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Lessons Learned from the West African Slave Trade

Forgive but Never Forget: Lessons from the West African Slave Trade

West Africans endured slavery for 400 years, when 15 million human beings were forcibly captured and sold into bondage. During this era, the world’s major secular and sectarian institutions regarded slaves as no better than animals, but modern West Africans look to the future, adopting a philosophy of forgiving but never forgetting.

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What Heidegger Can Teach Us About Our Technological Moment

What Heidegger Can Teach Us About Our Technological Moment

The manufacturers of these bioweapons disguised as vaccines have come up with something that directs the evolution of our body cells. They are guilty of the greatest hubris imaginable, arrogating for themselves the role of gods, if not the Creator. Heidegger would turn in his grave.

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How New Zealand Centralizes Medicine

Locking in Mandated Medicine by Short-Circuiting Democracy

What we see in command medication and digital is a general failure to require and include in these policies a place for the production of scientific information that might challenge or contradict claims of safety. The feedback loops are not sophisticated, open, and transparent enough. They never will be.

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I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies

I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies

My experience has compelled me to take my employer to the employment tribunal. My claims include discrimination, harassment, preventing me from making a protected disclosure, and constructive dismissal. Five days have now been allocated by a court for a hearing in November 2024.

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Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies?

Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies?

Across the West, Virtue People, and Freedom People have been working together. At conferences, in think tanks, at school boards, on email lists, in living rooms, on X, and sometimes marching in the streets, they coalesce. These two groups constitute the rebel alliance against authoritarian woke globalism. But their political philosophies conflict.

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