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We Are Being Systematically Blinded - Brownstone Institute

We Are Being Systemically Blinded

Bret Weinstein / March 5, 2024 / Government, Media, Society / 3 minute read

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It will be jarring for many to hear a scientist speak with such certainty. It should be jarring. We are trained to present ideas with caution, as hypotheses in need of a test. But in this case I have tested the idea and I am as certain of this as I am of anything. We are being systematically blinded. It is the only explanation I have encountered that not only describes the present, but also, in my experience, predicts the future with all but perfect accuracy.

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The End of the End of Ideology

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 5, 2024 / History, Society / 8 minute read

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Looking back, Daniel Bell’s “end of ideology” seems more like an attempt to draw closed a green velvet curtain that was hiding something terrible, namely that we were gradually giving up citizen control of our societies to an elite that pretended to possess wisdom, judgment, and prudence to the point that the rest of us could do no better than to outsource our penchant for exercising freedom and democracy to them. Pull back that curtain and we find ignorance, institutional interest, fraud, graft, and a shocking lack of empathy.

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Politics as Lawfare

el gato malo / March 5, 2024 / Government, Law / 6 minute read

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This is not politics, this is dictatorship by unaccountable apparatchik and it has festered into something truly ugly. This is how you undermine the faith in a system entirely. You make it lawless and capricious, blatantly unfair, rigged, and slanted.

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We Build Anew in Australia

Gigi Foster / March 4, 2024 / Society / 11 minute read

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In mid-November 2023, Australians for Science and Freedom held its inaugural conference under the banner ‘Progress through Science and Freedom’ on the campus of the University of New South Wales. ASF is a think tank launched in mid-2023 by myself and nearly a dozen like-minded professionals from different disciplines, all aghast at the travesties we witnessed during the Covid era.

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The AMA is Wrong About Julie Sladden

Kara Thomas / March 4, 2024 / Government, Public Health, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Dr Barratt is correct; doctors do have a higher standing in the community. Dr Julie Sladden is ethical and moral, and, after reviewing the best available evidence and using her clinical experience, she spoke up at great personal cost, to protect the public when authorities ignored her calls for a review. The Tasmanian people can decide who they wish to lead them; they do not need the AMA bullying doctors, silencing scientific debate and interfering in democracy.

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Life After Lockdown - by Jeffrey A. Tucker - Brownstone Institute

Life After Lockdown: Introduction

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 4, 2024 / Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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This book, which is a collection of some articles I wrote for Brownstone Institute, is designed to help us talk about this issue. Lockdowns were the turning point in our lives, our societies, our culture, and affected everything from academia to education, to science, to media, to tech, and all the way down to demographics and our relationship to our professional and personal lives. It touched everything, turning what worked into something fundamentally broken and dysfunctional.

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3, 2, 1, Timber

Julie Ponesse / March 3, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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The old distinction between civilization and barbarism has taken on a new form in the 21st century. It is from within our own “civilized” culture that emerges an inversion of the concepts of civility and savagery. It is our professionals, our academics, our political leaders, and our journalists who most ignore the standards of rational discourse, who institutionalize hatred and incite division. Today, it is the elites who are the true barbarians among us.

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Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card on Climate Change

Daniel Nuccio / March 2, 2024 / Policy, Public Health / 3 minute read

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Even if the tactic has become one of self-parody, one only needs to look to Levine to see that we are living in parodic times where quite a few people are willing to embrace the latest slogans and accept all sorts of absurdities as reasonable, even to the detriment of society, if it protects them from being labeled a bigot.

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What We Lost Between Then and Now

Rev. John F. Naugle / March 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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We forgot that we are going to die. We forgot that suffering is our lot in this lacrimarum valle. We forgot that how we approach the fact of our suffering and death is what gives our life meaning and what enables the hero to be heroic. Instead, we allowed ourselves to be trained to fear all emotional and physical pain, to catastrophize with implausible worst-case scenarios, and to demand solutions from the very elites and institutions who worked to ensure our forgetfulness.

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Constitutional Crisis and Murthy v. Biden - Brownstone Institute

Constitutional Crisis and Murthy v. Missouri

Brownstone Institute / March 1, 2024 / Censorship, Law / 3 minute read

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In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Biden (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) to consider whether to uphold an injunction that bars the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General’s Office from coercing or encouraging social media companies from censoring constitutionally protected speech.

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Free Speech on Trial

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 1, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Society / 8 minute read

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A positive ruling for the plaintiffs doesn’t solve every problem but at least it will mean that freedom still stands a chance in this country. A ruling for the defense, which is essentially the government itself, will give license to every federal agency – including those that operate in secret like the FBI and CIA – to threaten every social media and media company in this country to delete any and all content that runs contrary to the approved narrative.

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