"A related reminder that when the establishment wings of both parties were recently clamoring for US interference in Cuba, there was also only one TV program that aired opposition to that view: the same one currently opposing US aggression for Ukraine" - he continued, in reference to Fox. .........   Thus Fox's Tucker Carlson increasingly stands as a lone non-interventionist voice in the US mainstream media landscape, frequently speaking out against hawks and their dangerous 'wars of choice' which have nothing to do with defending America...  Tyler Durden

One simple way to cut down cases is to limit testing, and that's another U-turn we're now seeing. The CDC is now saying you should not retest once you've recovered from COVID. If you test positive, just quarantine for five days and don't retest to confirm that you're negative, as the PCR can provide false positives for up to 12 weeks after the infection has been resolved.   Well, we've known this for nearly two years already. From the start, experts warned that the PCR cannot be used to diagnose an active infection, as it can pick up RNA from dead, non-infectious viral debris.  Health authorities are now spinning the tale that these revisions in guidance are because we have two years' worth of data, and they're just following the science. But that's pure baloney, seeing how the data never supported their COVID restrictions in the first place. Dr Joseph Mercola

...A massive multinational corporate conglomerate; telling a centralized autocratic government leader what to do; and using severe economic and social regimentation as a control mechanism; combined with forcible suppression of opposition by both the corporations and government.

Doesn't that define our current reality, especially in the era of COVID ?

The instructions from the multinational corporations to government would be called the "Great Reset", or as commonly transposed by the government officials receiving the instructions, "Build Back Better".      Sundance

IMO Tucker Carlson, despite his critics is the highest profile voice out there bringing truth to the public.  Brian

There it is readers. Now we know why there has been such an exodus of public servants in Queensland. No employee or any sane person would agree to handing away their lives to a communist state or any other entity. This is why 29,504 teachers have gone, 2000 or more police have been sacked and up to 900 ambulance staff have left the left wallowing in the biggest mess that this state has seen since federation.   Jim O'Toole

Alexandros Koptsis, the Greek Education Ministry's general secretary for primary and secondary education, told Al Jazeera on December 9, 2021, he urged Greek public school staff "to call prosecutors" and establish a criminal case against parents who refused to send their children to public schools while his ministry's mandates remained in place.   "If a prosecutor deems it necessary, parents could even be deprived of custody," Koptsis told a Greek radio station at the time, according to Al Jazeera.   Gabrielle  Reyes

"It is disturbing to see that Pfizer evidently has the Biden FBI at its beck and call to target journalists at Project Veritas," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "This development is especially concerning coming on the heels of the FBI's outrageous Ashley Biden diary raid on the home of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe."   Cristina Laila

The anti-lockdown stance from the left-wing party is significant, as instead of acting as an opposition to the government, Labour has consistently backed all of the draconian measures introduced by the Conservative government.   The fact that both parties are looking to end lockdowns signals a potential mood-shift in Britain, which has seen numerous polls throughout the pandemic showing the UK population to be one of the most frightened of the virus in the West.   Kurt Zindulka

On December 6th, the International Crisis Group issued a more scathing report, warning that the "hunger and destitution" caused by "economic strangulation," imposed by the West in response to the Taliban takeover, could "kill more Afghans than all the bombs and bullets of the past two decades."   In other words, U.S. policy of intentionally starving the Afghan people through economic sanctions on Afghanistan is going as planned. As many predicted, blocking funds from the Taliban and curtailing foreign aid and assistance would lead to a rapid financial meltdown and exacerbate the ongoing famine plaguing Afghanistan.    Zachary Scott

According to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute, 59 percent of self-identified Democrats support the government requiring unvaccinated individuals to stay homes "at all times" unless an emergency arises that warrants going outside. Thirty-five percent of Democrats surveyed "strongly" support the government confining the unvaccinated.   Alicia Powe

Many of these people (i.e., the non-fanatics) are starting to suspect that maybe what we "tin-foil-hat-wearing, Covid-denying, anti-vax, conspiracy-theorist extremists" have been telling them for the past 22 months might not be as crazy as they originally thought.  They are back-pedaling, rationalizing, revising history, and just making up all kinds of self-serving bullshit, like how we are now in "a post-vaccine world," or how "the Science has changed," or how "Omicron is different," in order to avoid being forced to admit that they're the victims of a GloboCap PSYOP and the worldwide mass hysteria it has generated.  C.J. Hopkins

"We do not want to face the population in a threatening manner during what are predominantly peaceful demonstrations which were organized due to the increasing dissatisfaction of the people with politicians," wrote the authors of the letter.     Pierre Boralevi