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Pandemic Leaders Were Biodefense Puppets and Profiteers

Debbie Lerman / June 26, 2023 / History, Public Health / 7 minute read

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When public health and medical experts blanketed the airwaves and Internet with “recommendations” urging universal masking, mass testing and quarantining of asymptomatic people, vaccine mandates, and other anti-public health policies – or when they promoted obviously flawed studies that supported the quarantine-until-vaccine biodefense agenda – they were not doing so because they were dumb, incompetent, or misguided.

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Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff

Let There Be Sound

Brownstone Institute / June 25, 2023 / History / 3 minute read

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If all this makes you nervous, you can relax: for the time being, Amazon’s Audible platform, the industry leader and Brownstone Institute’s audiobook purveyor of choice, is sticking to real human narrators. We’ve started our audiobook program with our first book of 2023, Blindsight Is 2020, and plan to issue audiobook versions of our other 2023 books (Fear of a Microbial Planet and The Treason of the Experts) and beyond. We hope you enjoy them.

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The Most Important Meeting in the History of the World That Never Happened

Erich Hartmann / June 23, 2023 / History, Public Health / 13 minute read

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In the third week of March a secret emergency meeting was scheduled to take place between President Donald Trump, the COVID Task Force, and eight of the most eminently qualified public health experts in the world. This elite group of scientists was slated to present the highest-level decision-makers in our government with an alternative POV to lock down; a much-needed second opinion on national turtling.

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A Look Back from Canadian Wildfires to Australian Bushfires and Floods

Ramesh Thakur / June 22, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 20 minute read

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Reports and videos of the smoke and haze from the intense wildfires enveloping Canada and drifting down south into the US bring back vivid memories of Australia’s two-month long bushfires (in the Australian vernacular: Canberra is the country’s bush capital) three and a half years ago and floods last year. And so does the claim that the fires and floods validate the apocalyptic warnings and the ensuing impassioned debate over how much this is evidence of a climate emergency owing to anthropogenic global warming.

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Defining Dictator Down Won’t Make Us Free

James Bovard / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 4 minute read

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Perhaps Biden could satisfy his gender-fluid supporters by coming out publicly and personally identifying as “non-dictator.” But other Americans will continue wryly watching the political rascality, laughing at the media’s snit-fits, and awaiting the next judicial demolition of Biden’s decrees.

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Julian Assange and the War Against You

Brownstone Institute / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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It did not begin three years ago. The groundwork for the censorial technocracy we face today was laid with a series of targeted hits that created enemies of the state. They did great things for the public well-being but were brutally punished for it. To this day, these people languish in an imprisoned state, martyrs for the freedom we once took for granted and the rights we hope to regain.

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Can We Please Have Some Honesty About Trump’s Lockdowns?

Alan Dowd / June 15, 2023 / History / 9 minute read

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This isn’t about supporting DeSantis or any other candidate. It’s about discovering who has learned from history and who would repeat the mistakes of March 2020. Every candidate running for every federal office and statewide office should be asked where they stand on this fundamental issue—because there will be other viruses, other pandemics, other computer models that tempt or terrify those in power. In a nation founded on individual liberty and individual responsibility, lockdowns cannot become the new-normal response to such events.

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Better to Have No Commission Than This One

Laura Dodsworth / June 14, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 4 minute read

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Next time there is a pandemic, people will be able to say ‘Baroness Hallett’s report stated that the UK government didn’t lock down fast – or hard – enough. We won’t make that mistake again!’ There will be no redemption, just a long, hard sentence, swiftly imposed. Once again, lives will be ruined, not saved.

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The Death of the Authentic Left

Toby Rogers / June 6, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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The left political project now is just kitsch, a toxic mimic of its former self, deployed by the ruling class to enslave the world. The question is, why are so few people on the left able to see this? Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Moore, to name a few, should have been able to spot the Covid psyop in about 5 minutes. Instead they became rabid cheerleaders for fascism.

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Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 5, 2023 / Economics, History, Policy, Society / 14 minute read

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If you haven’t changed your thinking over the last three years, you are a prophet, indifferent, or asleep. Much has been revealed and much has changed. To meet these challenges, we must do so with our eyes wide open. The greatest threats to human liberty today are not the ones of the past and they elude easy ideological categorization. Further, we have to admit that in many ways the plain human desire to live a fulfilling life in freedom has been subverted. If we want our freedoms back, we need to have a full understanding of the frightening challenges before us.

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3/16: The Day That Will Live in Infamy

el gato malo / June 3, 2023 / History, Law / 8 minute read

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While perhaps the US is a Constitutional republic in form and theory, in terms of function it has devolved into something far less suited to human flourishing. America has elevated, enabled, and become largely captured by a bureaucratic security apparatus whose raison d’être was purported to be fighting wartime threats. But the war machine does not exist to produce victory.

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A Myth-Making Toolkit from the Volcano’s Shadow

Haley Kynefin / June 2, 2023 / History, Philosophy / 21 minute read

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Collective consciousness, especially when it spans multiple centuries, carries immense power; but many of us have lost our communal ties and our sense of history. We may have forgotten who our ancestors were and where they came from; we may know little about what they ate, what they believed in, and the rituals they practiced.

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