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As China’s Surveillance System Grows so does the Backlash
November 04, 2020
This week, Hangzhou, a city in eastern China that's home to Chinese tech giant Alibaba, published a draft law that would ban property managers from deploying facial recognition cameras in residential compounds without permission from local residents, evidencing growing citizen concern of the technological intrusion that has grown in China over the last ten years by 1,900%.
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The Federalist: Dreher’s Live Not By Lies Warns Of The New Totalitarianism
November 03, 2020
In his latest book, Live Not by Lies, Rod Dreher warns that Western liberal democracies are living in a post-Christian society and are swiftly sliding down a slippery slope into a “soft totalitarianism” by which “data harvesting and manipulation can and will be used by woke capitalists and social justice ideologues in institutional authority to impose control.”
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Stanley Kurtz: Trump Establishes 1776 Commission
November 03, 2020
Writing in National Review Online, Stanley Kurtz supports President Trump's signing of an “Executive Order Establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission” which focuses efforts to foster patriotic education and calls on local communities to reassert control over the curriculum.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer: Europe still Needs the U.S.
November 03, 2020
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany’s defense minister, writes in Politico that no matter who wins the U.S. Presidential election, there is a strategic need for strong transatlantic cooperation for both Europe and the United States of America to defend western values, keep peace and defend liberty.
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Francis: Courts Block Ukraine’s Reforms
November 03, 2020
Diane Francis, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, explains that Volodymyr Zelensky and his party, who won Ukraine’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 largely on the promises to eradicate corruption, have had their reforms blocked by the 20 members of the High Council of Justice, some of whom have been charged with corruption.
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