Post by NFA on Feb 27, 2024 23:29:45 GMT 8
The Crisis Deepens
Daily and hourly we are bombarded with revelations of the corruption of the post-lockdown world. The fake science, the censorship, the deep bias of once-trusted sources, the graft and duplicity of the elites, the silent sufferings of so many victims, the scandalous treason of the intellectuals – it’s all quite overwhelming.
One response is intolerable: to acquiesce and give up. That is not an option, especially not when we are witness to the incredible power and effectiveness of the alternative: simply to tell the truth as best we can. Brownstone is dedicated to doing so in every way we can and despite all the odds. As always we are deeply grateful for your support, on which we depend for our very existence.
Many have sent requests for more frequent emails. We don’t have a system yet for article-by-article contact but we do have a daily email available through our Substack account. It’s free.
Our new book is: Life After Lockdown, by Jeffrey Tucker with a foreword by Dr. Rand Paul. You can buy it here.
Here is some content since our last email:
Life after Lockdown: Foreword by Rand Paul By Brownstone Institute. In Life after Lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the government lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing such a police state to occur. During the multiple winters of the Covid lockdown, I discovered Brownstone Institute. On the pages of Brownstone, I found not only the incisive critique of the pseudoscience put forward by Fauci and others, I also routinely came across scientists with the intellectual rigor to disassemble the unsupported scientific platitudes of the state.
Repeal the 17th Amendment Yesterday By El Gato Malo. It’s supposed to be just about impossible to get things through the Senate. That was a core protection for We the People and for the power of the states. This is a feature, not a bug. The state must serve the people, not the people the state, and it will never do so unless the people have the right to say “No.” Devolved power and individual movement provide an awful lot more of this. It may not be perfect, but it’s a helluva upgrade on what we have now. We are supposed to be the checks and the balances, not just the check-writers for unbalanced federal overreach. And this is power that We the People must take back for ourselves.
Government Investment Into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off By David Livermore. Unless and until manufacturers can show that, with the right payload, mRNA vaccines are as safe and effective as traditional vaccines against the same pathogen, governments really should be more careful about ‘investing’ our money. God knows, they’ve blown enough of it already, these past four years.
Australians Abandon Failed mRNA Covid Shots By Rebekah Barnett. After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid vaccine rollout to achieve over 95% vaccination coverage, Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now ‘under-vaccinated.’
The Administrative State is Destroying our Country By Bobbie Anne Flower Cox. Because agencies are run by unelected, government bureaucrats who are beholden to nobody but the person who appointed them. They don’t care what the voters think or want or don’t want. They don’t need to care. They don’t need your vote to stay in power. They only have to appease the politician(s) who appointed them. If they just follow the yellow brick road, they will land on the other side of the rainbow.
Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save By Richard Kelly. Metaphorical mountains to climb abound in our senseless world these days. Everywhere one looks there are threats and injustices that need to be exposed, overcome, judged, and neutralised. No sooner is a peak crested than another, higher ridge appears in the distance.
Google has Usurped Democracy By Robert Malone. We hear a lot about “election integrity” or lack thereof, particularly around the issues of counting the vote and the ballot box. But the truth is that elections are more likely to be stolen via search engine manipulation effects (SEME).
Americans Don’t Believe Joe Biden’s Data By Peter St Onge. It’s progress for mainstream media to even consider the possibility that Americans might have a point when they say things are tough. Still, we’ve got a ways to go until media fully understands how much it has been gaslit by a regime that’s given up on serving the people.
A Digital Coup d’Etat By Jeffrey Tucker. All these efforts were global in scope. This whole model truly stretches the bounds of plausibility. And yet all the evidence points to exactly the above. It just goes to show that even if you don’t believe in conspiracies, conspiracies believe in you. It was a digital-age coup d’etat unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. How long will it take us to process this reality? We seem to be only at the early stages of understanding, much less resisting.
ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn By Rob Jenkins. Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals I respect taking opposite sides.
