Post by NFA on Apr 9, 2024 7:22:10 GMT 8
The Rise of the Resistance
If they will forcibly shut down your school, business, church, travel, and speech, then later force an injection of an untested, ineffective, and risky tax-funded product on you, and never utter a word of apology for any of it, what won't they do?
At this point, there seem to be no limits. Or rather: the only limit to power comes from the courage to resist. We are seeing that form at all levels of society in most countries in the world today. It takes many shapes, from scholars to litigators to doctors to journalists. It is ever more clear where people and institutions stand on the battles of our times.
We can pretend it is not happening but reality keeps intervening.You see what is happening in Brazil today, with extremely aggressive attempts to criminalize speech, even to the point of indicting a foreign entrepreneur like Elon Musk. Brazil is the test case, the model for the world.
Our main supper club in West Hartford is selling all tickets these days. You can jump in to join us on April 17, 2024, when Chris Martenson visits us. As always, we need and appreciate your support.
Here is some content since our last email.
The WHO Proposals: An Open Letter By David Bell. The drafting of the Open Letter below, addressing these issues, was led by three lawyers with experience with the WHO, within the UN and in international treaty law, Silvia Behrendt, Assoc. Prof Amrei Muller, and Dr. Thi Thuy Van Dinh. It simply calls upon the WHO and Member States to extend the deadline for the adoption of the amendments to the International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement at the 77th WHA to safeguard the rule of law and equity. To proceed with the current deadline, against their own legal requirements, would not just be legally wrong but demonstrate unequivocally that equity and respect for States rights have nothing to do with the WHO’s pandemic agenda.
We Must Resist the Grey Men By Haley Kynefin. For the sake of freedom, for the sake of vibrant and meaningful living, and for the sake of that very chaos and unpredictability that, in and of itself, provides the soil and the nutrients for beautiful variety to grow — we need to accept that there will always be holes and inefficiencies in our attempts to optimize our lives. And if someone pushes us to micromanage that precious negative space, that’s usually a sign that they are seeing us as resources, and that they do not, in fact, have our best interests at heart.
Elites at War with the People By Ramesh Thakur. How long until centre-right political leaders across the Western democracies grasp the truth that the cultural hegemony is not as crushingly successful as believed by the elites? Without embracing populism, they can still address the practical concerns, interests, and aspirations that animate working and middle class people worried by cost of living pressures, breakdowns of family and social cohesion, and retreat from pride in flag, country, and religion. These majority voting cohorts are worried about mass immigration, the erosion of women’s rights under the relentless assault from trans activists, and the absolutist agenda of Net Zero and damn the costs.
Chevron, Murthy, and ‘Supreme’ Hypocrisy By Thomas Buckley. The majority of the court appeared to favor eliminating Chevron. It would be the height of hypocrisy – and one of the most culturally devastating decisions since Dred Scott – to not see the parallels and to rule any other way than against the government in Murthy. With that ruling, we can begin to gather in the tentacles of the censorship monster.
What’s in a Name? By Richard Kelly. Your name is important. To renounce it or change it is momentous. To be given a new secret name by an intimate partner is sublime. Imagine a new name, known only to you, carved on a white stone, handed only to you. How precious that would be. For now, each of us has the name we have. If we don’t use it, who will?
Justices’ Grave Error in Murthy v. Missouri By Aaron Kheriaty. If the justices want to distinguish between persuasion and coercion in the injunction, they need to appreciate that social media companies operate in a very different relationship with government than traditional print media. These asymmetrical power dynamics create a relationship ripe for unconstitutional government coercion.
Consequences of the Wrong Worldview By Thorsteinn Siglaugsson. The mechanistic view of the world and its quest for ultimate solutions has failed, for they are ultimately hostile to man as a thinking, moral being. In its place, we need a new vision of humanity, of society. What characterises that vision? I will not attempt to answer that question here and now. But I believe the experience and message of people like Mohamedou Ould Slahi may guide us. Reflecting on this experience and message is particularly fitting now when we celebrate Easter.
Poynter’s Creepy ‘Fact-Based Expression’ By Thomas Buckley. That is what the once vaunted now openly vile Poynter Institute – a pivot point of the international censorship-industrial complex – wishes to “strengthen…around the globe.” Pointedly, not “free speech,” but “fact-based expression.”
Medical Leadership Cannot Escape the ‘Misinformation’ Trap By Russ Gonnering. How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government—the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against “misinformation” in healthcare—which actually fostered “misinformation.”
Is Inflation Harmless? By Jeffrey Tucker. The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The headline is that his economist brain makes him say with regard to inflation: “Don’t worry, be happy.” The article gives the reader as much reason to trust economists as you do epidemiologists, which is to say not at all.
