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The Capable Need Not Apply

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2025/05/09

The Capable Need Not Apply by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Once upon a time, signs telling the Irish they could not apply for jobs were apparently common. Today, the same signs could apply to “contrarian” or independent-thinking journalists in mainstream news organizations. Several years ago I reached the conclusion I’m unhirable in my chosen professionof journalism- at least at mainstream or corporate news organizations such as newspapers and magazines. I also think it’s unlikely I’d

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Elections in Canada, England, and Australia

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2025/05/09

Elections in Canada, England, and Australia by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute In a rare confluence, Canada, Britain, and Australia held elections within a week of one another, although in Britain’s case, these were local elections in England. Yet England’s local elections may turn out to be the most consequential of the three for centre-right politics across the Western world. Last year I noted, amidst a gathering crisis of democracy, the rise of the New Right on both sides of the North

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Where the Money Went: USG Funding to...

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2025/05/08

Where the Money Went: USG Funding to Counter-Mis/Disinformation Initiatives by Andrew Lowenthal at Brownstone Institute Last week, my non-profitliber-netunveiled anew database of US government awardsto mis-dis-and-malinformation (MDM) and other content control initiatives. Aprevious Network Affects postbroke down where that money came from. This one details where the money went, specifically the countries, regions, topics, and activities, and the top organisations that took home the cash. The

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Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic...

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2025/05/08

Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic Agreement: Pointless Verbiage by Thi Thuy Van Dinh at Brownstone Institute Background The draft Pandemic Agreement (PA) has been under development for three years by delegates of 194 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health agency of the United Nations instituted after the Second World War. The WHO has been pushing to negotiate a pandemic treaty or accord to better prepare the world for pandemic preparedness, prevention, and

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Trump Issues Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Studies

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2025/05/07

Trump Issues Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Studies by Meryl Nass at Brownstone Institute Here is the E.O.:https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/improving-the-safety-and-security-of-biological-research/ Nic Hulscher did an excellent job discussing ithere.Hereis the order. I have bolded the areas I will discuss. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose

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Pilgrimages to Nowhere?

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2025/05/07

Pilgrimages to Nowhere? by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute In one of my trips back home after college, I remember my mother telling me, between half-embarrassed chuckles, how in high school she had caught herself genuflecting as she entered the row leading to her seat at the movie theater. My father, who was also there, confessed sheepishly to having had the same experience on a date at the same age. To my knowledge, neither of my parents suffered from any sort of cognitive

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Power Outage, Inner Power

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2025/05/06

Power Outage, Inner Power by Jordi Pigem at Brownstone Institute April 28th will be remembered as the largest blackout (so far) in European history. Power went down in the whole of continental Spain and Portugal, taking more than 20 hours to come back in some areas. It has been blamed on technical causes, although the Audiencia Nacional (National High Court) has opened an investigation for possible cyberattack. Whatever the cause, however, we can see it as a symptom of something deeper and more

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Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System

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2025/05/06

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The American system of medical-care delivery has no name. It is neither single payer nor based on private enterprise. It is a patchwork of cockamamie carrots and sticks, agencies and incentives, exceptions and accounting tricks, cajoles and punishments, cobbled together over some 50-100 years of legislation that itself was a product of pressure-group pushes, graft, loopholes, mandates, and

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Were School Windows Really Sealed Shut?

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2025/05/05

Were School Windows Really Sealed Shut? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute There was so much fakery for so long during the Covid era that it is hard to keep up. It slammed us daily on the news. There was Plexiglas, six feet of distance, mass use of sanitizer, one-way grocery aisles, the HEPA filter racket, the belief in stay-at-home orders, the reopening hoax, and so much more, so many we cannot possibly remember them or list them. In this search, we don’t even have to examine the

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Meet the Latest Vaccine Propagandist

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2025/05/05

Meet the Latest Vaccine Propagandist by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute In case you were not aware, MedPage is a Pharmaceutical industry-funded marketing (synonym: Propaganda) operation posting as an objective source of medical truth. On January 05, 2024, this Pharma Propaganda outlet published a video interview with Dr. Paul Offit, professional academic pediatrician and vaccine shill, in which he states a series of falsehoods in continuation of the gaslighting and falsehoods which

