In the article featured in the Winter 2023-2024 edition of Rethinking Schools, titled “The Takeover of Houston Public Schools,” Larry Miller reported on the Texas state legislature taking control of Houston’s Independent School District (ISD) through its Texas Education Agency. State officials chose to dissolve the elected school board, appointing…
A no-nonsense analysis of new developments and deceptions in the Ukraine War. Read more →
The BBC has apologised to Reform U.K. after calling it "far-Right" in a news report. Party leader Richard Tice slammed the taxpayer-funded broadcaster for its "smear tactics".
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The late Rosa Koire saw it as “the blueprint, the comprehensive plan of action for the 21st century to inventory and control all land, all water, all plants, all minerals, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all law enforcement, all health care, all food, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world.”
A coup d’état, as originally defined, is a coup inflicted by the state on the people. This makes COVID-19 a coup d’état, says Dr James Alexander. Modern politics could be considered death by a thousand coups.
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The Government's consultation on "non-statutory guidance" for schools on gender identity shows how weak it is, says Mark Ellse. The problem is it failed to amend the Equality Act, which protects "gender reassignment".
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Women writers on peace and war Antonine Maillet: One day war got declared Antonine Maillet: War succeeding war Antonine Maillet: When are the soldiers are dead, bombs dropped, maybe we’ll have some peace ==== Antonine MailletLa SagouineTranslated by Wayne Grady Jos Chevreu, he came back with … … Continue reading →
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point decided to drop the “Duty, Honour, Country” motto from its mission statement last week in favour of a bland reference to "the Army Values".
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Le 12 et le 13 mars, à l’Assemblée Nationale et au Sénat, a eu lieu un débat avec vote « consultatif » au sujet du soutien apporté par le gouvernement français au gouvernement ukrainien dans le cadre de « l’accord de sécurité » qui avait été signé le 16 février précédente entre le Président Emmanuel […]
"We each owe more than $100,000 as a share of the national debt... Our earning years are subsidizing not our own economic coming-of-age, but retirement and medical benefits for people who navigated a less-challenging wealth-building landscape." ~Laura Williams
"By offering lower prices in off-peak hours, Wendy’s would be able to attract more customers overall, thus charging lower prices on average, even if prices during peak periods were higher than what they charge now." Thomas Savidge and Louis Rouanet
Now that puberty blockers have been banned, it's time to ban Covid vaccines for children too, and for the same reason – because they do more harm than good and the evidence of benefit isn't there, says Mike Fairclough.
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CJ Hopkins Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I’ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there’s one thing they’re exceptionally good at, it’s taking responsibility for their mistakes. Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one’s mistakes, and not rationalizing, or minimizing, or attempting to deny them, …
The BBC has deliberately destroyed the great British sitcom, says Steven Tucker. Making the unwashed masses laugh is no longer PC and comedy must be given a 'higher purpose'. No wonder nobody is watching anymore.
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Biden vante les prétendus bienfaits de « l’Arsenal de la démocratie ». Source : TomDispatch, William D. HartungTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Joe Biden veut vous faire croire que dépenser de l’argent pour des armes est bon pour l’économie. Ce vieux mythe, régulièrement répété par les dirigeants politiques des deux partis, pourrait contribuer […]
Not content with the multitude of disasters that they’ve helped set in motion over the past three years, the Biden administration now seems to have put another target in its sights: Central Europe. On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken swept through Vienna and in keeping with the longstanding wishes of Brussels and Washington … Continue reading "Biden and Co. Take Aim at Central Europe"
In the early days of the war in Ukraine, France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, was somewhat isolated as Europe’s leading dove. But in more recent days of the war, he is somewhat isolated as the leading hawk. And even as the hawk, he seems to fly whichever way the wind blows. From the day Russia invaded … Continue reading "Has Macron Become Unmoored?"
Five more were wounded.
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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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Following Israel’s war and siege against Gaza, which began in earnest on October 7 of last year and has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, the Yemeni Army led by Ansar Allah declared a military operation against Israel. Its aim: to compel Tel Aviv to cease its destructive war on Gaza. No stranger to famine, genocide, […]
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Edward Curtin ` Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In …
In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small coop bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative,…
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J.K. Rowling has vowed to continue "calling a man a man" in defiance of controversial new SNP hate crime laws, which she branded "ludicrous".
