"Central bankers are told that their domestic monetary policy obligations...must be balanced with or even subjugated to currency management practices that accommodate American exporters and competitors more broadly." ~Mariana F. Trujillo and Peter C. Earle
"Means tested welfare necessarily crowds out the poor from productive employment by substituting government grants for family earning and community support." ~Donald J. Devine
I det korta glappet mellan Elvisrock och Beatlespop kom twisten och limbon och poneyn och hucklebucken och högvis med andra danser som fick sina egna instruktionssånger som oftast sjöngs av Chubby Checker och exploaterades av Thore Skogman. Skräpkulturbibliotekarien Daniel Gustavsson reder ut en del av begreppen. Brita Borg nämns och hörs. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.
"It is increasingly clear that the choice to stop rate hikes at the 5.25 to 5.50 policy rate range was at best premature and may ultimately prove insufficient." ~Peter C. Earle
"Look at institutional arrangements as they actually play out, making the comparison by looking through two Is: information and incentives." ~Michael Munger
"Letting people make their own choices is an important part of respecting one another as free equals... We don’t help people by prohibiting the choices they actually make." ~Art Carden
"We simply have no way to trace out more than a minuscule fraction of the economic consequences, positive and negative, of government efforts to alter a phenomenon as massive as the earth’s environment." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
"Removing government from the process by changing dated zoning regulations is the best path forward to solving the housing shortage. A small piece of the puzzle should be historic landmarks and district reform." ~Jason Sorens and Thomas Savidge
"Forcing automobile companies to expand production of their least-profitable product lines at the expense of their best-performing ones is economic madness." ~Jon Miltimore
"When the inevitable crisis hits, it will be even more difficult to reach a rational solution. Better to start now with the misnamed Defense Department." ~Doug Bandow
"The 'anti-racist' writing notions abounding today disempower black students...and actually get in the way of constructive actions. Obsessing over 'white privilege' doesn’t help black students succeed." ~George Leef
Att ta rollen som Gustav II Adolf i Trettioåriga kriget, eller som Napoleon vid Waterloo lockar allt fler. Vi går till botten med fenomenet historiska brädspel och vad vi kan lära av dem.
Museiintendent Fredrik Björkman pratar om Hötorgsfamiljen: fiskargubben, romska kvinnan och gråtande barnet. Jakten på der alte Seebeer leder till Harry Haerendels Tyskland och tillbaka. Åhlén & Holm säljer reproduktioner, Olle Adolphson sjunger om konstförfalskningar, Taube skaldar om sjöbjörnar och sjöörnar, Göring poserar med kräkla. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.
Författaren och professorn i designhistoria Sara Kristoffersson, med Kalle Lind som Coop-erator, belyser den blågula blåvita kooperationens framfart och villovägar under nittonhundratalet. Namn som oförhappandes dyker upp i samtalet: Ebbe Carlsson, Bengt Sändh, Torsson och den tyske astronomen Möbius. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.
Whitehall lawyers have splurged nearly £4 million of taxpayer money on gadgets like laptops and mobile phones for working from home since 2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Sverige är nu med i NATO, där bland annat också Danmark är medlem. Tobias Svanelid undrar hur det ska gå, med tanke på alla dansk-svenska krig. Och så reder vi ut om ABBA sjöng om rätt fältslag!
1946 rapporterade hundratals svenskar om ”spökraketer”, oförklarliga flygande fenomen som alla tycktes störta i sjöar. Urban Björstadius går till botten med fenomenet och träffar ett ögonvittne.
A dramatic rise in abdominal cancers among younger people, even those under 45, is sparking alarm among medical experts.
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25 years ago today, Nato launched its illegal 78-day bombing campaign against Russian ally Serbia to take control of its Kosovo province. The war was based on a series of deceptions, such as the staged “Racak massacre” shown above. Read more →
Two mothers are suing NHS England over concerns that transgender teenagers face "irreversible harm" due to insufficient safeguards in gender clinics.
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EU solar panel-makers are on the brink of extinction as a massive oversupply from China sees manufacturers pulling out of the market or facing insolvency.
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Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case challenging Government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a distraction from the real threat to Americans' freedom of speech, says Robert Kogon.
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A new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation by physicist Dr. Ralph B. Alexander explodes the myth that 'extreme weather' is getting worse.
