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How the EU is Forcing Twitter to Censor (and Musk Can’t Stop It)

Robert Kogon / October 7, 2022 / Censorship, Technology / 10 minute read

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Does anyone really imagine that the Biden administration has anything remotely like this sort of capacity to direct the actions of online platforms? Make no mistake about it. Twitter censorship is government censorship. But the government in question is not the US government, but rather the European Union, and the EU is, in effect, imposing its censorship on the entire world.

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How Many People Did Ventilators and Iatrogenesis Kill in April 2020?

Michael Senger / October 7, 2022 / History / 10 minute read

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The importance of further study into the actual causes of excess deaths in spring 2020 and the source of the guidance that led to them can’t be overstated.

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You’re Aggressive, but I’m Not

Thomas Harrington / October 7, 2022 / Education, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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As every great religious tradition reminds us, the proclivity to do ill to others is vividly present in everyone during the entire course of our lives on earth, and that the first and most effective step towards ensuring that this inner monster does not take control of our destinies is acknowledging its enduring presence within us. It is then, and only then, that we can shape effective and enduring strategies to keep it at bay.

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The Attempt to Burn Me at the Stake

Mattias Desmet / October 7, 2022 / Philosophy / 18 minute read

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Perhaps for this reason: people might start to take seriously the idea that the corona crisis was primarily a psycho-social phenomenon that marked the transition to a technocratic system, a system in which the government would attempt to claim decision-making rights over its citizens and, step by step, take control of all private space.

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Why Did So Many Intellectuals Refuse to Speak Out?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 6, 2022 / Philosophy / 9 minute read

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Here is why in our time, as in all times, there is a crying need for intellectual sanctuaries for those brave souls who are willing to stand up and be counted, risk cancellation, put their professional careers on the line, simply to say what is true. They need protection. They need care. And they deserve our congratulations, for it is they who will guide us out of this mess.

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The Corruption of Private Enterprise in the Pandemic Era

Lisa Nelson / October 6, 2022 / Technology / 7 minute read

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While the Constitution is designed to prevent the usurpation of these rights by the government, there is little that limits the power of the corporations and institutions, which are making decisions about when and how we exercise our rights.

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The Real Reason Vaccine Mandates are Wrong

Julie Ponesse / October 6, 2022 / Law, Society, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Vaccine mandates are wrong not because they fail to generate a net benefit or because the risks to vaccinated persons outweigh public health benefits (though both are true). They are wrong because they trample on the very thing the noblest version of a liberal democratic society should be trying to create.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Corona, patientia nostra?

Manfred Horst / October 5, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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The big open question, however, is what the political fallout will be from science’s return to truth. If it helps the constitutional state turn away from its absurd noble goals – war against a virus, fight against a climate change – and make it adhere to its real task – regulating the peaceful coexistence of people while respecting the freedom and dignity of the individual – then the many victims of the Covid hysteria will perhaps not have suffered entirely in vain.

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Pandemics Bookended Our Careers

Robert Clancy / October 5, 2022 / Philosophy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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Covid has laid bare a medical profession no longer with input into health policy. Financial interest influences decisions enacted by bureaucrats, driven by the pharmaceutical industry, and woven into political agendas. A cultural blindness to objectivity begins with medical journals failing to publish any article outside of the narrative.

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Churches During Lockdowns: Near Disaster

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson / October 5, 2022 / History, Law, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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The compassion-hacking of American churches did not in itself save anyone’s life, but it did help to break down another civil-society barrier standing in the way of governmental totalization. As Hannah Arendt warned us, authoritarian and totalitarian schemes do not work without mass buy-in from the constituency. Buy-in requires people to be isolated, lonely, atomized, and stripped of all meaning.

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The Mandate on Health-Care Workers Is Still Unjust

James Bovard / October 4, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 9 minute read

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Biden’s vaccine mandates are another demolition of freedom that do nothing to end the most politically exploited pandemic in American history. But the government has no liability for the injections it mandates or the freedoms it destroys. For bureaucrats and politicians, gaining power and compelling submission are victory enough, even when their policies fail to vanquish a virus. How much longer will politicians pretend that their iron fists are a magic bullet?

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United Nations Now Claims to “Own the Science”

Robert Malone / October 4, 2022 / Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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The United Nations’ global communications representative Melissa Fleming is explicitly stating in this interview that the United Nations and their World Economic Forum partners are intentionally training and creating controlled opposition scientists, physicians, and social media influencers to assist in their global propaganda campaigns managed via partnerships with corporate media and big tech.

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