Post by NFA on Mar 5, 2024 20:59:49 GMT 8
Life After Lockdown
In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important free speech case in our lifetimes. At issue is whether the government can censor using third-party control of digital platforms, doing indirectly what it is forbidden to do directly. You would think that the answer would be no, obviously. If so, why is there a gigantic and global censorship-industrial complex in constant operation?
A ruling for the plaintiffs would begin the process of regaining control for the people. A ruling for the defense would enable agency control of tech at new levels of intensity. There will be a rally outside the court on the day of argument.
What is this strange silence about the case? That’s the irony: the censorship is so effective that we don’t even hear about the challenge. You can read about the details below.
Brownstone’s Supper Club now reliably sells out each month, so you need to get your tickets for March 20 (with Aaron Kheriaty) right away.
Brownstone needs your support. If you have not donated, we invite you to do so. Most of our resources go toward supporting dissident writers, attorneys, scientists, and other researchers who are providing the alternative view on a huge range of issues. We have a tiny staff, get no government support, and the large foundations only hope we go away. You are our only hope.
As a final note, the new book by Jeffrey Tucker, Life after Lockdown, with a foreword by Rand Paul, is released.
Here is some content since our last email:
Life After Lockdown: Introduction By Jeffrey Tucker. This book, which is a collection of some articles I wrote for Brownstone Institute, is designed to change that. We must talk about this issue. Lockdowns were the turning point in our lives, our societies, our culture, and affected everything from academia to education, to science, to media, to tech, and all the way down to demographics and our relationship to our professional and personal lives. It touched everything, turning what worked into something fundamentally broken and dysfunctional.
3, 2, 1, Timber By Julie Ponesse. The old distinction between civilization and barbarism has taken on a new form in the 21st century. It is from within our own “civilized” culture that emerges an inversion of the concepts of civility and savagery. It is our professionals, our academics, our political leaders, and our journalists who most ignore the standards of rational discourse, who institutionalize hatred and incite division. Today, it is the elites who are the true barbarians among us.
Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card on Climate Change By Daniel Nuccio. Even if the tactic has become one of self-parody, one only needs to look to Levine to see that we are living in parodic times where quite a few people are willing to embrace the latest slogans and accept all sorts of absurdities as reasonable, even to the detriment of society, if it protects them from being labeled a bigot.
What We Lost Between Then and Now By Rev. John F. Naugle. We forgot that we are going to die. We forgot that suffering is our lot in this lacrimarum valle. We forgot that how we approach the fact of our suffering and death is what gives our life meaning and what enables the hero to be heroic. Instead, we allowed ourselves to be trained to fear all emotional and physical pain, to catastrophize with implausible worst-case scenarios, and to demand solutions from the very elites and institutions who worked to ensure our forgetfulness.
Constitutional Crisis and Murthy v. Missouri By Brownstone Institute. In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) to consider whether to uphold an injunction that bars the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General’s Office from coercing or encouraging social media companies from censoring constitutionally protected speech.
Free Speech on Trial By Jeffrey Tucker. A positive ruling for the plaintiffs doesn’t solve every problem but at least it will mean that freedom still stands a chance in this country. A ruling for the defense, which is essentially the government itself, will give license to every federal agency – including those that operate in secret like the FBI and CIA – to threaten every social media and media company in this country to delete any and all content that runs contrary to the approved narrative.
Mandates Ruled ‘Unlawful’ by Supreme Court, Australia By Rebekah Barnett. Covid vaccine mandates enforced on Queensland police and ambulance workers have been declared ‘unlawful’ in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
The Tennessee Battle Over Vaccine Lysenkoism By Andrew Bostom. We hope our lower court victory in Tennessee contributes to restoring the primacy of true evidence-based medical decision-making about childhood Covid mRNA vaccination. It is our fervent wish that the ruling also helps galvanize opposition to childhood Covid mRNA vaccine Lysenkoism, within Tennessee, and across the US.
Health Care Students Still Suffer Force By Clayton J. Baker, MD. The Covid catastrophe did immense damage to medical care, much of it the result of gross mismanagement at the highest levels of the industry. Those just entering it must be treated with renewed respect and consideration if they are to correct the mistakes of their predecessors. Ending this injustice is an excellent place to start.
The Consensus Conspiracy By Thomas Buckley. The difference between the two is the impression of the intent of the group by those on the outside. Conspiracies are manifestly suspect and created out of nefarious motives to achieve a specific, most likely at least unethical, goal. Consensuses are seen as positive constructs, having been arrived at after open discussion, healthy debate, and a consideration of all relevant factors.
