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The Dragnet in Lombardy: Patient Zero of Lockdowns

Michael Senger / August 4, 2022 / History, Policy / 21 minute read

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By way of one Health Minister Roberto Speranza, on whose order 50,000 Lombardy residents were placed under lockdown on February 21, 2020, the first lockdown in the modern western world. Within weeks, lockdown had spread to cities across Italy, until the entire nation was placed on lockdown on March 9. By April 2020, more than half the world’s population—some 3.9 billion people—had been placed under lockdown.

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Here Is What Stagflation Looks Like

David Stockman / August 4, 2022 / Economics / 5 minute read

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It’s the reason why the real economy is faltering and stagflation has become embedded: To wit, the gains in nominal income are being more than eaten up by soaring prices, paving the way for the worst bout of high inflation and falling real growth since the 1970s.

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Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 3, 2022 / Government, Media, Policy / 8 minute read

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The relationship between Big Tech – and all aspiring reporters and enterprises – is very clearly complex, and elusive of ideological categorization. It is also corrupt, exploitative of the interests of the people, and at odds with the interest of Enlightenment values. How can freedom stand a chance when it is so viciously squeezed between the controlling interest groups, who are the powerful in society? They believe they are the lords and we are the peasants.

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A New Low in Mask Studies

Ian Miller / August 3, 2022 / Masks / 7 minute read

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There are no innocuous pro-mask “studies;” each of them contributes to confirming biases of deluded decision-makers who refuse to accept reality.

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In Defense of Uncertainty

Julie Ponesse / August 3, 2022 / Philosophy / 13 minute read

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We think uncertainty will expose us, put us into a distressing freefall, but in reality it does the opposite. It expands our minds by creating spaces that don’t need to be filled by anything. It lays the groundwork for innovation and progress, and opens us up to meaningful connection with others.

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New York Times Goes to War Against Parents

Michael Senger / August 2, 2022 / Media / 3 minute read

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Apparently, the Democrats’ strategy going into the midterms is to gaslight their base into believing concerns over their children’s education, wellbeing, and safety during Covid are nothing but an initiation into a dark underworld of cult-like anti-vaccine radicalism. We’ll see how that works out for ’em.

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The Biden Administration Still Pushing Its Transportation Mask Mandate

Brownstone Institute / August 2, 2022 / Law, Policy / 1 minute of reading

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The plaintiffs in the case have now filed their response to the appeal. The decision is expected in weeks. It will likely uphold the previous decision, which amounts to a serious though not fatal blow to the unchecked power of the administrative state, which is arguably the single greatest threat to American liberty and constitutional government that we face.

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The Triumph and Glory of Air Conditioning

John Tamny / August 2, 2022 / Economics, Technology / 4 minute read

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The story about the mass production of air conditioners is that what were once status symbols are now common. Crucial here is that people got very rich making air conditioners common. It’s how the world works. Or at least how to grow rich in the world. The best way to become very well-to-do very quickly is to produce in abundance, and at low prices, what used to be scarce and nosebleed expensive.

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The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 1, 2022 / Economics / 6 minute read

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The Fed is driving the recession at a time when the ruling class has decided that the rest of us should be poor and hungry, driving Flintstone cars and foraging for food. The result, for now, is shocking stagflation. But we don’t even have a word yet for what might be coming. Depression is already used. How do you describe high inflation plus a manufactured depression?

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Politifact Attempts To Rescue Dr. Birx

Scott Morefield / August 1, 2022 / Media, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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The real question here is, if Dr. Deborah Birx – a prominent member of Trump’s White House coronavirus task force – knew the vaccines didn’t stop infection then, how could the others NOT have known? And if they did, why did they lie about it for so long? Sure, we know the likely answer, but it’ll still be fun to watch them squirm on the stand as the investigations commence.

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New Evidence: Fauci Imposed a Vaccine Delay that Cost Trump the Election

Toby Rogers / August 1, 2022 / History, Policy, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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The key piece of information comes from a new book, The Messenger, published last week by Harvard Business Review Press. The author, Peter Loftus, is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and they published his essay about the book in their Review section on Saturday. What’s astonishing is that Loftus does not even realize the enormity of the story he just stumbled upon.

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Proxy “Evidence” and the Manipulation of Human Perceptions

Thomas Harrington / August 1, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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The elites’ ability to flood our consciousness with fragmentary and undigested information has increased exponentially. And they are well aware of, and quite satisfied by, the sense of disorientation this information overload causes in the majority of citizens. Why? Because they know that a disoriented or overwhelmed person is much more likely to grasp at simplistic “solutions” when they are directed this way.

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