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The WHO Proposals: An Open Letter

David Bell / April 8, 2024 / Government, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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The drafting of the Open Letter below, addressing these issues, was led by three lawyers with experience with the WHO, within the UN and in international treaty law, Silvia Behrendt, Assoc. Prof Amrei Muller, and Dr. Thi Thuy Van Dinh. It simply calls upon the WHO and Member States to extend the deadline for the adoption of the amendments to the International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement at the 77th WHA to safeguard the rule of law and equity. To proceed with the current deadline, against their own legal requirements, would not just be legally wrong but demonstrate unequivocally that equity and respect for States rights have nothing to do with the WHO’s pandemic agenda.

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We Must Resist the Grey Men

Haley Kynefin / April 8, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 25 minute read

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For the sake of freedom, for the sake of vibrant and meaningful living, and for the sake of that very chaos and unpredictability that, in and of itself, provides the soil and the nutrients for beautiful variety to grow — we need to accept that there will always be holes and inefficiencies in our attempts to optimize our lives. And if someone pushes us to micromanage that precious negative space, that’s usually a sign that they are seeing us as resources, and that they do not, in fact, have our best interests at heart.

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Elites at War with the People

Ramesh Thakur / April 7, 2024 / Government, Society / 19 minute read

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How long until centre-right political leaders across the Western democracies grasp the truth that the cultural hegemony is not as crushingly successful as believed by the elites? Without embracing populism, they can still address the practical concerns, interests, and aspirations that animate working and middle class people worried by cost of living pressures, breakdowns of family and social cohesion, and retreat from pride in flag, country, and religion. These majority voting cohorts are worried about mass immigration, the erosion of women’s rights under the relentless assault from trans activists, and the absolutist agenda of Net Zero and damn the costs.

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Chevron, Murthy, and ‘Supreme’ Hypocrisy

Thomas Buckley / April 6, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Law / 10 minute read

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The majority of the court appeared to favor eliminating Chevron. It would be the height of hypocrisy – and one the most culturally devastating decisions since Dred Scott – to not see the parallels and to rule any other way than against the government in Murthy. With that ruling, we can begin to gather in the tentacles of the censorship monster.

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What’s in a Name?

Richard Kelly / April 6, 2024 / Media, Society, Technology / 4 minute read

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Your name is important. To renounce it or change it is momentous. To be given a new secret name by an intimate partner is sublime. Imagine a new name, known only to you, carved on a white stone, handed only to you. How precious that would be. For now, each of has the name we have. If we don’t use it, who will?

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Justices’ Grave Error in Murthy v. Missouri

Aaron Kheriaty / April 5, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 5 minute read

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If the justices want to distinguish between persuasion and coercion in the injunction, they need to appreciate that social media companies operate in a very different relationship with government than traditional print media. These asymmetrical power dynamics create a relationship ripe for unconstitutional government coercion.

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Consequences of the Wrong Worldview

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / April 5, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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The mechanistic view of the world and its quest for ultimate solutions have failed, for they are ultimately hostile to man as a thinking, moral being. In its place, we need a new vision of humanity, of society. What characterises that vision? I will not attempt to answer that question here and now. But I believe the experience and message of people like Mohamedou Ould Slahi may guide us. Reflecting on this experience and message is particularly fitting now when we celebrate Easter.

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Poynter’s Creepy ‘Fact-Based Expression’

Thomas Buckley / April 5, 2024 / Censorship, Media, Vaccines / 9 minute read

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That is what the once vaunted now openly vile Poynter Institute – a pivot point of the international censorship-industrial complex – wishes to “strengthen…around the globe.” Pointedly, not “free speech,” but “fact-based expression.”

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Medical Leadership Cannot Escape the ‘Misinformation’ Trap

Russ Gonnering / April 4, 2024 / Censorship, Philosophy / 8 minute read

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How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government—the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against “misinformation” in healthcare—which actually fostered “misinformation.”

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Is Inflation Harmless?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 4, 2024 / Economics, Media / 5 minute read

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The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The headline is that his economist brain makes him say with regard to inflation: “Don’t worry, be happy.” The article gives the reader as much reason to trust economists as you do epidemiologists, which is to say not at all.

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Fiscal Collapse Accelerates

Peter St Onge / April 4, 2024 / Economics, Government / 3 minute read

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Every fiscal trend is in the wrong direction. We’re already at $2 trillion deficit, it will soar by trillions when recession hits. And it will keep churning with social security, Medicare, and spending on everything from illegal immigrants to fresh wars. At this point there is nothing standing between us and fiscal collapse. The only question is when.

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Censorship on Trial at the Supreme Court

Maryanne Demasi / April 3, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Technology / 7 minute read

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Billed as one of the most consequential lawsuits of the last century, Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v Biden) is a legal battle that stands at the intersection of free speech protections and social media companies.

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