We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so.” When in March 2020, the world’s government decided to “shut down” the world’s economies and throttle any and all social activity, and deny …
Authority Isn’t What It Used to Be
When one frames the current developments in the world – which may be framed in several ways – according to the question, whether the gradual waning of authority in the course of time, particularly since the end of the Second …
Rational Policy Over Panic
[Full PDF of report is available below]
An Awkward ProblemThe world of international public health is in a precarious position. Current policy, resources, personal careers, and the very credibility of major organizations are aligned with the recent statement from …
New Media Sues the State Department Over Censorship
The State Department is censoring and limiting the circulation of disfavored press outlets.
According to a new lawsuit filed in December on behalf of two media organizations, those being The Daily Wire and The Federalist, as well as the State …
Gears of the Refugee Machine
A solid majority of American citizens now recognize that Biden’s many millions of alleged refugees are anything but the real deal. In all probability, some of these illegal immigrants are members of the “tired and poor” seeking a shortcut into …
Conspiracy Theory Debunker Finds Real Conspiracies
The 2023 book Misbelief by Dan Ariely belongs to a genre I would label “debunking Covid conspiracy theories.” The book is meant to explore the thought process of people who subscribe to conspiracy theories, especially about Covid and the Covid …
Trump’s Covid Response Casts a Long Shadow
Donald Trump has a Covid problem.
No matter how he wishes it never happened, the pointless (health-wise) and tyrannically devastating pandemic response he launched in March, 2020 is on him.
He is responsible for that decision.
Sometime between March 9, …
Foxes and Hedgehogs
[The following is a chapter from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.]
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for WonderI don’t know.
On a scale of 1 to …
Political Shrinkflation
When I first saw this video, I presumed it had to be some sort of satire. Apparently, it’s not. (link to potus account)
A sitting US president actually just did this.
It’s like some form of poe’s law where any …
Intellectuals for Sale
In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University school of public health penned a letter expressing the conventional wisdom of the moment: we should not lock down. That …
Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry for Masks
For those of us on the side of sanity, reason, and data-driven evidence, the refusal of Covid extremist “experts” to admit mistakes has been a constant, oppressive source of frustration.
The names of those involved in creating a false consensus …
Propaganda Looney Tunes
I remember my history textbooks explaining the use of cartoonish figures as propaganda during the two World Wars. Imagine, for a moment, the inspiring Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam contrasted against the overbearing, dull, and cartoonish displays of the …
Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship
I feel scared. Very scared.
Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here.
This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now.
Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to …
February Open Thread
Can you believe it’s February already? Well, it is! Time for the open thread!
Source: The Corbett Report Read the original article here: https://corbettreport.com …
The Forgetting Is Mandatory
Under the cover of disease control, most nations in the world have lived through the equivalent of war – never officially declared as such and never officially ended with a peace treaty – and this has swept into place vast changes …