Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 15th/16th June 2024
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: We Have Been Subverted by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“…For me it is all captured in the earliest memories of my youth: statues of Mohamed Siad Barre, our dictator, sprung up across Mogadishu, flanked by a trio of dark seraphim: Marx, Lenin, and Engels. This particular communist experiment plunged Somalia into bloodshed, mass starvation, and a 20-year period of suffocating tyranny. I recall my grandmother and mother smuggling food into our house. I also remember the whispering: we felt the state was omnipresent. It could hear everything…”
I’d like to say Johnson and Brexit made me quit politics. But they were symptoms of the problem, not the cause by Rory Stewart
“And then there were the reshuffles. I had not yet finished my plan for the British environment before I was put in charge of development programmes in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Before I had a chance to visit Pakistan, I was transferred to Africa. My Africa strategy had not yet been signed off when I was made the minister of state at the ministry of justice, responsible for more than 100 prisons in England and Wales. Before I had finished my work on prison violence, I became the secretary of state for international development. My knowledge of these portfolios was absurdly limited. And this was true of most of us....”
Anthony Fauci Gives Misleading, Evasive Answers About NIH-Funded Research at Wuhan Lab by Christian Britschgi
“."Every time I have mentioned gain-of-function—at the Senate hearing with Senator Paul, at the [transcribed interview with the Coronavirus Subcommittee in January], and today—the definition that I use is not my personal definition, it is a codified, regulatory and operative definition" found in the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) 2017 Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (P3CO) that regulates potentially pandemic-causing research, said Fauci.…”
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