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The Covidian Cult (Part III)

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not “insanity” or “an overreaction,” but, in

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How Big Data COVID Monitoring Could Be Used to Control People Post-pandemic

Ausma Bernot Alexander Trauth-Goik Sue Trevaskes mercatornet.com Ausma Bernot is a PhD Candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Alex Trauth-Goik is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Sue Trevaskes is Head of School (Interim)

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Is the Left/Right Divide Becoming Blurred?
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Is the Left/Right Divide Becoming Blurred?

Dark Jester For some time now, politics has always been divided on partisan lines and specifically can be easily divided based on the political continuum. On the left you had people who believed that the state provided better goods and services and therefore they favoured bigger government and more state

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Sweden Bans Israeli Travellers

Sweden Bans Israeli Travellers

As Bob Dylan once said, “For the loser now will be later to win”. The 60s are not exactly a fading memory (mainly because the Boomers just can’t shut the hell up about them), but the times they are still a-changin’. With dizzying rapidity. Last week’s pandemic “losers”

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Eric Abetz: Yes, Afghanistan Was Worth It

Eric Abetz: Yes, Afghanistan Was Worth It

In the popular (read: left-wing) media narrative, the war in Afghanistan sits somewhere between WWI and Vietnam. It was, we are told, a colossal waste of blood and treasure. Fought on a false premise and doomed to fail. But is that true? It certainly isn’t true of WWI; despite

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In Afghanistan, Opium Is as Big a Winner as Islamic Extremism

Giada Ferrucci Western University Giada ferrucci is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies at Western University. She holds a BA in Economic Development and International Cooperation from the University of Florence, Italy, where her research focused on the opium trade in Afghanistan and alternative economic development reforms, and an

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Private Enterprise Comes to the Rescue of Stranded Americans

Private Enterprise Comes to the Rescue of Stranded Americans

Leesa K. Donner libertynation.com Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the author of

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The Taliban’s Preferred Pronouns Are He/Him. How Come They Still Won?

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. However slick, however glib, however metronomic, governments do need effective public relations teams. As the video below shows, the Taliban’s image management could do with a bit of polishing. A newsreader for Afghan TV reads a script about

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There Are Ethical Issues, but Let’s Do It Anyway

There Are Ethical Issues, but Let’s Do It Anyway

On 27 August, the WHO published the Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidance for digitally implementing a COVID-19 vaccine passport. Call it “The Great Reset”, “A New World Order”, “Build Back Better” or whatever you like.  It is not a good development. An interesting section examines the ethical considerations of what

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