“It is a personal film, and no reviewer, or critic, or viewer has ever given an interpretation that is my interpretation.”—David Lynch
For the 15th Movie Roundtable here at TMR we welcome back our good friends Frank Johnson, Antony Rotunno and Mark Campbell for another four-way discussion, this time on David Lynch's cult surrealist "horror" film Eraserhead from 1977.
Doug writes in to ask if I've taken The Conspiracy Test. In fact, I haven't! So, let's take it together! And what better topic to test our conspiratorial skepticism on than the Global Warming conspiracy?
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The nursing and midwifery council has banned 'misgendering' in its first 'free speech' guidance for practitioners. While broadly backing free speech on political issues, it draws a line at anything said to individuals.
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A study has found that individuals are more likely to give atypical answers to moral dilemmas when others have already given such answers. This 'online moral conformity' is surely relevant to the age of lockdown.
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Scrooge is everywhere at this time of year as the archetypal Christmas miser. But on some issues, like immigration, it's ultimately not kind to be anything other than Scrooge-like, says Steven Tucker.
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The mainstream media is full of reports that Venezuela is threatening to go to war in order to steal most of Guyana. But it is neither clear that Venezuela is threatening war, nor that annexing the territory would be theft. On December 14, under pressure from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), … Continue reading "Is Venezuela Going to War To Steal Territory from Guyana?"
Just before leaving town for Christmas break, the US House gave Americans a last-minute holiday gift: a nearly trillion dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interests and the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, the rest of America got nothing but coal in its stockings. With Constitutionalists like Rep. Thomas Massie on … Continue reading "The NDAA: Congress’ ‘Gift’ to America This Christmas"
Download Episode. Sheldon Richman joins the show to debunk the ridiculous conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism. He and Scott review the long history of Jewish opposition to the Zionist project. That leads them to today’s fights over free speech in relation to the war in Gaza. Discussed on the show: Coming to Palestine by Sheldon […]
Download Episode. Erik Sperling of Just Foreign Policy joins the show to talk about how the war in Gaza has affected the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen. Sperling disagrees with some recent reports that the Houthi attacks on Israeli ships have put their peace plan with Saudi Arabia at risk. He and Scott discuss the geopolitical […]
Five others were wounded.
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State of the Free Press 2024 in the News State of the Free Press 2024, the 31st edition of the Project’s award-winning yearbook series, officially released on December 5, 2023. You can ask for it at your favorite local bookstore or order a copy directly from Project Censored. The Teaching Guide, authored…
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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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Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/18/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read More...
Libertarian Institute, December 18, 2023 Truth is the Biggest Threat to DC ‘Democracy’ by Jim Bovard In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.” Early this year, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war James Fenimore Cooper: Selections on peace and war ==== James Fenimore CooperPrecaution: A Novel How different is the contemplation of a field of battle during and after the conflict! The excitement, suspended success, shouts, uproar, and confusion of the […]
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. There’s an important, if scary, opinion piece today at The Washington Post by Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists and former National Security Council senior director under President Barack Obama.
A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges to withhold students’ transcripts as a way of forcing them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reported for The Hechinger Report in December 2023. Transcript withholding is a strategy colleges use to recover outstanding debt, even…
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An AfD candidate in Germany has won a mayoral election for the first time via the novel strategy of standing on an appealing political platform, seeing off rivals who opted instead to try to subvert the choices of voters.
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On COI #512, Kyle Anzalone discusses the Discord Leaks, the war in Ukraine, and Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Kevin Ryan In 2020, I gave a presentation that compared the unfolding events of Covid to the crimes of 9/11. In it I described eleven features and outcomes of the 9/11 crimes that were shared by the Covid events. Unfortunately, some people who understood that 9/11 was a lie wouldn’t consider the possibility that Covid could be …
Perry Bacon probably speaks for many Americans that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy closely and are then shocked by how terrible it can be: Like a lot of Americans, I don’t follow foreign affairs as closely as I probably should. I have generally assumed that the United States, particularly with Biden in office, plays a … Continue reading "Our Rotten Foreign Policy Status Quo"
In late November, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), traveled to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for meetings with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi. The stated purpose of the meetings was to try to de-escalate tensions in eastern DRC, which has seen stepped up attacks by […]
The BBC has been criticised by Conservatives for describing a political festival hosted by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and attended by Rishi Sunak as a "far-Right rally".
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The war on gas-powered garden equipment is spreading. Now, Washington state wants to jail offenders for contributing to climate change. This follows a 2021 California law that takes effect in 2024, banning all leaf blowers, lawnmowers, and weed trimmers. Al Gore warned us in 2015 that "deniers deserved to be punished."