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The Perfidy of 60 Minutes

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2025/05/04

The Perfidy of 60 Minutesby Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute It is a truism, a trope, a meme, common knowledge, a cliché, as obvious as a nose on a face, an actual fact and something so apparent that it is impossible in any way, shape, or form to deny unless utterly delusional. But, somehow, time and time again, the major media players defy actual reality and try and try to substitute their own absurd version and – even more incredibly, like a lunatic accusing the clouds in the

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Why California Matters

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2025/05/03

Why California Matters by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute In order to understand the magnitude of the position in which we find ourselves, we must first understand the magnitude of the deception and the machinery. We must look back at all of the components and contributing factors that may have seemed unrelated, but which we can see today are anything but. This means starting at the mouth of the river and tracing all the tributaries, in order to effectively analyze the terrain. Take

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The Shabby Media’s $176M Canard

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2025/05/02

The Shabby Media’s $176M Canard by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute Yet another report just appeared about how HHS has contracted with Moderna to produce a Bird flu vaccine. The contract is worth $176 million. The latest report dated May 1, 2025 runs in something called Endocrinology Advisor. Similar stories have run in U.S. News & World Report and Infectious Disease Advisor. Here is where things get odd. You can search the sites of HHS, NIH, and ASPR and will not find

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Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs

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2025/05/02

Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute Donald Trump’s entire political history is a cautionary tale against confusing elite and media fury for heartland sentiment. A certain strategic coherence and a common tactic unite Trump’s domestic and foreign policies in pursuit of the overarching goal of making America great again. The bigger concern is not that there’s no method to his apparent madness, but that the implementation of his ambitious national and

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Is This the Man Who Created Covid-19 in Fauci’s US Lab?

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2025/05/01

Is This the Man Who Created Covid-19 in Fauci’s US Lab? by Will Jones at Brownstone Institute Top US virologist Ralph Baric engineered the Covid-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 in his lab at the University of North Carolina as part of his work in connection with the 2018 DEFUSE funding proposal. That’s the story that’s been going round the internet for some months now (and not just in alternative media) and it all looks very damning for Baric and those connected with his research. Details of the DEFUSE

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“White Rural Rage” and Modern Catharism

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2025/05/01

“White Rural Rage” and Modern Catharism by Craig Pirrong at Brownstone Institute The “Cathars”–the target of (a) the first intra-Europe crusade (and arguably the first crusade period*) that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands (often by fire) and the desolation of vast swathes of southern France, and (b) an inquisition that killed more–are a source of fascination and mystery. They left little of a written record, and most of that which is “known” about them was written by a

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Is “Freedom” a Non-Word?

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2025/04/30

Is “Freedom” a Non-Word? by Gerardine Hoogland at Brownstone Institute The past few years have prompted a more focused view upon the word Freedom and all that it entails. Covid lockdowns along with coercive directives to take a new and warp-speed-developed vaccine to “save Grandma” have been at the core of it. When I ran as a candidate in Australia’s federal election in 2022 for the United Australia Party, I was one of four freedom candidates vying in my electorate of Lilley. One day on

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IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

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2025/04/30

IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers by James Bovard at Brownstone Institute Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent

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Epidemiology Lecture from the Year 2040

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2025/04/29

Epidemiology Lecture from the Year 2040 by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute Good morning, Twenty years ago, the world faced a viral pandemic called the Covid pandemic (then, Covid-19), which mainly affected the elderly and was blown out of proportion. The virus was created in a laboratory as part of foolish and dangerous gain-of-function research. Many of you were too young to recall the details but one significant event was the development of an mRNA vaccine, now called gene therapy

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What Must Modern Top-Flight Education Look Like?

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2025/04/29

What Must Modern Top-Flight Education Look Like? by Gigi Foster at Brownstone Institute A good education prepares one for the realities of adulthood and successful interaction with the world. At the university level, whether via college or homeschooling, a good education develops the intellectual, emotional, and social muscles. One is moulded into a person who uses tools, not crutches; who accepts responsibility rather than accepting stories of victimhood; and who recognises that human

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