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The WHO and Phony International Law

Bruce Pardy / January 31, 2024 / Government, Law / 4 minute read

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A new pandemic treaty is in the works. Countries are negotiating its terms, along with amendments to international health regulations. If ready in time, the World Health Assembly will approve them in May. The deal may give the WHO power to declare global health emergencies. Countries will promise to follow WHO directives. Lockdowns, vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, and more will be in the works. Critics say that the agreements will override national sovereignty because their provisions will be binding. But international law is the art of the Big Pretend.

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The Legal Batteries That Supercharge the Bureaucratic State

Thomas Buckley / January 29, 2024 / Government, Law, Policy / 5 minute read

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There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a nutshell) that courts must defer to the wisdom of the implied expertise of a government agency when deciding certain legal questions.

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We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World

Charles Krblich / January 27, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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It is clear beyond any doubt that bans simply don’t work. I was a child during the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. Drugs were banned, and yet always available. Chicago has banned guns for years and yet has incredibly high gun violence. We banned smiles, playgrounds, and normal personal interaction for years in order to ban Covid and we still catch Covid.

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Federal Court Judge Pulls Canada Back from the Brink

Bruce Pardy / January 25, 2024 / Government, Law, Policy / 6 minute read

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The Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful. The Trucker Convoy did not constitute a national emergency. So said a judge of the Federal Court on Tuesday. The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink of authoritarian rule.

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A Firestorm Will Come to the Court in 2024

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / January 5, 2024 / Government, Law, Policy / 7 minute read

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This year I suffered the most significant and unbelievable legal upset of my 25-year-career thus far, when the New York State Appellate Division overturned my “quarantine camp” lawsuit victory over Governor Kathy Hochul and her Department of Health on a fabricated technicality!

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The Process is the Punishment

el gato malo / December 25, 2023 / Government, Law / 8 minute read

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In a legalistic technocracy such as ours, the power to determine what is and is not investigated and what is and is not charged is the true prerogative of princes. It determines who may act abhorrently and who must be always looking over their shoulder for fear of a tap from leviathan.

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Letters to the Patronising Fools in Parliament

Richard Kelly / December 17, 2023 / Government, Law, Psychology / 6 minute read

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One doesn’t have to look too hard, these days, to find examples of foolish patronising poseurs – the various chambers of our state and federal parliaments are ‘target-rich environments,’ as they say. A case in point has come to my attention, compelling me to expose the utter contempt in which some parliamentarians hold their constituents.

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Justice for the Vaccine-Injured: A Ray of Hope?

Christopher Dreisbach / December 15, 2023 / Government, Law, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Fortunately, the cries of the Covid-19 vaccine-injured have been heard by some in the halls of Congress. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) has introduced the comprehensive bipartisan Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act (H.R. 5142) and the Vaccine Access Improvement Act (H.R. 5143). This legislation would not only transfer Covid-19 injury claims to the VICP, but would also make that program far more efficient with increasingly robust benefits for the injured.

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Why Does the WHO Make False Claims Regarding Proposals to Seize States’ Sovereignty?

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Thi Thuy Van Dinh / December 11, 2023 / Government, Law, Public Health / 15 minute read

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If it is indeed the case that our authorities and their supporters within the public health community consider that powers currently vested within national jurisdictions should be given over to external bodies on the basis of this level of recorded harm, it would be best to have a public conversation as to whether this is sufficient basis for abandoning democratic ideals in favor of a more fascist or otherwise authoritarian approach. We are, after all, talking about restricting basic human rights essential for a democracy to function.

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These Amendments Would Open the Door to a Dangerous Global Health Bureacracy

These Amendments Would Open the Door to a Dangerous Global Health Bureaucracy

David Thunder / December 10, 2023 / Government, Law, Public Health / 12 minute read

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The Covid pandemic gave the World Health Organisation and its partners unprecedented visibility and a tremendous amount of “soft” power to shape public health law and policies across the world. Over the past year or so, the WHO has been pushing hard to consolidate and expand its power to declare and manage public health emergencies on a global scale.

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Human Rights Discarded at the Gates of Hell

Ramesh Thakur / December 9, 2023 / Law, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Human rights claims are claims by citizens on governments. The advocacy, juridical, and enforcement revolutions in human rights led to a rapid expansion of governmental activism on legislation backed by monitoring and compliance machinery. Yet human rights are also abused most systematically, pervasively and widely by governments.

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EUA Countermeasures Are Neither Investigational nor Experimental

Sasha Latypova / December 7, 2023 / Law, Pharma, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Judge Hughes is correct that it is “false and irrelevant” to call Covid injections experimental and dangerous. It is false because EUA is not experimental and can never be. It is irrelevant because safety is irrelevant to EUA, which gets issued based on opinions and not approved based on data. There is no way to collect clinical trial data and collate it such that an assessment of risk benefit (as defined in FDCA) can be made.

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