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Puberty blockers in children were always an unregulated live experiment based on no evidence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. The NHS is right to ban them.
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This story is suspicious for several reasons: 1) it is showcased by Time, Inc., a major globalist organ; 2) the study was sponsored by the State Department, where the Sec'y of State Blinken is a Trilateral Commission member; 3) the authors of the study were formerly associated with Y-Combinator that Sam Altman once ran, in other words, they are Technocrats who may be freaking out over the monster they have created.
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Pierre Gascar: Inside the forest, beyond the touch of war Pierre Gascar: One could read the whole world kindling another war ==== Pierre GascarThe FugitiveTranslated be Merloyd Lawrence She knew he would try to talk about her mother, or her … … Continue reading →
GB News has hit back against Ofcom's decision to uphold complaints about shows hosted by Tory MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies after the regulator found five episodes breached broadcasting rules.
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John & Nisha Whitehead “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Day by day, tyranny …
It's been a week that has exposed the no-limits extremes of the climate campaign, says Joe Bastardi. Where are the true environmentalists who actually care about the natural world rather than a fanatical drive to cut CO2?
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Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppola were rejected by the Pentagon when they asked for production support. A decade later...
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The heat pump rollout is failing because people don't want them, the National Audit Office has warned. In 2022, gas boiler installations outnumbered heat pumps 27 times over.
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"If all the cars, and apartments, have people using them, and all the tools have people making things with them, we will need far fewer of those things. We have 'enough' stuff, it's just in the closet." ~Michael Munger
"By fueling an overall increase in demand, central banks can generate a sustained increase in the general level of prices — inflation. Central banks are the primary source of money creation, not firms." ~Nicolás Cachanosky
Leading conservatives are slamming the mainstream media for misrepresenting Trump's recent Ohio rally comments about the economy, accusing them of distorting a metaphorical 'bloodbath' into a literal one.
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In the midst of a political storm, Rishi Sunak is banking on convincing Tory MPs that the economy is turning a corner, aiming to quell party infighting and a potential leadership challenge.
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Alors que le bilan officiel du génocide israélien à Gaza approche les 30 000 morts et que des centaines de milliers de gens sont à la veille de mourir de faim, le directeur de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) prévient que Gaza n’est plus un lieu ou on peut vivre, mais est devenu une […]
Haitian gangs organized under Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier oppose rule by leaders who do not represent the people. Cherizier says that the foreign forces [including the US] aim to consolidate the power of the oligarchs who are only 5% of the population but own 85% of the wealth. He is fighting against foreign forces.
TikTok may just be the social media app of a new generation, but it is also now on the chopping block of the US government. A lot of legitimate and illegitimate business is done online everyday, and that may have to change soon as well.
Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and … Continue reading "Torture, Executions, Babies Left To Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes"
Following the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, outrage and eulogies echoed out in equal measure from the halls of power in Washington, amplified one-hundredfold by the US and UK press, and gave the sense that a champion of democracy had been assassinated by a dictator. In 2019, following the presidential elections in Venezuela, … Continue reading "In Navalny and Guaido, Washington Saw Useful Pawns, Not Political Paragons"
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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Tough penalties, including funding cuts and loss of enforcement powers, are to be introduced by the Government for councils flouting new local support requirements in low-traffic zones.
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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. Michael Gove’s Definition of Extremism UK Michael Gove MP made the news this week when he formally announced the UK government’s official definition of …
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Women writers on peace and war Antonine Maillet: One day war got declared Antonine Maillet: That’s enough to give you some idea of what war is Antonine Maillet: War succeeding war ==== Antonine MailletLa SagouineTranslated by Wayne Grady Well now, Gapi, he don’t even believe they’re … … Continue reading →
The SNP's anti-Islamophobia campaign is in disarray following the revelation that Lindsay Taylor, the face of the campaign, works for the extremist organisation Muslim Engagement and Development.
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