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The Red Dawn Email Dump: February-March 2020

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organisation conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimises the role of violence in public life. The gigantic mess called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn in early

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Govt Cannot Be Trusted With Emergency Powers

Paul Elias Alexander brownstone.org Dr. Paul Alexander is an epidemiologist focusing on clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology. He has a master’s in epidemiology from University of Toronto, and a master’s degree from Oxford University. Warning Long read. 1818 words. In the last week, some of

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What Wellington Has in Common with Berlin

What Wellington Has in Common with Berlin

What does Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand have in common with Germany? No, it’s not just crappy weather and a reflexive urge to follow rules and obey orders, and you wish it was the beer. No, what New Zealand and Germany have in common is that they’re both

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The Rise of the New Normal Reich

The Rise of the New Normal Reich

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org DISCLAIMER: The essay is entirely the work of our in-house satirist and self-appointed political pundit, CJ Hopkins, and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Consent Factory, Inc., or its staff, or any of its agents, subsidiaries, or assigns. If, for whatever inexplicable

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Hypocrites Back to Digging for Coal

Hypocrites Back to Digging for Coal

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.

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Can China Buy Friends Forever?

Can China Buy Friends Forever?

God damn Mark Steyn: he always steals the best lines. Especially about China. It was Steyn who, pointing out China’s inescapable demographic trajectory, wrote that unless it’s “planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta”, what’s it going to do with all its un-paired young men?

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Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. A significant part of the world has by now accepted that Covid-19 is part of the normal cycle of flus and colds and, as such, should not be

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Will a Good Ol’ Nuclear War Make Hillary Feel Better?

Will a Good Ol’ Nuclear War Make Hillary Feel Better?

As I pondered more than a month ago, is NATO, the US especially, exploiting Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia? Well, we don’t have to wonder any more, because that’s exactly what they’re telling us. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has openly admitted that

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Taking Away Your Right to Choose

Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro

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Afghanistan: How the Media Just Moved On

Afghanistan: How the Media Just Moved On

Whatever happened to Afghanistan… again? Remember when Afghanistan dominated the headlines, a whole 20 years ago. Then it made its Elvis-like comeback — only to flash and fade again from the Western media consciousness. If Vietnam was the “television war”, Afghanistan was the war television forgot — twice. The Western media was

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Busted Clocks Can Tell Harsh Truths

Busted Clocks Can Tell Harsh Truths

As BFD readers will surely be aware, I’m no fan of the Solomon Islands government and its security pact with China. But, if nothing else, the whole affair serves to throw a harsh light on the rank hypocrisy of the media-political rhetoric over the Ukraine war. It also shows

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Your Net Worth is Zero

Your Net Worth is Zero

What absolute twaddle!  Of course, my net worth is not zero!  I have assets such as: A Healthy Bank Account. Well, just make sure that you do not donate any money to a cause the government then decides it does not like.  Look what happened to those who legally donated

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How Marine Le Pen Managed to Gain Ground with Youth Voters

How Marine Le Pen Managed to Gain Ground with Youth Voters

Kimberly Tower American University School of International Service Camille Gélix Sciences Po Kimberly Tower is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in International Relations and Comparative Politics at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C. Camille Gélix graduated in Political Science from the University of Montreal and in

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China Feels the Wrath of Islam

China Feels the Wrath of Islam

Fools, as they say, rush in. As I wrote some months back, China is eagerly hopping into the still-warm grave of the US intervention in Afghanistan. The last US helicopter had barely lifted off when China’s foreign minister was hosting the Taliban and preparing to sign a series of

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