==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Lucian: Rejecting war’s seductive appeal Lucian: War propaganda and its hyperbole ==== LucianThe CynicTranslated by M.D. MacLeod Gold and silver may I not need, neither I nor any of my friends. For from the desire of these grow up … … Continue reading →

Devi Sridhar's knowledge of the epidemiology of respiratory viruses could be written on the back of a postage stamp, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Why was she a top pandemic adviser to the Scottish Government?
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Like a bad penny, John Podesta just won't go away. He is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, the founder of the Center for American Progress (CAP), and the leading architect of America's deleterious climate change plan, starting in the 1990s when he served as Bill Clinton's chief of staff. 

Syriana Analysis.

A mother has slammed a low-traffic neighbourhood scheme after an ambulance was blocked from reaching her home as her 10-month-old daughter was having a seizure.
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Fyra män döms för att i många år plundrat svenska vrak. Men hur kan man skydda vraken och samtidigt göra kulturarvet tillgängligt för allmänheten? Hör om metallburar och spionkameror på bottnen.

The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
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In the latest sign that plant-based dining is going out of favour, a vegan restaurant in Cheshire has introduced meat to the menu to prevent customers from walking out.
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The WHO is not taking over, says Prof Bruce Pardy. Instead, the Pandemic Treaty will make it the "handmaiden for a coordinated global biomedical state". Its diktats may be 'binding' but they're not enforceable.
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"An individual innovation is small, minuscule even. But it’s real and it improves our standard of living. Yet how many of you have noticed it? Almost none. The market, therefore, gets no credit for it." ~Donald J. Boudreaux

The World Economic Forum likes to present itself as forward thinking and leading humanity into a bright, progressive future. But in truth the Davos ideology is fundamentally atavistic and anti-modern, says J Sorel.
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Our enemies are weaponising our luxury ‘green’ beliefs against us as we enter the second phase of a global war, says energy expert Prof Gwythian Prins. "Net Zero threatens national security."
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I was asked for my thoughts on what most concerned me about the expected US attacks on Iran following the death of three American soldiers over the weekend in Jordan. Some of those thoughts made it into Newsweek.  Below, I’ve provided an extended set of thoughts on what we could expect from US attacks against Iran. … Continue reading "What the First Week of War With Iran Could Look Like"

The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West Brought War to Ukraine, … Continue reading "Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In a New Cold War"

The end of the first Cold War in the late 80s gave Americans a unique historical chance to stop worrying about nuclear war and get a well-deserved Peace Dividend. Instead, not only they lost it, but the talk about the inevitable nuclear WW3 became a routine discussion subject in the government, public, and media circles. … Continue reading "Who Lost the Peace Dividend After the End of the Cold War?"

Filmskribenten Daniel Hånberg Alonso har fortfarande gett ut en tjock rackare till bok - När svenskarna sköt skarpt - om Sveriges relation till västernmyten, kobojfilmer, ursprungsamerikanlitteratur och country- och/eller western-musik. Namn som nämns: Big Bengt, Hasse Kvinnaböske, Carl-Gustaf, Mats Helge, Lill-Babs och bröderna Burman. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.

It’s not just this field or that field: there is a systematic sickness in academia and in intellectual life in general, in which preposterously false things are believed, and based on foundations that are never examined. This is one of my favorite episodes ever, and… Read MoreDownload Audio

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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The Two and Only — Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 5 Imagining a Nikki Haley Presidency as only The Two and Only can! Talk show legend Brian Wilson and award-winning author, Jim Bovard parse the possibilities in this latest episode! Listen or Download the MP3 at this link We discussed Haley’s passion for […]
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Nicola Sturgeon gave a tearful performance at the Covid Inquiry today as she tried to explain her misconduct during the pandemic. But St. Nicola's tears couldn't hide the damning truth, says Tom Harris.
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There’s a lot of “World War Three” in the news right now. Grant Shapps, the UK’s defence minister has claimed we have “moved from a post-war to a pre-war world”, whatever that means. Going on to say we can expect the world to be “engulfed” by wars with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all …

Peak Prosperity.

The next step for universal facial recognition will be hotels, Bus and train stations, rental cars, and entertainment venues, then commercial uses like stores and gas stations. When anybody says that the "picture" isn't saved, the metadata that is generated will be saved and transmitted to AI for analysis.

Henrik cover some of the latest gay-ops in No-Go Zone this January 31, 2024.
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The U.K. lost £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for Covid, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. But where's the evidence these drugs do anything except line the pockets of pharma and the 'pandemic' industry?
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Jesse Waters aired a video of NATO's psychological operations unit revealing their goal on a screen that can be seen in the video that shows that they aim to "Identify key actors to train and spread desired messaging," and they mentioned Taylor Swift. 

