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Never Again Is Now

Faye Lederman / February 2, 2023 / History, Media / 11 minute read

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Throughout the past three years a number of documentary films have sprouted up, which critically dismantle the adoption and enforcement of harsh global covid policies. But first-time director Vera Sharav’s new five-episode docuseries Never Again Is Now Global is the first film to draw parallels between the 1930’s Nazi era when government took control of medicine in order to deploy discriminatory health measures and the restrictive global covid policies enacted since March 2020 under the guise of public health.

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The War on Doctors and Patients

Pierre Kory / January 27, 2023 / Media, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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The suppression of doctors’ freedom to advise and treat patients began early in the pandemic. Promising alternative courses of treatment, such as generic drugs like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, were shouted down by false news narratives. Media companies took their cues from public health agencies, which exaggerated concerns over people using medicines to treat COVID in ways that were not intended and against medical advice. Positive clinical data was ignored.

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The Grim Future of Establishment Journalism

David James / January 27, 2023 / Media / 8 minute read

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The professional liars have won. Newsrooms have been eviscerated because Google and Facebook took all the advertising revenue, and the spin merchants in business, government and nonprofits have almost limitless resources. If journalism – as opposed to commentary in blogs, websites, social media, and online channels – is to have a future, a new approach is needed.

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Yoga Could Lead to Non-Compliance, Warns NPR

Avatans Kumar / January 25, 2023 / Media / 8 minute read

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A Yoga teacher named Guru Jagat held in-person maskless Yoga classes in defiance of local stay-at-home orders, practices NPR cites as proof that she lost her mind. The author of the NPR article makes a series of unfounded claims about Yoga. In doing so, the author finds herself entangled in disinformation and reductionist arguments against Yoga and Hinduism.

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The Game Is Over and They Have Lost

Robert Blumen / January 23, 2023 / Media, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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The script has worn itself out. These tropes are now tired and ineffective. The fear pushers seem unaware that the message has lost its effect, but do not have anything else to offer. The tell is not that they publish articles like this. It is how much these pieces show that they don’t know that the game is over and they have lost.

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My role against mandates, lockdowns, and tyranny

My Role in the Fight Against Mandates and Lockdowns

Lucio Saverio Eastman / January 16, 2023 / History, Media, Public Health, Technology / 8 minute read

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It became very clear that we needed an agile platform that is not mired in bureaucracy or easily intimidated by external forces. Such an organization also needed experienced hands who know about the challenges of public life in a digital age alongside the many considerations that go into surviving as a voice of dissent in times of grave censorship.

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How Can We Trust Institutions that Lied?

Abir Ballan / January 11, 2023 / Media, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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We have a choice: either we continue to passively accept institutional false information or we resist. What are the checks and balances that we must put in place to reduce conflicts of interest in public health and research institutions? How can we decentralise the media and academic journals in order to reduce the influence of pharmaceutical advertising on their editorial policy?

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Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something that Does Not Matter

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 11, 2023 / Media / 5 minute read

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If some website offered a deal to users – you post pics of lunch, cats, and flowers, and we give you ads – and it worked, fine. That’s normal terms of use. That’s not what is going on. Via explicit and implicit pressure, combined with irresponsible management, Facebook turned over its entire business model to government to deploy on behalf of regime interests. The customers and stockholders were the victims.

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Pandemic Potshots and Other Epigrams

James Bovard / January 10, 2023 / Media / 7 minute read

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Outrageous government policies are often shrouded by fogbanks of bureaucratese and political deceit. But a snappy sentence can sometimes puncture the veil and spur the ridicule that policy-makers richly deserve. Following is a round-up of verbal harpoons I flung at Leviathan last year.

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The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 9, 2023 / Law, Media / 5 minute read

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The person and role of Gottlieb is a paradigmatic case of why and how solving the mysteries of the lockdowns and mandates is such a complicated undertaking. It’s not just about government intervention and it’s not just about private corruption. It’s about a complicated relationship between the two, involving a range of public and private actors in and out of government who seized control of the policy machinery to achieve private ends at enormous public expense.

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Ineffective Maltruism

Thomas Buckley / January 9, 2023 / Media, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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The current fad of the financially fabulous is Effective Altruism, which essentially involves promising to give your money while you are still alive to causes and organizations that “do good,” while simultaneously tethering them to your whims through financial dependence. A very specific example of this is the massive money going to barely-surviving but purportedly legit media organizations (or you can just buy the Washington Post.) You get good press when you own it.

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Where’s the Woodward and Bernstein of the Covid Scandals?

Bill Rice / January 8, 2023 / Media / 7 minute read

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When you stop and think about it, there’s no way a “Woodward and Bernstein” could tell the story of the Covid Scandal. There’s simply too many scandals that would have to be exposed. It would take an army of Woodward and Berstein’s to break the pieces down into individual, sub-scandal components.

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