“It wasn’t politicians who introduced change and progress—it was actually musicians. Innovative musicians preceding the civil rights movement set the tone for how we now connect with individuals who look different from us. After all, the only thing that matters to music lovers is how the music makes you feel.”
“Where the original theory of symbolic racism said that traditional values were only being used for racist purposes, the modern manifestation of this theory equates the two; to believe in anything ‘traditional’ is now a form of prejudice. Combined with the popular predilection to refuse engagement with any sort of ‘prejudice,’ it’s no wonder that we’ve ended up in a society where no one seems to speak the same language.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-ideology-behind-so-what-you-re-saying-is/
“Not only did he win at their own game with professorships at Harvard and Toronto and more citations than most of his peers get in a lifetime, but he also succeeds in the game of influence outside of the academy. By putting his lectures online, raising money via Patreon, and hosting independent lectures that anybody can attend, Peterson is unbundling the intellectual experience of the academy and removing the gatekeepers.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/many-intellectuals-cant-stand-jordan-peterson-why/
“In a recent Ted Talk, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson says it all started when Obama gave the media their marching orders. She gives two main ways to tell if powerful interests are trying to manipulate opinion.”
“The Swedish media giants involved in the anti-‘fake news’ project consist of Swedish State Television, Swedish State Radio, Bonnier, Schibsted Sverige, and NTM. Together, these media companies effectively own Swedish mainstream media in the form of newspapers, online news outlets, and state and private television and radio. The Swedish state is financing the technical aspects of the project with 1.9 million Swedish kroner ($240,000), while the Swedish mainstream media is financing the remaining project costs themselves.”
Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11830/europe-governments-fake-news
“Politicians in the winning country are often not around when taxpayers foot the bill more than half a decade later. The Olympics exhibit many qualities which are endorsed by free-market capitalism, actively promoting individualism, international cooperation, and excellence through competition. Why, then, do we continue the tradition of outlandish public spending on them?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-big-losers-at-the-olympics-are-the-host-nations/
“This is serious business when a law is written as to be incomprehensible to 99%+ of the population.”
Read more: http://rubinontax.floridatax.com/2017/12/the-internal-revenue-code-jumps-shark.html
“The rules run to thousands of pages, and tax experts themselves, including those employed by the tax collection agencies, cannot agree on the amount of tax liability associated with even a moderately complicated tax return.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/02/13/roving-bandit-stationary-bandit-and-income-tax/
“The good news is that the recently passed Republican tax reform package partially shifted the country to a territorial tax system. The bad news is that it only benefits companies.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/12/americas-punishing-worldwide-t
“A controversial Israeli law passed by the country’s parliament, the Knesset, in 2011, allows Israeli individuals, corporations, and even the state itself to punish anyone who supports the boycott of Israel itself, or Israeli owned businesses.”
Read more: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/2/5/israels-attempt-to-criminalise-bds