Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Opposition to the slaughter in Gaza appears to be getting more mainstream, which is obviously great, but when political impulses go mainstream it means there’s going to be a massive and concerted effort to funnel public sentiment in a direction that doesn’t damage the interests of the empire. They’re going to try to blame this all on Netanyahu. They’re going to insist that Israel itself is fine and the only thing that went wrong was a fluke incident in which an aberrational right wing faction briefly got into power. They’re going to try to wash the western empire’s hands of the mass atrocities it directly facilitated in Gaza. They’re going to try to frame Biden as a basically decent politician who found himself trapped in an impossible situation.” (04/07/24)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/07/as-support-for-gaza-goes-mainstream-dont-let-the-empire-co-opt-the-movement/

Source: The Dispatch
bi Kevin D Williamson

“Let’s get this part out of the way first: Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter fails as a country album. But then again, so do most country albums. Beyonce talks a lot about Texas on her new album, which isn’t an album of country music but an album about country music, one that has a lot more in common with ambitious Baroque-pop cycles such as Odessey and Oracle or Village Green Preservation Society than it does anything from the universe of Waylon Jennings. The first single opens with the declaration: ‘This ain’t Texas.’ And, for sure, it ain’t.” (04/06/24)

https://thedispatch.com/article/the-empresario/

Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon

“Cargo ship Dali lost power and from there it was only a matter of time before it destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge. We hadn’t maintained the bridge for collisions of this type, we’re learning. You’d think we would have, given that the bridge is a critical piece of infrastructure for the Chesapeake Bay area, but we’re often the sort of place that fails to maintain what it has built, mostly because maintenance costs eat into tax revenues, and revenues could be used for tax cuts, and tax cuts help profits, and profits are very important, so collapses are just a thing that is coming. An inevitability. But even if we had performed adequate maintenance, the bridge was probably doomed.” (04/06/24)

https://www.the-reframe.com/blame-management

Source: Fox News
by Victor Davis Hanson

“Why are those controlling President Biden using him to advance so much of a destructive agenda that it will likely end America as we know it? If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves? Here are 11 now familiar steps to civilizational destruction: 1. Wipe out [sic] a 2,000-mile border. Allow 10 million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully [sic]. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws [sic].” [editor’s note: All federal immigration “laws” are already “nullified” by virtue of the fact that the US Constitution clearly and unambiguously forbids such “laws” – TLK] (04/05/24)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/11-ways-biden-handler-hell-bent-destroying-america

Source: The American Conservative
by Daniel Nicco

“If you travel any meaningful distance within Illinois via the state’s highways or expressways, a detailed, time-stamped record of your route and approximate destination will be logged by multiple law enforcement agencies. In part this is due to the state’s massive automatic license plate reader (ALPR) program, which recently expanded to cover approximately 6,600 miles of roadway. The rapid adoption of the technology by local law enforcement agencies has left them with surveillance programs that five years ago most would have thought were the domain of dystopian novels and major cities like London, New York, and Chicago.” (04/007/24)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-dystopian-surveillance-programs-right-in-americas-heartland/