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When I first said I wanted to be a comedian, everyone laughed. Well, they’re not laughing now.

— Bob Monkhouse 

If you and your friends were to have a séance, and you channeled the spirit of George Orwell, the greatest Englishman never to appear on a banknote would use the glass to tap out the following: stop quoting 1984. (more…)

A foggy day in Krasnik, Poland

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A devoutly Christian town in southeastern Poland has come under attack for its decision to reject modern values that don’t align with the tenets of its faith. Krasnik, population 35,000, adopted a resolution in 2019 that declared the city “free of LGBT.” (more…)

Edgar Fernhout, Schädel, 1935.

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The lexicon of mendacious government platitudes has gained another ignominious entry. “Just three weeks to flatten the curve!” they implored one long year ago. Yet after twelve months of authoritarianism and state-enforced solitude, SWAT teams are swooping in to arrest Miami spring break revelers, and lockdown protests from Amsterdam to Kassel are intensifying across Europe. (more…)

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Nature is a temple, where the living
Columns sometimes breathe of confusing speech;
Man walks within these groves of symbols, each
Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

— Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondence” (more…)

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Sagte ich doch.

Te lo deje. 

I told you so.

Savory words in whatever language you say them in. These days I’ve been indulging myself. (more…)

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Does anyone believe that Covid-19 vaccination will not soon be compulsory for all citizens of Joe Biden’s “systemically racist” America? Going to work, sending your children to school, flying on a plane, going to a gym, being eligible for health insurance, voting, shopping (more…)

Anonymous, Harrowing of Hell in the Style of Limbo.

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It is often said that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. As crazy as the looting, violence, and capitulation has been this week, I get the feeling that history is currently repeating itself now. Watching the videos of non-whites assaulting random white people reminds me of the horrors of the Haitian Massacre of 1804. (more…)

The Dutch Party for Freedom candidate Géza Hegedüs

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American media strategies: the Knavs case

From the very outset, President Trump’s brave attempt at draining the bureaucratic-kleptocratic “Washington swamp” of establishment politics brought out the poisonous snakes of the American mainstream media. Headed by the spin doctors and “fake news” masters of CNN, President Trump has come under sustained attack: vicious attempts at character assassination, with backbiting scandal-mongering and deep-state political intrigue being amplified coast-to-coast, along with round-the-clock journalistic mockery and taunting of the most infantile and malicious kind. (more…)

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Co-hosts Fróði Midjord and Jonas De Geer were joined by Counter-Currents Book Editor John Morgan for today’s broadcast, which commemorated two recent anniversaries: (more…)