The Cruelty of Modern Death By David Bell. Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath of the gods. In modern hospitals, we now image such tumors deep within the body, target them with synthetic chemicals or narrow beams of radiation, or excise them with clinical precision.
The “Boys Will Be Boys” of Science By Alex Washburne. As a consequence of their successful lobbying and jockeying for power, they got what they wanted – their research was heavily funded, their labs staffed, and the enhancement of potentially pandemic pathogens proliferated without requiring so much as the background check the same scientists demand for a handgun.
A Vision for a New Liberalism By Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters, and Michael Baker. We call on you to join us. Become mentors, teachers, or sponsors of novacad.org or scienceandfreedom.org. Better yet, set up your own communities and organisations for those you care about. We need to start building the future we want for those we love, and stop indulging in the fantasy that the West will magically come to its senses if only we press the like button for the right articles often enough on social media and badmouth Bill Gates at enough dinner parties. A better future for our children is worth fighting for, and it is ours to build.
Ruled by the Capricious Whims of Politicians By Charles Krblich. What is the real message behind the ruling and Governor Hochul’s words? Stay in line. Keep your head down. If we can do it to an ex-president of the United States, with whom we’ve all done business, we can do it to any one of you. Especially those of you that don’t have the enormous resources and political support that an ex-president does.
Censorship Literally Cannot Work By David Thunder. There was a time when heretics were censored for undermining the eternal truths of the faith; now, scientists are censored for propagating whatever passes for “misinformation” on the censorship boards of social media companies.
When Military Rule Supplants Democracy By Robert Malone. If you wish to understand how democracy ended in the United States and the European Union, please watch this interview with Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. It is full of the most stunning revelations that I have heard in a very long time.
The Biosecurity Agenda ‘Justified’ Their Evil By Bill Rice. Even with our life-saving stickers, hand sanitizers, and face coverings, every public health expert knew that the only real solution would come from the mRNA vaccines. This was our “biosecurity.”
Levers of Control: Accept or Flee? By Bert Olivier. They could always, of course, decide to opt out of the ‘system,’ if they are willing to be ‘excluded from society,’ as Bill Gates infamously said about those who would refuse the digital prison that the neo-fascists have built for the rest of humanity. I certainly would, but my guess is that most people are too immersed in social media and the technical means to sojourn there – usually a smartphone, and of course the internet – to take that drastic step.
In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important free speech case in our lifetimes. At issue is whether the government can censor using third-party control of digital platforms, doing indirectly what it is forbidden to do directly. You would think that the answer would be no, obviously. If so, why is there a gigantic and global censorship-industrial complex in constant operation?
A ruling for the plaintiffs would begin the process of regaining control for the people. A ruling for the defense would enable agency control of tech at new levels of intensity. There will be a rally outside the court on the day of argument.
What is this strange silence about the case? That’s the irony: the censorship is so effective that we don’t even hear about the challenge. You can read about the details below.
Brownstone’s Supper Club now reliably sells out each month, so you need to get your tickets for March 20 (with Aaron Kheriaty) right away.
Brownstone needs your support. If you have not donated, we invite you to do so. Most of our resources go toward supporting dissident writers, attorneys, scientists, and other researchers who are providing the alternative view on a huge range of issues. We have a tiny staff, get no government support, and the large foundations only hope we go away. You are our only hope.
As a final note, the new book by Jeffrey Tucker, Life after Lockdown, with a foreword by Rand Paul, is released.
Here is some content since our last email:
Life After Lockdown: Introduction By Jeffrey Tucker. This book, which is a collection of some articles I wrote for Brownstone Institute, is designed to change that. We must talk about this issue. Lockdowns were the turning point in our lives, our societies, our culture, and affected everything from academia to education, to science, to media, to tech, and all the way down to demographics and our relationship to our professional and personal lives. It touched everything, turning what worked into something fundamentally broken and dysfunctional.
3, 2, 1, Timber By Julie Ponesse. The old distinction between civilization and barbarism has taken on a new form in the 21st century. It is from within our own “civilized” culture that emerges an inversion of the concepts of civility and savagery. It is our professionals, our academics, our political leaders, and our journalists who most ignore the standards of rational discourse, who institutionalize hatred and incite division. Today, it is the elites who are the true barbarians among us.
Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card on Climate Change By Daniel Nuccio. Even if the tactic has become one of self-parody, one only needs to look to Levine to see that we are living in parodic times where quite a few people are willing to embrace the latest slogans and accept all sorts of absurdities as reasonable, even to the detriment of society, if it protects them from being labeled a bigot.
