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  Two clicks to midnight by Ken Leslie for The Saker Blog While I was absent from this esteemed blog focusing on other things, an extremely dangerous situation started to develop and I found myself reaching for the keyboard again. If some of my previous writings were a bit alarmist, the tone was motivated by a genuine angst before an unfeeling and unstoppable machine of conquest and destruction the likes of which the world had never seen. And angst it is—anybody with an ounce of common sense can see that the World is hurtling towards some kind of catastrophe. Whether this occurs in a year or five is less relevant. The point is that we are witnessing a process of rapid implosion of the current global system and are not able to see what will replace it. There is no compelling vision of the future—a universal vessel of hope that would transport us across the turbulent waters of fundamental change. This time I am not anxious but resigned. Resignation does not imply learned helplessness...

  Share Topics FREE SPEECH   POLITICS   UK There is a moment in Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel,  Matilda  (1988), when our eponymous heroine suddenly realises how she might wreak vengeance on the tyrannous headteacher, Miss Trunchbull. ‘A brilliant idea hit her’, is how Dahl puts it, although he might just easily have written that she was ‘struck by inspiration’ or ‘seized by a compulsion to act’. For those unfamiliar with everyday metaphor, it is worth noting that Matilda was in no way hit, struck or seized in a physically damaging or otherwise abusive manner. One could accuse me of stating the obvious here, were it not for the fact that Sainsbury’s has now withdrawn from its stock a  Matilda -themed mug that bears the quotation ‘a brilliant idea hit her’ following complaints that it promotes violence against women. ‘Sainsbury’s has shown a lack of empathy for domestic-violence victims by displaying these mugs’, claims  Luis Labaton  of Do...

August 17, 2020 " Information Clearing House " -  There’s no ambiguity in the term: capital punishment is killing, carried out by an entity commonly, but not exclusively, judicially empowered. It refers only to the killing of persons, of course. Doesn’t it? In this uniquely terrible time in America, when there is such fathomless confusion and desperation, such vitriolic, violent and conflicted fury in the adversarial masses, when we watch the empty catechism of our national mythology shatter and evaporate, when we are compelled to stare into the abyss of all our historic falsity, pretense, viciousness and dishonor, when national disintegration and death seem not only possible but likely, to hold on to sanity one must try to understand how this could have come to be. How is it that a nation that had as close to a truly fresh start as any known, that, free of the socio-economic bonds and fetters of ossified, post-feudal Europe and unencumbered ...

  August 20th, 2020 A high-profile and highly influential scientific  study  regarding the potential of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat Covid-19 patients was  retracted  among suggestions of  fraud  back in June. The research in question was headed by a renowned Harvard professor called Mandeep Mehra and published by  The Lancet , the most prestigious medical journal in the world. It concluded that the antimalarial drug used since the 1950´s was actually  killing  Covid-19 patients by inducing heart failures. It caused quite a stir. (Brief historical fact: the  Quina  tree, the source of quinine and its family of medications, is also the “national tree” of Peru). Short after the publication of the study (22 May), the World Health Organization (WHO)  halted  all research being conducted on hydroxychloroquine, which included simultaneous testing in  17 countries . The worldwide influence of the scientific paper –...