Governments Must Reject New Amendments to International Health Regulations By David Thunder. The WHO, most likely with the complicity of your government, is pushing through a set of amendments to international pandemic laws that will put your livelihood and liberties at the mercy of a WHO-appointed “expert committee” whose advice during a pandemic or other “public health emergency” will supersede that of your own government.
The Fairy Tale of Pandemic Risk By David Bell. Public health has come into its own over the past few years; a once-backwater profession now promoted to be the arbiters of liberty and human relationships. Outbreaks of diseases associated with death at an average age of about 80, or even purely hypothetical, are now sufficient reason to close workplaces, close schools, upend economies and convince people to turn on their noncompliant neighbors. The result, while impoverishing the many, has driven an unprecedented concentration of wealth.
The Cartelization of Beauty By Thomas Harrington. Keeping it real thus also means making a conscious effort to find those spaces where the mediating practices of the elites are few and the chances for direct esthetic pleasure are many. And finally, and most importantly, keeping it real means ensuring that such mediation-free sanctuaries are readily available to children so that their personally constructed sense of beauty, with its wonderfully generative fantasies, is not canceled before it even has time to take flight.
American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election By Aaron Day. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable tokens controlled by governments. Your financial choices could be suppressed, and privacy eliminated. Based on what I’ve learned and experienced directly, this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics.
France Teeters on the Brink By Clayton J. Baker. If Article 4 becomes law, the French government will have openly declared itself as totalitarian. The effects will ripple across Europe. For centuries, even long before the European Union, the fate of Europe has often been like a chain of dominoes, with France or Germany usually the first one tipped over. Can France – and Europe – be saved?
Massachusetts Gone Rogue By Meryl Nass. You would not believe how your tax dollars are being spent by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, an organization whose sole purpose is to protect the citizens of Massachusetts from rogue, incompetent medical practitioners. Especially during pandemics.
Daily and hourly we are bombarded with revelations of the corruption of the post-lockdown world. The fake science, the censorship, the deep bias of once-trusted sources, the graft and duplicity of the elites, the silent sufferings of so many victims, the scandalous treason of the intellectuals – it’s all quite overwhelming.
One response is intolerable: to acquiesce and give up. That is not an option, especially not when we are witness to the incredible power and effectiveness of the alternative: simply to tell the truth as best we can. Brownstone is dedicated to doing so in every way we can and despite all the odds. As always we are deeply grateful for your support, on which we depend for our very existence.
Many have sent requests for more frequent emails. We don’t have a system yet for article-by-article contact but we do have a daily email available through our Substack account. It’s free.
Our new book is: Life After Lockdown, by Jeffrey Tucker with a foreword by Dr. Rand Paul. You can buy it here.
Here is some content since our last email:
Life after Lockdown: Foreword by Rand Paul By Brownstone Institute. In Life after Lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the government lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing such a police state to occur. During the multiple winters of the Covid lockdown, I discovered Brownstone Institute. On the pages of Brownstone, I found not only the incisive critique of the pseudoscience put forward by Fauci and others, I also routinely came across scientists with the intellectual rigor to disassemble the unsupported scientific platitudes of the state.
Repeal the 17th Amendment Yesterday By El Gato Malo. It’s supposed to be just about impossible to get things through the Senate. That was a core protection for We the People and for the power of the states. This is a feature, not a bug. The state must serve the people, not the people the state, and it will never do so unless the people have the right to say “No.” Devolved power and individual movement provide an awful lot more of this. It may not be perfect, but it’s a helluva upgrade on what we have now. We are supposed to be the checks and the balances, not just the check-writers for unbalanced federal overreach. And this is power that We the People must take back for ourselves.
Government Investment Into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off By David Livermore. Unless and until manufacturers can show that, with the right payload, mRNA vaccines are as safe and effective as traditional vaccines against the same pathogen, governments really should be more careful about ‘investing’ our money. God knows, they’ve blown enough of it already, these past four years.
