Interesting article which confirms more than it reveals:
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-irans-internet-blackouts-work
Reminder: U.S. law allows similar authority.
“Upon proclamation of a national emergency, the President may… suspend or amend rules applicable to wire or radio communications, or close any station.” — 47 U.S.C. §606 (Communications Act of 1934)
Plan resilience accordingly.
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Australia's new national environmental standards
"Former ACCC chair condemns proposed exemption allowing minister to approve projects that don’t comply with law. Samuel, who led a 2020 review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, also argued a loophole that effectively exempts native forest logging from the laws “shouldn’t be there”.
“Logging operations should be subject to the same rules as mining, agriculture, urban development and so on." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/graeme-samuel-calls-for-labor-to-ditch-national-interest-workaround-for-environment-laws
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)
The problem of ministerial discretion and “national interest” exemptions. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528660854362227
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528971744822369
#EPBCAct #biodiversity #NationalInterest #law #exemption #MinisterialDiscretion #FastTrackApprovals #VestedInterest #ParliamentaryScrutiny #EnvironmentalLaw #conservation #regulation #governance #democracy #NSWLogging #landclearing #DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #LoggingImpacts
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law.
" The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy
SCOTUS Is Behaving Like “Arm of the MAGA Trump Presidency,” Says Legal Expert
Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.Supreme Court Tariffs Case Will Test Limits of Presidential Emergency Powers
The decision could shape whether the use of emergency powers to bypass Congress becomes a tool of routine governance.People don't realize how far gone this is.
A state of emergency was declared, under several provisions of federal law, half a year ago.
I stopped counting how many emergencies had been declared. But back in May 2025 it was in the double digits.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/114269041345118934
The tariffs, the National Guard mobilizations, and other stuff, have all been done through emergency powers.
#USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #USLaw #MartialLaw #EmergencyPowers #fascism
Claiming "national security", a whole raft of U.S.A. government branches, from the VA through the FDA, CDC, NIH, BLM, DOE, & FCC, to the EPA, have all been declared exempt from 22 USC 51 Ch. 10 and 5 USC 3 Ch. 71, which deal with unionization, employee rights, right to judicial review, grievance procedures, and prohibitions on unfair labour practices. #DonaldJTrump has already proclaimed several emergencies. https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/exclusions-from-federal-labor-management-relations-programs/ #USPolitics #USLaw
Live Updates: #Trump Threatens to Use #EmergencyPowers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops
The president said he was considering invoking the #InsurrectionAct to send #NationalGuard units to #Chicago and #PortlandOR., over local objections. Gov. #JBPritzker of Illinois called the mobilization 'an unconstitutional invasion.'
Julie Bosman, Shawn Hubler, Anna Griffin and Eric Schmitt
Reporting from Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Washington.
October 6, 2025
Here’s the latest. (updated at 7:30 PM EDT).
"A federal judge on Monday declined to block the deployment of National Guard units to Illinois, a mobilization that the state’s governor, JB Pritzker, labeled an 'unconstitutional invasion' by the federal government, as President Trump threatened to assume emergency powers to bypass court battles and send in the troops.
"The outcome of the court hearing in Illinois, which allows the Trump-ordered deployment to move ahead for now, came as a military official said 200 troops from the #TexasNationalGuard were set to fly to the Chicago area late Monday and begin operating there later in the week. A similar effort to deploy Texas troops in Portland, Ore., has been blocked by a judge for now."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DPjY9
#Authoritarianism #EmergencyPowers #InsurrectionAct #SilencingDissent #USPol #TrumpIsAFascist #CharacteristicsOfFascism
The president said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to bypass attempts to block National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland, Ore. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois called the mobilization “an unconstitutional invasion.”
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