Niall McCrae shared this excellent and informative post on the origins of the modern peer review system a couple of weeks ago. He has graciously granted me permission to share his post with you here.
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert
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Tinker, tailor, publisher, spy: how Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system
A Guest Post by Prof. Gloria Moss and Niall McCrae
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TIL that Franklin W. Dixon the author of The Hardy Boys novels isn’t an actual person but rather the pen name of a team of writers.
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For critical thinkers and truth seekers
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1. Why does an individual go to prison for printing $100 but stablecoin issuers can print billions with impunity?
2. How is BlackRock the architect of the Bitcoin ETF simultaneously the asset manager for the U.S. Treasury funds that “back” USDC and quietly prop up USDT? Coincidence or control?
3. Why don’t banks fight stablecoin issuers who are, in effect, privately minting dollar claims without legal permission?
4. If stablecoins are “unregulated,” why are their reserves almost entirely U.S. Treasuries—and who exactly is placing those multi-billion-dollar treasury orders on their behalf?
5. Why did the Fed greenlight USDC as “compliant” while publicly warning that private money endangers the dollar—unless private money is the dollar’s new enforcement arm?
6. If stablecoins are so dangerous, why are Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and BNY Mellon handling trillions in stablecoin flows as if they’re risk-free cash?
7. Why does the U.S. government aggressively prosecute privacy coins (like Monero) but tolerate Tether despite repeated evidence of opaque reserves and past fraud settlements?
8. If Bitcoin was built to destroy the banking system, why is its price now moved almost entirely by Wall Street ETFs, hedge funds, and custodians who answer to the Fed, the SEC, and the Treasury?
9. Who really wins when “decentralised” finance runs on dollar-pegged tokens managed by offshore firms that invest in U.S. government debt through BlackRock? The people or the cartel?
10. Why do regulators call crypto “risky” while letting the same institutions that caused the 2008 crash now control its biggest assets ETFs, stablecoins, custody?
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Bitcoin isn’t freedom it’s a trojan horse: dressed as rebellion, engineered by "mystery" and now weaponised by Wall Street to herd the disillusioned into a new financial beast system controlled by same wolves under the banner of “decentralisation.”
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1. Why does an individual go to prison for printing $100 but stablecoin issuers can print billions with impunity?
2. How is BlackRock the architect of the Bitcoin ETF simultaneously the asset manager for the U.S. Treasury funds that “back” USDC and quietly prop up USDT? Coincidence or control?
3. Why don’t banks fight stablecoin issuers who are, in effect, privately minting dollar claims without legal permission?
4. If stablecoins are “unregulated,” why are their reserves almost entirely U.S. Treasuries—and who exactly is placing those multi-billion-dollar treasury orders on their behalf?
5. Why did the Fed greenlight USDC as “compliant” while publicly warning that private money endangers the dollar—unless private money is the dollar’s new enforcement arm?
6. If stablecoins are so dangerous, why are Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and BNY Mellon handling trillions in stablecoin flows as if they’re risk-free cash?
7. Why does the U.S. government aggressively prosecute privacy coins (like Monero) but tolerate Tether despite repeated evidence of opaque reserves and past fraud settlements?
8. If Bitcoin was built to destroy the banking system, why is its price now moved almost entirely by Wall Street ETFs, hedge funds, and custodians who answer to the Fed, the SEC, and the Treasury?
9. Who really wins when “decentralised” finance runs on dollar-pegged tokens managed by offshore firms that invest in U.S. government debt through BlackRock? The people or the cartel?
10. Why do regulators call crypto “risky” while letting the same institutions that caused the 2008 crash now control its biggest assets ETFs, stablecoins, custody?
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Bitcoin isn’t freedom it’s a trojan horse: dressed as rebellion, engineered by "mystery" and now weaponised by Wall Street to herd the disillusioned into a new financial beast system controlled by same wolves under the banner of “decentralisation.”
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BREAKING:
🇺🇸According to internal documents obtained by the New York Times, Amazon is planning for robots to replace more than 600,000 jobs it would otherwise have to fill in the United States by 2033
Amazon's robotics team's ultimate goal is to automate 75% of its operations.
The company expects to avoid hiring 160,000 people in the United States by 2027.
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🇺🇸According to internal documents obtained by the New York Times, Amazon is planning for robots to replace more than 600,000 jobs it would otherwise have to fill in the United States by 2033
Amazon's robotics team's ultimate goal is to automate 75% of its operations.
The company expects to avoid hiring 160,000 people in the United States by 2027.
@Megatron_ron
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Percentage of destruction of German cities at the end of the second world war
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This whole video is pure gold. Adam Schiff clinging to the last shreds of a Democrat conspiracy that has backfired horribly. Eric Schmitt then points out Schiff’s biggest nightmare: there is no statute of limitations on conspiracy. Schiff may well be done.
