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They Profiled Citizens According to Their Degree of Compliance

Ramesh Thakur / December 12, 2023 / 5 minute read

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The government was using taxpayer money to commission research from a private consultancy into grading people according to their Covid compliance score, in order to devise a strategy to persuade them into following government directives and obey government orders. Addressed chiefly as a public health matter, the primary concern would have been the health and safety of the people. Instead the primary motivation was clearly political control and moulding public opinion for partisan advantage.

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We Must Save Ourselves from the Public Health Professionals

David Bell / December 12, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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We need legislators, and the public, to reclaim public health ethics and to return to credible concepts of health and well-being – as the WHO once did – “physical, mental and social.” This is what was intended when previous generations fought to overthrow dictators, striving for equality and for the rights of individuals over those who would control them. History tells us that public health professions tend to follow self-interest, taking the side of those who would be dictators. If our democracies, freedom, and health are to survive, we must accept reality and address this as a basic issue of individual freedom and good governance for which we are all responsible. There is too much at stake to leave this to self-interested corporatists and the notorious enforcers they control.

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Press Silent on Shut Down of UK Government’s Ethics Committee

Molly Kingsley / December 12, 2023 / Media, Public Health, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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We have all long been aware of the reluctance of mainstream news outlets to question any aspect of the Covid vaccination programme. It should be a matter of gravest concern for us all, though, if that reluctance extends beyond opinion and comment pieces, to include the reporting of a verifiable public-source news item concerning the fundamental ethical basis for a pharmaceutical intervention impacting millions. And doubly so when it implicates — as in this case — our children.

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Independent Voices Sing in Symphony

Alan Lash / December 11, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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In the holiday season, we are reminded of the importance of community, of our connection with one another. We join together with our family and friends. We extend help and understanding to those we perceive in need. We seek out acts of grace and hope.

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Living Everywhere in a Carceral Surveillance State

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

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If you live in a Chinese city, or even in London, you are probably so used to surveillance cameras all around you – on lamp posts, the corners of buildings, and so on – that you would hardly bat an eyelid. Yet what contemporary city-denizens take for granted was not always the case, and most people would be surprised to know that surveillance has a long history, and was linked to modes of punishment from early on.

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Why Does the WHO Make False Claims Regarding Proposals to Seize States’ Sovereignty?

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Thi Thuy Van Dinh / December 11, 2023 / Government, Law, Public Health / 15 minute read

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If it is indeed the case that our authorities and their supporters within the public health community consider that powers currently vested within national jurisdictions should be given over to external bodies on the basis of this level of recorded harm, it would be best to have a public conversation as to whether this is sufficient basis for abandoning democratic ideals in favor of a more fascist or otherwise authoritarian approach. We are, after all, talking about restricting basic human rights essential for a democracy to function.

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These Amendments Would Open the Door to a Dangerous Global Health Bureacracy

These Amendments Would Open the Door to a Dangerous Global Health Bureaucracy

David Thunder / December 10, 2023 / Government, Law, Public Health / 12 minute read

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The Covid pandemic gave the World Health Organisation and its partners unprecedented visibility and a tremendous amount of “soft” power to shape public health law and policies across the world. Over the past year or so, the WHO has been pushing hard to consolidate and expand its power to declare and manage public health emergencies on a global scale.

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It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 10, 2023 / Economics, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The times are terrible not because of some impersonal forces of history as Hegel might have it, but because a small minority decided to play dangerous games with fundamental rights, liberties, and law. They broke the world and are now pillaging what’s left. It promises to stay broken and looted so long as the same people either gain the courage to admit wrongdoing or, like the decrepit old men who ruled the Soviet empire in its last days, they finally perish from the earth.

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Human Rights Discarded at the Gates of Hell

Ramesh Thakur / December 9, 2023 / Law, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Human rights claims are claims by citizens on governments. The advocacy, juridical, and enforcement revolutions in human rights led to a rapid expansion of governmental activism on legislation backed by monitoring and compliance machinery. Yet human rights are also abused most systematically, pervasively and widely by governments.

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Did Cochrane’s Masks Study Get it Wrong?

Maryanne Demasi / December 8, 2023 / Masks, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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“Forcing people to wear masks has been a failure of public health. The reason we are still having the mask debate is because authorities relied on trash studies to justify their use, and wanted to appear as if they were doing something. In a crisis, it is always more difficult to do nothing,” Gøtzsche said.

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The Sequencing Data Just Went Missing

Rebekah Barnett / December 8, 2023 / Censorship, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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US-based genomics scientist Kevin McKernan says he has lost an estimated US $200,000 worth of research data after his account on file hosting service MEGA was deleted overnight.

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The Grateful Dead Succumbed to Coronamania, but We Didn't Follow

The Grateful Dead Succumbed to Coronamania, but We Didn’t Conform

Mark Oshinskie / December 8, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 8 minute read

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Throughout, my unimpaired eyes and ears told me that the Covid response was an extreme overreaction that was causing widespread harm. Instead of following a gullibly unhinged crowd, I found new friends who knew bad Scamdemic music when they heard it. Instead of “staying safe,” buying the hysteria and flailing their arms, my new tribe stayed sane and moved, vitally and on-time, to their own, unmistakable beat of reality.

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