The last time a protest arrived on Parliament grounds on December 16, 2020, the Red Queen and her courtiers had already fled. A bit like Justin Trudeau, her doppelgänger, who fled to an undisclosed location when 50,000 truckers and 100,000 demonstrators arrived recently in Ottawa. Tucker Carlson said
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As Australian comedian Celeste Barber found out the hard way, when people donate to a specific cause, the money has to go to that cause alone. Redirecting the funds elsewhere is called “fraud”. Which, as it happens, is a crime. Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe likes to make up its own rules
People fall prey to scams all the time. We all know someone dudded in some form of scam, whether it is Nigerian ‘419’ style scams, catfishing of sad and lonely older folks or Ponzi schemes. It is astonishing just how many people fall for these scams. What I am about
It’s a common mistake of both the admirers and detractors of totalitarianism to assume that it is inherently stronger than democracy. In the 1920s, especially, many apologists for fascism and Nazism argued that “democracy is too weak” to deal with the crisis of economic collapse. In recent times, even
3rd February 2022. February 1st was the anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. It was marked in Myanmar by silent protest and absences from work. I have not been sending updates from Myanmar because of concern for my sources there. I feel happier today because some have managed to leave
Mia Bloom Georgia State University Mia Bloom is Professor at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. The Taliban reportedly captured 40 people in Mazar-e-Sharif, a medium-sized city in Afghanistan, at the end of
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Alexander Brown brownstone.org Alexander Brown is a writer and political scientist living in Toronto, Canada. He is a Director at the National Citizens Coalition. It was a grey, bitter-cold day in January, and all the clocks were striking thirteen. On the radio, the host was hectoring about “concerning
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com Novelist, playwright, political satirist Information Satire They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies
Sebastian Rushworth M.D. sebastianrushworth.com I work as a junior physician in Stockholm, Sweden. I studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute and graduated in January 2020. I am a proponent of evidence-based medicine. In other words, I think that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the
Vera Stanton Nowhere else in the world has the zeal for ZeroCovid taken a more dystopian bent than in China and, by extension, Hong Kong. The once-international financial centre of more than 7 million has been cut off from the entire world – including mainland China and neighbouring SAR Macau.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week or so back Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta issued a warning to Putin re invading the Ukraine. I’ve waited to see if it worked. Well, it certainly appears to have done as ever since the Russians have issued appeasement noises. Putin suffers from
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
As BFD readers are probably aware, I’m not exactly a fan of Islam — at least, its shouty, stabby, blowy-uppy zealots. But I’m not a fan of shouty, blowy-uppy zealots of any creed. When you talk about destruction, you can count me right out. And when it’
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron
