How Wikipedia Became a Propaganda Site

In the Sept. 6 issue, I mentioned that over the past year or two, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in Wikipedia. When it was founded in 2001, its mission was “to provide all the world’s information for free – gathered, updated, and fact-checked democratically by the people.” But it’s become increasingly difficult to find any content that might support conservative views. What’s worse, factual content that had been on Wikipedia is being deleted or altered to be more compatible with Woke thinking.

Click here for a look at what’s been happening from Ashley Rindsberg, writing for The Free Press.

YouTube, not Disney or Amazon, Is Netflix’s Real Competition 

I try to read one book and watch one movie per week. Reading four books a month is not difficult if three of them are nonfiction. Watching a movie a week is easy, too. But these days, I rarely finish a film in one sitting. I’m shutting them off after 20 to 30 minutes, and then coming back to them the following day.

I know what’s going on. The time I spend on streaming platforms like YouTube has reduced my attention span. And apparently, I’m not the only one. Look at how YouTube is increasingly taking away the attention from not just Netflix but Disney and Hulu and Amazon Prime.

Click here.

Is This the Twilight of Justin Trudeau? 

I’ve always had the impression that Canadians are just like US denizens, except more measured in their thinking and more polite in their expression. I think that’s still true.

Something they do in Canada that’s not done in the US is requiring the prime minister, as head of his party, to regularly and publicly debate representatives from the opposing party.

Watching Justin Trudeau debate conservative leader Pierre Poilievre these past several years has been a delight. When Trudeau became PM in 2015, he displayed that measured thinking and politeness in his policy proposals. In recent years, his politeness has remained, but his thinking has radicalized, much like other left-leaning leaders around the world. This has put him in a difficult position politically, since many of his policies are viewed by many Canadians as having caused a slew of economic difficulties, including inflation, just as is happening in the US.

Click here.

Net Zero Budget 

Javier Milei, the recently inaugurated president of perennially troubled Argentina, came to office as a champion of fiscal restraint and small government. And so far, it looks like he intends to keep his promises.

In mid-September, he put forward a national budget that he promised “will change the history of [Argentina] forever.”

The budget, says Joel Bowman, writing in Notes from the End of the World, “represents a 180 reversal in the way of thinking about the role of The State vis-à-vis The Citizen, away from the collectivist notions enacted by 75 years of Peronism and toward an increasingly free market model.”

Click here to read more.

How Paper Money Fails 

“We’ve been writing, for more than a decade, that our paper-money system would continue to enrich asset owners (and people with extensive access to credit) at the expense of wage earners,” says Porter Stansberry in the Sept. 24 issue of his Daily Journal. “One sure sign of this is soaring home prices around the world, in every economy that relies on the US dollar-backed, global financial system. Today, the median US home price is 7.2 x the US median household income. That’s an all-time high. Houses are now more expensive in the US (and in places like Canada) than they were at the peak of the 2008 housing bubble. If you’re looking to understand the transmission mechanism between monetary inflation and the collapse of social order, this is where you should start: People who can’t afford a house have a much harder time building a nuclear family or identifying with traditional American values.”

Click here.