"Independent scholarly studies in economics have found that the promised economic benefit from hosting a team or investing in a new facility rarely pays off financially." ~Andrew Zimbalist
Hearty thanks to author Charles Platt, former senior writer for Wired magazine, for his kind words for Last Rights and for me. I greatly appreciate that! Charles Platt 5.0 out of 5 stars An immensely valuable resource Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023 Verified Purchase The most remarkable aspect of James Bovard […]
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Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.
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"Once a bastion of sound reporting, the Wall Street Journal’s economy desk is slowly descending into incoherence...Simple economics demonstrates why the inflationary-profits hypothesis is bunk." ~Alexander W. Salter
Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. Matt is a former Marine Corps captain, a former Afghanistan State Department officer, a disabled Iraq War veteran, and a Senior Fellow Emeritus with the Center for International Policy. Dear Antiwar.com Reader, I suppose many of you have noticed something about American public opinion. … Continue reading "A Message From Matthew Hoh: Support Antiwar.com"
A top mosquito expert has blasted Dame Jenny Harries's claim that climate change will make dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases common in the UK within 20 years, branding it "entirely fictional" and "shameless".
via CHD TV: Dr. Meryl Nass returns from 27 days of international advocacy to catch up with James Corbett on evidence of the WHO’s house of cards is collapsing worldwide. It's no wonder that countries like Slovakia, Estonia, Romania, New Zealand, South Africa + more are rejecting the IHR amendments amid the WHO's December deadline, “It's the perfect system of control .. This story is so horrendous, all it needs is a few sparks in the right place, and the fire will come.” After all — would YOU give a blank check to an organization with no accountability?
John & Nisha Whitehead “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’” Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once …
Official stats show that just 162 Italians under 40 died with COVID-19 in 2020. So why was the Government so set on vaccinating them all, ask Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
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Lockyer suffered cardiac arrest on the field and taken to the hospital. It is the second time this year that Lockyer has collapsed during a game. In May, he was taken to the hospital during a championship play-off final, but after heart surgery, he was given the ‘all clear’ to return to action in June.
Former extremism tsar Dame Sara Khan warns that official plans to tackle extremism in the U.K. are being ignored, despite rising radicalisation.
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In Part 1 we questioned the fundamental principles said to underpin "the Climate Science™." Specifically we considered the scientific validity of the claimed "consensus" and explored some of the many scientific doubts expressed about Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory and the so-called "greenhouse effect."
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood claims British warships are being immobilised by climate change. Is he spilling military secrets or just whipping up more hysteria to promote the Net Zero agenda?
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Grâce à la plateforme en ligne Queering the Map, les histoires des Palestiniens homosexuels peuvent vivre à jamais, affirmant au monde qu’ils existent bel et bien. Source : The Nation, Sarah O’NealTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Alors que l’attaque israélienne contre Gaza se poursuit, l’histoire palestinienne est en train de disparaître. Des arbres […]
In my childhood, we at least acknowledged the ominous existence of nuclear weapons, no matter how weirdly. I’m thinking about those times we kids spent at school “ducking and covering” under our desks, practicing for… yes, the atomic annihilation of New York City by the Soviet Union. Even at 12, I was certainly aware that … Continue reading "What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday"
There is a growing body of compelling evidence showing that Russia and Ukraine were involved in serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine right after it started on 24 February 2022.
Jorg Haider. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Jorg Haider, a far-right Austrian politician who died in 2008, is largely forgotten. It is also forgotten that merely two decades ago, he was considered a very dangerous man in Europe, whose ascent to power had prompted rare European Union unity aimed to thwart his ambitions. Twice elected as … Continue reading Jorg Haider to Geert Wilders : Far-right Normalised in Europe →
Author Ann Bauer reviewed Last Rights on Twitter today. Her verdict: “‘Last Rights’ manages to be dire, terrifying and funny in equal parts. It makes a great Christmas gift for your awakened reader.” Here is Ann’s tweet thread: Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter 7h • 11 tweets • 2 min read Read on Twitter “Americans today have […]
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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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Since your newsfeed is probably already full of those ubiquitous Year In Review-type articles, here's a more philosophical piece about the work I do and how I do it. Enjoy!
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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Introducing CBDCs is a matter of “urgency” Talking to the media this week, the head of South Korea’s central bank claimed that the rise …
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is playing Ebenezer Scrooge on steroids, forcing his minions to work Christmas week. But unlike Scrooge, who was simply seeking more business profits, Schumer seeking $111 billion in borrowed US treasure to fund our lost war in Ukraine and Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. One would have no idea Schumer … Continue reading "A Christmas Carol From Hell"