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A US Military Withdrawal
The US pulls a brigade out of Romania: The US is withdrawing some troops from Romania, on NATO’s eastern flank, as the Pentagon works to shift its focus away from Europe and toward homeland defense and Latin America, US and European officials said on Wednesday. The US is sending home the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/29/a-us-military-withdrawal/
The US pulls a brigade out of Romania: The US is withdrawing some troops from Romania, on NATO’s eastern flank, as the Pentagon works to shift its focus away from Europe and toward homeland defense and Latin America, US and European officials said on Wednesday. The US is sending home the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/29/a-us-military-withdrawal/
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It's official. This is now my most popular post ever. https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/the-cringeworthiness-of-modern-physics
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The Cringeworthiness of Modern Physics
Want To Impinge? Transcend the Cringe
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People Around the World Are Getting Shorter, New Study Finds
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/average-global-human-height-falling-study/
The report looked at 1,472 studies from more than 200 countries that included the measured heights of 18.6 million people between 1896 and 1996. Overall, average human height seems to have peaked about 30 to 40 years ago.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/average-global-human-height-falling-study/
The report looked at 1,472 studies from more than 200 countries that included the measured heights of 18.6 million people between 1896 and 1996. Overall, average human height seems to have peaked about 30 to 40 years ago.
Global Citizen
People Around the World Are Getting Shorter, New Study Finds
It could have something to do with falling fertility rates in rich countries.
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RT @UAPWatchers: 🚨BREAKING: Three researchers are gone from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base one of the most guarded facilities in the country, long tied to experimental aerospace programs and the classified edges of human performance science.
Between the night of October 24th and the morning of October 25th, three Air Force personnel were found dead:
1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, 25 assigned to the 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Lab.
Jaymee Prichard, 33 with the Life Cycle Management Center.
Jacob Prichard, 34 also within the Air Force Research Lab.
All three worked inside divisions responsible for research into aerospace materials, cognition, and physiological optimization the kind of programs that sit close to classified human machine interface projects.
Officials say the deaths occurred within a 12-hour window. No cause has been released. No public indication of foul play, suicide, or accident. Just a flat statement: “A death...
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RT @UAPWatchers: 🚨BREAKING: Three researchers are gone from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base one of the most guarded facilities in the country, long tied to experimental aerospace programs and the classified edges of human performance science.
Between the night of October 24th and the morning of October 25th, three Air Force personnel were found dead:
1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, 25 assigned to the 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Lab.
Jaymee Prichard, 33 with the Life Cycle Management Center.
Jacob Prichard, 34 also within the Air Force Research Lab.
All three worked inside divisions responsible for research into aerospace materials, cognition, and physiological optimization the kind of programs that sit close to classified human machine interface projects.
Officials say the deaths occurred within a 12-hour window. No cause has been released. No public indication of foul play, suicide, or accident. Just a flat statement: “A death...
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🥃 A clear example of centripetal motion
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Thoughts on Darryl Cooper's “Enemy: The Germans‘ War”
Why is history so full of worst-possible-outcomes?
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Diversity Uber Alles
This is a very clear and cogent example of the way convergence eliminates an organization’s ability to perform its core functions. You might quite reasonably assume that the Python Software Foundation’s prime objective is to produce Python software. And you would be wrong. It is also a convincing demonstration of the need to keep the […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/30/diversity-uber-alles/
This is a very clear and cogent example of the way convergence eliminates an organization’s ability to perform its core functions. You might quite reasonably assume that the Python Software Foundation’s prime objective is to produce Python software. And you would be wrong. It is also a convincing demonstration of the need to keep the […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/30/diversity-uber-alles/
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TIL George Washington borrowed "The Law of Nations" from the New York Society Library & never returned it. In 2010, the head librarian joked that, though they weren't "pursuing the overdue fines," they'd appreciate having it back. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate returned it, 221 years overdue
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Slovakia will not give a single cent to finance military support for Ukraine — Prime Minister Robert Fico.
“I will not sign any guarantee for financing Ukraine regarding military spending in 2026 and 2027.
It is absurd that Europe buys weapons from the US with European money and then transfers them to Ukraine.
If someone wants to buy ammunition or weapons from us — please buy, but we will not give anything to anyone. If we were more united within the EU, we would jointly promote products useful for the entire Union and could save a lot of money,” — Fico told Dennik N.
“I will not sign any guarantee for financing Ukraine regarding military spending in 2026 and 2027.
It is absurd that Europe buys weapons from the US with European money and then transfers them to Ukraine.
If someone wants to buy ammunition or weapons from us — please buy, but we will not give anything to anyone. If we were more united within the EU, we would jointly promote products useful for the entire Union and could save a lot of money,” — Fico told Dennik N.
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