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We owned a horse which had been presented to us by a dear friend. It was a magnificent animal of Arabian breed, possessed of almost human intelligence . . . — Nikola Tesla’s autobiography, My Inventions
You know if it came to a brainy game
You could baffle a blockhead with ease.
—Ian Dury, “Blockheads” (more…)
Royal commentator Hilary Fordwich recently stood up for Britain by owning Don Lemon on his own show when he brought up slavery reparations.
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No pal of mine
Free speech and skepticism are or should be two central pillars of civilization, so it is no surprise to see them under attack from the British deep state and its provisional wing in the guise of Big Tech. (more…)
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Censorship is not always about hiding secrets. Sometimes it is just an assertion of raw power. — Nick Cohen, You Can’t Read This Book
There is something special about being ten years old. Every child knows this on his tenth birthday, crossing the shadow line from single to double digits. It means you’re all grown up. A similar thing happens to books, particularly those which concern themselves with politics and metapolitics. We read them again a decade after they were born and ask, “Well, you’re a big boy now. What have you got to say for yourself?” (more…)
From the Apotheosis of George Washington. Are these guys cool or what?
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
What about the Freemasons?
This is where I describe groups often cited as participants in the more conspiratorial aspects of globalism. Feel free to skip straight down to the comments section to throw rocks at me for saying too much or too little about your favorite cabal. (more…)
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Well, friends, we dun goof’d. We predicted, as a movement, as thinkers, that Russia would not invade Ukraine. We are, of course, at the time of writing, into the third week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so it behooves us to look into what happened and where we went wrong so that our analytical apparatus can meet the next crisis better prepared.
For a slice of the wrong predictions in that long-forlorn time of February 2022, you’d do well to read John Morgan’s article about why Russia won’t invade Ukraine (but is still winning) right here on Counter-Currents. (more…)
Nadine Dorries, the UK’s Digital Secretary, says the new law will “make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while enshrining free speech.”
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John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty, provides us with a brief crime report from the nineteenth century:
Penalties for opinion, or at least for its expression, still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force. In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man, said to be of unexceptionable conduct in all relations of life, was sentenced for 21 months’ imprisonment, for uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. (more…)
Friends of Dorothy Julian and Sandy speaking palare with Kenneth Horne on Round the Horne.
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What stood out was the magical notion that the mere pronunciation of words in a ritual manner could effect a change in the character of material objects. — Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (more…)
Vaush
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Two wild stories came out of the Breadtube scene within a 12-hour period earlier this week. Perhaps both deserve their own article, but they happened at the same time, and they might be related. I’ll explain why at the end.
The first story occurred on Monday night, when Communist Breadtuber Vaush announced to the world that he was a federal informant. (more…)
Goddess of Liberty, Texas State Capitol
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You are much less free than you used to be just a few short years ago; this an irrefutable fact. Almost daily in 2020 and 2021 we have witnessed scenes of tyranny and repression which we would never have thought possible in modern Western states. We have looked on as Australian construction workers were riddled with rubber bullets as they rallied for their right to work without vaccine passes. We have watched tens of thousands of medical workers who were previously vaunted as heroes thrown out of their jobs because they did not comply with vaccine mandates. (more…)
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Every Cretan is a liar. I am from Crete. — attributed to Epimenedes
Tell me lies.
Tell me sweet little lies.
— Fleetwood Mac (more…)
Gwen Snyder
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Twitter just handed the ultimate censorship weapon to Nazis. Under the new “privacy policy,” Proud Boys are reporting valid research, like documentation of public rallies by violent white supremacists. And Twitter is forcing us to choose between suspension and research deletion. — Gwen Snyder, antifa double agent secretly working for the Red-Brown Alliance (more…)
