As with past measures, the Chinese regime has framed the series of actions as necessary for the public good. But the pace of the activity has been dizzying, with a thoroughness unseen in China’s recent memory. Be it e-commerce, entertainment, education, or gaming, few areas of Chinese society have been left unscathed amid Beijing’s torrent of regulatory activity in recent months. As authorities clamped down on the offending actors, stock markets tumbled with hundreds of billions wiped out, while companies and individuals have scrambled to assess the new rules, lest they tread on the regime’s toes. Link to article

Xi Jinping's authoritarian regime tried desperately to shut down whistle-blowers and silence any discussion of the virus in the early stages of the Wuhan outbreak - even when an untold number of corpses started flooding the city's hospitals. Any references made in social media about a new SARS virus or 'outbreak' were censored and brave medical staff who tried to speak out and warn the world were detained and forced to sign false confessions of panic-stirring. Link to article

How ‘war’ with coronavirus could lead to lasting government overreach Under war-like circumstances, history shows there is a very fine line between protecting citizens and eroding rights — and that line can be exploited or extended in times of great uncertainty.  link to article

The ease with which Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders have accepted the loss of liberty in their respective countries has been the saddest and most frightening development since the rise of totalitarianism in the early 20th century. Link to article

Los Angeles County , the most populous county in the United States, announced on Sept. 15 it would require proof of  COVID-19  vaccination at bars, nightclubs, breweries, lounges, and related businesses. The order will also require vaccine proof or a negative COVID-19 test for large outdoor events, including Los Angeles Rams, Chargers, and Dodgers games, said County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer to the Board of Supervisors... https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/los-angeles-county-to-mandate-covid-19-vaccine-passports-officials_3999372.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-15-3&mktids=e0c55e9df48ee198694606ea91b21e91&est=GE8MP2UGBwQQERgr%2FyEZUXEqWMFhzhCNKlCuWHrs4GgX%2BagekE%2B5oXVfEWlzZ2zXrUDFTLU%3D

The Biden administration banned the media from using drones to take pictures of a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint as tens of thousands of immigrants pour across the border. The Federal Aviation Administration, which is under the control of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg,  ordered  . . .  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-admin-bans-drones-from-photographing-immigration-crisis/

An international group of vaccine experts, including officials from the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and World Health Organization (WHO), says there’s no evidence to suggest that the general population needs COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. The authors warned that if booster shots are introduced too soon, they may cause more side effects in the general population, including myocarditis or Guillain-Barré syndrome. Should that occur, the researchers said, it would create even more problems with vaccine acceptance in the general population.. . .  https://www.theepochtimes.com/fda-leaders-other-scientists-say-most-people-dont-need-vaccine-boosters_3994852.html?utm_source=sharenewsnoe

The Chinese government under the guidance of President Xi Jinping has escalated the persecution of people of faith with the ‘sinicization’ campaign, or to re-create religion to better align with the CCP ideals . .  .  https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-is-sinicizing-christianity-other-faiths-to-align-them-to-its-ideology-chinese-american-pastor_3952105.html?utm_source=sharenewsnoe

One key prong of President Biden's plan to bankroll Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget plan is to monitor every inflow and outflow of an individual's bank account.  The proposal would require banks to report to the IRS every deposit and withdrawal from an account, including transactions from Venmo, PayPal, crypto exchanges and the like in an effort to fight tax evasion. The IRS would know how much money is in an individual's bank account in a given year, whether the individual earned income on that account and exactly how much was going in an and out.   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973671/Bidens-plan-let-IRS-SNOOP-bank-accounts.html

The  Los Angeles  Police Department has been collecting the social media profiles of anyone they talk to - whether they committed a  crime  or not - for years. The department also tracked social media posts with 'keywords' that were entirely related to left-wing movements, such as the hashtags #BLMLA, #sayhername and #f***donaldtrump. The revelations were detailed in documents released Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal nonprofit at New York University's School of Law.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9970801/LAPD-orders-officers-collect-social-media-civilian-interview-not-arrested.html#newcomment

A  Portland  State University professor who resigned in a scathing public letter in which he slammed the university for not allowing any type of thought that doesn't suit its liberal agenda https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9972935/Now-woke-factory-idiots-Outpouring-support-Portland-State-professor.html#comments

Sometimes, even in these increasingly absurd woke-ravaged cancel culture times, I still physically shudder at a particularly awful example of the way free speech is being annihilated at the altar of political correctness https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973427/PIERS-MORGAN-woke-destruction-great-educator-terrify-one-us.html

  So much for end-to-end encryption: WhatsApp and Facebook pays more than 1,000 workers to READ messages that are flagged as 'inappropriate' and even share them with the DOJ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966435/Facebook-hired-1-000-workers-examine-millions-pieces-content-WhatsApp.html?ito=email_share_article-top

  Australians will download an app on their cellphone that features facial recognition and geolocation. The South Australian government will randomly contact the user to check if they are at their approved quarantine location. Users will have 15 minutes to take a photo of their face. If the quarantining individual fails to reply within 15 minutes, a police officer will be sent to "check" on the person. https://www.theblaze.com/news/australia-home-quarantine-app

But that doesn’t mean this “third dimension” of government information is not a problem. America becomes less democratic when the $3 trillion executive branch uses its resources to tilt the debate in its favor.......But too often, the government uses its information machinery to do more than simply inform us about a policy. Sometimes, it tries to persuade us to adopt a particular position, regardless of its efficacy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/24/the-new-propaganda-how-the-american-government-is-trying-to-control-what-you-think/

China on Aug. 30  introduced  new rules that people under 18 can spend only three hours a week on video  games , effective Sept. 1. Minors are now required to verify their identity before logging on to play with time limits in place, said the Chinese regulator.

Supposedly a free-market China would drop its communist past to become a Westernized democracy such as Japan, South Korea or Taiwan. Once China fully joined the family of successful, law-abiding nations, it would empower Western freedoms and help create a stable international order.

In her August 21 letter to House Democrats (that reads like a missive from Karl Marx), Speaker Pelosi boasts that this unprecedented, big government spending package will finally deliver on the Democrats’ “transformative vision” for our country that is permanent and “life-changing” for all. Of course, her letter does not refer to the freedom, opportunity, and security that every hardworking American would be forced to surrender as the Left charges forward with its nightmare agenda.