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Just Following Orders

Just Following Orders

JP Sears awakenwithjp.com If you ever wondered what you would do during the civil rights era that sought to end segregation from society or during Nazi Germany, what you are doing today is the answer to that question. We can look back at Germany in the 1930s and see

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The Trees That Burn Australia

The Trees That Burn Australia

It’s a curious thing: the people most obsessed with climate change seem to have the most trouble grasping the concept of “change”. They seem to live with a peculiar delusion that the climate of the middle 1960s — just coincidentally, the heyday of the Boomer Establishment’s youth — is somehow

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The Strange History of the Chip

When animated comedy Over the Hedge wanted to emblemise modern fast-food culture, it chose “the chip”. Granted, the chip in that instance was a corn chip, but a major plot device of the film is the protagonist’s obsession with a particular brand of potato chip. The origin of the

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The BFD Food Column: Kugel Yerushalmi

The BFD Food Column: Kugel Yerushalmi

Vas is das? Kugel is another one of those long-cooking Sabbath dishes from the Jewish kitchen, combined with eggs and in some cases caramel, and overcooked. Kugel is more often dark brown in colour, compressed and squished in texture. At first glance kugel is wholly unappetising, to say the least,

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COVID and the Eureka Flag

COVID and the Eureka Flag

Balding multimillionaire leftist Peter FitzSimons, who is as much a historian as the Fifty Shades books are great literature, recently had quite the dummy-spit over Australia’s Freedom protesters adopting the Eureka flag. With his characteristic grasp of historical fact, FitzSimons blustered that the protesters “know nothing of Eureka”. The

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A Hugely Deserved Honour

A Hugely Deserved Honour

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The bi-yearly honours list invariably invites controversy with some recipients deemed to be unworthy. It’s going on in Britain now with massive outrage over Tony Blair’s knighthood, understandably in his case. Nigh on a million signatures have been garnered for a petition demanding

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The Curious Case of the Germans Who Didn’t Bark

The Curious Case of the Germans Who Didn’t Bark

I must admit that I haven’t watched the Joe Rogan/Robert Malone podcast (I’ve barely watched Rogan at all, in fact), but that hasn’t stopped me noticing one of the biggest take-homes most people seem to have gleaned from it: “mass formation psychosis” (MFP). Malone, stepping beyond

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Last Friday Was a “Supreme” Example of a Superpower in Decline

Last Friday Was a “Supreme” Example of a Superpower in Decline

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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Othering Unvaccinated Persons

Othering Unvaccinated Persons

Jared McBrady brownstone.org Jared McBrady is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at SUNY Cortland. In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and

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From Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations

J M White My grandfather William, aged 9, arrived in Port Chalmers on board the clipper ship Peter Denny on 3 September 1873. With him were his three siblings: two-year-old Jessie, his brother Adam, aged 7, and his older sister Alison aged 11. Seven children died from dysentery on that

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Hideouts, Harbours and Homes

Hideouts, Harbours and Homes

Christian Cooijmans University of Liverpool Chris is a research fellow at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on the reach and repercussions of Viking movement across the Frankish realm. For many years, archaeologists and historians have provided an increasingly informed insight into the dynamic world of the Vikings, chipping

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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

Alexander McRae If you are familiar with Jordan Peterson then you would have heard of the book Ordinary Men. It is about the 101 Battalion Reserve Police during 1943 in Poland written by Christopher R. Browning. The book has been on my list for a long time but I felt

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Dr John Robinson – Searching for the Truth

Dr John Robinson – Searching for the Truth

Democracy Action democracyaction.org.nz Recently we interviewed Dr. John Robinson, former university lecturer, and research scientist and prolific author of books about the historical development of New Zealand. Here he tells us what inspires him to search for the truth. DA: Where did you come from? JR: I grew

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