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Cette semaine dans la revue, un florilège des nuisances olympiques, et si vous n’en vouliez pas en 2024, courage, vous en aurez encore en 2030… A part ça, à Gaza, ça ne va pas, en Afrique sahélienne, ça ne va pas, en Alabama, ça ne va pas, en France, ça ne va pas, l’agriculture, ça […]
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.” Declassified British Ministry of Defence (MOD) files reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that officials in London conspired to embroil US troops in a secret plan to occupy Yugoslavia and “topple” President Slobodan Milosevic […]
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Candace Owens v. the Sanhedrin & Brown v. Board of Education at 70
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Gabriel ChevallierThe Euffe InheritanceTranslated by Jocelyn Godefroi “…If you come to think of it, war ruins armies, because it lowers the level of recruiting. The perfect soldiers are those who never have to go to war and serve as … … Continue reading →
Kit Knightly Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour the occasion by slapping …
"People go to watch a movie to be entertained. They don't go to get a message." Billionaire Disney investor Nelson Peltz has hit out at the woke media giant after a string of flops.
Download Episode. Kyle Anzalone was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the war in Gaza. This week, he and Scott focus on the humanitarian crisis — specifically the shortage of medical supplies. They discuss what’s causing it and what its effects are. Discussed on the show: “Physicians Describe ‘Most Appalling Atrocities’ in Gaza” […]
Who would have believed we'd still be talking about Covid vaccine mandates in 2024, but given how resistant authority figures are to accepting reality it seems likely we'll be talking about them forever, says Ian Miller.
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Furlough didn’t save millions of jobs – its true costs are only now becoming clear, says Fraser Nelson. "The £70bn scheme led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery."
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Woke HR has created a workplace that is failing workers and their employers because the creative mavericks are isolated, sidelined and silenced, while those who are promoted are the appeasers, the cowards and the mediocre.
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Todd Hayen Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids (the boys) who wore James Dean-style denim jackets and smoked in the bathrooms. I doubt if those kids in the ’70s even knew who …
If you thought wokery could not get any worse, it just has with Nike's hugely controversial redesign of the England flag for Euro 2024 – blatantly based on the Pride flag, says Jack Watson.
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« Il s’agit désormais d’une situation de génocide », a déclaré le principal expert des Nations unies en matière de droits humains. Source : Truthout, Sharon ZhangTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Dans une déclaration particulièrement franche de la part d’une personnalité affiliée aux Nations unies, le principal expert des Nations unies en matière […]
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Kevin Dolan joins us to discuss the prospects for de-crazifying our society, and the various approaches that have been suggested. Sponsors Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines? Your leads at a trickle — or nonexistent? Persist SEO can turn that all… Read MoreDownload Audio
A much-publicized United Nations goal to end deforestation by 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, according to an independent assessment, as Olivia Rosane reported for Common Dreams in October 2023. The problem is money and where it’s directed, according to the latest Forest Declaration Assessment, released in October 2023. “We…
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In November 2023, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down a 20-year concession to a Canadian company to operate a notorious open-pit copper mine 120 kilometers west of Panama City, after which the Panamanian president announced the mine finally would be closed. This decision was reported internationally, for example by Al Jazeera…
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In coastal areas of the United States, sea levels are rising drastically because of climate change, and the topic has not received much attention from corporate media. In October 2023, Delany Nolan reported for the Guardian on the upstream influx of undrinkable salt water. The Guardian’s report quoted Jeeban Panthi,…
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It’s no secret that TikTok trends and influencers are shaping fashion, but users’ feeds are being flooded with “microtrends” and marketing techniques that promote overconsumption and the fast fashion industry, Nurayn Kahn reported for the Harvard Political Review in August 2023. Influencer culture, Kahn wrote, has “normalized a mindset of…
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The historic tourist region of Tuscany in central Italy is world famous for food and wine, agrarian scenery, Renaissance art and architecture (including the Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo’s David), and its perfect Mediterranean climate. In October-November 2023, however, Tuscany was in the news for torrential, hundred-year rains that killed…
Brian Lewis is a former jet pilot and star tuba player for the Ohio State marching band. Brian is also the treasurer of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, one of the most effective pro-freedom organizations in America. The photo below is from his spiel at the 20th dinner for the Alliance when he was introducing […]
Between fighting the online censors and fighting to break through the wall of noise distracting the average smartphone zombie, it’s getting harder and harder for activists and infowarriors to reach people online with real news and information. So, what can people do in the real world to gain attention and get the word out about …
Thanks to Jose Galison for having me on his No Way Jose podcast to discuss the 2020 killing of Duncan Lemp. Jose has followed that case closely and was the only person to interview Kacey Robinson, Lemp’s girlfriend who was sleeping by his side when a Montgomery County, Maryland SWAT team attacked at 4:42 a.m. […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Plutarch: Selections on war and peace ==== PlutarchMoraliaOn Music*Translated by Benedict Einarson and Phillip H. De Lacy The wife of Phocion the Good said that his feats of generalship were her adornment; for my part I hold that not … … Continue reading →
The leak of the Police Scotland training materials telling officers they should target actors and comedians for 'hate speech' has intensified concerns that the new draconian legislation will kill comedy.
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