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Alan Dowd | June 15, 2023 | History | 9 minute read

Can We Please Have Some Honesty About Trump’s Lockdowns?

This isn’t about supporting DeSantis or any other candidate. It’s about discovering who has learned from history and who would repeat the mistakes of March 2020. Every candidate running for every federal office and statewide office should be asked where they stand on this fundamental issue—because there will be other viruses, other pandemics, other computer models that tempt or terrify those in power. In a nation founded on individual liberty and individual responsibility, lockdowns cannot become the new-normal response to such events.

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Rob Jenkins | June 14, 2023 | Education, Policy | 7 minute read

Paying the Price for Campus Closures

Could all this pain have been prevented if campuses had just reopened fully in the fall of 2020? Perhaps not—but much of it could have. At worst, we would have continued our gradual downhill roll toward the 2026 cliff, giving legislators and administrators plenty of time to prepare.

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Laura Dodsworth | June 14, 2023 | History, Law, Society | 4 minute read

Better to Have No Commission Than This One

Next time there is a pandemic, people will be able to say ‘Baroness Hallett’s report stated that the UK government didn’t lock down fast – or hard – enough. We won’t make that mistake again!’ There will be no redemption, just a long, hard sentence, swiftly imposed. Once again, lives will be ruined, not saved.

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Julie Sladden | June 14, 2023 | Policy, Public Health | 5 minute read

The Meaning of the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration

Since its launch, the declaration has received international attention and signatures from around the world including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the UK, and the US with numbers increasing daily. Healthcare, nor the people it serves, cannot thrive in the presence of censorship, coercion, and unethical behaviour. So, the time has come to remind ourselves, our governments, and our leaders of the core foundations.

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el gato malo | June 13, 2023 | Policy | 8 minute read

Bad Policy Assures a Perpetual Sense of Burning Crisis

So yes, this is 100% a political issue, but it’s not the one it’s being represented as. This is a policy fail. That which worked was abandoned for that which sounded good to a few eco-rubes, and now we are all paying the price. Reality is not optional, and ecology denial is a very expensive foible. It’s time we stopped pretending that there are no trade-offs here and begin (once more) doing the sensible thing.

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Bill Rice | June 13, 2023 | Society | 9 minute read

What I Can Say and What I Cannot Say

Regarding our society’s “debate” on what speech should be “permitted” and what speech should be banned … and what speakers should be sanctioned and punished, “permission” is the word that explains everything. From 2020-2023, some speech is still permitted by our government and its many sycophant cronies, but, alas, libraries worth of speech are now no longer permitted.

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Robert Kogon | June 12, 2023 | Pharma, Vaccines | 7 minute read

Who Owns BioNTech?

BioNTech is a very closely held company, the great majority of whose shares are owned by just three people.

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Christine Black | June 12, 2023 | Philosophy | 10 minute read

Send Them

The sad impulse to sacrifice others to save ourselves appeared when people stepped up and spoke out during the Covid period. If someone said something that made me look bad or that interfered with my profits or my institution or my company’s profits, then we sacrificed that person. But what if she was right and speaking the truth — or hadn’t done anything wrong? Nope. Didn’t matter. Let her hang. Leave her there.

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David Bell | June 12, 2023 | Government, Public Health | 5 minute read

North Korea Joins WHO’s Leadership

The pandemic agenda is not a problem for countries such as North Korea or China, where people’s freedom is already at the will of their government. But it is anathema for countries where government supposedly exists on the will of the people. So why do our leaders go along with this?

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Brownstone Institute | June 11, 2023 | Government, Law | 6 minute read

United States: Fifty Little Dictatorships

This legal push has received no public attention, and not even Zwieg’s expert journalism seems to have broken through the wall set up by the mainstream media. And that is precisely why anyone concerned about the future needs to get the word out. The efforts toward fundamental regime change are real, threatening, and deeply dangerous to the future of liberty itself.

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Aaron Kheriaty | June 11, 2023 | Censorship, Government, Law, Media, Society, Technology | 7 minute read

The Censorship Hegemon Must Be Stopped

This agency was created in the waning days of the Obama administration, supposedly to protect our digital infrastructure against cyberattacks from computer viruses and nefarious foreign actors. But less than one year into their existence, CISA decided that their remit also should include protecting our “cognitive infrastructure” from various threats.

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Mark Oshinskie | June 10, 2023 | Society | 4 minute read

The Twisted Tree of Mitigation

The “mitigation” supporters actively, openly hated people, like me, who predicted, in March, 2020, all of the destruction that lockdowns, school closures, masks, tests and shots would cause. This gullible mob of tens of millions dismissed “mitigation” critics as “selfish non-experts” and “Grandma killers.”

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