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Tom Griffin explores how an ideological reliance on lobbying groups appears to be undermining another Conservative leader

The recent Biden campaign to restrict gas stove in homes is decidely inorganic. What might be behind it?

Ray McGovern discusses Seymour Hersh’s story, “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” on Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon’s radio show, The Critical Hour. (With transcript).

The post Ray McGovern: Nord Stream Attack an ‘Act of War’ appeared first on scheerpost.com.

One journalist reminded readers that the NFL star and Army Ranger "called the Iraq invasion and occupation 'fucking illegal' and was killed by friendly fire in an incident the military covered up and tried to hide from his family."

The post Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of ‘Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story’ appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Israel’s new fascist government has increased the collective punishment of Palestinians — a war crime.

The post New Israeli Regime Moves Toward “Cleansing” All Palestinians From Palestine appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Is Civilization at Stake in Ukraine?

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By Algernon Austin / CEPR In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on the racial composition of WPA workers isn’t available for all of these years, the data we have for 1939, 1941, and 1942 make clear that the WPA […]

The post When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Enter a workshop where the world’s oldest board game is still made by hand, in a meticulous, deeply satisfying process

- by Aeon Video

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What if life crises are not pitfalls en route to Maslow’s self-actualisation but hopeful new beginnings, as Bollnow argued?

- by Norm Friesen

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With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid

- by April Nowell

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I’ve got a new piece up over at UnHerd about the push — in the UK and elsewhere — towards central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The official explanations don’t add up, while the risks of giving governments and central banks such sweeping powers of surveillance and control are being seriously downplayed.

Now and then, even the most seasoned politician happens to slip up and accidently speak the truth. This is what occurred during a recent debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, when the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock openly stated that “we are fighting a war against Russia”. The German government was quick …

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Toby Green and I have written an article about the highly disturbing (but underreported) phenomenon of excess deaths: in all Western countries, people are dying at much higher rates than the pre-pandemic average, and only a fraction of these deaths are attributable to Covid. More young people are dying today than during the pandemic. This is the …

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Everything you need to know about the world’s elites annual get-together.

Rising prices don’t necessarily mean a rise in overall inflation. This blog post explains the difference between increases in relative prices and the inflation rate.

There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th February 2023 If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu. Bird flus are responsible […]

The problem with a table presenting multiple estimated effect measures from the same model (“Table 2”) is that it encourages the reader to interpret all these estimates in the same way, typically as total-effect estimates. As illustrated above, the interpretation of a confounder effect estimate may be different than for the exposure effect estimate. Of […]

Emissora deixou de faturar valor em um único mês, após anunciantes cancelarem contratos por pressão do movimento Sleeping Giants Brasil.

The post E-mails internos mostram executivos da Jovem Pan lamentando prejuízo de R$ 838 mil com perda de anúncios appeared first on The Intercept.

An effort to deflate the hype over the probable loss of the war by Ukraine does not go far enough.

More debate about the role of energy price increases in consumer inflation.

Oh man, I should really respond to Mark.