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Big Tech Snuffing Free Speech: Google’s Poisonous ‘Dragonfly’
The internet, especially social media, has become one of the primary places for people to exchange viewpoints and ideas. Social media is where a considerable part of the current national conversation takes…
What Multiculturalism Hides
Multiculturalism is not a manifestation of Europe’s generosity, or some noble embodiment of love and truth. Multiculturalism is what remains after mass migration reveals itself as a threat, rather than a benefit,…
What Will Europe’s Internet Look Like After Passage Of Orwellian Directive?
Last month, members of the EU Parliament voted to advance a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions forcing tech giants to install content filters, while also setting in place a potential tax on hyperlinking.
The bill, known as Article 13,…
Andrew Gillum’s ‘Maoist’ Support Network
Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum’s political career has been nurtured by one of the country’s most powerful socialists: San Francisco attorney Steve Phillips, a self-identified student of “Marx, Mao, and Lenin”…
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The Anti-Kavanaugh, Anti-Trump Money Trails
My gosh, but the left has got itself in a tizzy. A desperate tizzy, to be more accurate. A desperate, costly tizzy that pulls out all the funding stops, to be even…
Soros-Backed Group Ramps Up Campaign For Second Brexit Referendum
Factions of the Remain campaign have doubled down their attempts to stop Brexit after the Soros-backed Best for Britain group will target voters in ‘swing’ constituencies, while another group of anti-Brexit activists…
Soros Money Behind ‘Black Political Power’ Outfit Supporting Andrew Gillum in Florida
Billionaire George Soros is a financial contributor to The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential political organization that says it is seeking to build a “black political power” movement in the U.S.,…
The key term to understand any developments in politics, religion, financial markets, or social sciences today is the loaded power word, "reflexivity."
The key term to understand any developments in politics, religion, financial markets, or social sciences today is the loaded power word, reflexivity.
In simple terms, reflexivity can be simply understood as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” or as an outcome that can be determined or assured due to overwhelming propaganda.
Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects. In sociology, reflexivity, therefore, comes to mean an act of self-reference where examination or action “bends back on”, refers to, and affects the entity instigating the action or examination.
Powerfully influenced by his mentor, Karl Popper, Economist and Political Influencer George Soros has promoted the relevance of reflexivity in his book, the Alchemy of Finance. Not to be constrained by the use of reflexivity in economics, Mr. Soros has continued to use reflexive principles in anthropology, sociology, and politics.
To this extent, it commonly refers to the capacity of an agent to recognize forces of socialization…
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On Israel’s Nation-State Law
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History somehow isn’t moving toward its predetermined end, and this has driven Western liberals completely mad. The theatrical overreaction to Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is just…
Trump Calls Off Cold War II
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Italy Orders Seven Boats With 1,000 Migrants On Board To Turn Back
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