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Et tu, Samia? Tanzania’s autocratic state and the denial of a massacre
The latest reverberation of the cover-up of post-election brutality is a campaign of state denial of the deadly violence of 2025, shifting blame back onto those who were brutalised.… , which presents the writer’s personal point of view. The views expressed are those of the author/authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Daily Maverick.
Russian Parliament Grants FSB Sweeping Powers to Shut Down Internet and Communications
The Russian State Duma has approved sweeping new legislation granting the Federal Security Service (FSB) unprecedented authority to shut down internet services, mobile communications, and even postal services, marking a dramatic expansion of surveillance powers that critics warn could effectively silence dissent.
John Andrew Collins on William Branham Historical Project
John Andrew Collins is the author and webmaster of William Branham: Historical Research. He was born and raised in “The Message” cult following of William Branham, and is the grandson of Willard Collins, former pastor of William Branham’s “Branham Tabernacle” in Jeffersonville, Indiana. From 1976 to 2012, John was unduly influenced to believe and practice many of the religious and cultural views expressed by William Branham and by men and women who were in Branham’s inner circle.
We Must Reject CBDCs
[I co-wrote a whitepaper with Natalie Smolenski on CBDCs which is available to read here. Below is my undiluted, short-from original before we worked on it together] CBDC stands for “Central Bank Digital Currency”, a digital fiat currency issued, controlled, and run by a central bank. In other words, CBDCs are not just digital representations of fiat currencies, like the money held in online bank accounts.
Sci-Fi Linked To Positive Attitudes About Tech
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan I read a study from the University of Helsinki entitled What makes people approve or condemn mind upload technology? Untangling the effects of science fiction familiarity. The study showed a correlation between reading Sci-Fi and positive attitudes about mind uploading technology and digitizing the brain.
Big Saturday Read: Politics of Authoritarian Rule in Zimbabwe
Where are we as a nation and what does the future hold? The situation is dire. A key exercise at this point is an examination of factors that are influencing the conduct of politics under the regime led by Emmerson Mnangagwa with the coup of November 2017 as a critical juncture. In “The Politics of Authoritarian Rule”, political scientist Milan W Svolik provides an interesting and useful account of the factors that shape politics in authoritarian regimes.
How the Power Elite Runs Us
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher. To this day his Hegelian Dialectic is a model used by central powers of government to create a problem that causes a reaction most often in the form of a crisis or series of crises, and consolidation of concentrated power results in fewer hands as a consequence of the proposed solution put forth by the same political body that created the problem and crises in the first place.
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