State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 1
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Governments were able to mobilise members of the public to exert peer pressure and societal coercion to enforce compliance, backed by often brutal police coercion... Read more.
Covid Crimes and Amnesty, Accountability and Justice
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The victims of casual cruelty, capricious public health diktats and enforcement brutality are owed justice. But what type of justice? It might be helpful to look... Read more.
What the US Can Learn From Elections in India
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A Rasmussen poll near the end of September found that 84 percent of Americans expressed concern about election integrity in the imminent congressional elections.... Read more.
Some Blunt Observations on a Trump Candidacy
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By contrast to Trump, after an initial but mercifully brief embrace of lockdown, DeSantis created Florida as a refuge of sanity in a world gone Covid-crazy. As Michael... Read more.
Are Lockdown Zealots Incapable of Introspection?
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Lockdown skepticism was foresight. Thus the prevailing uncertainty and lack of knowledge doesn’t wash with the benefit of hindsight. Professing ignorance now cannot... Read more.
Reality Check on the Vaccine Narrative
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Over two-thirds said the governments’ pandemic response had been too heavy-handed, 25 percent said the leaders had done the best they could, and 8 percent thought... Read more.
Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism
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The idea behind the move to preferred pronouns is that everyone’s own conception of their gender identity deserves the protection of law. The unintended and perverse... Read more.
Agree with Us or Hold your Tongue
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Every crisis, they say, is an opportunity. Governments, health bureaucrats and drug regulators all over the world have exploited the Covid-19 crisis to grab power... Read more.
Australians for Science and Freedom
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Australia was not immune to the galloping authoritarianism of Western democracies. Melbourne was Ground Zero for some of the most draconian restrictions on individual... Read more.
The Vaccine Narrative Is as Leaky as the Vaccines
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Let’s start with two simple questions. If regulators had the information available to them of the leakage between Covid-19 vaccine efficacy rates in controlled... Read more.
Stop Vaccinating Children for Covid: It’s Neither Medically Justified Nor Ethical
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Ordinarily, it would be best to put the whole Covid nightmare behind us and move on. This might be one of the rare exceptions, for accountability for the pain and... Read more.
Australia’s Lockdown and Vaccine Narrative Has Fallen Apart
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Countries that avoided mass infection through strict isolation measures built up an immunity debt that left their populations more vulnerable once they reopened... Read more.