Fiscal Collapse Accelerates By Peter St Onge. Every fiscal trend is in the wrong direction. We’re already at a $2 trillion deficit, it will soar by trillions when recession hits. And it will keep churning with Social Security, Medicare, and spending on everything from illegal immigrants to fresh wars. At this point there is nothing standing between us and fiscal collapse. The only question is when.
Censorship on Trial at the Supreme Court By Maryanne Demasi. Billed as one of the most consequential lawsuits of the last century, Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v Biden) is a legal battle that stands at the intersection of free speech protections and social media companies.
Ivermectin’s Victory Over the FDA By Sonia Elijah. On March 21, a settlement was reached, leading to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreeing to remove social media posts and webpages discouraging the use of ivermectin for treating Covid-19.
Supreme Court Divided on Censorship By Aaron Kheriaty. If I’m a betting man, I’ll place my money (though not much money) that we’ll get a 5-4 or 6-3 decision upholding some kind of injunction. And while I hate to admit it, things could also go the other way. I think it will be close. Supreme Court decisions are notoriously difficult to predict, and it appears there are enemies of free speech on the bench even in the highest Court in the land.
Pandemics: A Business Opportunity By David Bell. For most of the rest of humanity – those not heavily invested in Pharma or software and those concerned about human rights – the future does not look so rosy. We are supposed to provide the money that ends up in the hands of the people running it all. That is how profiteering works. So we will have to put things right, because they obviously won’t. Now that it is all written out for us in the WHO documents and we are aware of the money transfers of the past few years, we no longer have any excuse to ignore it.
New Report Details Horrifying Cost of Fauci’s Failures By Ian Miller. Research into the economic cost of many of our Covid policies and mandates is still ongoing, but a new, extremely detailed report on school closures has created a horrifying context for just how damaging Anthony Fauci’s advocacy was during the pandemic.
Wait! There’s a Pandemic? By Lori Weintz. Before Covid-19 there had been other pandemics. But in the past 100 years, with the exception of the Spanish flu in 1918, the other pandemics came and went without much notice for the majority of the world’s population. For example, much press coverage of the first SARS in 2003 neglected to report there were only 774 total deaths worldwide. Likewise, the heightened reporting of the 2012 MERS pandemic failed to summarize that there were only 858 total deaths. In contrast, recurring influenza strains kill an average of 400,000 people worldwide each year.
If they will forcibly shut down your school, business, church, travel, and speech, then later force an injection of an untested, ineffective, and risky tax-funded product on you, and never utter a word of apology for any of it, what won't they do?
At this point, there seem to be no limits. Or rather: the only limit to power comes from the courage to resist. We are seeing that form at all levels of society in most countries in the world today. It takes many shapes, from scholars to litigators to doctors to journalists. It is ever more clear where people and institutions stand on the battles of our times.
We can pretend it is not happening but reality keeps intervening.You see what is happening in Brazil today, with extremely aggressive attempts to criminalize speech, even to the point of indicting a foreign entrepreneur like Elon Musk. Brazil is the test case, the model for the world.
Our main supper club in West Hartford is selling all tickets these days. You can jump in to join us on April 17, 2024, when Chris Martenson visits us. As always, we need and appreciate your support.
Here is some content since our last email.
The WHO Proposals: An Open Letter By David Bell. The drafting of the Open Letter below, addressing these issues, was led by three lawyers with experience with the WHO, within the UN and in international treaty law, Silvia Behrendt, Assoc. Prof Amrei Muller, and Dr. Thi Thuy Van Dinh. It simply calls upon the WHO and Member States to extend the deadline for the adoption of the amendments to the International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement at the 77th WHA to safeguard the rule of law and equity. To proceed with the current deadline, against their own legal requirements, would not just be legally wrong but demonstrate unequivocally that equity and respect for States rights have nothing to do with the WHO’s pandemic agenda.
We Must Resist the Grey Men By Haley Kynefin. For the sake of freedom, for the sake of vibrant and meaningful living, and for the sake of that very chaos and unpredictability that, in and of itself, provides the soil and the nutrients for beautiful variety to grow — we need to accept that there will always be holes and inefficiencies in our attempts to optimize our lives. And if someone pushes us to micromanage that precious negative space, that’s usually a sign that they are seeing us as resources, and that they do not, in fact, have our best interests at heart.
Elites at War with the People By Ramesh Thakur. How long until centre-right political leaders across the Western democracies grasp the truth that the cultural hegemony is not as crushingly successful as believed by the elites? Without embracing populism, they can still address the practical concerns, interests, and aspirations that animate working and middle class people worried by cost of living pressures, breakdowns of family and social cohesion, and retreat from pride in flag, country, and religion. These majority voting cohorts are worried about mass immigration, the erosion of women’s rights under the relentless assault from trans activists, and the absolutist agenda of Net Zero and damn the costs.
