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The latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc was a celebration of Nick Jeelvy‘s first anniversary since his move to Counter-Currents, where he offered a show retrospective and did an Ask Me Anything, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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The 2011 film Contagion is truly a movie for our times, especially now. It’s quite peculiar how the battle against infectious disease, ongoing for a century and a half, suffered a staggering setback in merely two years. For posterity’s sake, I’ll digress a bit about the present historical context in this rapidly-changing situation. (more…)
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Millennial Woes filled in as guest host on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and his guest was the incredible Morgoth’s Review. The ultimate Celtic duo were chatting for the first time since Millenniyule 2021, and the second half is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Millennial Woes filled in as guest host on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and his guest was the incredible Morgoth’s Review. The ultimate Celtic duo were chatting for the first time since Millenniyule 2021, and the first half is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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For the past two and a half years, the world has been gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic response. The disease itself, which broke out in China, turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger. Not exactly “just the flu, bro,” but not quite the doomsday plague many were hoping for. (more…)
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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)
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Long-time friend of the show Pox Populi was the special guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc with host Nick Jeelvy to discuss the situation with the Dutch farmer protests, as well as answer your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Journalist Riley Waggaman, formerly of Press TV and Russia Today and now of the Edward Slavsquat blog, was host Greg Johnson’s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the two faces of Russian COVID journalism, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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On Monday, New York City’s Emergency Management agency released a short video (linked below) intended to advise residents on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. The video rattled some, who questioned why it was being released now. While I think the reason for that is obvious, for me the video is more interesting in its utter ridiculousness, which I will detail here, as well as for what it says about how our rulers view themselves. (more…)
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Riley Waggaman of the Edward Slavsquat blog was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they took a look at the situation inside Russia and its surrounding countries since the sanctions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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“War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.” — Heraclitus
Compliance measures and social trust are two key elements in any society, the ratio of which is a good indicator of how productive the people in it are and what the level of the general welfare looks like. Compliance measures usually come with threats to motivate compliant responses.
As compliance measures multiply, so do the threats that back them up. (more…)
