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Intellectuals for Sale

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 12, 2024 / Society / 12 minute read

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We’ve lived through this and seen too much to have the same level of trust we once had. What can we do? We can rebuild the ideal as it existed in the old world. The kind of genius we know was on display in a place like Salamanca, or in interwar Vienna, or even in the coffee houses of London in the 18th century, can return, even if on a small level. They have to, simply because the shape of the world around us depends fundamentally on the ideas we hold about ourselves and the world around us. Those should not be for sale to the highest bidder.

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Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry for Masks

Ian Miller / February 12, 2024 / History, Masks / 7 minute read

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Those who were responsible for incalculable damage will continue to skate scot free, while the cycle of unnecessary panic, inaccurate predictions, and the call for more masking rears its ugly head every few months as new variants emerge. Although it’s frustratingly predictable and infuriatingly obvious, best to prepare for a whole lot more of it.

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Propaganda Looney Tunes

Charles Krblich / February 12, 2024 / History, Media / 6 minute read

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Virality with this ease of spread is a fairly novel psychic phenomenon for the human race. So, when a novel physical pathogen came along, both the disease and the memes, cartoons, and propaganda began to spread. Confronted on both physical and psychic fronts, some incredibly bizarre and often vindictive behavior resulted. It isn’t the first time this has happened.

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Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Debbie Lerman / February 11, 2024 / Censorship, Technology / 8 minute read

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Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here. This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now. Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet. This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea.

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The Forgetting Is Mandatory

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 10, 2024 / Government, History, Society / 10 minute read

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We dare not comply with this mandatory forgetting. We must remember, and take full account of the deception and destruction the ruling class has caused for no other reason than profits and power. Only then we can learn the right lessons and rebuild on a better foundation for the future.

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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, Pharm. D / 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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