==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Isocrates: Addicted to war, lusting after imperial power Isocrates: War zealots plunge state into manifold disasters ==== IsocratesPanegyricusTranslated by George Norlin For sufficient is the time that is past, filled as it has been with every form of … … Continue reading →
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Keir Starmer claiming the Culture War is a figment of the Tory imagination, DeSantis dropping out and the House of Lords holding up the Illegal Immigration Bill.
The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that the Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa two years ago was unlawful.
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Kevin Ryan joins host Piers Robinson to discuss the definitions of “Structual Deep Events” and “state crimes against democracy” (SCADs), the tell-tale signs common to incidents from 9/11 to Covid and the October 7th Hamas attack, as well as how to categorize different types of SCAD. Most importantly, Ryan discusses how these signs can help …
Humza Yousaf was told by Nicola Sturgeon’s most high-profile medical adviser to "hold a drink at all times" to get round her rules on wearing a face mask when he was Health Secretary, the Covid Inquiry has heard.
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Mickey’s guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what is at stake as the US enters another contentious election year with unpopular, problematic frontrunners in both major parties; wars of…
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Mercola writes, "It’s quite clear that 'biosecurity' is the chosen means by which the globalist cabal intends to seize power over the world. I concur. Disease X is being spun as an unknown disease, but the WEF/WHO is sure it will be 22x worse than COVID-19. They do not know what they do not know, but they can say with certainty it will kill you faster. Or, they do know what they do know and are keeping from you.
Philadelphia radio host Rich Zeoli had me back on his show yesterday on WPHT Radio. We had plenty of hearty from political and bureaucratic follies. Rich kindly tagged me as a “great voice for freedom” and said that my new book Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty “blows my mind again and again…. […]
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Gary Lineker ought to be an obscure figure, says Dr David McGrogan, but the fact he is central to the national debate symbolises much of what is wrong with the way things are going. He exudes the midwit phenotype.
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Vår tid beskrivs ofta som en mörk tid. Krig, skjutningar och klimathot. Kriserna radas på varandra.
Vad gör det med vårt sätt att tänka?
The Net Zero green energy illusion is dying as reality catches up with it, says Francis Menton. But the economies of the U.K. and Germany are dying as well as Net Zero takes them down with it.
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Electric vehicles will never dominate the market, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has said, and will likely peak at under 30%, in the latest sign that car companies are backing away from the troubled technology.
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"Fortunately, the idea that thousands of businesses have colluded to raise prices, boosting their profit margins and engineering the inflation that continues to afflict Americans, is easily disproven." ~Peter C. Earle
Obsessed by modish woke ideology, the National Trust has devised a competition in Sir Isaac Newton’s name which Sir Isaac Newton himself would not be eligible to enter.
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Scientific peer-review is failing science, says Peter Civan. After peer-reviewing papers for 10 years, Dr Civan says he is no longer willing to support a system that serves only the interests of publishing businesses.
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The New York Times Monday noted the increasing likelihood that U.S. troops will be killed by mortars or rocket fire from Shi’ite militias in Iraq or Syria as they have been attacked and wounded repeatedly in the past three months as locals take revenge for Israel’s violence in Gaza. (AQI/ISIS sure have motive to attack … Continue reading "US Troops in Iraq Are a Tripwire for War With Iran"
Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re really seeing the war. We are not. What we do routinely see is reporting that’s as different from the actual war as … Continue reading "How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time"
Five people were wounded, including U.S. servicemembers.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Polybius: The bestialization of man by war Polybius: Diplomacy versus war Polybius: Peace is a blessing for which we all pray to the gods ==== PolybiusThe HistoriesTranslated by W. R. Paton The senate heard them with much attention and were … … Continue reading →
State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Independent newsweeklies—from the North Bay Bohemian and Random Lengths News in California, to the Santa Fe Reporter (New Mexico), and the C-Ville Weekly (Charlottesville, VA)— have been featuring the top “Censored” stories from State of the Free Press 2024. The American…
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Pete Kaliner and I made it hot today on WBT for the feds howling at the Lone Wolves suspected terrorists. Biden’s surveillance of folks buying Bass Pro Shop hats and Bibles fails the laugh test. Here’s a link to the New York Post piece on boneheaded federal financial surveillance discussed in this interview. Listen to […]
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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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Tonight we will catch up with our friends Klaus and company in Davos since their yearly party just ended, to see what the plans are coming down the pike for us plebs. We will see how eating meat is bad, how any narrative counter the establishment is misinformation, climate change is real, it’s time to […]
New Labour's Equality Act embedded identity politics into our public institutions and paved the way for the ideological capture of our schools, civil service and NHS, says Tory MP Miriam Cates. It needs an overhaul.
