Post by NFA on Dec 5, 2023 8:41:16 GMT 8
27/11/23
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, which sounds like a gimmick in some ways, but it is also an essential opportunity for Brownstone Institute.
The crisis of our times desperately needs the response that Brownstone is providing: against more lockdowns, against censorship, against the biosecurity fascist state, against the cartelization of tech and medicine, and for peace and freedom. We do this through publishing, events, and fellowships for the best and most dedicated minds of our time.
We will send out a longer pitch tomorrow but you can donate now if you appreciate what we do and want to join in our work.
Just coming across our desk is a Department of Defense report from July 2023 that calls for "The United States must embrace a whole-of-government approach to the development and employment of Information as an instrument of national power."
Yes, it’s that serious. Who is going to stand up against this outrageous attack on the Bill of Rights? That’s why we are here.
Here is some content since our last email:
Milei’s Task Ahead: Defeating the Administrators By Craig Pirrong. Even if he avoids Trump’s fault of repeatedly appointing those hostile to his agenda to the positions in the bureaucracy he can hire and fire, Milei will still face the immense task of bringing those myriad bureaucrats outside his direct reach to heel.
Yes, it’s that serious. Who is going to stand up against this outrageous attack on the Bill of Rights? That’s why we are here.
Here is some content since our last email:
Milei’s Task Ahead: Defeating the Administrators By Craig Pirrong. Even if he avoids Trump’s fault of repeatedly appointing those hostile to his agenda to the positions in the bureaucracy he can hire and fire, Milei will still face the immense task of bringing those myriad bureaucrats outside his direct reach to heel.
I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies By Mike Fairclough. My experience has compelled me to take my employer to the employment tribunal. My claims include discrimination, harassment, preventing me from making a protected disclosure, and constructive dismissal. Five days have now been allocated by a court for a hearing in November 2024.
Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies? By Bruce Pardy. Across the West, Virtue People, and Freedom People have been working together. At conferences, in think tanks, at school boards, on email lists, in living rooms, on X, and sometimes marching in the streets, they coalesce. These two groups constitute the rebel alliance against authoritarian woke globalism. But their political philosophies conflict.
Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies? By Bruce Pardy. Across the West, Virtue People, and Freedom People have been working together. At conferences, in think tanks, at school boards, on email lists, in living rooms, on X, and sometimes marching in the streets, they coalesce. These two groups constitute the rebel alliance against authoritarian woke globalism. But their political philosophies conflict.
Pandemics as a Catalyst for a New World Order By Robert Malone. By globally synchronizing the public health response across the United Nations member states, new powers were granted to the UN and its organizations at the cost of national sovereignty. These universally applied regulations and multilateral agreements have given birth to an enlarged, globalized administrative state.
Can Milei Defeat the Bureaucratic Hordes? By Charles Krblich. Milei may be the real deal. He is uniquely qualified to end the out of control inflation affecting Argentina. However, if he is able to enact real cuts to the bureaucracies, will he be able to withstand the political, media, and legal attacks sure to come?
Can Milei Defeat the Bureaucratic Hordes? By Charles Krblich. Milei may be the real deal. He is uniquely qualified to end the out of control inflation affecting Argentina. However, if he is able to enact real cuts to the bureaucracies, will he be able to withstand the political, media, and legal attacks sure to come?
None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked at Schools Again By Ian Miller. New York City government’s worldview demands an unending alliance with “The Science™,” despite the “experts” involved in creating it being summarily discredited. Acknowledging that they misled the public would remove their unearned sense of superiority and obsessive dedication to pretending that progressive political views are “science” based.
The Great Booster Bust By David Gortler. Americans can read between the lines and are showing their distrust even if they aren’t outright saying it out loud. What additional proof do they need when even pliant, follow-the-leader celebrities and politicians seem to be ignoring CDC, FDA, and White House recommendations for influenza and Covid-19 “vaccines?”
The Great Booster Bust By David Gortler. Americans can read between the lines and are showing their distrust even if they aren’t outright saying it out loud. What additional proof do they need when even pliant, follow-the-leader celebrities and politicians seem to be ignoring CDC, FDA, and White House recommendations for influenza and Covid-19 “vaccines?”
Conflicts of Interest in Science: History of Influence, Scandal, and Denial By Paul Thacker. As far back as 2000, experts questioned the ability of academic institutions to regulate financial conflicts of interests when they were so reliant on billions of dollars annually from industry. University leaders avoid discussing the imperative to regulate financial conflicts because they fear losing revenue.
