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As a break from all the terrible events in the news I've been doing some more investigations into British Columbia history. I ran across a book called Fire in the Raven's Nest: The Haida of British Columbia by Norman Newton (new press, 1973). Woke readings of history are nothing new. Their anteceden...

Wow, Doc is pushing Critical Race Theory! Never thought I'd live to see the day. Excited for uncomfortable historical truths about European colonialism to be thoroughly explored in American high school classrooms. What makes you think this stuff hasn't been taught for sixty years and more? What see...

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:04 pm one of the best summaries I've heard lately from one of my heroes!!!


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Thanks for posting, SM.

These days I can rarely take listening to a speech that's over 5 or 6 minutes long.

But that was great. And he did the whole thing without notes!

NPR's brilliant self-own - Matt Taibbi, TK News , 20 June 2021 https://taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own National Public Radio complains about a media figure who tells people "what their opinions should be" and uses political "buzzwords" ... The piece goes on to note...

The error of idealism - Chilton Williamson, The Spectator , 24 Juney 2021 https://spectatorworld.com/life/error-idealism-realism/ ... Due to the character of idealistic societies where the predominating idealistic chorus is intentionally monotonal, distinguishing a single voice from the great mass ...

Progressive identity politics: The new Gnosticism - Tom Flanagan, C2C Journal , 9 July 2021 https://c2cjournal.ca/2021/07/progressive-identity-politics-the-new-gnosticism/ ... Our modern-day Gnostic’s identity is an irreducible and immutable essence. If one is born Black or Indigenous or female, on...

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I've heard that they sometimes (often?) dispensed with the coffins.

Anti-Christian hysteria has grown into church-burning terror, and people might be next - Christopher Bedford, The Federalist , 13 July 2021 https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/13/anti-christian-hysteria-has-grown-into-church-burning-terror-and-people-might-be-next/ Anti-Christian terrorists have turn...

'This is a country built on genocide': Canadians appalled by 751 unmarked graves - Yahoo! News, 24 June 2021 https://ca.rogers.yahoo.com/news/canada-751-unmarked-graves-saskatchewan-182311659.html Yesterday they ran this same story with the headline: 'What kind of monsters would celebrate Canada Da...

im sure its not completely accurate - another take on the seperate countries within the US. psqwt8hfbdy61.png Accurate for the southeastern quadrant. Picking out the Floridian subregions and Acadiana is remarkable and the first time I have seen this in print. Here is my favourite cultural map of No...

Saying "no" to black people - David Cole, Taki's Magazine, 11 May 2021
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The video that inspired this column:

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This site: https://www.byzantium1200.com/ ... includes an incredible array of computer generated models or simulations of Constantinople in the Middle Ages. Bird's eye view of the city in about the year 1200: Constantinople in 1200.jpg Some shots of the Hippodrome: hippodrome5.jpg hippodrome14.jpg

Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you - They/Them, The Spectator , 6 May 2021 https://spectator.us/topic/cia-wokeyleaks-langley/ Since its inception only a few months ago Wokeyleaks has had whistle-blowers coming forward from multi-billion-dollar arms companies, British spy...

I'm sad for Hong Kong and sad for what will inevitably be Taiwan's fate. The US will not get involved and even if it did, it would likely result in military humiliation (it is inevitable that China, soon to be the world's dominant economic and cultural force, will eclipse our military capability). ...

For a while, like most people, I used the term 'mainstream media'. Then, on one of the videos you posted I heard 'legacy media', which sounded appropriate. But whether I subliminally got it from another source or maybe for one of the few times in my life had an idea of my own, I started calling it ...

I was surprised to see this: Your free speech is at risk with Ottawa's push to regulate online content, experts warn - Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News , 30 April 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-content-1.6007192 The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial...

its the same in Australia, modern middle class folks dont believe that being abused is a human right. no conspiracy required, the sheltered ones believe in the concept of a cycle of violence, this has been taught as fact in movies and schools for decades now , so the way to fix the cycle of violenc...

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Thanks for posting, Doc.

Yeah, things are pretty draconian here these days.

For a while, like most people, I used the term 'mainstream media'. Then, on one of the videos you posted I heard 'legacy media', which sounded appropriate. But whether I subliminally got it from another source or maybe for one of the few times in my life had an idea of my own, I started calling it t...

Boycott corporate America! - Matt Purple, The Spectator , 18 April 2021 https://spectator.us/topic/boycott-corporate-america/ Ron DeSantis was smeared by the media. He was never going to take it lying down. When 60 Minutes aired a laughably dishonest report implying he’d operated a pay-for-play vac...

Georgetown's cultural revolution - Lama Abu Odeh, Quillette , 9 April 2021 https://quillette.com/2021/04/09/georgetowns-cultural-revolution/ Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to her colleague and c...