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What We Can Learn from Ancient Spartans about Courage

Bert Olivier / April 22, 2023 / Government, Policy / 10 minute read

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The neo-fascists may (and probably do) think of themselves as putatively superhuman beings, but they are just as prone as any other group of people to squabbling among themselves, in this way undermining or derailing their plans. The ‘resistance’ to their unscrupulous programme of domination – that means, everyone who has taken up the fight against them – therefore has to remind themselves that, even when things look bleak, one has to remain steadfast, and courageous.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Lockdowns: Excerpt from the Announcement Speech

Brownstone Institute / April 22, 2023 / Government, History, Policy / 15 minute read

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President Trump said well these bureaucrats came at him from every side. They were all telling him what he had to do. He had the right instincts. He knew that he shouldn’t close down the country. But he did it. He got rolled by his bureaucracy.

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The ‘Pure Fear’ Excuse for Lockdowns

Michael Senger / April 20, 2023 / Government, History, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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This interminable coverup of reality, being fundamental to the origins of totalitarianism, may have been what the CCP intended from the start.

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Society at Peak Shared Misery

Steve Templeton / April 17, 2023 / Government, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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If a permanent government employee broke a regulation, they could not be fired. There was no real way to punish them. But what could be done was make a new regulation that was more burdensome than the last. Punishing an individual is hard. Punishing everyone for an individual’s behavior is much easier.

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Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom – Always!

Michael Tomlinson / April 8, 2023 / Government, History, Society / 15 minute read

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The pandemic has shown us that research outputs can be statistical artefacts, made to order for an agenda. The most blatant example of this is the claim that the vaccines are 95 percent effective, which continues to be made even though 95 percent of people in the US have been infected. Both these facts cannot be true. If this fundamental brick turns out not to be objective truth, what else can we rely on?

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Machiavelli and the Globalists: Why the Elites Despise Independent Thought

David McGrogan / April 5, 2023 / Government, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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If it turns out that the population is not so vulnerable after all, and men, women and families can improve themselves and their communities without the aid of the state, then the entire structure upon which the edifice of raison d’État rests becomes radically unstable. This is at least part of the reason why these movements are so frequently smeared and traduced by the chattering classes which are so reliant themselves upon the state and its largesse.

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WHO Guidance on Shots for Kids Contradicts Fauci

Ian Miller / April 5, 2023 / Government, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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There was never any data suggesting that young healthy children should receive the COVID vaccine. But agencies and advisors like Fauci likely caved to political pressure from terrified liberal parents and media outlets, who demanded the ability to vaccinate their children.

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Beware Catastrophizing Climate Models and Activists

Ramesh Thakur / April 4, 2023 / Government, Media, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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The final common element is the subordination of state-based decision-making to international technocrats. This is best exemplified in the proliferation of the global climate change bureaucracies and the promise—threat?—of a new global pandemic treaty whose custodian will be a mighty World Health Organisation. In both cases, the dedicated international bureaucracy will have a powerful vested interest in ongoing climate crises and serially repeating pandemics.

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Why Legislators Should Reject the WHO’s Proposals for Pandemics

David Bell / April 3, 2023 / Government, Policy / 7 minute read

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The WHO’s funding arrangements, its track record, and the perverse nature of its proposed pandemic response should be enough to render these proposed agreements anathema in democratic States. If implemented, they should make WHO unfit to receive public funding or provide health advice. The international community can benefit from coordination in health, but it would be reckless to entrust that role to an organization clearly serving other interests.

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The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed

Molly Kingsley / March 29, 2023 / Government / 8 minute read

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The proposed new powers would cut across not only the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They would signal a new watershed in our understanding of cornerstone human rights: an express amendment to the IHR deletes language currently reading “[t]he implementation of these Regulations shall be with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons” to replace it with a nebulous confirmation that “[t]he implementation of these Regulations shall be based on the principles of equity, inclusivity, coherence…”.

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Regardless of Virus Origins, Freedom Is the Answer

John Tamny / March 10, 2023 / Government, Society / 4 minute read

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Lest the crowd that has long been properly anti-lockdown forgets, pathogens are as old as mankind is. Since they are, the accenting of where they come from is to completely miss the point. Instead, the always and everywhere expressed view should be that reality should not be used by the political, expert and medical classes as a pretext for taking our freedom. Freedom is precious, and authoritarians can’t have it regardless of a pathogen’s origin or its presumed lethality.

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Are You Being Frightened Not to Travel?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 8, 2023 / Economics, Government, Policy / 6 minute read

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Let us hope that the lockdown years were aberrant but it would be wiser to see them as a possible template for what some sectors of elite society truly do have in store. And with Covid, the key to compliance is always and everywhere the same: fear.

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