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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. …see if you can spot the “secret theme” of this edition. 1. Storms “batter” the UK Yesterday, Storm Isha tore across the UK knocking over …
Forget the Ukraine war, the escalating Middle East conflicts and China's threats to Taiwan. The elites gathered at Davos last week heard that the world's "top concern" is "disinformation". They're coming for our thoughts.
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Will TSA Steal Your Mug? by James Bovard January 22, 2024 Dorothy Parker’s signature line, “What fresh hell is this?” is the new the mantra for travelers at American airports. TSA is rapidly expanding a program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport […]
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On February 9-11, 2024, world-class skiers from around the globe will gather at Lake Placid, New York for the purpose of jumping off a cell tower. There are three tiers of panel antennas surrounding the ski jump tower on three sides, as well as half a dozen whip antennas on top that will irradiate the skiers.
In 1937, The Technocrat magazine defined Technocracy as the “Science of Social Engineering” and then proceeded to define the outcome as a resource-based economic system with all decisions made by Technocrats. Rejected and ridiculed, they turned to deception and psychological warfare.
As King Charles undergoes surgery, many older men know how an enlarged prostate can greatly narrow the horizons of one's life, says Drew Clode. But an operation like a TURP can be life-changing.
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Libertarian Institute, January 22, 2024 Davos Demolition Derby for World Freedom by James Bovard The World Economic Forum had their annual conference last week in Davos, Switzerland. Once again, the Davos crowd ran a demolition derby for the destruction of liberty around the globe. The WEF seized the COVID pandemic to champion a “Great Reset” […]
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Americans are increasingly looking back on the Trump years, with a growing economy, declining illegal immigration, low energy prices, no wokeness and a strong and peaceful foreign policy, with longing.
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Missing in action: essential context in the Israeli attack on Gazaby Ian SinclairMorning Star16 January 2024 “Most studies carried out prior to the current fighting in Gaza… have repeatedly found that it is the Israeli perspective that is favoured” in broadcast news coverage, Greg Philo and Mike Berry from the Glasgow Media Group recently noted […]
John & Nisha Whitehead “No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency.” Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time …
Did Covid vaccines cause 17 million deaths? That's what Bret Weinstein recently told Tucker Carlson. But Tracy Beth Høeg – a leading critic of the vaccines – isn't convinced. "It doesn't pass a basic sanity test."
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"The pervasive cloud of weird, semi-threatening tension which swirls around a modern faculty corridor does a disservice to a long and venerable academic tradition." ~Paul Schwennesen
Amid economic turmoil and plummeting approval ratings, Eugyppius takes aim at the German Government for orchestrating anti-Right protests to distract from real issues.
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The Weekly Sceptic will be recorded live at the Hippodrome on February 12th. Tickets are £25, a steal for a hugely entertaining, 2-hour West End show. But hurry. The last two live recordings of the Weekly Sceptic sold out.
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Le 3 décembre 2023, le procureur de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) a achevé sa première mission en Israël et en Palestine. En Israël, il a rencontré des survivants et des familles de victimes des attaques du Hamas du 7 octobre ; à Ramallah, en Palestine, il a tenu des réunions avec des responsables palestiniens […]
There is an ongoing war within the war business. The old guard aerospace companies are now competing with Big Tech players from Silicon Valley.
The essential argument used to avoid negotiation and continue support for the war in Ukraine is based on a falsehood. That falsehood, repeated by President Joe Biden, is that when Vladimir Putin decided to invade, he intended to conquer all of Ukraine and “annihilate” it. Its falsity has been exposed multiple times by military experts, who … Continue reading "To End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie"
If it looks like genocide, sounds like genocide, and smells like genocide, chances are it’s genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule provisionally on whether that is what Israel is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The Republic of South Africa filed the complaint, which is ironic because Israel was … Continue reading "Smells Like Genocide"
This weekend the Washington Post reported that the Biden administration has drawn up plans for “a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen.” For those who may understandably have lost count, that would make three regional wars the Biden Administration has embroiled us in over the past three years. If nothing else the Biden administration has shown beyond … Continue reading "The Unreality of US Foreign Policy"
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