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The 2014 Template to Export Lockdowns

Michael Senger / July 28, 2022 / History, Media / 5 minute read

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The significance of this pro-lockdown campaign in 2014 can’t be overstated. Even among lockdown skeptics, the widely-held view is that the world essentially bumbled into lockdown in 2020. Although China’s global lockdown propaganda campaign utilizing tens of thousands of bots in virtually every language and dialect across the world is well documented, moderates have argued that this campaign merely represented China celebrating its own “success” against Covid—whether real or not—rather than any premeditated plan to export lockdown as policy.

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The Day Anthony Fauci Wrecked American Freedom

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 26, 2022 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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Fauci demonstrated at that press conference special knowledge of a fine print that not even the president of the United States had seen. He was itching to read it. Did he have a hand in its creation? Most certainly. And what about the typesetting? Are we really supposed to believe that it was an accident that the text with the devastating material was so small as to be barely visible whereas the large text featured mostly common hygiene tips?

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Dictatorship Chic

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 25, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 6 minute read

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The great debate between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and despotism, between a government by the people and a government imposed upon the people is here at last. I’m glad for the clarification of terms. They are saying the quiet part out loud: they want dictatorship. All partisans of freedom should similarly stand up and say the loud part even louder: we tried life without freedom and found it intolerable. We are never going back.

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The Day Fauci Reversed Course: February 27, 2020

Will Jones / July 23, 2022 / History / 9 minute read

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What drove each of these people to get behind the closing down of society as the ‘solution’ to a respiratory virus? We can largely see now who did what and when. What’s mainly missing is the why.

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Revisiting Georges Canguilhem in a Pandemic

Naruhiko Mikado / July 23, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 6 minute read

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That attitude, requiring us to spend our intellectual resources to an extent that may be comparable with that to which Canguilhem exerted his intellect in writing The Normal and the Pathological, will exhaust us. But we must remember that is precisely what we adults should do.

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Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 22, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 6 minute read

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While the story is fiction, the moral drama here is real and affects the whole of history. Every highly productive person – we don’t even have to speak of geniuses here – often ends up surrounded by resentful and mediocre people who have too much time on their hands. They use whatever limited talents they have to plot, confound, confuse, and ultimately wreck their betters. The demand to “comply” is always the watchword: it’s a tool of destruction.

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The Talented Mr. Pottinger: The US Intelligence Agent Who Pushed Lockdowns

Michael Senger / July 20, 2022 / History, Law / 26 minute read

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Pottinger may have simply been overly-trusting of his sources, thinking they were the little people in China trying to help their American friends. But why did Pottinger push so hard for sweeping Chinese policies like mask mandates that were far outside his field of expertise? Why did he so often breach protocol? Why seek out and appoint Deborah Birx?

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The 1968-69 “Hong Kong Flu” Pandemic Revisited

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 19, 2022 / History / 5 minute read

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What happened between then and now? Was there some kind of lost knowledge, as happened with scurvy, when we once had sophistication and then the knowledge was lost and had to be re-found? For COVID-19, we reverted to medieval-style understandings and policies, even in the 21st century, and at the urging of the media and myopic advice from governments. It’s all very strange. And it cries out for answers.

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The Lockdowns Unearthed American Cultural Rot

Mark Oshinskie / July 17, 2022 / History, Media / 10 minute read

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Many Americans believed the government because, well, they were the government, and were therefore official and legitimate. Because bureaucrats wore business attire— plus scarves—and stood behind seal-bearing podiums, people thought the bureaucrats wouldn’t lie; but they did lie, repeatedly. The Faucist clown show continues, with the Misinformer-in-Chief now ludicrously crusading against “misinformation,” at least when he’s not too sick—after being quadruple-jabbed and double-Paxlovid-ed—to appear in public.

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Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 16, 2022 / History, Policy / 20 minute read

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The story of the lockdowns is a tale of Biblical proportions, at once evil and desperately sad and tragic, a story of power, scientific failure, intellectual insularity and insanity, outrageous arrogance, feudalistic impulses, mass delusion, plus political treachery and conspiracy. It is real-life horror for the ages, a tale of how the land of the free became a despotic hellscape so quickly and unexpectedly. Birx was at the center of it, confirming all of your worst fears.

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The Speakeasy Churches of 2020

Christine Black / July 15, 2022 / History / 14 minute read

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They were meeting; I did not have to wear a mask. They even had Bible study on Wednesday nights, where I could sit with others, all unmasked, and listen to talk of Biblical stories and themes that had sustained people for centuries – stories of mercy and perseverance, of holding onto hope in terrible times, when such hope seemed impossible; stories of miracles arriving through the darkness.

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Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying A Country From Within

Michael Senger / July 14, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health / 16 minute read

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I’m not saying Deborah Birx is a CCP agent. I’m just saying that if she was an agent for Xi Jinping’s stated goal of gradually stripping the world of “independent judiciaries,” “human rights,” “western freedom,” “civil society,” and “freedom of the press,” then every word of her book would read like that of Silent Invasion. If she did do it, this is how it would have happened.

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