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Santa Clara University Students Must Take Covid Vaccines or Withdraw

Lucia Sinatra / July 11, 2023 / Education, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Given that the emergency is officially over, and the shots have proven to be both ineffective and in some cases harmful, now more than ever, SCU must defend the science and ethics behind their refusal to drop them. In the absence of such transparency, we are left to assume that Osofsky, along with SCCMA and SCCPH, must be using SCU students as mere pawns to achieve their unscientific and authoritarian vaccination goals and quotas.

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Guess What Is Keeping the US Economy Afloat

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Michael Baker / July 11, 2023 / Economics / 10 minute read

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With no commensurate increase in the demand for money, the expansion in money supply created by American money-printing leads to all existing dollars buying fewer goods than before the money-printing. Nobody sends a bill: the tax just happens, with every clank of the government printing press. Doubling the amount of money in circulation via the printing press, and then giving the printed money to the government to buy stuff with, is basically the same as the government taxing half of private-sector income and buying stuff with it.

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The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger

David Bell / July 11, 2023 / Government / 6 minute read

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The only real question is whether, and how, this society-wrecking pandemic train can be stopped. The public health professions want careers and salaries, and will not intervene. They have proven that in previous manifestations of fascism. The public must educate themselves, and then refuse to comply. We can just hope some of our supposed leaders will step forward to help them.

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Best-Selling Author Michael Lewis Pens CIA Covid Propaganda

Debbie Lerman / July 10, 2023 / Government, Media, Society / 22 minute read

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The terrifying takeaways from this analysis are: First, that what Lewis is hiding – or trying to divert attention away from – is the massive CIA involvement in the Covid response. Second, that the intelligence and national security leaders who were in charge of the Covid response did not just censor information that contradicted their narrative; they also recruited widely trusted voices – including internationally renowned authors – to disseminate their propaganda.

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What It Means to Lose Trust

Christine Black / July 10, 2023 / Philosophy / 10 minute read

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Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly survivable, as survivors of childhood sexual abuse and assault survivors can attest. We may even transcend and thrive, be strengthened, and become guides for others.

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How a Highly Effective Vaccine Turns Into a Mediocre Vaccine — or Worse

Eyal Shahar / July 10, 2023 / Vaccines / 10 minute read

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The implication of the “healthy vaccinee” phenomenon — when estimating vaccine effectiveness — is called confounding bias. A naïve comparison of Covid mortality in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people, even if age-adjusted, is grossly misleading because the latter have higher risk of death to begin with. At least part of their higher Covid mortality, if not all, has nothing to do with not being vaccinated. They are simply sicker people.

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Revenge of the Praetorian Guard

Brownstone Institute / July 9, 2023 / Government, Law, Technology / 8 minute read

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None of us ever wanted to live in a country in which the ruling regime openly expresses opposition to core constitutional rights that many generations of Americans thought were guaranteed by law. The injunction of Missouri v. Biden does nothing other than remind the government of those rights. And this is precisely why the Biden administration so strongly objects.

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The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands

Carla Peeters / July 9, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health, Society / 15 minute read

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The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led by Public Private Partnerships. A closure of 55-70 percent of traditional farming is foreseen to be replaced by tech-driven vertical farming, gene-edited crops, edible insects, veganism, 15-minute cities and a CBDC passport covering personal health data.

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People Are Questioning? It’s About Time

Mark Oshinskie / July 8, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Although latter day Americans see themselves as much more sophisticated than their 1950s counterparts, most 2020-22 Americans weren’t insightful enough to ask questions that even malt shop-going bobby-soxers and Wally Cleaver would have asked. By buying into Coronamania, those who thought of themselves as astute and worldly-wise exhibited severe deficits of judgment and of self-awareness.

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YouTube Censors Australian Politician’s Maiden Speech to Parliament

Rebekah Barnett / July 8, 2023 / Censorship, Media / 4 minute read

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While the Lib Dems are benefiting from the Streisand effect for the time being, Member of the European Parliament, Christine Anderson, is dealing with YouTube censorship by suing the social media platform. Anderson reports that YouTube blocked two videos from parliamentary sessions in which she acted on the official Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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The Politicization of Banking and the End of Freedom

David Thunder / July 7, 2023 / Economics, Law / 4 minute read

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Banks would then become instruments of political persecution and totalitarian groupthink instead of institutions devoted to the provision of banking services to the citizenry at large. The price of political dissent would become far too high for many citizens. The public square would quickly degenerate into an echo-chamber of opinions approved by the banking establishment.

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Modern Orthodox Judaism Failed to be Either Modern or Orthodox During Covid

Etan Golubtchik / July 7, 2023 / Philosophy / 17 minute read

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Modern Orthodox Rabbinic leadership, both in the US and in Israel, were some of the earliest and most dedicated to the warped scientific framework and extralegal approach underlying obedience to the new rules of covid enforcement. Indeed, early on, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County was one of the first religious institutions in the country to voluntarily cancel all religious services, claiming that Jews were religiously required to stay home, well before any government edicts were issued.

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