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The Joker – A Premonition

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 19, 2022 / Media, Psychology, Society / 7 minute read

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The Joker is not just one man, not just a crazy person, but the instantiation of the insane and morbid dangers associated with persistent personal failure backed by a conviction that when there is a fundamental conflict between a vision and reality, it can only be solved by the creation of chaos and suffering. As unpleasant as it is, The Joker is the movie we needed to see to understand and then prepare for the horrors that this unchecked mentality can and did unleash on the world.

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A Partial List of the Myriad Abuses That Facemasks Inflict on Our Children

Aaron Hertzberg / January 19, 2022 / Masks, Psychology / 20 minute read

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Facemasks are a radical and unnatural impingement on normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. Over time, this can change your personality – such as making you less social, less outgoing, more suspicious, decreased tendency or desire to be kind and so on.

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Mandates Are About Political Control, Not Health

Jenin Younes / January 18, 2022 / Law, Philosophy, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Mandates that serve no legitimate public health purpose and are instituted merely to punish the noncompliant should have no place in a civilized or democratic society. It is time that Americans wake up and realize that they are being used as pawns in a game of politics.

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Five Ways That People Refused to be Fooled by Lockdown Madness

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / January 18, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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Various kinds of people stood apart from the herd at the outset, while some escaped it after it formed. Here we try to describe the main pathways to escape from the madness. We do this only partly out of intellectual curiosity: such an exercise also provides clues as to which of those still in thrall to lockdown orthodoxy might be close to liberating themselves, and what is needed to complete their unshackling.

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The Government’s “Religious Exemption” Process Is a Farce

Alan Brown / January 18, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Whether deliberate or not, the language in the new request form reveals the government’s impatience and hostility towards those who have religious objections to the COVID vaccine. Words mean things after all, and the message could not be clearer: those asking for a religious exemption belong in the “other” category.

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Left and Right Have Lost All Meaning

David Souto Alcalde / January 18, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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It is clear that the labels of left and right have lost any meaning they had in the time of analog technologies when human beings actually controlled newly invented tools and used them to achieve concrete political and social ends.

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The Shortage of Health Care Workers Has a Cause

Eileen Natuzzi / January 17, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Does a vaccinated health care worker prevent transmission? Current data with the omicron variant does not support this.

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The Monumental Sacrifice of Novak Djokovic

Stacey Rudin / January 17, 2022 / Media, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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His very public deportation will hopefully get many people thinking about his approach to health, which if widely understood and adopted, will finally burn the Covid Regime to the ground — once and for all.

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The Artless Partisans of Lockdowns and Mandates

Michael Riches / January 17, 2022 / Media / 8 minute read

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In fact, the great intellectual thought emerging from our times is coming from those opposing vaccine mandates and Covid fearmongering. These names run across the political spectrum, but those from the left are universally categorized by liberals as being “alt-right” or “fringe libertarian,” ensuring that they remain marginalized and carry whatever stigma goes along with being relegated to the internet.

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What Might Have Been: Calm, Protection, and Care

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 15, 2022 / History / 7 minute read

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Figuring out why sound public-health practice was rejected in favor of lockdowns is the job of writers and researchers for many years to come. But this much we know already. We had the information we needed to rationally address this threat. We had the experience and knowledge we needed to approach this responsibly and scientifically. A very small group of people on both sides of the Atlantic chose a different path.

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Is This Our World War I?

Jesse Kauffman / January 15, 2022 / History / 6 minute read

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While many historical analogies have been offered for our present moment, from the campaign to combat polio to the National Socialist dictatorship of Germany, it is perhaps this wholly unnecessary self-destruction of a civilization that our own era most readily resembles. The campaign by our government to prevent every possible infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus regardless of the cost has unleashed a hollowing of once trusted institutions and ideas.

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Another Round of Lockdowns in China

John Mac Ghlionn / January 14, 2022 / Economics, Law, Society / 4 minute read

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What’s occurring in China is brutal, but it’s not necessarily surprising. In many ways, the Chinese people have always been prisoners, regularly subjected to cruel and unusual punishments. Now, though, the people of Xi’an are literal prisoners, quite literally sealed off from society. When will they be freed? A week from now, a month, a year? Sadly, we don’t know.

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