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Time for a Game of Chess?

“What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come

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Monday round-up

A selection of articles collated by sovereignman.com Black Lives Matter Organization Bought $6 million California Mansion After the killing of George Floyd in 2020, the Black Lives Matter organization raked in an mountain of donations. That money was supposed to go, ostensibly, to fighting against racial discrimination. But as

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She Has Nothing to Say

She Has Nothing to Say

Perhaps it’s of a piece with their notable predilection for grooming children, but the left have a sinister fondness for making political voodoo dollies out of little girls, whether it’s perpetually-scowling Greta Thunberg or the ludicrous “fearless girl” statue (seriously, plonking a child in front of a charging

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Sanctions Against Russia: Far Reaching Consequences

Dr. Mihai Macovei (macmih_mf@yahoo.com) is an associated researcher at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania. Warning Long read: 1,745 words Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was met with unprecedented economic sanctions by the United States and its allies in order to cripple Russia’s capacity

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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China’s Nightmare Is Our Nightmare Too

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. The virus that locked down the world has returned to China in full force. And I don’t mean the Wuhan coronavirus. Nearly every world government

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NATO and the War in Eurasia

NATO and the War in Eurasia

The background of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict… and Oceania. Information Opinion By JM White NATO was established during the Cold War in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. That threat ended when the Berlin Wall came down 33 years ago, yet the NATO alliance has remained in place

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Is Le Pen Mightier than Macron?

Is Le Pen Mightier than Macron?

Remember when the legacy media spent months hooting and jeering at the very suggestion that Donald Trump could be president? Then November 8, 2016 happened — and made Rachel Maddow cry. I don’t know if France has a butch lesbian anchor (Melissa Theuriau is rather fetching, and straight), but it’

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I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you, and some links to some of my recent disinformation, but let’s do the news first. The good news is, April 2 was officially “Freedom Day” in New Normal Germany, which means

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Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Whenever well-off hippy types try to extol the virtues of “organic” farming, it’s worth pointing out that organic farming was the default for nearly all of the past 12,000 years. For all that time, 99.9% of the comparatively tiny human population lived on a monotonous diet of

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The United Nations Is Tied up with Its Own Rope

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments When I heard Ukraine’s President Zelensky arguing for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations, and especially of

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The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

Europe’s green policies are actually funding the Ukraine war. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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Yes, It Does Matter
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Yes, It Does Matter

Capitalist In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Russians invaded and the gallant Ukrainian people grabbed guns, knives, baseball bats and probably rolling pins in order to repel the invasion. They put the Froggies circa 1940 to shame. The Ukrainian President, when contacted and told

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This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish

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Politics Greatest Comedy Duo Brings the Laughs

I recently wrote about The Dumbest Things Said about Ukraine. So Far. Unsurprisingly, world-class bozo John Kerry was one of the first out of the blocks, fretting about how the war would affect the climate. But Kerry is far from the dumbest stump in the Biden White House. So it

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