Archive for the 'Elite' Category
The COVID-19 Pandemic Keeps Proving Deadly to Liberty
September 12th, 2020Via: Reason: As the pandemic rages on, nominally free countries are sliding down a path blazed by authoritarian regimes. This week, the British government announced limits on gatherings of people who don’t live together to groups of no more than six. Although the restriction seriously attacks freedom of assembly, it barely raised an eyebrow in […]
54 Percent of Americans Won’t Take COVID-19 Vaccine
September 10th, 2020Via: Axios: Only 14% of Americans think a coronavirus vaccine will be widely available before the November election, and even if it is, most Americans say they won’t take it, according to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Disney Filmed ‘Mulan’ in Xinjiang, Where China Operates Concentration Camps
September 8th, 2020Via: Hollywood Reporter: Disney’s big-budget remake of Mulan, already the subject of a pro-democracy boycott, has come under additional fire for filming scenes in China’s Xinjiang Province, where Beijing is accused of perpetrating human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims on a massive scale. Not only did Disney shoot in the region, but the studio appears […]
Polio Vaccine Causing Polio Outbreaks in Africa, WHO Admits
September 3rd, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: A year ago, news outlets briefly shone a light on the fact (a fact that makes public health officials squirm) that oral polio vaccines are causing polio outbreaks. With reports streaming in throughout 2019 regarding the circulation of vaccine-derived polioviruses in numerous African and Asian countries, a CDC virologist confessed, “We […]
The Government’s Answer to Every Problem: More Government
September 3rd, 2020Via: The Rutherford Institute: Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government—at taxpayer expense—and less individual liberty? The Great Depression. The World Wars. The 9/11 terror attacks. The COVID-19 pandemic. Every crisis—manufactured or otherwise—since the nation’s early beginnings has become a make-work opportunity for the government to expand its reach […]
U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II
September 2nd, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: U.S. government debt is on track to exceed the size of the economy for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, a milestone not hit since World War II that has been brought into reach by a giant fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Total Media Freakout Over CDC COVID-19 Death Statistics
September 1st, 2020Via: Ron Paul: Over the weekend the Centers for Disease Control dropped a bombshell report on coronavirus/Covid deaths: of the approximately 165,000 “Covid deaths” less than ten thousand died from Covid. The rest – a vast majority – had on average 2.6 serious additional diseases, with the addition in most cases of extreme advanced age. […]
THE JAB: Featuring GlaxoSmithKline
August 31st, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: It’s deja-vu all over again with the W.H.O. declaring “pandemics” that result in gold rushes for pharmaceutical companies who swoop in with vaccines to save the day. But are they actually saving anyone? Or do serious adverse events such as the very real narcolepsy epidemic that we saw in the swine […]
California: Tell Your Senators That Ill-Conceived “Immunity Passports” Won’t Help Us
August 26th, 2020The crazy is coming very fast now. Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Californians should not be forced to present their smartphones to enter public places. But that’s exactly what A.B. 2004 would do, by directing the state to set up a blockchain-based system for “immunity passports”: a verified health credential that shows the results of someone’s […]
Journalism’s Gates Keepers
August 26th, 2020Via: Columbia Journalism Review: As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, […]