WHO’s Edict Caused the Lockdown Disaster By Bill Rice. The W.H.O’s rousing endorsement of the “China model” of lockdowns should have been considered “junk science” before the governments of the world pulled the trigger on these “virus-mitigation” mandates, civil-liberty-eviscerating dictates which also caused a public health disaster for the people of the world.
Can Thanksgiving Traditions Survive a Four-Year Pause? By Mark Oshinskie. On Thanksgiving, we’re supposed to disregard that which hasn’t gone well and focus on that which has; even if the list of what has gone well is much shorter than that which hasn’t. If you’re sitting in a warm place, forking tasty food into your own mouth, and are surrounded by people whose names you remember, you’re comparatively blessed.
Love Really Can Thwart Tyranny By Bert Olivier. Art and literature are not enemies of reason – they are partners in the quest for knowledge. And in the quest for wisdom and for love, one might add. This insight is invaluable at a time when imagination as well as reason should be enlisted in the struggle against tyranny.
Beware the Autism-Friendly City By Sinead Murphy. Let us not forget that as we inched forwards like automata, self-conscious and humiliated, we gradually ceased to make eye contact with our fellows, engaged in little to no verbal interaction and found it increasingly difficult to make a friend – those very characteristics that 6 in 10 Irish people associate with autism.
The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children By Jennifer Sey. If a normie like me could read and interpret the data available since March 2020 and know that not only would closed schools be incredibly harmful to the most vulnerable children, but that their risk from Covid was thousands of times less than an elderly person, then certainly the science desk at the New York Times should have been able to do so.
Javier Milei’s Battle Cry for the People By Robert Malone. Dr. Milei is basically an intellectual academic who became a truth warrior in response to the damage he saw being done to his country by a parasitic administrative state. In other words, he is yet another intellectual critic who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
How Modeling Can Go Terribly Wrong By Thomas Harrington. The intellectuals bombarded the populace with empirically unproven models of their own making about many things connected with Covid. And when the vast majority of them proved completely at odds with observable reality, they simply doubled down.
Reclaim the Elites’ Frame by El Gato Malo. Ninety percent of escaping the clown world cavalcade is refocusing on the bigger issues and getting out of the fracas-framings induced by teaching people to enrage one another.
WHO’s Edict Caused the Lockdown Disaster By Bill Rice. The W.H.O’s rousing endorsement of the “China model” of lockdowns should have been considered “junk science” before the governments of the world pulled the trigger on these “virus-mitigation” mandates, civil-liberty-eviscerating dictates which also caused a public health disaster for the people of the world.
Can Thanksgiving Traditions Survive a Four-Year Pause? By Mark Oshinskie. On Thanksgiving, we’re supposed to disregard that which hasn’t gone well and focus on that which has; even if the list of what has gone well is much shorter than that which hasn’t. If you’re sitting in a warm place, forking tasty food into your own mouth, and are surrounded by people whose names you remember, you’re comparatively blessed.
Love Really Can Thwart Tyranny By Bert Olivier. Art and literature are not enemies of reason – they are partners in the quest for knowledge. And in the quest for wisdom and for love, one might add. This insight is invaluable at a time when imagination as well as reason should be enlisted in the struggle against tyranny.
Beware the Autism-Friendly City By Sinead Murphy. Let us not forget that as we inched forwards like automata, self-conscious and humiliated, we gradually ceased to make eye contact with our fellows, engaged in little to no verbal interaction and found it increasingly difficult to make a friend – those very characteristics that 6 in 10 Irish people associate with autism.
The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children By Jennifer Sey. If a normie like me could read and interpret the data available since March 2020 and know that not only would closed schools be incredibly harmful to the most vulnerable children, but that their risk from Covid was thousands of times less than an elderly person, then certainly the science desk at the New York Times should have been able to do so.
Javier Milei’s Battle Cry for the People By Robert Malone. Dr. Milei is basically an intellectual academic who became a truth warrior in response to the damage he saw being done to his country by a parasitic administrative state. In other words, he is yet another intellectual critic who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
How Modeling Can Go Terribly Wrong By Thomas Harrington. The intellectuals bombarded the populace with empirically unproven models of their own making about many things connected with Covid. And when the vast majority of them proved completely at odds with observable reality, they simply doubled down.
Reclaim the Elites’ Frame by El Gato Malo. Ninety percent of escaping the clown world cavalcade is refocusing on the bigger issues and getting out of the fracas-framings induced by teaching people to enrage one another.