the slip and now I'm figuring out how to be an independent sheep.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

The Department of Education granted $8M to this NGO, which argues that America is a "racialized structure of power, privilege, [and] oppression" and suggests that Republicans are "violently fighting for the maintenance of white supremacy."

It advises public schools in 13 states.

[Rukshan Fernando @therealrukshan]

Health authorities went after Drs and nurses in Australia for giving advice online about risks with vaccines, what will happen to Drs and nurses that claim to kill their patients out of racial hatred?

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

Free Speech is Dead

Yesterday I managed to get in a three minute speech against the proposed hate laws before the bill was guillotined.

Normally you’re allowed to speak for 15 minutes on the bill.

I didn’t get a chance to explain just how draconian these laws are.

Before this bill, prosecutors had to prove intent— that your words deliberately incited harm. Not anymore. The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 lowers the bar so drastically that you can now be jailed for reckless speech.

"Reckless speech" without any intent is now criminalised. Even if you accidentally offend someone you can be charged, found guilty and go to prison.

A number of amendments to put in safeguards were moved including:

1) Removing mandatory sentencing

2) Excluding children under 14 from the bill and

3) A good faith carve out to prevent these rules from being used as a form of lawfare to shut down debate such as any of the below statements could soon land you in prison.

• Marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

• The LGBTQIA2S+ lobby keeps pushing radical gender policies on our kids. Maybe it's time we show them we won't stand for it anymore. Let's take action!

• We need to stop mass immigration and expect assimilation because it brings division and poverty to our country.

• The idea that gender is entirely a social construct is not supported by biological science. Those groups forcing people to accept this concept are dangerous.

The major parties and One Nation did not vote for any of these amendments.

In fact Malcolm Roberts voted against the exemption for children under 14 year olds.

Pauline didn’t turn up to vote on anything. This is not unusual as Pauline didn’t turn up last year to vote on the 30 bills rammed through parliament on the last sitting day including the Online Safety Bill.

When I said in my clip yesterday that One Nation voted for the bill that was what I was referring to. They didn’t vote on the final vote but if they were serious about wanting more debate then they should have expressed their view through voting on the amendments. To claim they needed more detail was a cop out.

Clearly they supported children under 14 getting locked up for saying something offensive. By voting against stopping this and not voting for other amendments, Malcolm indicated more support for the bill than opposition.

As someone with three children under 14 I was furious that any politician would agree to this.

These laws are another nail in the coffin of democracy in this country.

#auspol

[George Christensen @NationFirstAust]

Almost an entire thread by @CitizenGO_AU on how Australia's hate speech laws are de facto censorship laws was taken down by @X this morning. We presume the @eSafetyOffice may have been involved. @elonmusk @senatorbabet @SenatorRennick @mattjcan @PaulineHansonOz @MRobertsQLD @SenatorAntic @FSUofAustralia @ausvstheagenda @zeeemedia @matt_barrie @chrissmithonair @dystopian_DU @JohnRuddick2 @craigkellyXXX @Matt_Camenzuli @Dittloff4Senate @shellenberger @AJNlive @ggreenwald

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

🚨BREAKING: Multiple U.S. states now moving to BAN COVID vaccines. And the Federal government may follow suit.

THIS IS HUGE...

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[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

Australia's economic plan:

Build ugly concrete high rise monstrosities.
Fill them with migrants who'll work cheap & ask no questions.

... that's about it really.

[Valerie 🤌🏻 @AussieVal10]

Point 1 and Point 2 apply to Aus…so far Point 3 hasn’t been implemented yet… I don’t think.

Piers defending the indefensible 🤷🏻‍♀️

The UK is a step ahead of us atm.

[Heather E Heying @HeatherEHeying]

President Kennedy gave a young NIH scientist the highest civilian honor because she objected to thalidomide.

Questioning the science of the day was dangerous but utterly necessary. It still is.

Make America Healthy Again. Bring real science back to Americans. Confirm Kennedy.

[𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂 @TXMCtrades]

Musk's role was granted him via an appointment loophole (repurposing an existing office within WH) that strategically avoided any Congressional hurdles. There is no direct line from him to accountability with the American people. He straight up bought his way into the job.

[NZDSOS - NZ Doctors Speaking Out with Science @nzdsos]

Lab leak 'theory' no more.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Committee on Oversight and Accountability U.S. House of Representatives report on the pandemic.

#USPolitics #covid #StopTheSilence

[$in¢lair Davidson @SincDavidson]

'Load shedding' is a fancy phrase for 'rationing'.
Australia is now rationing electricity - like we were some third world country.

[Danielle DiMartino Booth @DiMartinoBooth]

Whatever you do, don’t lose your job. I do not say this with even a scintilla of sarcasm.

[Jason Burack @JasonEBurack]

Insider trading at the Federal Reserve Bank https://t.co/zha0sKOHjH

[Senator Alex Antic @SenatorAntic]

The Misinformation Bill is almost dead on arrival.

