I thought of the advocacy for abortion upon abortion…the blurring of the bright line between life and death…the acts of degradation all around us…of obscenities played out in public…of genocidal language amplified in the public arena.
What happened in the French legislative elections? How did Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the big winner in the first round of elections, end up limping over the finish line in third place far behind the big winner…
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Accountability is highly unlikely. Whatever changes happen to pandemic protocols, even if they do happen, will be made quietly and without debate. The institutions that have experienced a loss of trust will be gradually diminished in public importance.
Today, there is an official and extremist public attitude of Russia hate. Few may know how far back it goes. Here I share quotations from 1836. You decide whether the quotations seem apt as criticism of today’s Russia hate.
Stories aside, today, an array of fact-checking organizations have been built, and accusations of fake news or misinformation fly with reckless abandon. Yet, the news, easier to consume than ever before, retains the same problems Dumas wrote about.
But for X, the last 24 hours would have looked very different: nothing but propaganda, apart from a few marginal places here and there. Therein lies another irony: the way X is managed is increasing trust rather than reducing it.
My base case has been that we’re repeating the 1970s disaster driven by out-of-control government spending and out-of-control Fed money printing. The official numbers are matching that almost to a tee.
The biggest breakthroughs in the history of science usually come from the outsiders. So there’s a paradox in that proper science often dies when it makes an unholy alliance with the state.
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National political leaders and thought leaders are scared, going quiet, and complying in the wake of Steve Bannon’s arrest, hoping that this silence will buy them freedom from a similar fate.
We want to get to the bottom of what has happened to the US and world economy since the disaster of lockdowns. Something doesn’t feel right, and we would like to take an objective look and tell a different story.
Social theorist Bauman wondered about freedom – do people really want to be free? Can they bear the challenges and responsibilities of being free? He approaches this question from the angle of ‘liberation,’ which is sometimes the prerequisite of being free.
Albanians are staunch anti-Communist and recoil at the suggestion that Hoxha’s excesses were justified. It is their wish that the world becomes aware of the sacrifices of the Albanian people and the importance of resisting tyranny at all costs.
