Despite the massive evidence, the anti-vaccination movement is gaining strength. Scientists are concerned measles could return even though it was eliminated in the U.S. 20 years ago. Note the footage of politician and environmentalist Joseph Kennedy included in the video. It isn’t paranoia when environmentalists really are trying to kill you.
Dean Martin, Ken Lane & Foster Brooks – The Bar/Airline PIlot
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Conversations with History: Gary Becker
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Cheetah reaches top speed of 55mph to catch its prey – The Hunt: Episode 5 preview – BBC One
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What makes elite athletes thrive or dive under pressure? | The Economist
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Christopher Hitchens – On the fascist “anti-war” movement 2005
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What Monty Python can teach us about Extinction Rebellion
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Unless policy-makers act immediately, the planet will cease to be able to support human life in twelve years, three months and seven days … this event will happen on a Tuesday … after lunch.
No, that is not a skit from Monty Python but an approximation made by the latest virtue signalling publicity craze, Extinction Rebellion. This motley crew of eco-rednecks was founded in October, 2018 and quickly created a loose network from eco-conscious hippies to students on Easter break to antagonised aging Marxists. Together they have managed to show how social networks can be utilised to control an agenda with stunts that require limited funding, planning or intellectual coherence. The media, during a slow news cycle, are lapping up these attention whores who use the microphone and a myriad of intertwined social media accounts as acts of virtue signalling liberation.
There is one nagging question that won’t go away: Was…
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Green New Deal: Fact versus Fiction
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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Foster Brooks and Ernest Borgnine – Drunk Airline Pilot Sketch 1982
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Friedman Friday:(“Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave, Part 1 of 7)
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Friedman Friday:(“Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave, Part 1 of 7)
Volume 4 – From Cradle to Grave
Abstract:
Since the Depression years of the 1930s, there has been almost continuous expansion of governmental efforts to provide for people’s welfare. First, there was a tremendous expansion of public works. The Social Security Act followed close behind. Soon other efforts extended governmental activities in all areas of the welfare sector. Growth of governmental welfare activity continued unabated, and today it has reached truly staggering proportions. Travelling in both Britain and the U.S., Milton Friedman points out that though many government welfare programs are well intentioned, they tend to have pernicious side effects. In Dr. Friedman’s view, perhaps the most serious shortcoming of governmental welfare activities is their tendency to strip away individual independence and dignity. This is because bureaucrats in welfare agencies are placed in positions of…
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The Sound of Silence: Iowa Farmers Cherish Peace & Quiet After Judge Shuts Down Wind Turbines
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Anyone claiming that wind turbines are quiet has never lived with them in their backyards. A grinding, thumping cacophony of amplitude modulated low-frequency noise and infrasound is a daily misery for far too many rural residents.
Back in December last year, we reported on a group of Iowa farmers who took on a developer and won. A judge ordered the immediate destruction of three of these things that had been driving neighbours nuts for years: Iowa Farmers Claim Brilliant Victory: Judge Orders Immediate Destruction of Illegal Wind Turbines
Now, their tormentors are gone and locals are relishing the peace and quiet. Being able to hear birds chirping and the sound of their own voices is seen as a gift. Of course, hard-working country folk shouldn’t have been forced to suffer around-the-clock, sonic torture, in the first place. A man’s home is meant to be his castle, not a torture chamber.
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On Earth Day, Let’s Celebrate The Benefits Of Fossil Fuels!
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Alex Epstein gives us a different perspective on fossil fuels in this video from Prager University.
The video below is Alex Epstein wading through the People’s Climate March in NYC last September.
When you watch the video you literally see how you are swimming against the current of public opinion when you don’t agree with their environmental ignorance.
In this article by Alex Epstein titled, Making The World A Better Place By Using More Fossil Fuels, he says, “Without exception, anyone who lives a modern life is directly or indirectly is using large amounts of fossil fuel energy – it is that ubiquitous.”
Most people don’t understand that 87% of the energy they use comes from fossil fuels. They also don’t understand that plastics, ink, dyes, resins, tires, tar, lubricants, cloths, lipstick, and much more (see list here), are made from oil.
People who don’t…
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