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Key Icelandic Lockdowner Has Flipped Sides on the Shots

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / August 4, 2023 / Policy / 3 minute read

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“Based on the information we have today, I would not recommend vaccination to people under 40 or under 50” Dr. Stefánsson said in a podcast in late July, reported by Icelandic media on August 3rd. “Now, many scientists have stepped forward saying it was wrong to vaccinate everyone, pointing to the high prevalence of myocarditis, and how even those who contracted the virus are less likely to develop it than those who got vaccinated.”

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Racial Grievance Should Not be Permanently Codified

Ramesh Thakur / July 30, 2023 / Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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Permanently codifying racial grievance into the Constitution will guarantee it is weaponised sometime in the future by activists with increasingly radical agendas, followed by monetisation by grifters to demand compensation, reparations, and rents. This will stoke resentment and backlash.

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A Careful Look at the UNDP’s New iVerify Tool

Stavroula Pabst / July 29, 2023 / Law, Policy, Technology / 9 minute read

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iVerify’s power lies in its supranational infrastructure and ability to determine truth as an apparent authority source. Unfortunately, its manufactured ownership over the truth can easily be weaponized towards mass censorship of materials harmful to the elite’s bottom line. If it becomes a prominent aspect of the already treacherous information environment, UNDP’s iVerify only promises to worsen matters while further threatening the (remaining) sovereignty of nation states everywhere.

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The Betrayal of the Environment by Environmentalists

el gato malo / July 26, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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Suddenly, “climate is the new covid” and in just the manner that certain internet felines have long been yowling about, they are going to play all the same stupid games and try to hand you all the same stupid prizes. They are selling you poison and penury as panacea. The new absurdist push into “We need blackouts and climate lockdowns and 15-minute cities” is an idea as dangerous as it is deluded. It will not save. It will kill.

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The Vaccine Mandate to Become a Citizen Must End

Gwendolyn Kull / July 23, 2023 / Policy, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a bill on July 19, 2023 to at least end the ACIP requirement mandating covid vaccines for immigrants, recognizing that families are still harmed by the CDCs relentless push for mass-covid vaccination among adults and children. Certainly, this step to reign in this incorrigible agency is heading in the right direction.

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Our Enemy, The State

Ramesh Thakur / July 22, 2023 / Law, Media, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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It was important for someone to write this instant history under time pressure, an accessible work of record, lest we forget. Or rather, lest they be allowed to forget and move on. This is neither a book by nor for academics. Therein lies some of its failings and much of its strength. “The Government is my enemy,” laments a disillusioned citizen. Do not trust politicians and bureaucrats. “They lie for a living,” says the cynical reporter.

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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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You Are the Population They Want to Control

Robert Malone / July 18, 2023 / Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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Who is to say whether an organization, perhaps even one with the “best of intentions” in mind (or believing the “the ends justify the means”), would be willing to go there. After what we have experienced over the past three years, I would consider it in the realm of possibility. Kamala Harris, Bill Gates and the WEF and UN all have made their positions crystal clear. Population reduction is imperative.

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Are 15-Minute Cities Smart?

Thomas Buckley / July 17, 2023 / Economics, Policy / 9 minute read

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While natural neighborhoods can be wonderful supportive safe places, unnatural neighborhoods will exacerbate the problems that do occur in more tightly knit communities. Self-surveillance (if not actual real surveillance) and a sense of trepidation about leaving the comfortable confines can lead to a feeling of isolation from the larger world. In an FMC, that isolation could be seen as being not organic but ordered from on high, creating a mental box that can dwarf intellectual and emotional growth – in other words, a captive personality.

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Ill-Gotten Gains Is What Politics Is All About

Michael Baker / July 15, 2023 / Policy / 9 minute read

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As the title suggests, the book tells the story of how networks of individuals in government and the private sector, referred to collectively as “James” in the book, collude to divert into their own pockets as much as half the wealth of the country from ordinary Australians, collectively named “Sam.”

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A Primer on Our Methods, and the Significance of UCoD Swapping

Aaron Hertzberg / July 14, 2023 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Since these death certificates have the ICD codes applied by the CDC, we can compare the ICD codes to the text descriptions of the CoD’s on the death certificates. This enabled us to search for death certificates where the UCoD condition assigned by the CDC didn’t match the UCoD condition listed on the death certificate, specifically where the mismatched UCoD assigned by the CDC was U07.1 (covid).

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As the US De-racializes, Australia Moves to Re-racialize the Constitution

Ramesh Thakur / July 12, 2023 / Policy, Society / 14 minute read

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Permanently codifying racial grievance into the Constitution will guarantee it is weaponised sometime in the not too distant future by activists making increasingly radical demands and stoking resentment and backlash. If approved, the Voice will not mark the end of a successful process of reconciliation but the beginning of fresh claims for co-sovereignty, treaty and reparations, using the constitutional voice as the enabling mechanism.

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