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Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

John Cochrane@JohnHCochrane
Far more poverty has been alleviated by growth than by any RCT type aid or poverty alleviation program. Like orders of magnitude. Compare China to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Golders Green is my local high street. It’s a great area, full of different cultures.
It’s a predominantly Jewish area and it’s a privilege as a non-Jew to live alongside such a warm and friendly community.
Since October 7th, there has been a visible increase in hostility towards the Jewish community. ‘Missing’ posters of relatives were torn down. Yellow ribbons removed from railings. ‘From the River to the Sea’ stickers plastered on lampposts. Verbal abuse in the street.
I’ve seen the fear grow in Jewish friends and neighbours, driven by political activists who have revelled in creating that fear. Enabled by others who are indifferent to the impact of their political bedfellows.
I hope they now appreciate the awful impact of their behaviour.
Saying ‘globalise the intifada’ isn’t just something that immediately identifies you as a dickhead, it is also a form of incitement.
If you say it, you are deliberately intimidating Jewish people.
Stop it, it’s vile.
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Well, at least we're not getting beheaded first
CNToWest@CNToWest
英国罗瑟勒姆的穆斯林市长,她说英国只有实行伊斯兰教法才能再次伟大,要求驱逐所有非穆斯林!包括英国🇬🇧公民
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Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy.
That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks.
She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed.
She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed.
The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality.
It doesn’t add up.
Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication.
Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?
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NYC school pushes artwork by Zohran Mamdani's wife while blocking Holocaust survivor from speaking to students trib.al/QBqECwz

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Sam Harris addresses the anti-war crowd who believe it’s irrational to confront Iran until they’re sprinting toward the nuclear bomb.
“We’re under no obligation to give jihadis the benefit of the doubt—ever…
[Iran is] ruled by a death cult that that has the explicit project of genocide with respect to Israel…and if they could only accomplish it, genocide with respect to America…Let us take these people at their word.”
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Thank you @elonmusk! And thanks also @newstart_2024.
More here on why lefties can't cope with dissent: x.com/JohnAndersonAC…
and more here about this turning point for our world: melaniephillips.substack.com
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Good explanation of nihilist philosophy
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@HawaiiNewsNow “Total loss” is a completely deceptive title. For anyone who reads this “total loss” was taken from a quote describing the loss of an an emergency response vehicle that was overwhelmed by flood water. But the EMS crew and people they were helping were safe.
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‘Total loss’: City outlines damage sustained during storm #HNN #HINEWS #HawaiiNews hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/03/22/tot…
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My most shared essay this month. Perhaps the world is healing. open.substack.com/pub/evebarlow/…

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