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Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda And The Coming Catastrophe

If every single high-profile journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing heartfelt devotion to Britain’s deceased, 96-year-old monarch, it is not because she ‘served’ her country diligently in doing her ‘duty’ for 70 years. The powerful interests that determine Britain’s political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose ‘managed democracy’ as a kind of game. Propaganda blitzes →

The Great Merger – The Rise Of Oligarchical Politics

11th July 2022

Millions of people in the UK are beset by insecurities and worries about the rising cost of living. Fuel and energy prices are escalating, variously blamed on Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine. A →

Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis

6th July 2022

Rousseau wrote: ‘We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.’ Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists →

Don’t Extradite Assange

22nd June 2022

Last Friday’s decision by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorise the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States is both deeply shameful and unsurprising. Her action paves the way for Assange to be →

‘Damned Fun’ – ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ And The Military-Entertainment Complex

7th June 2022

In 1990, Tom Cruise, star of the 1986 blockbuster, ‘Top Gun’, said: ‘Some people felt that “Top Gun” was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it. But I →

Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·

15h

[email protected], from time to time, any writer of integrity will face abuse for not joining the crowd. There is always a crowd, unthinking and shouting, and people such as you to join it. Later its members will claim to support free speech, and genuinely believe it. I pity you. https://twitter.com/jimmysecuk/status/1574376138096377860

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald·

18h

Hillary went on to note she has concerns about Meloni's ideology, but this is the moronic logical conclusion of viewing the world through the prism of identity politics.

It was a mainstream, pervasive claim that opposition to Hillary in the 2016 Dem primary was misogynistic.

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald·

18h

Hillary Clinton, earlier this month, on the likely election of Italy's first female Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni (who now is, in fact, the all-but-confirmed next Prime Minister of Italy):

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-italy-election-fascism-mussolini/671515/

Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda And The Coming Catastrophe

The Great Merger – The Rise Of Oligarchical Politics

Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis

Don’t Extradite Assange

‘Damned Fun’ – ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ And The Military-Entertainment Complex

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