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UK COVID Inquiry Reveals Just How Vast International Communist Conspiracy May Be

Michael Senger / July 2, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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Hancock’s testimony seemed to confirm sceptics’ worst fears that the COVID Inquiry is being used as a pretext to institutionalise lockdowns, and it marked an astonishing new low for the COVID Inquiry, which so far has revealed little of value and assiduously avoided asking officials why they found the horrific decision to copy China’s lockdown policy remotely appropriate—though the officials have openly admitted lockdown wasn’t part of any western country’s pandemic plan and have pondered whether any country would have done it had it not been for China.

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How I Was Canceled by MeetUp.com

Doran Howitt / July 2, 2023 / Society, Technology / 8 minute read

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I created a Meetup group called “Covid Contrarians” in New York City. The idea was just to meet other people like me, who thought our governments were overreacting to the Covid situation. My big plan was no more than, get together and schmooze over coffee or a beer. The group lasted a few weeks before Meetup declared that it was spreading misinformation, and erased it from the website.

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German Scientists Uncover Evidence that EU Pfizer-BioNTech Batches Included Placebos

Robert Kogon / July 1, 2023 / Pharma, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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German scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted of placebos – and hence were not even subjected to quality-control testing by the German agency which was in principle responsible for approving their release.

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Affirmative Action Entrenches Division and Bigotry

Ramesh Thakur / July 1, 2023 / Law, Society / 7 minute read

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Every affirmative action produces an equal and opposite sectarian reaction. If a government frames public policy in a group-conscious way, it cannot expect groups suffering relative deprivation to ignore group identity. For any one student admitted under a racial quota, only one alternative person would have succeeded in a merit system. But hundreds of rejected students end up feeling aggrieved and resentful for having lost out due to preferential policies.

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Sorry but Serious Harms from the Vaccine are Not Rare

Maryanne Demasi / June 30, 2023 / Pharma, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following covid vaccination are “rare.” There has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I could not find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific source.

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CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Brownstone Institute / June 30, 2023 / Law, Technology / 6 minute read

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The House Report indicates that CISA was a central actor in censoring criticism of the Covid regime in the ensuing months and years. The agency is representative of the cabal of censorial and unaccountable officials engaged in public-private partnerships designed to keep us in the dark.

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The Evolution of Thin Skin

Steve Templeton / June 29, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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Many universities have abandoned their mission of truth-seeking in favor of promoting social justice and all its quasi-religious trappings. This new mission has infiltrated every level of higher education, even medical schools. With this cultural slide, not only is it wrong to attack fellow student’s or professor’s work, it is wrong to even challenge or debate their ideas entirely. If the work of the professors or students falls in line with the new mission, it becomes insulated from any criticism.

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Structural Reasons Why Today’s Universities Fail

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Gigi Foster / June 29, 2023 / Education / 8 minute read

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Administrative bloat has many other consequences, amongst which is that many university functions now follow bureaucratic rather than academic logic, ignoring the purely academic benefits to activities and focusing instead on finding and privileging reasons for the bureaucracy’s own existence. This leads to a perennial search for problems that can be exaggerated and turned into a justification for more administration (e.g., ‘Is there a problem I can pretend to solve by creating an additional compliance problem?’).

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Essential Reading for the Dissident, the Disenfranchised, the Disillusioned

Richard Kelly / June 29, 2023 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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Stapleton’s book is a tale of supreme political hubris and arrogance, enough arrogance to imagine that a riot squad can control an airborne virus. Lewis brought in the gods to resolve the finale; Stapleton, too, brings the supernatural out into the open, spirits portentously looming over the future of our once free land.

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An Update from Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf / June 28, 2023 / History, Philosophy / 10 minute read

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Above all I am grateful to my immune system – my best friend in my one life on this planet – a system which has been (and still is) in the fight of its life; and so grateful to all those who taught me to love it as myself; since that is indeed, as it turns out, what it really is.

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Tell the Truth No Matter What

Rev. John F. Naugle / June 28, 2023 / Philosophy / 8 minute read

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The remnant of Western Civilization ultimately has a truth problem. On one side we have the fairy tale of happy pluralism that there is nothing substantive worth debating regarding the philosophical underpinnings of society. On the other side, there is the persistent temptation to either flirt with or fully embrace authoritarianism as a shortcut to suppress the conflict that is necessary to really arrive at truth.

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The Australian Gulag Archipelago

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Michael Baker / June 28, 2023 / History, Policy / 7 minute read

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John covers all the important elements of the disaster befalling Australia: the arrogance of power, the delight of the bullies at having so many victims, the panic over trivialities, the desire for destruction, the suffering of the children and the lonely, the absurdity of the ever-changing rules, the corruption, the lies, and the oppressive sensation of being in a slow-motion disaster.

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