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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qae... Tue Nov 11, 2025 21:01 | imc

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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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offsite link Economist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: High Energy Prices are ?Good for the Climate? Tue Apr 14, 2026 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
An economist has said the quiet part out loud in arguing that high energy prices are 'good for the climate' because they suppress demand. In other words, says Tilak Doshi, they make it unaffordable for poorer people.
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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Phillipson ?Refuses to Meet? Women Who Secured Supreme Court Trans Ruling Mon Apr 13, 2026 19:00 | Will Jones
Bridget Phillipson has been accused of refusing to meet the women who secured the landmark Supreme Court trans ruling on the first anniversary of their victory.
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offsite link Farmers Threaten to Block Roads Unless Reeves Cuts Fuel Prices Mon Apr 13, 2026 17:26 | Will Jones
Farmers have threatened to block Britain's roads unless Rachel Reeves brings down fuel costs, echoing similar protests in Ireland that have crippled the country, leading Dublin to send in the army.
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Viktor Orb?n's defeat does not mean Hungarians have rejected his tough on immigration, pro-natalist or Brussels-critical policies, says Michael Mosbacher. Peter Magyar and his Tisza party are Orb?nism without Orb?n.
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

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It's a Wonderful Life

category international | arts and media | other press author Wednesday December 24, 2014 12:31author by movie buff Report this post to the editors

Not so wonderful for Ayn Rand , the FBI and Senator Joe McCarthy

It's a Wonderful Life,produced and directed by Frank Capra , has become a television and video staple over the Christmas season. This Rawstory feature tells the little-known story of how Hollywood's evocation of bygone small town America at Christmas time with its Scrooge-like banker , Mr Potter,almost fell foul of Ayn Rand , the FBI and Senator Joe McCarthy's House of Un-American Activities Committee .



"On May 26, 1947, the FBI issued a memo stating "With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.  "

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/ayn-rand-helped-the-...anda/

author by movie buffpublication date Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/

It's amazing to think that such innocence could ever have been construed as being part of any Red Menace plot .

 
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