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How the Madness of Crowds Wrecked Something Navy

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 23, 2023 / Economics, Psychology, Society / 7 minute read

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Stories of the rise and fall of enterprises are always fascinating. But there are some strange twists and turns associated with the fall of Something Navy, the fashion line started by Arielle Charnas that is now for sale for $1. The brand opened in early 2020, just on the cusp of lockdowns, and in the wake of the prevailing ethos that anyone with more than one million Instagram followers could make a financial killing.

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The Velvet Fascism of “Protect our Democracy”

Thomas Buckley / December 23, 2023 / Government, Media / 10 minute read

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Deciding that a person who has not been charged with, let alone convicted of, insurrection is guilty of insurrection and therefore cannot run for president…that is “protecting our democracy” in action. Whenever that term is used, one can be assured that the democracy they are referring to has no semblance to any actual democracy.

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The New Biosecurity State

Ramesh Thakur / December 22, 2023 / Government, Society, Vaccines / 33 minute read

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The danger is that there will be no real bar to them repeating it next time. It’s only if you really punish them. With atrocities we have this notion of command responsibility. You don’t go after the foot soldiers, but you do charge the general or the dictator with atrocity crimes, with crimes against humanity, with ethnic cleansing, and put them in jail. That sends a message.

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Are Safety Reports from Covid mRNA Shots Due to Lack of FDA Ingredient Clarity?

David Gortler / December 22, 2023 / Government, Pharma, Vaccines / 22 minute read

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Not providing ingredient transparency and assuring quality via an appropriate sampling methodology is a fundamental and basic requirement of the FDA. In fact, it was the primary reason for the formation of the FDA! Don’t Americans deserve better transparency, oversight, and “truthful labeling” laws when it comes to our pharmaceuticals – especially since those laws were made over 100 years ago?

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“Vaccelerate!”: German-EU Programme Aims to Facilitate Fast-Vax for “Next Pandemic”

Robert Kogon / December 22, 2023 / Government, Public Health, Vaccines / 3 minute read

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Already missing the Covid-19 pandemic? Well, fear not. The German-EU “VACCELERATE” programme is already on the lookout for the next “pathogen with pandemic potential,” as authors affiliated with the programme put it in a new paper titled “Predicting the next pandemic.”

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No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military

Scott Sturman / December 21, 2023 / Education, History, Psychology / 10 minute read

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Members of the medical community are the select few in the present-day military who can offer safe harbor to those exposed to unremitting propaganda. DEI is a scourge of the armed forces, and commanders should cultivate relationships with military medical and legal professionals to channel their efforts to challenge DEI programs at every level.

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Why We Love the Nutcracker

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 21, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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In the last century, and then again in this century, the gift of the nutcracker broke. It is shattered beyond recognition today in many countries of the world, including what we used to call the free world. In the remainder of this century, it is up to us to put that beautiful toy back together again.

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What the Obamas Fear: The Rest of Us

Debbie Lerman / December 21, 2023 / Psychology, Society / 8 minute read

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Much has been made of the Netflix peri-apocalyptic yawner, Leave the World Behind, directed by Sam Esmail and produced by Michelle and Barack Obama. Most reviews focus on the supposedly contentious racial attitudes expressed in the film, the bizarre collapsing-world images, and the incomprehensible ending. But all of the focus on race, crashing planes, and errant flamingos misses the crux of Leave the World Behind: a fascinating peek into the psyches of its producers and their socio-political milieu.

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The Blind Brute Blunders Forth

Bert Olivier / December 20, 2023 / History, Philosophy / 11 minute read

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What are the chances that a natural addition of the PB2 gene segment to the H5N1 bird flu virus would occur? Pretty slight, if not impossible, one would guess. The mere fact that such research (which also includes the laboratory construction of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan) has occurred, and is probably still taking place, is an unmistakable manifestation of the kind of irrationality that Kafka, Schopenhauer, and Freud unmasked on the part of the not-so-sapiens human race.

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The End of the World at Fort Bragg

Christine Black / December 20, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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Pharmaceutical companies occupy airwaves. Fat people dance in a town square in an ad for pills to lower blood sugar. Another ad proclaims that a cartoon guy will deliver a colon test to your doorstep in a box. Drug ads for eczema, Crohn’s disease, and all kinds of ailments fill the screen. Rich people in glittering rooms with tinsel and gold and greenery slowly eat Lindor chocolates. Pfizer advertises vaccines for pregnant women. On another network, a show called The Great Christmas Light Fight appears.

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This Silence Is Not Golden

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 20, 2023 / Government, History, Society / 6 minute read

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The silence is not golden. It’s dangerous. It is even treacherous. The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who. The silence could mean there is more to come. Which is to say that silence equals death.

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Drug Regulators are Hiding RNA Stability Data

Maryanne Demasi / December 19, 2023 / Government, Pharma, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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“It’s time for regulators to restore public trust and release these sorts of data. Until then, why should we inject anyone, especially children, with a vaccine without disclosing these, and other kinds of data?” says Wiseman.

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