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Truth-speaking and the Technocratic Cabal

Bert Olivier October 2, 2023 Philosophy, Society 9 minute read

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Truth-telling, or in ancient Greek, parrhesia, is something different. It is what one does when you tell or speak the truth exactly as you experience or perceive it, with no punches pulled. You don’t have to call the proverbial spade a shovel (unless this is what it takes to get through to your interlocutor), but you have to speak truthfully without holding back. This is particularly relevant for speaking (or writing) in public, where you run the risk of exposing yourself to harsh criticism.

The Social Meaning of Hortatory Yard Signs

Thomas Harrington October 2, 2023 Philosophy, Society 7 minute read

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Growing up in a nice suburb and studying at a brand-name university one can really come to believe that life is inherently well-ordered, and that “doing well” within it is mostly about getting in with the right people and following the right rules and processes.

Why Did People Comply?

Maximilien Lacour October 1, 2023 Government, Society 9 minute read

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The threat of voluntary lockdowns should lead lockdown sceptics to cast their net beyond the institutions of the State and bring them to confront the harder-to-limn, bottom-up drivers of lockdown like parental socialism. They need to find ways of addressing our collective self-infantilisation and to reemphasize the value and importance of free agency.

The White House’s ‘Misinformation’ Pressure Campaign Was Unconstitutional

Aaron Kheriaty September 30, 2023 Law 5 minute read

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Recent attempts to rebrand the work of the censorship-industrial complex with more anodyne euphemisms—”information integrity” or “civic participation online”—don’t change the fact that this is not disinterested academic research, but cooperation in state-sponsored suppression of constitutionally protected speech, always in favor of the government’s preferred narratives.

Scott Gottlieb’s Role in Creating a New Intelligence Office

Robert Malone September 29, 2023 Government 10 minute read

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Dr. Scott Gottleib has been one of the most influential voices during the COVID crisis. His rapid career advancement and consequent role in the pandemic including lobbying for this new intelligence office during a time when he was NOT working for the government – but rather was working for Pfizer and one of the largest venture capital funds in the world- raises a key question. What is his actual role in the US intelligence community?

A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism

Jeffrey A. Tucker September 29, 2023 Government 6 minute read

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The major media is tacitly conspiring with the political establishment, the corporate sector, and the administrative state to pretend like that fiasco was completely normal and also entirely forgettable, not even worth naming. We did the best we could with the information we had so just stop complaining about it!

Dictator Dan is Gone

Rebekah Barnett September 29, 2023 Government, History, Policy, Public Health 6 minute read

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Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, who imposed the world’s longest Covid lockdowns on his state, officially steps down from his position today. Andrews earned the nickname ‘Dictator Dan’ for his strongman style of leadership during the pandemic years. He leaves a legacy of brutality, debt, and corruption.

Can AI Plan the Economy?

Robert Blumen September 28, 2023 Economics 15 minute read

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What AI cannot do is incorporate into a single entity all of the specialized skills that the entrepreneur has; the abilities to calculate, plan, and execute, the personal acceptance of profit or loss, and the continued span of consciousness over time which makes the pursuit of wealth purposeful.

Medicine in the Wilderness

Russ Gonnering September 28, 2023 Public Health 6 minute read

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Society now finds itself a passenger on a ship which has been taken over by ideologues. The ship is heading for the rocks. Lookouts stationed high above can see the disaster unfolding and urgently inform the captain of the ship. The captain solves the problem by throwing the lookouts overboard. This is the dystopian world in which we now live.

Fauci and the CIA: A New Explanation Emerges

Jeffrey A. Tucker September 27, 2023 Government, History 7 minute read

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If this whole scenario is true, it means that all along Fauci was merely playing a role, a front man for much deeper interests and priorities in the CIA-led intelligence community. This broad outline makes sense of why Fauci changed his mind on lockdowns, including the timing of the change. There are still many more details to know, but these new fragments of new information take our understanding in a new and more coherent direction.

The First Amendment Should Restrain CISA Too

Brownstone Institute September 27, 2023 Government 4 minute read

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Cable hosts can bicker over Anthony Fauci, but the source of Covid tyranny was far more insidious. In the shadows, the US Security State undermined American democracy in a technocratic coup d’état. Now, the Fifth Circuit has a second chance to defend free speech against the coordinated assault from CISA and its cohorts at the State Department.

Why the Secrecy Over Vaccine Contracts?

Maryanne Demasi September 26, 2023 Government, Pharma 5 minute read

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Major international governments have signed multibillion-dollar legal contracts with drug companies in order to secure access to covid-19 vaccines. But the drug companies and governments have refused to divulge details, saying the information is “commercial in confidence.”