Neil Campbell
Neil lives in Canada and writes about society and politics.
‘SMART Health Cards’ Raise Concerns About Invasive Tech
The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) emerged on Thursday touting itself as a “coalition of public and private partners committed to empowering individuals with digital access to their vaccination records based on open, interoperable standards.” The...
‘No Direct Evidence’ of Intent to Capture or Assassinate During Capitol Riots: Acting DC Attorney General
The acting Attorney General for the District of Columbia debunked Arizona Federal Prosecutors’ filings alleging that the participants in the Jan 6 Capitol Building break-in intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials.” The Arizona filings...
Beijing Censors Hong Kong News Website Exposing Police Brutality
Hong Kong’s Chinese Communist Party-controlled government has ordered the city’s Internet providers to block access to the pro-democracy Hong Kong news website HKChronicles. Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) confirmed this on Thursday. HKBN conducted this...
Biden Unveils Pandemic Spending Package Featuring $15 Minimum Wage, Expanded Unemployment
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his $1.9 trillion pandemic spending package on Thursday, dubbed the America Rescue Plan (ARP), according to the Biden-Harris website, buildbackbetter.gov. According to the plan’s Fact Sheet, the “pandemic has shined a...
House Democrats Vote for Impeachment as Trump Condemns Capitol Break-in
The House of Representatives has impeached Donald Trump for a second time, passing House Resolution 24 by a 232-197 margin. Ten Republicans crossed party lines, voting in favor of impeachment. Calls for Trump's impeachment were...
Cuba Returns to State Sponsor of Terrorism List as Trump Administration Winds Down
The United States has returned Cuba to the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) list, reversing an Obama-era concession to remove the Communist country from the list during attempts to normalize relations. In April of 2015,...
PAC Lincoln Project, Forbes Launch Blacklist of Trump Officials and Staff
Self-described Anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project has said it is “constructing a database of Trump officials & staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now.” https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1347984342715301888?s=20 The...
Biden’s Attorney General Pick Says He’ll Uphold Law, not Partisan Policy
Judge Merrick Garland, President-elect Joe Biden’s Attorney General pick, said he will uphold non-partisan rule of law if he is confirmed for the position, citing the words of 71st Attorney General Ed Levi during Levi’s...
Iranian Rhetoric Targets Trump, Threatens Domestic Terrorism on Anniversary of Soleimani Drone Strike
Iran’s Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi uttered threats that those responsible for General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination last year will “not be safe on Earth.” The statements were made during a memorial held at Tehran University on...
Chinese Embassy Whitewashes Cratering Uyghur Birth Rate as Victory for Feminism
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece China Daily published a propaganda piece on Jan. 8 claiming the eradication of religious extremism, rather than a state-sanctioned policy of forced sterilization, is what led to a shocking...
Arrests of Hong Kong Dissidents Receive Widespread International Condemnation
Secretaries of State from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed a joint letter on Jan. 9 condemning the arrest of 55 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on charges of violating Communist...
In Silencing Conservative Voices, Big Tech Takes the Chinese Communist Path
Commentary Former U.S. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced widespread censorship of President Donald Trump and other conservative figures in a tweet on Friday saying that silencing voices are what happens in Communist China, not...