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Proof that the Vaccines Were a Military-Backed Countermeasure

Sasha Latypova / May 3, 2023 / Policy / 7 minute read

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“Whole of nation” is closely associated with “whole of government” terminology. Both presented as feel-good ideas in plain text, but in fact these words signal a usurpation of power by the militarized executive branch of the government. Public private partnerships – so beloved by sellouts in academia, pharma, medicine and defense – are another closely associated term.

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The Freezer-Truck Canard

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 1, 2023 / History, Media, Policy / 6 minute read

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The excuse that we had to lock down because of freezer trucks does not hold water. The lockdown edict was issued on March 16, 2020, following the declaration of emergency on March 13, three days after Trump’s advisers convinced him to issue the lockdown. In that time, the funeral parlors and morgues closed too, as did most all medical services. The country was also in panic, which is not generally good for public health.

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Where Have the Adults Gone?

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / May 1, 2023 / Policy, Society / 22 minute read

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The last three years show us what happens when specialists are in charge. If you want to know whether it is a good idea to lock down a whole city, it helps if you can quickly see the many effects lockdowns will have among many different parts of the city’s population and economy. Only with a broad view of many factors do you have hope of making a reasonable judgment.

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No, Washington Post, the Experts Were the Whole Problem

John Tamny / April 30, 2023 / Media, Policy / 5 minute read

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In 2020, rather than encourage the very wealth creation that has long been the biggest foe of death and disease (by far), panicky politicians quite literally chose economic contraction as a virus mitigation strategy. Historians will marvel at the abject stupidity of the U.S. political class, but not the Post’s editorialists or the authors of a report that the editorialists remarkably find insightful.

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The “Best Available Science”: The CDC and the Vaccine Travel Mandate

Hunter McBryde / April 25, 2023 / Government, Policy, Vaccines / 13 minute read

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Continuing to exclude unvaccinated noncitizens, non-immigrants from entering the United States is a policy that puts politics over science. Politicians claiming the opposite to be true are funded by the very industries that benefit most from continuing with such a policy. Their pushback against ending the mandate is justified by their faith in the “best available science” yet that science cannot be produced by the very institution on whom the continuation of the mandate rests.

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Changing One Mind at a Time

Richard Kelly / April 24, 2023 / Policy, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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In an idle moment, I was looking through my emails, and came across this little exchange. In August 2022, the vax push was in full swing, despite the evidence of serious concerns. Here’s a trail starting and ending with an email from a medical provider I had visited once or twice in central Melbourne.

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Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 23, 2023 / Philosophy, Policy, Psychology / 15 minute read

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The clean vs. dirty distinction was once an indicator of class, perhaps a desiderata of germaphobic pathology, even a harmless eccentricity. But in 2020, the obsession became extreme, an aesthetic priority that overrode all morality and truth. It then became a fundamental threat to liberty, self-government, and human rights.Today this demarcation has invaded the whole of our lives, and it threatens to create a horrifying caste system consisting of those who enjoy rights and privileges vs those who do not and serve (at a distance) the elites.

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What We Can Learn from Ancient Spartans about Courage

Bert Olivier / April 22, 2023 / Government, Policy / 10 minute read

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The neo-fascists may (and probably do) think of themselves as putatively superhuman beings, but they are just as prone as any other group of people to squabbling among themselves, in this way undermining or derailing their plans. The ‘resistance’ to their unscrupulous programme of domination – that means, everyone who has taken up the fight against them – therefore has to remind themselves that, even when things look bleak, one has to remain steadfast, and courageous.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Lockdowns: Excerpt from the Announcement Speech

Brownstone Institute / April 22, 2023 / Government, History, Policy / 15 minute read

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President Trump said well these bureaucrats came at him from every side. They were all telling him what he had to do. He had the right instincts. He knew that he shouldn’t close down the country. But he did it. He got rolled by his bureaucracy.

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The Corrupted Science Behind Biden’s COVID Vax Mandates

James Bovard / April 20, 2023 / Policy, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Newly disclosed emails show that the Food and Drug Administration finding behind that order, official certification of the jabs as “safe and effective,” was the result of a bureaucratic bait-and-switch.

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One Thousand One Hundred Thirty Five Days

Justin Hart / April 11, 2023 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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The Covid pandemic policies have had far-reaching impacts on our society. People now have lowered trust in public institutions, raised worries about privacy and freedom of speech, and the financial ramifications will persist for a long time. As we tally up the damage, it’s vital to draw lessons from these missteps so future responses are more balanced, open, and successful in tackling public health crises without compromising civic rights and public confidence.

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Big Pharma’s Co-Pay Coupon Racket

Marc Ang / April 10, 2023 / Pharma, Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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Drugmakers rely on shady promotional gimmicks to keep the cost of brand-name medicine high, and you’ve seen them in action. In the many, many, many television commercials you’ve seen for various drugs—and Big Pharma is the second largest advertiser by industry—consider how many mention a coupon the manufacturer offers. In fact, the share of brand-name prescription drug spending that included a coupon rose from 26 percent in 2007 to 90 percent in 2017.

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