While (Almost) Everyone Looks The Other Way, Something #Unprecedented In #Totalitarian Is #Being #Prepared:
Everyone is understandably looking in a different direction, but in the meantime something totalitarian is being prepared that is unprecedented in the #history of #power and #humanity, warns theater maker George van Houts.

“Quietly and behind closed doors, the #WHO is being transformed into an uncritical #world #government with #absolute power,” Van Houts writes on X.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PQ86dgzduVU

Totalitarian power structure

Swiss lawyer Philipp Kruse previously explained why the WHO is part of a totalitarian power structure.
Why is the WHO a totalitarian power structure? The director general can declare a health crisis at the push of a button. Everything the WHO recommends will eventually become mandatory. There is no effective protection of fundamental rights at country level.
The WHO will be the only one to decide what is ' #truth' regarding #health, including the well-known #censorship of discomfort. There is no mechanism of correction or control anymore.
Horrified mass disapproval

This will lead to human rights violations, no evaluations or corrections and no more separation of powers. This is not discussed anywhere in the public arena, parliaments or media.
If people knew this, they would be shocked and condemn it en masse, Kruse said.

The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange and the End of Press Freedom

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-63e

The legal action against #JulianAssange is poised to culminate in a #trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the #public understand the proceedings.

This new #book by #KevinGosztola, (2/21/2023) who has spent the last decade covering #Assange, #WikiLeaks, and the wider #war on #whistleblowers, tells the full story based on #testimony from dozens of witnesses. It examines #abuses-of-power by the #CIA and the #FBI, including a #spying operation that targeted Assange's #family, #lawyers, and #doctors. It outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American #wars, the #US #government's #unprecedented #indictment against Assange as a #publisher, and the #media's role in persuading the #public to " #shoot-the-messenger." #Guilty-of-Journalism offers a #balanced and #comprehensive #perspective on all the events leading up to what #press-freedom advocates have called the #trial-of-the-century.

#chrishedges #podcast #journalism #freepress #freespeech #politics #freeassange #weareallassange

The Chris Hedges Report with Kevin Gosztola

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#EdwardSnowden #FreeAssangeNOW

#Assange has been charged for #revealing #state #crimes - #unprecedented #charges for #publishing in the #public #interest.

" #JulianAssange is one of the #longest-serving #political #prisoners in the #western #world. Every level of the #case #against him has been shot through with #corruption and the #abuse of #process.
#dropthecharges #wikileaks #freespeech #weareallassange #quote

Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism

#Public #health or #private #wealth ? How #digital #vaccine #passports pave #way for #unprecedented #surveillance #capitalism #covid #covid-19 #politics

Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism - The Grayzone

The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might...

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

In this #documentary, #Zuboff reveals how the biggest #tech #companies deal with our data and reveals a #merciless form of #capitalism in which no #natural #resources, but the #citizen itself, serves as a #raw #material. How can citizens regain #control of their #data?

#shoshanazuboff #vpro #surveillance #digital #economy #residual #behavorial #internet #algorithms #privacy #security #unprecedented #resist #gdpr #democracy #society

Senator Patrick Leahy, the longest-serving Democrat, will preside over Trump’s impeachment trial

Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Senate president pro tempore, is expected to preside over former President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial when it formally begins on Tuesday, assuming a role filled last year by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., aides and other officials said on Monday.

The Constitution states that the chief justice of the United States presides over any impeachment trial of the president or vice president. But it does not explicitly give guidance on who should oversee the proceeding for others, including former presidents, and it appeared that Chief Justice Roberts was uninterested in reprising a time consuming role that would insert him and the Supreme Court directly into the fractious political fight over Mr. Trump.

Mr. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, recently reclaimed the mantle of president pro tempore — the position reserved for the longest-serving member of the majority party — when Democrats took control of the Senate. Mr. Leahy, 80, has been in office since 1974.

I've been sufficiently news-lite that though I'd caught news of Senator Leahy (D-VT) being hospitalised, and a brief mention that he was "presiding" over the impeachment, I'd missed the fact SCOTUS CJ Roberts has refused to preside as mandated by the Constitution.

That itself is unprecedented.

And could well throw a wrench into the works, though there is no appeal for impeachment either: "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments", so if the SCOTUS CJ refuses to serve the role mandated by his office, the SCOTUS itself cannot hear appeal on procedural, or any other, grounds.

Justice Roberts has declined comment, and I'm unaware of any statement, though the Times links a 2020 article at the conclusion of the first impeachment of the recently unelected President.

Given the current state of the seditious GOP, I anticipate shenanigans regardless.

And given today's symbolic vote with 45 of 50 GOP Senators opposing the impeachment, the needed 17 loyeal constitutionalists appear to be lacking.

#impeachment #politics #PatrickLeahy #JohnRoberts #USConstitution #TwiceImpeached #DJT #unprecedented

Senator Patrick Leahy, the longest-serving Democrat, will preside over Trump’s impeachment trial. (Published 2021)