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  For What Are America's Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War When leaders run out of unifying myths, division is the last currency. Why this Thanksgiving, America is a "death cult" versus "radical socialists" Matt Taibbi 10 hr ago 99 Self-described “elected DNC member” and  Washington Monthly  contributor David Atkins tweeted this last week, garnering a huge response: David Atkins @DavidOAtkins No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook? We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South. November 18th 2020 10,062 Retweets 62,327 Likes You have to read the full thread to grasp the argument, a greatest hits collection of DNC talking points. Conservatives, Atkins writes, have no beliefs, being a “belligerent death cult against reality and basic decency.” There’s no reason to listen to them, since the “only actual policy debates” are “happening wit...

  Thanks to Maxwell for contributing this article... Bread and Circuses: Who’s Behind the Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19? Posted on NOVEMBER 25, 2020 Categories Biopolitics ‘Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.’  — Juvenal Over the past week the race for a vaccine for COVID-19 has approached the finishing line, with the  Oxford Vaccine Group  looking to be  the first to cross in the UK . This has occasioned a huge and relentless promotional campaign by the Department of Health and Social Care. In doing so, it has drawn on three media-friendly figures, in particular, to guarantee the safety of the vaccine: Dr. June Raine, Professor Andrew Pollard and Professor Jonathan Van Tam. The latter became a  social media hit  earlier this month after he compared the public’s adherence to Government lockdown restrictions to footballers holding their nerve for a ‘penalty shootout’; and likened the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine to a ‘train coming ...

Thanks to Maxwell for contributing this article... Open letter to the Commissioner for Health, Joanne Castonguay Posted by  Georges Buscemi   Joanne Castonguay, Quebec Health and Welfare Commissioner (Photo: Twitter) By Georges Buscemi, President (  Québec-Vie Campaign  ) Mrs, I am writing to you as president of Campagne Québec-Vie, a non-profit association whose objective is to make our contribution so that Quebec can once again become a Christian society that defends faith, family and life, conception to natural death  [1]  . I learned from an article in the newspaper  La Presse  that the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, had given you the mandate "to examine the performance of the health network, in particular care for the elderly, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ”and that this study would be similar to a commission of inquiry, minus the punitive powers  [2]  . Your mandate as defined by Mr. Dubé suggests that the dea...