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EU Farmers Rise Against the Climate Cult

David Thunder / February 10, 2024 / Economics, Government, Policy / 4 minute read

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Independently from the merits of EU climate policy, two things are clear: first, EU leaders and environmental activists appear to have vastly underestimated the backlash their policies would spark in the farming community; and second, the apparent success of this dramatic EU-wide protest sets a spectacular precedent that will not go unnoticed among farmers and transport companies, whose operating costs are heavily impacted by environmental regulations like carbon taxes.

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The FDA and Vaccine Manufacturers Refuse to Show Us Their Work

David Gortler / February 9, 2024 / Government, Pharma / 3 minute read

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Not only are the test results confidential, even the methodology used hasn’t been made public. The world just has to take manufacturers’ word that there’s no contamination or variability with the mRNA sequence or its lipid nanoparticle components – even though published epidemiology data indicate otherwise.

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DOD Told Pharma Exec the Virus “Posed a National Security Threat” on Feb. 4, 2020

Debbie Lerman / February 9, 2024 / Government, History, Pharma / 3 minute read

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If the heads of the US public health agencies, including Anthony Fauci (NIAID) and Francis Collins (NIH), were spending a large portion of their time on that day frantically trying to come up with ways to claim the virus was not manufactured in a bioweapons lab – there must have been a reason other than public health. The reason is becoming increasingly undeniable: The Covid crisis was a military/national security operation, not a public health event.

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The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy

Scott Sturman / February 9, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 9 minute read

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The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a military institution to a progressive, liberal arts school has been incremental, relentless, and calculated. The goal to politicize the training and perspectives of cadets, who constitute about 20% of annual Air Force officer commissions, guarantees a source of influential officers who will apply and promote these ideas throughout their military and civilian careers.

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Assange, Elon, and the News Not Fit to Print

Brownstone Institute / February 8, 2024 / Government, Media, Society / 5 minute read

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This is the path toward change. The driving force of history is not impersonal but rather comes down to the actions of people informed by the beliefs they hold. This is why governments throughout history have placed such a high priority on controlling the public mind.

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Destructive Solutions to Imaginary Problems

Bruce W. Davidson / February 8, 2024 / History, Society / 4 minute read

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At its recent Davos annual meeting, the WEF focused much of its attention on how to respond to the fictional “Disease X.” This alarmist concern about an imaginary threat follows hard on the heels of the still-unfolding worldwide devastation wrought by extreme “solutions” to a grossly exaggerated disease threat.

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The Complexity Science of Medicine Requires Freedom

Russ Gonnering / February 8, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 10 minute read

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As I write this, medicine is still “In the Wilderness,” but I can see a brightening horizon. We still need to formulate a counter to the nihilism of Postmodernism and Critical Theory. We still need to re-establish free speech and intellectual freedom in healthcare delivery and education. We still need to raise truth above ideology. But I now think that is a possibility.

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$2.7 Trillion Buys “Spectacular” GDP

Peter St Onge / February 7, 2024 / Economics, Government / 3 minute read

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Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it.

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An Open Letter to the Davos Crowd

Rob Jenkins / February 7, 2024 / Society / 5 minute read

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If the past four years have taught us anything, it is that you “elites” are awful people. Your ideas are awful. Your vision for the future is awful. The society you wish to create, with yourselves in charge, would be unspeakably awful. We reject it, and we reject you. So go away and leave us alone—or else suffer the consequences.

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CDC’s Vaccine-Efficacy Epidemiologic Incompetence

Harvey Risch / February 7, 2024 / Public Health, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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Periodically during the Covid-19 pandemic, CDC scientific staff have employed their available studies’ data to estimate the efficacy of current or recent versions of Covid-19 vaccines to reduce risk of testing positive for Covid-19. While the fact of “testing positive” has been somewhat controversial because of the secret PCR Ct threshold numbers involved that have allowed for uninfectious people with unrecognized Covid-19 from some weeks in the past to remain test-positive, my goal here is to illustrate CDC’s problematic epidemiologic methods that have substantially inflated the vaccine efficacy percents that they have reported.

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So Long Ago That It Never Really Happened

Charles Krblich / February 6, 2024 / History, Society / 6 minute read

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As election season rolls on and the nation looks set for an election re-match between the mandate ordering Joseph Biden and the lockdown ordering Donald Trump, a sense of nostalgia for a lost and forgotten era has creeped into my thoughts. For my nostalgia’s sake at least, that was a long time ago, and it never really happened anyway.

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My Medical School Dismissed Me Over Dissent

Kevin Bass / February 6, 2024 / Censorship, Education / 15 minute read

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The ruling elite did not see themselves as ideological. They still don’t. They believed and believe that they hold an unfiltered view of the Truth. They see themselves as Hegel’s universal class, advocating for the interests of humanity. Dissent was thus experienced – and is still experienced – not just as disagreement but as immoral. Dissenters were thus removed from social media platforms, fired from positions at America’s prestigious academic departments and companies, and shunned by former peers and professional circles.

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