Culture

Meet the Godfather of Vaccines — Mickey Z.

Collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 2, 2021 “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” (Vito Corleone) Vaccinologists consider the Stanley A. Plotkin Award to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in their lucrative field. To qualify for this accolade, the nominee should be “an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of ‘vac ...

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Pretexts and Variants and Surprises, Oh My! — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 29, 2021 On November 27, CNN released a new article with this clickbait title: "World is put on high alert over the Omicron coronavirus variant.” Those who got t ...

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Right or Left: The Media is Programming You — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 25, 2021 So, you line up for the jab because everything you hear and see says you should. Everything tells you how safe and effective it is, right? Right? It see ...

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“Harnessing social media to help solve and predict crime” — Mickey Z.

; Still image from the 2002 film, Minority Report Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 19, 2021 On January 30, 2020, The Brennan Center for Justice sent a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department ...

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Introducing the Post-Woke podcast! — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 5, 2021 Yes, it’s finally happening! After seemingly endless tech issues, I’ve launched my first podcast. Post-Woke is all about intellectual self-defense. Befor ...

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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer

Oct. 20, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now ...

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Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents | Ramzy Baroud

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. (Photo: Palfest, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 18, 2021 The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel ...

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Captain Kirk Blasts Into Space | Marcia Dunn and Rick Taber

William ShatnerOct. 13, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Hollywood's Captain Kirk -- 90-year-old William Shatner -- blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching th ...

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Boredom is Counter-Revolutionary — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust October 10, 2021 “Boredom is the conviction that you can't change the shriek of unused capacities.” (Saul Bellow) A couple of years ago, while riding the Q101 bus during ...

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That Untraversed Land | John Michael Greer

Oct. 6 ,2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situ ...

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That time I wore 2 suits in 1 day — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust October 8, 2021 I have rarely — I mean rarely — worn a suit. As for ties, well, I was forced to wear a clip-on tie for a dozen years in Catholic grammar school. That prob ...

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