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“Back in August, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article on the insane spending of American public universities, with special emphasis on their proclivity for expensive building projects. This is an issue very close to my heart. I spent over a decade in American academia, at several different, very wealthy institutions, and every semester of my experience was marred by major, highly disruptive, noisy, and openly unnecessary buildings. Most of these schools have a long line of extravagant projects planned generations into the future. They routinely tear down structures thrown up mere decades ago, only to replace them with larger and newer architectural monstrosities double or triple the original size. They are constantly ripping up squares and walkways only to repave and re-landscape them with ever more elaborate modern sculptures, fountains, and hedges. The last school I worked for spent 18 months “improving” the lawn in front of my office building. Among other things, they dug a massive winding trench through it, which they filled with water to make an artificial creek. Then they planted weird reeds everywhere and constructed various bridges so pedestrians could traverse their fake wetland. They turned a modest grassy area with a few simple brick walkways into a monstrous muddy outrageously expensive eyesore.” — Eugyppius
This is an enjoyable read that had me chuckling in several places. We all can relate to Jeff’s observations. At one point, he writes, “Maybe I’m getting old or just tired of the whole internet marketing game. Maybe it’s the company I used to keep or the state of the web right now. (Do we even call it that anymore?) But this behavior—this performative personalization of digital communication—seems weird. Why is a stranger I’ve never met calling me friend? Why are they offering me a gift card to a coffee shop I hate in exchange for a service I’ve never used? Why are we copying and pasting messages we’ve sent to other people and replacing the name while still pretending it’s for someone else? This all feels a little absurd, causing me to wonder if I am the one who’s the stranger here.”
“The science can be confusing, but it's vital. A reader did a great job explaining it in a few sentences. I've cut and pasted his comment below. (Plagiarism? I prefer to think of it as homage!)” — Alex Berenson
Possibly Ray Horvath’s most important Substack:
Big Pharma Shill Peter Hotez “unwittingly joins the trend of “died suddenly reports”:
Tips for having a healthy relationship with the mass media:
Tessa Lena asks, “Where do we go from here?”
“Media's use of propaganda techniques to delegitimise MP Andrew Bridgen's speech on excess deaths signals role in shoring up government and corporate interests,” writes Rebekah Barnett from Down Under.
When dealing with inconvenient information that contradicts the power structure’s preferred narrative, legacy media functioning as a propaganda arm have two options:
Don’t report it at all (i.e.: media blackout) or,
Delegitimisation through framing techniques.
On Friday 20 October, MP Andrew Bridgen delivered a speech to the UK Parliament on the subject of the UK’s sustained period of excess deaths, over half of which he said cannot be attributed to Covid.
After more than 20 attempts to bring this topic to a parliamentary debate, Bridgen was finally granted 30 minutes to discuss excess deaths. Addressing a chamber all but empty of the 650 MPs who serve in the House of Commons, he began,
“We have experienced more excess deaths since July 2021 than in the whole of 2020. Unlike during the pandemic, however, those deaths are not disproportionately of the old. In other words, the excess deaths are striking down people in the prime of life, but no one seems to care... Well, I care.”
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Thank you for noting my article among those you have found memorable. This one is one of the two most important ones out of 739. The other one is about establishing a new medical paradigm: https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-makes-people-sick-apart-from