What We Lost Between Then and Now By Rev. John F. Naugle. We forgot that we are going to die. We forgot that suffering is our lot in this lacrimarum valle. We forgot that how we approach the fact of our suffering and death is what gives our life meaning and what enables the hero to be heroic. Instead, we allowed ourselves to be trained to fear all emotional and physical pain, to catastrophize with implausible worst-case scenarios, and to demand solutions from the very elites and institutions who worked to ensure our forgetfulness.
Constitutional Crisis and Murthy v. Missouri By Brownstone Institute. In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) to consider whether to uphold an injunction that bars the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General’s Office from coercing or encouraging social media companies from censoring constitutionally protected speech.
Free Speech on Trial By Jeffrey Tucker. A positive ruling for the plaintiffs doesn’t solve every problem but at least it will mean that freedom still stands a chance in this country. A ruling for the defense, which is essentially the government itself, will give license to every federal agency – including those that operate in secret like the FBI and CIA – to threaten every social media and media company in this country to delete any and all content that runs contrary to the approved narrative.
Mandates Ruled ‘Unlawful’ by Supreme Court, Australia By Rebekah Barnett. Covid vaccine mandates enforced on Queensland police and ambulance workers have been declared ‘unlawful’ in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
The Tennessee Battle Over Vaccine Lysenkoism By Andrew Bostom. We hope our lower court victory in Tennessee contributes to restoring the primacy of true evidence-based medical decision-making about childhood Covid mRNA vaccination. It is our fervent wish that the ruling also helps galvanize opposition to childhood Covid mRNA vaccine Lysenkoism, within Tennessee, and across the US.
Health Care Students Still Suffer Force By Clayton J. Baker, MD. The Covid catastrophe did immense damage to medical care, much of it the result of gross mismanagement at the highest levels of the industry. Those just entering it must be treated with renewed respect and consideration if they are to correct the mistakes of their predecessors. Ending this injustice is an excellent place to start.
The Consensus Conspiracy By Thomas Buckley. The difference between the two is the impression of the intent of the group by those on the outside. Conspiracies are manifestly suspect and created out of nefarious motives to achieve a specific, most likely at least unethical, goal. Consensuses are seen as positive constructs, having been arrived at after open discussion, healthy debate, and a consideration of all relevant factors.
The Cruelty of Modern Death By David Bell. Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath of the gods. In modern hospitals, we now image such tumors deep within the body, target them with synthetic chemicals or narrow beams of radiation, or excise them with clinical precision.
The “Boys Will Be Boys” of Science By Alex Washburne. As a consequence of their successful lobbying and jockeying for power, they got what they wanted – their research was heavily funded, their labs staffed, and the enhancement of potentially pandemic pathogens proliferated without requiring so much as the background check the same scientists demand for a handgun.
A Vision for a New Liberalism By Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters, and Michael Baker. We call on you to join us. Become mentors, teachers, or sponsors of novacad.org or scienceandfreedom.org. Better yet, set up your own communities and organisations for those you care about. We need to start building the future we want for those we love, and stop indulging in the fantasy that the West will magically come to its senses if only we press the like button for the right articles often enough on social media and badmouth Bill Gates at enough dinner parties. A better future for our children is worth fighting for, and it is ours to build.
Ruled by the Capricious Whims of Politicians By Charles Krblich. What is the real message behind the ruling and Governor Hochul’s words? Stay in line. Keep your head down. If we can do it to an ex-president of the United States, with whom we’ve all done business, we can do it to any one of you. Especially those of you that don’t have the enormous resources and political support that an ex-president does.
Censorship Literally Cannot Work By David Thunder. There was a time when heretics were censored for undermining the eternal truths of the faith; now, scientists are censored for propagating whatever passes for “misinformation” on the censorship boards of social media companies.
When Military Rule Supplants Democracy By Robert Malone. If you wish to understand how democracy ended in the United States and the European Union, please watch this interview with Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. It is full of the most stunning revelations that I have heard in a very long time.
The Biosecurity Agenda ‘Justified’ Their Evil By Bill Rice. Even with our life-saving stickers, hand sanitizers, and face coverings, every public health expert knew that the only real solution would come from the mRNA vaccines. This was our “biosecurity.”
Levers of Control: Accept or Flee? By Bert Olivier. They could always, of course, decide to opt out of the ‘system,’ if they are willing to be ‘excluded from society,’ as Bill Gates infamously said about those who would refuse the digital prison that the neo-fascists have built for the rest of humanity. I certainly would, but my guess is that most people are too immersed in social media and the technical means to sojourn there – usually a smartphone, and of course the internet – to take that drastic step.