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The Road to a New McCarthyism

Bert Olivier / March 19, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Technology / 9 minute read

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To sum up by using a currently popular term, Biden and his DOJ would ‘weaponise’ the TikTok ban to the hilt, to the detriment of the citizens of the US as well as American democracy. And make no mistake: democracy may never recover from what threatens to become nothing less than McCarthyism on steroids. While one has access to the means for resisting this conspicuous act of usurping the constitutionally ‘guaranteed’ rights and freedoms of the American people, one must avail oneself of these – before they disappear.

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The Virality Project’s Censorship Agenda

Andrew Lowenthal / March 18, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 10 minute read

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Initiated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and led by the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the Virality Project sought to censor those who questioned government Covid-19 policies. The Virality Project primarily focused on so-called “anti-vaccine” “misinformation”, however, my Twitter Files investigations with Matt Taibbi revealed this included “true stories of vaccine side effects.”

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How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 15, 2024 / Government, History, Technology / 9 minute read

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I truly wish these companies were genuinely private, but they are not. They are de facto state actors. More precisely, they all work hand-in-glove and which is the hand and which is the glove is no longer clear. Coming to terms with this intellectually is the major challenge of our times. Dealing with it juridically and politically seems like a much more daunting task, to say the least. The problem is complicated by the drive to purge serious dissent at all levels of society. How did American capitalism become American corporatism? A little at a time and then all at once.

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Germany’s Role in What Happened

Robert Kogon / March 15, 2024 / Government, History / 11 minute read

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It is all the more remarkable that these German connections are being ignored given that the supposedly ‘American’ story of the creation and release of Covid-19 points right back to them: namely, to a German or, more exactly, German-Dutch coronavirus research nexus, which has played a key role in the Covid-19 response and at whose centre we find none other than Christian Drosten. Drosten is, of course, the German creator of the notoriously hypersensitive and unreliable Covid-19 PCR test which was the very basis of the declaration of a pandemic.

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Reflections on Brownstone’s Retreat

David Barnhizer / March 13, 2024 / Government, Media, Technology / 22 minute read

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People participating at the Brownstone Institute Retreat understand what is happening. It was a relief to be reminded that a wide range of committed and highly intelligent people understand the critical importance of challenging and interdicting what is being attempted. This resistance to power was a theme that ran through many of the presentations and discussions we experienced at the Retreat. I feel privileged to have been a part.

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The Year of Elections

Ramesh Thakur / March 12, 2024 / Government, Society / 6 minute read

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This is the year of elections, with 50 (World Economic Forum), 64 (Time), or 80 (Guardian) countries and the EU going to the polls, accounting for almost half the world’s total population. The list includes the US and India, the world’s most powerful and populous democracies, respectively. The US presidential election is the most internationally consequential of all while, by sheer weight of numbers, India’s is the most awe-inspiring.

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The Silent Shame of Health Institutions

J.R. Bruning / March 12, 2024 / Government, Pharma, Public Health / 15 minute read

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There is no scientific agency outside the Ministry of Health that has flexibility and the capacity to undertake autonomous, long-term monitoring and research in nutrition, diet and health. There is no independent, autonomous, public health research facility with sufficient long-term funding to translate dietary and nutritional evidence into policy, particularly if it contradicted current policy positions.

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Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes

Christine Black / March 12, 2024 / Government, History, Society / 11 minute read

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Is it time to disassemble sides and camps, to intermingle tribes, so we may think more critically and independently, build alliances to grapple with real and substantial challenges we share, challenges that get ignored while governments harm our health, waste our resources, order violence, and overreach their power and authority? Rulers and cartels, who have gotten paid all along, want us down in the street fighting each other. That way, they retain their power and keep getting paid…while nothing changes all that much.

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Health Care: Right, Privilege, or Neither?

Thomas Buckley / March 9, 2024 / Government, Philosophy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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Much of the current debate surrounding health care – putting aside momentarily the catastrophic failure of the public health system during the pandemic – is whether or not it is a “right” or a “privilege.”

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Australia to Face an Honest Inquiry

Ramesh Thakur / March 6, 2024 / Government, History, Public Health / 9 minute read

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These are big questions. The answers to them need and demand an independent, impartial, and rigorous inquiry helmed by credible people with the appropriate mix of qualifications, experience, expertise, and integrity, who are not tainted with conflicts of interest.

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We Are Being Systemically Blinded

Bret Weinstein / March 5, 2024 / Government, Media, Society / 3 minute read

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It will be jarring for many to hear a scientist speak with such certainty. It should be jarring. We are trained to present ideas with caution, as hypotheses in need of a test. But in this case I have tested the idea and I am as certain of this as I am of anything. We are being systematically blinded. It is the only explanation I have encountered that not only describes the present, but also, in my experience, predicts the future with all but perfect accuracy.

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Politics as Lawfare

el gato malo / March 5, 2024 / Government, Law / 6 minute read

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This is not politics, this is dictatorship by unaccountable apparatchik and it has festered into something truly ugly. This is how you undermine the faith in a system entirely. You make it lawless and capricious, blatantly unfair, rigged, and slanted.

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