Australians Abandon Failed mRNA Covid Shots By Rebekah Barnett. After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid vaccine rollout to achieve over 95% vaccination coverage, Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now ‘under-vaccinated.’
The Administrative State is Destroying our Country By Bobbie Anne Flower Cox. Because agencies are run by unelected, government bureaucrats who are beholden to nobody but the person who appointed them. They don’t care what the voters think or want or don’t want. They don’t need to care. They don’t need your vote to stay in power. They only have to appease the politician(s) who appointed them. If they just follow the yellow brick road, they will land on the other side of the rainbow.
Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save By Richard Kelly. Metaphorical mountains to climb abound in our senseless world these days. Everywhere one looks there are threats and injustices that need to be exposed, overcome, judged, and neutralised. No sooner is a peak crested than another, higher ridge appears in the distance.
Google has Usurped Democracy By Robert Malone. We hear a lot about “election integrity” or lack thereof, particularly around the issues of counting the vote and the ballot box. But the truth is that elections are more likely to be stolen via search engine manipulation effects (SEME).
Americans Don’t Believe Joe Biden’s Data By Peter St Onge. It’s progress for mainstream media to even consider the possibility that Americans might have a point when they say things are tough. Still, we’ve got a ways to go until media fully understands how much it has been gaslit by a regime that’s given up on serving the people.
A Digital Coup d’Etat By Jeffrey Tucker. All these efforts were global in scope. This whole model truly stretches the bounds of plausibility. And yet all the evidence points to exactly the above. It just goes to show that even if you don’t believe in conspiracies, conspiracies believe in you. It was a digital-age coup d’etat unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. How long will it take us to process this reality? We seem to be only at the early stages of understanding, much less resisting.
ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn By Rob Jenkins. Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals I respect taking opposite sides.
Governments Must Reject New Amendments to International Health Regulations By David Thunder. The WHO, most likely with the complicity of your government, is pushing through a set of amendments to international pandemic laws that will put your livelihood and liberties at the mercy of a WHO-appointed “expert committee” whose advice during a pandemic or other “public health emergency” will supersede that of your own government.
The Fairy Tale of Pandemic Risk By David Bell. Public health has come into its own over the past few years; a once-backwater profession now promoted to be the arbiters of liberty and human relationships. Outbreaks of diseases associated with death at an average age of about 80, or even purely hypothetical, are now sufficient reason to close workplaces, close schools, upend economies and convince people to turn on their noncompliant neighbors. The result, while impoverishing the many, has driven an unprecedented concentration of wealth.
The Cartelization of Beauty By Thomas Harrington. Keeping it real thus also means making a conscious effort to find those spaces where the mediating practices of the elites are few and the chances for direct esthetic pleasure are many. And finally, and most importantly, keeping it real means ensuring that such mediation-free sanctuaries are readily available to children so that their personally constructed sense of beauty, with its wonderfully generative fantasies, is not canceled before it even has time to take flight.
American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election By Aaron Day. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable tokens controlled by governments. Your financial choices could be suppressed, and privacy eliminated. Based on what I’ve learned and experienced directly, this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics.
France Teeters on the Brink By Clayton J. Baker. If Article 4 becomes law, the French government will have openly declared itself as totalitarian. The effects will ripple across Europe. For centuries, even long before the European Union, the fate of Europe has often been like a chain of dominoes, with France or Germany usually the first one tipped over. Can France – and Europe – be saved?
Massachusetts Gone Rogue By Meryl Nass. You would not believe how your tax dollars are being spent by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, an organization whose sole purpose is to protect the citizens of Massachusetts from rogue, incompetent medical practitioners. Especially during pandemics.
Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom By Jeffrey Tucker. The push to force everyone into higher education has proven to be a massive diversion of financial and human energy, and, just like Schumpeter predicted, it did the cause of freedom no favors. It has only ended up breeding debt, resentment, and an imbalance of human resources such that the people with real power are the same people least likely to possess the necessary skills to make life better. Indeed they are making it worse.