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IHR Amendments Open Door to Perpetual Emergencies

David Bell / June 7, 2024 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 29 minute read

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The 77th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) just concluded at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It originally intended to adopt a new pandemic treaty and amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) that would tie country responses to the decisions of the WHO’s Director-General. In the end, it kicked one can down the road for a year and partly filled another.

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Low Expectations Plague the Air Force Academy

Scott Sturman / June 5, 2024 / Government, Policy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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DEI’s nonsensical, unsupported claims that phenotype and sexual identity are indispensable components of superior military performance and the intimidating effect of DEI political officers embedded within the cadet wing breed cynicism and psychological fatigue. Recent undercover investigative reporting that exposes blatant corruption within Air Force DEI programs and an admission of DEI’s lack of benefit affirms the negative view of DEI held by most cadets. If the real Air Force is at all similar to the academy experience, then why devote a career to an organization with priorities more in line with Cloward-Piven than the Constitution?

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WHO IHR Modifications Were Illegally Approved

Robert Malone / June 5, 2024 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 27 minute read

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The 77th meeting of the World Health Assembly concluded Saturday, June 01, 2024. This particular Assembly meeting, the first following the Covid crisis, failed to achieve agreement on the wording or passage of a proposed World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic “treaty”, also referred to as an “agreement”. In parallel to the treaty, the World Health Assembly (in close cooperation with the US HHS/Biden administration) has been working on “updating” the existing (2005) International Health Regulations (IHR) agreement, which historically functioned as a voluntary accord establishing international norms for reporting, managing, and cooperating in matters relating to infectious diseases and infectious disease outbreaks (including “pandemics”).

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The WHO Takes Another Step Towards the Pit

David Bell / June 4, 2024 / History, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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Last week, amid fanfare from both advocates and opponents of centralization of future pandemic management, the world continued its unfortunate stumble back to old-fashioned public health fascism. The World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the package of amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), apparently just hours after a final text had been agreed by its IHR working group.

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Renters and Owners Live in Separate Economies

Peter St Onge / June 1, 2024 / Economics, Government, Policy / 3 minute read

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In short, renters are in dire straits financially, while homeowners are “continuing to reap the rewards” of cheap pandemic money that left renters with nothing but inflation.

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The Pandemic Treaty Will Compound Past Mistakes

Meryl Nass / May 24, 2024 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 15 minute read

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To simply vote no would leave the current situation – the situation that led to the many Covid-19 pandemic failures – unaddressed. But any putative “benefit” of the new treaty is likely to be marginal at best. More importantly, the treaty and amendments as they are currently written do enormous, identifiable harm and would leave everyone, except those with stakes in Big Pharma, IT services, and global finance, far worse off.

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Wenstrup Releases Francis Collins’ House Testimony

Robert Malone / May 23, 2024 / Masks, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) released the transcript from Dr. Francis Collins’ transcribed interview. Dr. Collins helped lead the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) until his resignation at the end of 2021. In conjunction with the transcript, the Select Subcommittee also released a new staff memo that highlights the key takeaways from Dr. Collins’s transcribed interview.

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The Vanguard Behind Australia’s Misinformation Bill

Andrew Lowenthal / May 12, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Policy / 11 minute read

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Australia has been out in front in shaping the bureaucratised internet: the eSafety Commissioner is touted as the first online “harm regulator” in the world and as recently detailed, is deeply embedded in the global networks driving this push, from the World Economic Forum, to the EU, to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and beyond.

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Public Health by Way of the Surveillance State

Breeauna Sagdal / May 11, 2024 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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Should an animal test positive for a Foreign Animal Disease (FAD), the Covid-19 science tells us that isolation and quarantine are vital steps to take to stop the spread of infection. Both actions are much easier to accomplish in smaller decentralized herds, where natural immunity then becomes herd immunity. However, rather than working with states to rapidly approve more localized processing facilities, the USDA and the EPA are instead working to shut them down.

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Urgent Pandemic Messaging of WHO, World Bank, and G20 is Inconsistent with Their Evidence Base

Urgent Pandemic Messaging of the WHO, World Bank, and G20 is Inconsistent with Their Evidence Base

REPPARE / May 9, 2024 / Policy, Public Health / 1 minute of reading

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Disproportionate pandemic preparedness based on these false premises risks a significant opportunity cost through unnecessary diversion of financial and political resources away from global health priorities of higher burden.

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Book Burning Goes Digital

Brownstone Institute / May 4, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Policy / 5 minute read

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In March 2021, the Biden White House initiated a brazenly unconstitutional censorship campaign to prevent Americans from buying politically unfavorable books from Amazon. The effort, spearheaded by White House censors including Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty, began on March 2, 2021, when Slavitt emailed Amazon demanding to speak to an executive about the site’s “high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation.”

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The Populist Wave and Its Discontents

David Thunder / May 3, 2024 / Government, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Quite possibly, the type of reform Western democracies require is more radical than anything either populists or their critics are willing to contemplate. For what is required is far-reaching decentralising reforms that anchor political and economic power not in a centralised state, but in a federal pact among municipal and regional governments and grassroots institutions such as local citizen assemblies, professional associations, and worker co-operatives. Under such reforms, the old national political establishment would lose much of its power. But so would national populist leaders and movements.

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