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The Final Countdown to CBDC

Aaron Day / January 4, 2024 / Education, Government, Technology / 16 minute read

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Though a work of fiction, this story draws inspiration from surveillance technologies that pervade our world today. If left unchecked, the scenario painted within this first chapter could become a hauntingly accurate reflection of life in the not-so-distant future. This book aims to shed light on the truth behind the tale, unearthing the grand designs to bring such a reality into existence—even in places like the United States. More importantly, the bulk of this book seeks to equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to combat this burgeoning tyranny. The time to act is now; the power to change the course of our future lies within our grasp.

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The Real Purge in Academia

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 4, 2024 / Education, History, Society / 5 minute read

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We have certainly lived through the decline and fall of the older idea of the university. Now we may yet live to see the end of the university itself and its replacement by something else entirely. Reforms can work but the reform will not likely come from within the institutions. They must be imposed by alumni and perhaps legislatures. Or perhaps the rule of “Go woke, go broke” will eventually force a change. Regardless, the idea of learning itself will surely return. We are in the transition, and David Barnhizer is our Virgil to give us an outstanding tour of the wreckage left behind and perhaps even a path out of the darkness.

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A Field Guide to Dubious Fact-Checking

Thomas Buckley / January 3, 2024 / Media, Philosophy / 6 minute read

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To simplify deception detection, here are a few very common and very slippery techniques the fact-checkers use to twist the truth into a lie – and vice-versa – to always look out for.

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The Toilet Paper Canard

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 3, 2024 / Economics, History, Society / 6 minute read

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Lately I’ve been hearing that we had to lock down because the nation was in a panic as evidenced by the famous toilet paper shortage of the Spring of 2020. It’s not clear how this is supposed to work. How does a toilet paper shortage indicate the presence of a killer disease that can be mitigated by shutting everything down?

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Why are so Many Californians Dying?

Thomas Buckley / January 3, 2024 / History, Public Health / 10 minute read

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Despite the protestations of certain officials, the state’s death rate has NOT returned to “pre-Covid” levels – in 2019 the year before the pandemic, 270,000 people died with a population at least 400,000 greater than today. Why?

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We Often Imitate What We Say We Oppose

Thomas Harrington / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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“How to struggle for justice without becoming what we claim to despise in our opponents?” That is the question. How well or poorly we as activists and idea-makers respond to this challenge in the short term will, I believe, go a long way toward predicting our long-term chances of building the more cohesive and human-centered culture we all desire for ourselves and our children.

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Kristina Borjesson: Rest in Peace to a Brave Investigator

Meryl Nass / January 2, 2024 / Media, Society / 2 minute read

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In 2002 I did not know the extent of media malfeasance. Kristina, however, documented it in the most careful, credible and unbelievable way—collecting many chapters by top journalists of the stories they tried to report and how they lost their careers when they attempted to tell the truth. She lost her career at CBS, trying to tell the truth about the mid-air explosion of a 747 (TWA 800) over Long island sound, which was probably the result of a US Navy exercise gone awry.

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The Hero’s Voice is Within Your Reach

Mike Fairclough / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Having incurred some rather brutal personal losses, including my career, I am unable to pretend that speaking out is easy. This is why people self-censor. It is definitely safer to stay silent in the short-term. But what are the long-term consequences of our silence? Could, for example, the horrors of Nazi Germany and the persecution of the Jews be repeated if people are silent en-mass about anti-Semitism? Of course, you know the chilling answer to that question.

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The Diabolical Dozen: My Twelve ‘Most-Significant Covid Events’

Bill Rice / January 1, 2024 / History, Public Health, Vaccines / 9 minute read

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I occasionally enjoy publishing “List” articles. To me, these essays can provide larger context on important topics and can assist writers in their quest to connect dots that identify the key events that explain how we got to our “Twilight Zone” New Normal. Today’s list is “The Dozen Most Important/Significant Events of Covid.”

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Hope Matters in Our War

Bert Olivier / January 1, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 12 minute read

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Just as we find ourselves in ‘dark years’ at present, we cannot afford to believe for a moment that the technocratic cabal has succeeded in determining, once and for all, what our future will be – that of slaves in their AI-controlled, neo-fascist, feudal dystopia. We are free human beings, and by doing the ‘work of hope’ by seizing on opportunities that are latent in the world, to challenge them with courage, we shall prevail.

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: Review of Bobby Kennedy’s Crucial Book

Meryl Nass / January 1, 2024 / History, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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The Wuhan Cover-Up gives you the facts, the history, and the understanding you need to grasp what is actually happening, right now. If enough of us read it, we will gain the knowledge and strength in numbers to stop and defund the biowarfare industry, revoke these terrible laws, and lay down our deep, unconscious fears regarding contagion.

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To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention

Thomas Harrington / December 31, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested charlatans. But they retain much of their prominence because many people, having been told again and again that their own observational and reasoning skills are terminally inadequate, hand over those tasks to those presented to them as inordinately wise.

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