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Human Sacrifice, Then and Now

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 16, 2023 / History, Philosophy / 8 minute read / Articles

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The peoples of the Mayan and Aztec empires were surrounded by monuments to the greatness of their leaders and their faith, and they celebrated both. We too look back in awe at what they built despite what we know: their social systems were bloody and barbaric in ways we cannot imagine now. And yet when we study their histories in our own times, with the appropriate amount of humility, we face a similar problematic disorientation.

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great barrington declaration: my role against mandates

My Role in the Fight Against Mandates and Lockdowns

Lucio Saverio Eastman / January 16, 2023 / History, Media, Public Health, Technology / 8 minute read / Articles

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It became very clear that we needed an agile platform that is not mired in bureaucracy or easily intimidated by external forces. Such an organization also needed experienced hands who know about the challenges of public life in a digital age alongside the many considerations that go into surviving as a voice of dissent in times of grave censorship.

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What a Local Alternative Is Really Like

Christine Black / January 15, 2023 / Economics, Society, Technology / 10 minute read / Articles

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Demand for local processors has swelled in the last three years because shutdowns and lockdowns scared people about food sources being jeopardized and supply chains disrupted, so they sought local alternatives. With economic uncertainties looming, families and friends processing their own, or neighbors’, farm animals may become more common.

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A Manhattan Project for the Biomedical Security State

Paula Jardine / January 14, 2023 / History, Policy / 8 minute read / Articles

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On July 11, 2019, a think tank called the Biodefence Commission held a panel discussion entitled A Manhattan Project for Biodefence: Taking Biological Threats off the Table. The objective was to ‘create a national, public-private research and development undertaking to defend the United States against biological threats’.

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Everyone Should Shed the Mask

Serena Johnson / January 13, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 10 minute read / Articles

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Love, kindness, honesty, respect, creativity and freedom are necessary for human flourishing. Sadly, many still embrace the mask as if it is the only truth that exists. If society is to change, all will need to see and peel away the polish. Then, we will have to work together to replace the emptiness it covers with a society rooted in genuine morality and positive human values.

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What to Ask a Covid Task Force Member Under Oath

Debbie Lerman / January 13, 2023 / History, Policy / 6 minute read / Articles

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We need a hero. Who will break through the wall of secrecy erected by the national security/military/intelligence community around the Covid response and provide the American public with the information that should so obviously be ours for the asking?

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BioNTech (Not Pfizer) “Brazenly” Dodged Safety Testing of C19 Vax

Robert Kogon / January 13, 2023 / Vaccines / 5 minute read / Articles

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As the FDA submission discussed by Latypova makes clear, several other categories of preclinical testing were simply omitted altogether. These include so-called safety pharmacology studies, which, per 2005 WHO guidelines, are intended to investigate the effects of a candidate vaccine on “physiological functions (e.g. central nervous system, respiratory, cardiovascular and renal functions) other than those of the immune system.”

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Pascal Made Slaves of Us All

Toby Young / January 12, 2023 / Philosophy / 21 minute read / Articles

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We need something more than rational scepticism. We need a new ideology – something like a religious movement of our own – one that’s more optimistic about the future of humanity, that places a little more faith in the ability of people to do their own risk assessments and voluntarily adjust their behaviour if necessary.

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We Must Have the Truth

Pat Fidopiastis / January 12, 2023 / History, Public Health / 6 minute read / Articles

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Although the CDC acknowledged playing a role in the growing distrust in science, none of their professed forms of atonement, such as promising to share data faster and doing a better job of translating science into policy will restore trust without a process that includes honest debate.

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In Defense of Jay Bhattacharya

Donald Boudreaux / January 12, 2023 / Education / 4 minute read / Articles

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The deceptive description of the policy proposed in the GBD as a “let it rip” strategy was fueled by the purposeful – or perhaps recklessly ignorant – mischaracterization of the GBD by Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci. Prof. Bhattacharya calls not for letting the virus “rip,” but, instead, for Focused Protection. Focusing resources, attention, and care on those persons who are vulnerable while rejecting the utterly unprecedented practice of locking down whole societies is emphatically not a “let it rip” strategy.

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How Long Did It Take Them Realize that Human Rights Matter?

Michael Senger / January 11, 2023 / History, Philosophy / 9 minute read / Articles

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We face the question of how to purity test our leaders—both official and unofficial—in light of all the devastation we’ve witnessed during the response to COVID-19. If you believe, as I do, that the importance of this issue presently eclipses that of any other, then every step should be taken to select for leaders who opposed lockdowns as early and as vocally as possible.

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How Can We Trust Institutions that Lied?

Abir Ballan / January 11, 2023 / Media, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read / Articles

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We have a choice: either we continue to passively accept institutional false information or we resist. What are the checks and balances that we must put in place to reduce conflicts of interest in public health and research institutions? How can we decentralise the media and academic journals in order to reduce the influence of pharmaceutical advertising on their editorial policy?

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