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Under the cover of Covid

Our governments are ruling by fear

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

A spectre is haunting the world—the Mussolini syndrome where the leader addresses the populace based on a cocktail of alien, fashionable dogmas, announcing decisions taken which will significantly change their lives.

No longer needing a Palazzo Venezia balcony like Mussolini’s to speak from, leaders today do this through electronic devices now found everywhere.

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