The legacy media have taken very little interest in this debate and this morning American free speech advocate and journalist Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger, Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan, John Storey from the Institute of Public Affairs @TheIPA and I had the opportunity to address the media on the importance of defeating this Bill.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Millions Of Swedes Receive 'How To Survive War' Booklet From Government https://t.co/K2BHJtmSIN

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

It's not voluntary if you need it to access social media.

Labor lied - again!

#NotVoluntary #LaborLies #DigitalCensorship

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

In Orwellian Britain you’re no longer allowed to record your surroundings in public without being harassed by police officers who don’t care about your rights because you have none, and your freedoms are dictated by their whims.

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

This just in from @DavidColemanMP on the MAD Censorship Bill and rejecting it in the senate vote next week.

But I’m going to go one further.

The ACMA and eSafety Office have demonstrated absolute abuse of office and must be disbanded. https://t.co/98Pwjt6fWa

[Radigan Carter @radigancarter]

Reading @Myrmikan's latest, this stuck out to me, even if DOGE can cut ever bit of gov fat and Trump can end the wars, it isn't enough.

We're barely making it above mandatory social spending and interest expenses.

Like getting paid on Friday, buying groceries, your mom's medicine, paying the minimum on the credit card, and you got $5 left over...but you're still charging things to the card so interest is going up over time.

Some will say Rad, don't worry, AI is going to save us, not without taxing those robots and corporations as they lay people off who then go on the right side of the social column as a gov liability it's not.

Truth is there is no way out of this without drastic cuts to mandatory spending and no one wants to hear that.

You want to lower interest rates below inflation and kill bond holders, or do you want to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid and cause a recession/depression? You have to pick one.

Oh, and you also can't fund anymore forever wars or any other dumb shit like giving $100 million to an NGO who funds ISIS in Syria by accident or putting testosterone in frogs to see what happens, those things getting cut are a given, just to stop the debt growing.

This is what a lot of people who want to argue about human rights or defending democracy don't get, none of that matters because we're fucking broke.

You know who gets to care about social issues and starving kids in Africa? People with money who need public adoration to fill an internal hole in their soul.

We don't have any more money so none of it matters.

Yes there will be fucked up things happening all around the world, I need you to stop worrying about them and start worrying about your own life and put your fucking tourniquet on to stop the bleeding.

That's where we're at in money terms. Shut the fuck up and put your tourniquet on so you don't die.

This isn't a popular message, which is why some people believe financial repression will most likely happen.

It is more politically survivable to slowly kill US bond holders by paying less interest on debt and let inflation run hot than telling them we need to shut the fuck up and put a tourniquet on and cut all this spending and go through several years of pain to get rid of this debt and entitlements.

Financial repression is more politically survivable because people don't understand how financial repression inflation (currency devaluation) works.

This isn't inflation like the price of potatoes are going up because farmers had a bad year and there are less potatoes to buy so prices go up. No.

The prices are going up because the value of the dollar is going down relative to what it can buy as the government pays less interest than it should on purpose so it allows them to service their debt.

Yes, it is deceitful, yes life will be hard for a lot of people with this happening, politicians don't care about that.

They care about not being the ones to blame.

Financial repression allows this to be done in such a way people won't know what is happening, or who is to blame exactly, so it presents the best possible way for politicians to survive while maintaining social stability so their power is intact.

If they cut social security, medicare, or medicaid then that causes a recession/depression as the house of cards they've built with massive debt comes crashing down and everyone knows who did it.

Welcome to democracy, it's all about making it so convoluted people don't know who to blame.

The problem with this plan?

We're starting to see it now with Fed lowering interest rate yet the 10-yr yield is going higher and mortgages are going back higher following 10-yr as market sniffs out that the plan is to run inflation hot and bond yields low and they are not playing along and wanting more yield for holding US debt.

US won't let that happen if financial repression is the plan, so at some point gov will mandate institutions hold more bonds and just take that pain.

And with that, the price of assets will go even higher, not because it makes sense for Nvidia to be where it is, not because the US economy is strong, it is just capital running away from the massacre the Fed is doing to bond holders as they try to find a place, any place, to hide from the financial repression and try to maintain their purchasing power through this.

It is people trying to find a place where they can still get a real return in the future after inflation and taxes.

That's how I think about financial repression, we'll see if it happens.

And if you're not reading Myrmikan's pieces, you are truly missing out. Sign up below to get smarter on money and history so you can annoy the gf or wife even more with random historical facts.

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[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Most of us had an intuition that the Covid vaccine mandates were not entirely about health but rather a tactic of exclusion of those who were not fully trusting of authority. This was rather obvious when it came to the military and the medical profession but less apparent within academia where noncompliant students and professors were effectively purged for their refusal to risk their lives for pharma.

There was an element of malice, too, in the mask mandates. Even though there was zero scientific evidence that a Chinese-made synthetic cloth worn on the face can change epidemiological dynamics, they did serve well as a visible sign to separate believers from unbelievers, and also as a sadistic means of reminding individualists of who is really running the show.

The final means of censorship is violence against person and property, while the end is to control what you think in service of one-party rule. Major tech companies and major media are wholly complicit in bringing this about. Only a handful of services are stopping this and they are all being targeted by the regime through myriad forms of lawfare.
https://t.co/CJIAyGSe8D via @brownstoneinst