"The people we pay to think, influence and guide the public mind — and possess the requisite intelligence and training to do so — also happen to be the least capable of doing so because their professional options are so limited. As a result, the term “independent intellectual” has become nearly an oxymoron. If such a person exists, he is either very poor or otherwise living off family money, and not likely making much of his own."
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Intellectuals for Sale BY Jeffrey Tucker | The Daily Reckoning
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Germany Caught Funnelling Billions to Bill Gates To Depopulate by Sean Adl-Tabatabai | The People's Voice
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Has the social elevator broken down? | Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." a line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita spoken by Vishnu
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela? Ideas By Richard Stengel SOURCE: Time Magazine
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Peter Zeihan: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization SOURCE: The Commonwealth Club
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Dave Collum's 2022 Year In Review, Part 1: All Roads Lead To Ukraine SOURCE: Zero Hedge
Saturday, December 17, 2022
South Dakota Gov. Noem Proposes Legislation to Restrict Chinese Purchase of US Farmland By Dorothy Li SOURCE: Epoch Times
"[A]ccording to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2020, Chinese-owned U.S. agricultural lands were worth more than $1.8 billion, compared to $81 million in 2010."
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Collective Intelligence Will Outsmart You by Tim Leberecht SOURCE: Psychology Today
"Collective intelligence is on the rise—and it is, in fact, much more effective than our individual brains. That’s the main argument that neuroscientist and bestselling author Hannah Critchlow presents in her new book, Joined-Up Thinking, in which she claims that a connected group of brains will almost always produce better results than the so-called lone genius: in how we collaborate and create value, run our organizations, and tackle the biggest challenges to our societies and species"
Sunday, October 30, 2022
15 Offensive Halloween Costumes That Shouldn't Exist BY MARCI ROBIN AND LIZZ SCHUMER SOURCE: Good Houskeeping
1. A Holocaust victim
2. Anything involving blackface
3. Transphobic costumes
4. The COVID-19 pandemic
5. Body-shaming and objectifying costumes
6. Cultural stereotypes
7. A terrorist
8. Zombie versions of deceased celebrities
9. An eating disorder
10. Animal cruelty
11. A mentally ill person
12. Sexual harassment
13. An unhoused person
14. A national tragedy
15. The Black Lives Matter movement
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
by Kathleen Frydl, Sachs Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University SOURCE: Asia Times
Camp Laykay Nou, a homeless encampment in Philadelphia. High and rising inequality is one reason the US rates badly on some international development rankings. Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images / Cory Clark
Monday, September 5, 2022
Parasite's Real-Life Seoul Basement Apartments to Be Banned After Deadly Floods by Greg Hill SOURCE: CBR.com and The Washington Times
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Stay in touch ‘Warm banks’ to be set up this winter – but what are they? by Izzie Jani-Friend SOURCE: Stay in Touch
--the mayor of Bristol, U.K.
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