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The Historian of Decline: Ludwig von Mises’s Relevance Today

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The mistake we made was in believing that there is logic to history. There isn’t. There is only the march of good ideas and bad, and the forever competition between the two. And this is a central message of Mises’s 1954 overlooked masterwork Theory and History. Here he offers a devastating rebuttal to determinism of all sorts, whether from old liberals or Hegel or Fukuyama. 

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Covid mRNA Vaccines, a Military Countermeasure, Required No Safety Oversight 

Covid mRNA Vaccines Required No Safety Oversight 

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The FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccines was based on clinical trials and manufacturing processes conducted with no binding legal standards, no legally proscribed safety oversight or regulation, and no legal redress from the manufacturer for potential harms. (This last point is being challenged in multiple court cases, so far to no avail.)

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Insights from the Hermit Kingdom's 2022 Vaccine Safety Data

Insights from the Hermit Kingdom’s 2022 Vaccine Safety Data

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In 2021, Western Australia became the world’s accidental vaccine safety control group. With its closed borders and strict quarantine rules, the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ managed to maintain near-zero Covid while administering almost four million doses of Covid vaccination, resulting in an “exponential increase” in adverse event reports.

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The Hypnotic Rhythm of Dependence

The Hypnotic Rhythm of Dependence

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There was a rhythm to the pandemic. It was a rhythm of nothingness, a blend of day into day. It was a rhythm detached from time, a metronome of stay in, click on, stay in, stay afraid. What information that was available was tailored to create unsettled obedience, a state of wide-awake nervous exhaustion that feedback fed the rhythm itself.

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The Federal Government Paid Media Outlets to Promote the Covid Vaccine

The Federal Government Paid Media Outlets to Promote the Covid Vaccine

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The last standing bulwark against government propaganda and censorship is crumbling before our eyes, losing relevance by the month. Perhaps a solution for media institutions to earn back credibility is to critically cover federal agencies misinforming the public rather than take funds to promote their agendas.

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Slave or Master of Technology: The Choice is Ours

Slave or Master of Technology: The Choice is Ours

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The agencies promoting the hegemony of digital technology – which is also what makes AI possible today – would like nothing better than to neutralise your ability to think independently. This is even more true today than when Stiegler wrote his texts. But by using this technology anyway, for your own critical purposes, you would be defusing their attempts at undermining human intelligence.

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Michael Gove Supported Lockdowns Due to Information from "Friends Outside Government"

Michael Gove Supported Lockdowns Due to Information from “Friends Outside Government”

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The idea that behind the scenes intelligence sources were pushing warnings that the virus was a deadly manmade biological agent warranting an extreme response has much to commend it as an explanation, the more so as time has gone on. Michael Gove’s comments to the inquiry today have just added to this.

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Is Naomi Klein "Othering" Me Due to Family Ties to Vaccine Money?

Is Naomi Klein “Othering” Me Due to Family Ties to Vaccine Money?

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These powerful interests may be part of the effort that sought yet again — yet again! – to take down a critic who, along with my brave and selfless colleagues, is exposing the damage and deception that these interests have inflicted, on innocent people around the world.

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