Attack the System- LA Times MOCKED for FAWNING Kamala Harris coverage 27th January 2021The clerisy kneels before the princess. Team Rising discusses the newest beat announced by the LA Times, “Covering Kamala Harris.”Keith Preston
- Kurt Andersen: The True Billionaire Conspiracy To Screw The Working Class 27th January 2021It’s unfortunate that “libertarianism” is often conflated with plutocracy by both the Left and Right with Bismarckian “Prussian Socialism” (what Americans call “progressivism”) as the supposed solution. Reaganites and their descendants are about as “libertarian” as King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Corporate plutocracy results from a plethora of […]Keith Preston
- Dems Have NO EXCUSES On 15 Minimum Wage, Will They Pull Through? 27th January 2021The impact of this will be to double the wages of the higher level unskilled and semi-skilled, but at the cost of unemployment for the least skilled. The petite bourgeoisie, which has already been decimated by the lockdowns, will be further harmed. Minimum wage increases are a band-aid […]Keith Preston
- LA Times MOCKED for FAWNING Kamala Harris coverage 27th January 2021
- Samizdata
- Portugal has a socialist education policy 27th January 2021“Portugal blocks remote lessons at private schools to help state pupils”, the Times reports. Portugal has blocked private schools from offering remote learning for at least a fortnight amid fears that more privileged children will gain an unfair advantage over their poorer counterparts after the closure of state schools. The minority Socialist-led government of António […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Ursula von der Leyen speaks about creating a “truly global common good” 26th January 2021When a politician says the words “common good” it is usually with a very specific meaning, and this use of the phrase by Ms von der Leyen is no exception: “The EU vows to force firms to declare what vaccines are being exported to the UK as Ursula von der Leyen says she ‘means business’ […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day 25th January 2021The standard economics of taxation tells us that wealth taxes are a bad idea. The little get out available being that a one off wealth tax, unannounced and impossible to dodge, isn’t so bad. But that isn’t so bad bit rests, entirely and wholly, on the one off nature of it. Which is why those […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Portugal has a socialist education policy 27th January 2021
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT A COMPLETE LOSER 20th January 2021by John Grauerholz If you, on a rainy, thundering night, ever dare to look in the mirror - then you, my dear reader, will see a complete failure gazing stupidly back at you. That slobbering, slack-jawed creature gawking from the glass is you. Even if your face were not completely hideous, your acquaintances would still […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- PARABLE OF THE COMMUTER TRAIN 21st November 2019by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT A COMPLETE LOSER 20th January 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandewring Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Wisdom Dancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- On Ugly Ideas and IntoleranceIdeas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of Reconciliation
- Razib Khan
- Racing against the “fourth wave” 27th January 2021It looks like the USA has gone through “wave 3”. But one thing masked in the aggregate data is regional variation. Whereas major hotspots like California peaked in January, the […]Razib Khan
- Come DIY your DTC DNA with me this week 25th January 2021Update roundup and a special inviteRazib Khan
- Open Thread – 1/25/2021 25th January 2021Taking a break from catching up with Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe to read Accounts of China and India. It’s a short […]Razib Khan
- Racing against the “fourth wave” 27th January 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]teageegeepea
- Our platforms, our selves 13th January 2021My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]teageegeepea
- One nice thing about the pandemic 25th December 2020I haven’t heard any Christmas music this season.teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021
- Instead of a Blog
- Evolutionist X
- Everyone’s a Conspiracy Theorist, now 14th January 2021We live in interesting times. The internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge, understanding, and maybe even human harmony. Instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists. Don’t get hoity-toity and claim that it’s only those Bad Guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies. […]evolutiontheorist
- New Year, New President 7th January 2021My husband made a good point yesterday, that an historian a hundred years from now could reasonably argue that Trump was never truly president because he was never allowed by the rest of the system to assume full power. For these four years America has been essentially sans-president. The system has chosen Biden; never mind […]evolutiontheorist
- The Specter of Morality 1st January 2021I think one of the problems with the teaching of history/our understanding of morality is that we look back on he past and think, “Oh it’s so OBVIOUS that X was evil, only evil people could have supported X. If I lived back then, I’d have been a good person who opposed X.” For example, […]evolutiontheorist
- Everyone’s a Conspiracy Theorist, now 14th January 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Demand Equal Rights!! Civil Rights for All!! Abolish “minority” quota privilege!! 26th January 2021Whites voluntarily forfeited constitutional rights!! equal treatment under the law (independent of the color of the skin) freedom of association freedom of speech to criticize minorities, the democratic ideal of the fully informed voter Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net Solution to the cartoon’s riddle: Point out the inequality and injustice. Humbly suggest, or […]Programmer
- Scientific honesty: tell the WHOLE truth, nothing hidden: fully disclose weaknesses, alternative explanations, conflicts of interest … 11th January 2021“Blacks have lower income than Whites in the USA. That proves ‘systemic racism’”. Scientific honesty requires to inform about all weaknesses in this statement. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Scientific honesty* requires full and total disclosure of all relevant issues regarding the theory in discussion. Dishonesty must be shunned, deception be taboo. Scientific honesty should […]Programmer
- Covid-19 lockdown side effects are suppressed! Former German secret service chief assails cover-up 5th January 2021Cluelessness about suicides, bankruptcies, economic disasters, and co-morbidities related to Covid-19 lockdowns is chastised by Germany’s former secret service chief Hans Georg Massen. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net 1) why we don’t differentiate between deaths BY Coronavirus and death WITH Coronavirus (and other causes of death) Why is Covid-19 so dangerous if there were no […]Programmer
- Demand Equal Rights!! Civil Rights for All!! Abolish “minority” quota privilege!! 26th January 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]teageegeepea
- Our platforms, our selves 13th January 2021My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]teageegeepea
- One nice thing about the pandemic 25th December 2020I haven’t heard any Christmas music this season.teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- SA1175 | Hyde Park Orator Illustrated | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake 20th January 2021Hyde Park Orator Illustrated Bonar Thompson Afterword by Trevor Blake 6 x 9″, 354 pages, perfect bound STAND ALONE SA1175 Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon | Bookshop.org “A cynic’s book that annoyed me.” – Leeds Mercury. Bonar Thompson, the famous Hyde Park Orator, delighted millions of listeners at the well-known meeting-ground for many years with his […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- “I GO” a poem by Jack Jones. 14th January 2021I GO I go slowlyIn a slow way,My means being lowly.I go unbidden,Yea even forbidden.I go to discover—I know not.But I go,For only can I knowBy going. —Jack Jones.Kevin I. Slaughter
- Seklew Scolds Simpoleons, Supplies Sample Shilling Sericine Silk Set 13th January 2021Daily Herald (28 March 1914) SIMPOLEONS! Listen! Don’t be a blister on the Bosom of Time, but look like Napoleons of Labour by wearing “Sericine” Silk Ties. Something new. Seklew’s Sample Shilling Set: 3 Ties, 1 Tie-maker, 1 silver-cased Collar-fastener. 1s the Lot. Agents wanted. Particulars 1d. – Seklew and Co., 11, Chester Street, C.-on-M., […]Trevor Blake
- SA1175 | Hyde Park Orator Illustrated | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake 20th January 2021
Tag Archives: Chile
Live and Let Die?
It didn’t help my sour mood two Sundays ago to read the story of the Chilean zoo lions killed to save a man who’d leapt into their enclosure in an apparent stab at suicide. According to reports, 20-year-old Franco Luis … Continue reading →
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