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Greta Thunberg Gives Finger to Opponents of New EU Environmental Legislation

Robert Kogon / July 22, 2023 / Economics, Law / 2 minute read

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The proposed Nature Restoration Law, one of the main components of the European Commission’s “Green Deal,” would require 20 percent of allegedly degraded EU land and sea to be “restored” by 2030. A modified version of the proposal which was already rejected in the parliament’s Environment Committee would have raised this figure even to 30 percent.

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The Free Speech Scare

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 21, 2023 / Law, Media, Policy, Technology / 7 minute read

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The hunt for dissenters took strange forms. Those who held gatherings were shamed. People who did not socially distance were called disease spreaders. The mask, no matter how obviously ineffective, was imposed as a tactic of humiliation and an exclusionary measure that targeted the incredulous. It was also a symbol: stop talking because your voice does not matter. Your speech will be muffled.

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Deny, Deflect, Defend: The Censors’ Strategy on Display

Brownstone Institute / July 20, 2023 / Law, Media, Technology / 6 minute read

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While the government’s denials and deflections are insulting to the citizens they purport to represent, we must remain focused on their aim: they appealed Doughty’s order because they oppose constitutional restraints on their control of information. We would hope that requiring the government to obey the Constitution would be uncontroversial; now, it may signify whether the rule of law still stands in the United States.

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Where Stands the Ministry of Truth?

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / July 18, 2023 / Law / 7 minute read

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Of note is the fact that the stay granted by the 5th Circuit was not issued based on the merits of the case. It was an administrative stay, which is somewhat common. It’s also not permanent, but is only in effect until oral arguments on the injunction can be heard by the appellate court, and that has been expedited so that oral arguments will take place sooner rather than later. So the plaintiffs have not “lost” the ability to get their injunction back, nor have they lost the case. It’s still working its way through the courts.

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I Am a Tree and We Need to Ban Leaves

Thomas Buckley / July 13, 2023 / Law, Media / 7 minute read

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In the recent past, much of the press has at least tried to somehow shoehorn in an element of possible truth – or at least make things matters of opinion so anything could be true – to their culturally caustic efforts. In this case, they’re not even trying because it is impossible: the thousands of pages of depositions, emails, phone logs, and other records show exactly what happened, when it happened, and why it happened.

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The End of the Freedom to Travel

Gwendolyn Kull / July 13, 2023 / Economics, Law, Society / 8 minute read

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Recent history and current events clearly demonstrate that it is no longer a question of “is this possible” but a question of “when.” We the People must hold our public servants accountable. We must not let them strip us of our freedoms by complying when asked, “Papers, please.” We must not let division creep in under the guise of public health when We the People are healthier together. Vax passes must not pass.

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Revenge of the Praetorian Guard

Brownstone Institute / July 9, 2023 / Government, Law, Technology / 8 minute read

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None of us ever wanted to live in a country in which the ruling regime openly expresses opposition to core constitutional rights that many generations of Americans thought were guaranteed by law. The injunction of Missouri v. Biden does nothing other than remind the government of those rights. And this is precisely why the Biden administration so strongly objects.

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The Politicization of Banking and the End of Freedom

David Thunder / July 7, 2023 / Economics, Law / 4 minute read

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Banks would then become instruments of political persecution and totalitarian groupthink instead of institutions devoted to the provision of banking services to the citizenry at large. The price of political dissent would become far too high for many citizens. The public square would quickly degenerate into an echo-chamber of opinions approved by the banking establishment.

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We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan

Aaron Kheriaty / July 6, 2023 / Censorship, Law, Media, Technology / 10 minute read

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One naturally wants to believe that an issue one is involved in is of world-historical importance. But as the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.

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The Unraveling of the Censorship Hegemon

Brownstone Institute / July 5, 2023 / Censorship, Law / 6 minute read

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At last this court action may finally provoke a debate about the administrative state that embarked on the great silencing. Its machinery seized control of the country in March 2020 in a great turning point in American history. It’s taken more than three years to finally observe a major pushback. The struggle to maintain freedom will always be with us as a great task of every generation.

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The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 4, 2023 / Government, History, Law, Philosophy / 8 minute read

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Saint-Simon celebrated science but became the anti-Voltaire. Instead of freeing the human mind, he and his followers imagined themselves to be governors of it. Anthony Fauci is indeed a successor among many, and the strange animal of techno-primitivism is a monster of their creation that now threatens civilization itself. Putting everyone in a N95 respirator to extinguish a disease is only the beginning. The actual goal is to become permanent “governors of the operation of the human mind.”

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UK COVID Inquiry Reveals Just How Vast International Communist Conspiracy May Be

Michael Senger / July 2, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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Hancock’s testimony seemed to confirm sceptics’ worst fears that the COVID Inquiry is being used as a pretext to institutionalise lockdowns, and it marked an astonishing new low for the COVID Inquiry, which so far has revealed little of value and assiduously avoided asking officials why they found the horrific decision to copy China’s lockdown policy remotely appropriate—though the officials have openly admitted lockdown wasn’t part of any western country’s pandemic plan and have pondered whether any country would have done it had it not been for China.

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