Scrutiny has intensified over the World Bank’s handling of climate funds, with a recent report by Oxfam revealing that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance disbursed by the Bank […]
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News stories from various sources (16.11.2024)
The following are some recent news stories covering a variety of topics and from various sources that caught our eye. Table of Contents Notable News Stories Reported by Corporate Media (9-15 November […]
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The End of Private Ownership?
You may have heard the term “tax on unrealized gains”, followed by some passionate words about how “the rich” have to pay more taxes. And maybe you think this doesn’t affect you. […]
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The Revolution of 2024
The Revolution of 2024
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to …
UK will soon be littered with political prisoners
Highlighting the cases of citizen journalist Cameron Bell and The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, Dan Wootton sums up the UK’s use of police and law to silence people: The solution by the left […]
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UK government to fund geoengineering experiments to cool the Earth
In September, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (“ARIA”) announced a significant investment of £57 million to fund researchers examining ideas for artificially cooling the planet through small-scale outdoor geoengineering experiments. […]
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Leadbeater’s euthanasia bill is the biggest threat we’ve faced since 2015; contact your MP and ask them to vote “No”
UK Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s euthanasia bill is “the biggest threat we’ve faced since the Marris Bill in 2015. We defeated it then, and we can do so now, but we need […]
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America’s new caste system
I’ve been teaching Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for a very long time. But only recently have I come to appreciate some of his deepest assumptions and their implications about the whole democratic experiment. In particular I’ve been thinking about the …
Covid masked liberal weakness
Donald Trump is back in the White House — and among Democrats, the blame game has already begun. Nancy Pelosi, for instance, has claimed that Joe Biden should have held off supporting Kamala Harris, instead encouraging an open primary. Harris …
Why didn’t Jews vote for Trump?
On 28 June 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, fought back against the police harassing them. This was the signal event in the formation of the modern Gay Rights Movement. More than half a …
Malcolm Gladwell’s Need for Critical Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell’s Need for Critical Thinking
by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute
I read The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell in 2000 when it first was published and was immediately hooked. Eagerly, …
Guess What’s Coming to DC?
Guess What’s Coming to DC?
by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute
DC is about to experience something entirely new, something absolutely unprecedented in its experience. They think the barbarians are coming. And perhaps they are. But not the kinds …
How universities teach students to shame
Oxford colleges are suffocating places, stuffed to the gunnels with competitive and perfectionistic types, precocious in some ways and very immature in others. Everybody knows everybody else, adolescent hysteria and gossip can travel fast, and an atmosphere dominated by a …
Democrats need a new Clinton
A shattered Democratic incumbent. A rambunctious Republican outsider. An election marred by economic turmoil and the usual destabilising violence in the Middle East. A campaign of contrasts, of relentlessly negative liberals, dismissing their rival as extremist, and conservatives pushing forward …
Is Ukraine becoming a kleptocracy?
Tanks. Howitzers. Missiles. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the West has delivered a mountain of aid to the beleaguered Kyiv government. The Pentagon alone is estimated to have sent over £50 billion in military support, even as tiny Luxembourg managed …