Chevron, Murthy, and ‘Supreme’ Hypocrisy By Thomas Buckley. The majority of the court appeared to favor eliminating Chevron. It would be the height of hypocrisy – and one of the most culturally devastating decisions since Dred Scott – to not see the parallels and to rule any other way than against the government in Murthy. With that ruling, we can begin to gather in the tentacles of the censorship monster.
What’s in a Name? By Richard Kelly. Your name is important. To renounce it or change it is momentous. To be given a new secret name by an intimate partner is sublime. Imagine a new name, known only to you, carved on a white stone, handed only to you. How precious that would be. For now, each of us has the name we have. If we don’t use it, who will?
Justices’ Grave Error in Murthy v. Missouri By Aaron Kheriaty. If the justices want to distinguish between persuasion and coercion in the injunction, they need to appreciate that social media companies operate in a very different relationship with government than traditional print media. These asymmetrical power dynamics create a relationship ripe for unconstitutional government coercion.
Consequences of the Wrong Worldview By Thorsteinn Siglaugsson. The mechanistic view of the world and its quest for ultimate solutions has failed, for they are ultimately hostile to man as a thinking, moral being. In its place, we need a new vision of humanity, of society. What characterises that vision? I will not attempt to answer that question here and now. But I believe the experience and message of people like Mohamedou Ould Slahi may guide us. Reflecting on this experience and message is particularly fitting now when we celebrate Easter.
Poynter’s Creepy ‘Fact-Based Expression’ By Thomas Buckley. That is what the once vaunted now openly vile Poynter Institute – a pivot point of the international censorship-industrial complex – wishes to “strengthen…around the globe.” Pointedly, not “free speech,” but “fact-based expression.”
Medical Leadership Cannot Escape the ‘Misinformation’ Trap By Russ Gonnering. How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government—the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against “misinformation” in healthcare—which actually fostered “misinformation.”
Is Inflation Harmless? By Jeffrey Tucker. The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The headline is that his economist brain makes him say with regard to inflation: “Don’t worry, be happy.” The article gives the reader as much reason to trust economists as you do epidemiologists, which is to say not at all.
Fiscal Collapse Accelerates By Peter St Onge. Every fiscal trend is in the wrong direction. We’re already at a $2 trillion deficit, it will soar by trillions when recession hits. And it will keep churning with Social Security, Medicare, and spending on everything from illegal immigrants to fresh wars. At this point there is nothing standing between us and fiscal collapse. The only question is when.
Censorship on Trial at the Supreme Court By Maryanne Demasi. Billed as one of the most consequential lawsuits of the last century, Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v Biden) is a legal battle that stands at the intersection of free speech protections and social media companies.
Ivermectin’s Victory Over the FDA By Sonia Elijah. On March 21, a settlement was reached, leading to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreeing to remove social media posts and webpages discouraging the use of ivermectin for treating Covid-19.
Supreme Court Divided on Censorship By Aaron Kheriaty. If I’m a betting man, I’ll place my money (though not much money) that we’ll get a 5-4 or 6-3 decision upholding some kind of injunction. And while I hate to admit it, things could also go the other way. I think it will be close. Supreme Court decisions are notoriously difficult to predict, and it appears there are enemies of free speech on the bench even in the highest Court in the land.
Pandemics: A Business Opportunity By David Bell. For most of the rest of humanity – those not heavily invested in Pharma or software and those concerned about human rights – the future does not look so rosy. We are supposed to provide the money that ends up in the hands of the people running it all. That is how profiteering works. So we will have to put things right, because they obviously won’t. Now that it is all written out for us in the WHO documents and we are aware of the money transfers of the past few years, we no longer have any excuse to ignore it.
New Report Details Horrifying Cost of Fauci’s Failures By Ian Miller. Research into the economic cost of many of our Covid policies and mandates is still ongoing, but a new, extremely detailed report on school closures has created a horrifying context for just how damaging Anthony Fauci’s advocacy was during the pandemic.
Wait! There’s a Pandemic? By Lori Weintz. Before Covid-19 there had been other pandemics. But in the past 100 years, with the exception of the Spanish flu in 1918, the other pandemics came and went without much notice for the majority of the world’s population. For example, much press coverage of the first SARS in 2003 neglected to report there were only 774 total deaths worldwide. Likewise, the heightened reporting of the 2012 MERS pandemic failed to summarize that there were only 858 total deaths. In contrast, recurring influenza strains kill an average of 400,000 people worldwide each year.
Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance By Stephan Kinsella. The unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the FDA and Federal Government is truly breathtaking to behold. Unfortunately, its nature is so arcane and obscure that only a few notice this, other than those who benefit from it and keep their lips shut. To unpack this we must explore a few separate but interrelated issues.