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What your "deep state" has been up to. No good.Can Paul L. Williams be believed? On one hand, he has academic credentials. On the other hand, he has been criticized as a conspiracy theorist for alarmist writings on the threat of Islamic terrorism in the US. His book is available for download at Internet Archive here. He provides documentation for his claims, but I have not checked out the sources.Off GuardianOperation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance …… Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the...

Making it official. Absolute power, that is. I remind you of this history [of Richard Nixon] because over the weekend, The New York Timespublished a letter from President Trump's lawyers to special counsel Robert Mueller, which includes this stunning passage: It remains our position that the President's actions here, by virtue of his position as the chief law enforcement officer, could neither constitutionally nor legally constitute obstruction because that would amount to him obstructing...

The title signals the strong liberal bias of the authors. The dialectic is actually about traditionalism, which appears negatively as authoritarianism to liberals, versus liberalism, which appears as libertinism to traditionalists. The tell is the admission that the wave of traditionalism is being led by "populism," as in what people actually want. But what the people actually want is supposed to be the hallmark of liberalism. The way liberals counter is this is that the majority...

You might find this of interest. As a bonus, it explains some fundamental principles of mathematical modeling. Hierarchy appears to be an inescapable feature of animal, including human, societies. There are dominants and subordinates, bosses and employees, rulers and subjects, and an individual’s position in the social hierarchy to a large degree determines fundamental aspects of his or her life, including one’s health, access to resources, and influence in society. From the individual’s...

Both Trump and Arpaio believe that maintaining “law and order” is more important than adhering to the technicalities of actual law. This is known as the difference between the rule of law and the rule by men. Go figure where this leads. If you came up with authority rather than liberty, you would be right. VOX The real reason Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio Dara Lind UPITrump pardons former Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio Danielle Haynes