American Conservative, January 31, 2024 Nikki Haley, Authoritarian-in-Waiting by James Bovard New advertisements from the Nikki Haley presidential campaign are touting the former South Carolina governor as the “better choice” for America. In a season in which the Biden re-election campaign is openly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Haley is increasingly portrayed as someone […]

Sholto David, the man who discovered the manipulations, said that "billions of dollars were burned for this cancerous trash science, but it made many academic careers, some got very rich, and entire dynasties established themselves at Dana Farber."

Mickey Rosenthal, an Israeli police spokesman, who spread atrocity lies himself, said that the lies were 'to increase the magnitude of hatred for Hamas.' He said that the media [propaganda] is part of war and may be the most important factor.

Belgian farmers have blockaded highways and a major port as protests against Net Zero environmental regulation and low pay spread from France and intensify across Europe.
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Riley Waggaman Gamaleya Center Director Alexander Gintsburg has called on Russia to develop genetic vaccine prototypes in anticipation of future public health crises. To avoid another Covid-like pandemic, it is necessary to create a “national collection” of vaccine preparations designed to counter the “characteristics of possible pandemic pathogens”, Gintsburg said in an interview with TASS. Vaccine formulas …

At 12:40 am, two boys, ages 9 and 13, who should have been in bed, approached the victim while she was walking home. One of the robbers hit the victim in the stomach and tried to grab her purse. The victim pepper sprayed one of the suspects. The second robber pulled out a knife and lunged at the victim multiple times.

An employer is liable for an employee's Covid vaccine injury even though there was a state vaccine mandate in place, a court in Australia has ruled. Turns out, "I was just following orders" won't cut it.
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Germany opens citizenship to 1.5 million Turkish immigrants, then gets the vapours when Erdoğan's AK Party announces a German offshoot pledging to fight for open borders and better social entitlements for immigrants.

"Rather than the thin gruel of economic grievance offered by American right-wing populists, Milei’s policies are built on his vast knowledge of sound and successful, albeit politically unpopular, economic thinking." ~ G. Patrick Lynch

Sceptics celebrated when Sucharit Bhakdi was acquitted of allegations of antisemitism last May. But few realise he is set to be tried for the exact same 'crime' again as Germany does not protect from double jeopardy.
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Cassidy said he had beheaded the statue in order to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.” Another charge has been added, felony third-degree criminal mischief committed “in violation of individual rights” under Iowa’s hate crime statute.

In the widely-billed climate trial of the century, the fake Nobel laureate Michael Mann is suing Mark Steyn for libel for saying his infamous 'hockey stick' graph is fraudulent.
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Qu’il s’agisse du rythme et de l’ampleur des massacres de civils, de l’assassinat de groupes protégés ou du type de munitions, la guerre d’Israël contre Gaza est une campagne exceptionnellement brutale qui ne ressemble à rien de connu. Source : Jacobin, Branko Marcetic Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Il n’a fallu que deux […]

In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine — at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken … Continue reading "Remote Warfare and Expendable People"

Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word ‘genocide’ quickly replaced the earlier reference to the ‘Israel-Hamas war’, starting on October 7.

According to neoconservative theoreticians David Wurmser and Richard Perle, George W. Bush’s Iraq War II (supported by Senator Biden) was supposed to weaken Iran and Syria and therefore Hezbollah’s threat to Israel. Instead, the war empowered Iran as the U.S. put their best friends from the Hakim family’s Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq … Continue reading "USA Keeps Fighting for Iran"

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Plutarch: Selections on war and peace ==== PlutarchMoraliaPrecepts of StatecraftTranslated by Harold North Fowler …there are many acts of the Greeks of former times by recounting which the statesman can mold and correct the characters of our contemporaries, for … … Continue reading →

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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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the world creeping ever closer to all-out war, whether Trump should really have to pay $83m to E.J. Carrol and if it's possible to find love across the political divide.

Rishi Sunak is putting Britain on a "path to ruin" with his Net Zero agenda, a leading Conservative MP has warned, saying the Prime Minister must "wake up" and roll back damaging climate policies before it is too late.
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If I were to give an award for excellence in investigative journalism, it would go to Adrienne LaFrance, Executive Editor of The Atlantic. She has effectively exposed Technocracy in its correct historical context and related it to today's Big Tech's "technoauthoritarianism."  She posted on X (Twitter), "Silicon Valley has an ascendant political ideology, and it's past time we call it what it really is: authoritarian technocracy." I urge you to read every word of this article!