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Thanks to CoCoLuv9491 for recommending this article... The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics In a New York Times op-ed this week, the group completely reversed its views, arguing vaccine mandates help civil liberties and bodily autonomy "is not absolute." Glenn Greenwald Protest for medical freedom and health choice in Minnesota, Stop the mandates, Minnesota citizens demand informed consent and transparency in matters of health choice and medical freedom without coercion. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) surprised  even many of its harshest critics this week when it strongly defended coercive programs and other mandates from the state in the name of fighting COVID. “Far from compromising them, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties,” its Twitter account  announced , adding that “vaccine requirements also safeguard those whose work invol...

Pay no attention to the spike proteins behind the curtain British researchers find a potential mechanism for Covid vaccine-caused heart injury Alex Berenson The preprint came out in July, from scientists and physicians at the University of Bristol, one of Britain’s top universities. Naturally, it has received almost no attention, even after they presented it in August at the European Society of Cardiology Congress. Research that raises doubts about the safety of the Covid vaccines - even indirectly - rarely gets traction. The preprint runs 26 pages and includes 56 footnotes. I am no expert on the structure and function of heart cells, but as far as I can tell it appears meticulously documented. And it paints a troubling picture: specialized blood vessel cells called pericytes have receptors called CD147s. The novel coronavirus itself (Sars-Cov-2) cannot attack these CD147s and damage the pericyte cells, potentially leading to clotting and heart attacks. But free-floating spike protein ...

Omar Khan  COVID Bosh: The Illicit and the Desperate The lies are growing more desperate. Now more than ever, we have to cleave to what we can best discern and know to most likely, rationally, be the case. Questions I’ve been asked, answers I’ve sought to offer. How ‘remarkable’ truly is the COVID-19 narrative? Governments deceiving their people with half-truths and distortions is par for the course. Those WMDs still beckon from their illusory lair. The devastating cost, futility and denouement of Afghanistan shrieks at us. But war and peace are woven in the fabric of our national narratives. The “announcement” of a rare pathogen requiring the suspension of life as we know it, on no real data, and the stern, almost reflexive, stifling of any recommendations that seek to educate us away from raw panic, are a curious brew. What is remarkable is not so much the deception, but that far from the inculcated “majesty” of war and peace, and all the iconic stirrings of national identity, w...

Meditation and the Art of War The Education Wars Part II Mathew Crawford “ I never let schooling interfere with my education .” Mark Twain If you've never read Sun Tzu's  The Art of War , you've surely seen it quoted. Maybe you've seen it on a shelf at the bookstore. Why have generals like Douglas MacArthur and Colin Powell, not to mention intelligence officials and business moguls, consistently praise the 2,500 Chinese relic in modern times? Was that novel-sized book really written 2,500 years ago? Those who have read the "book" already know the joke:  The Art of War  spans 13 short "chapters". And they're not really chapters: these were scrolls set up in a tent where a Chinese military general went to meditate on cultivated and curated. The books you see in stores are largely filled with one or another historian's perspective on the ancient texts. Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Without...