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This is excerpted from Chapter 22 of my forthcoming. Chapter 22 “Every serious civilization, like every serious person,” she said, “possesses an essence or a spirit. A soul, if you like.” She was a political refugee. She was standing – not sitting – at my bar one quiet Tuesday afternoon. She was half Puerto […]
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The following is excerpted from my forthcoming. Chapter 1 The art of independent thinking is the art of individual inquiry, and individual inquiry is rooted in observation. When a child learns through personal experience, by bouncing it on a concrete surface, that a properly filled basketball can be dribbled, but then after testing the […]
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As many among us stated in the beginning: absent a cure or vaccination, you simply cannot stop the spread of any coronavirus or rhinovirus, novel or non-novel. Nor does the virus get bored or tired and so move on to another planet. This is why I’m posting a recent thread I read (click on each image […]
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The heartbreaking truth about human enslavement is that it’s existed across all races and all major cultures, and it has existed since the dawn of humankind: Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Jewish, African, Asian, European, Mayan, Aztec, and countless others. As long as there have been human beings, there have also been purveyors of force enslaving their […]
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Today is the 90th birthday of the American economist Dr. Thomas Sowell — a true genius and independent-thinker, who’s been an inspiration to me for a long time, and from whom I’ve learned a great deal. I sincerely believe that it has never been more important to read and understand Thomas Sowell. In his autobiography […]
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This is for all those who don’t believe that science has become totally politicized and therefore totally corrupt — climate science perhaps most especially — who have hounded and harassed me and others like me a long time now for pointing out that the peer-review process has long become a farce and the scientific method, […]
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It’s not merely for money that healthy humans work. Before free-exchange which created specialization which created the division of labor, the vast majority of human exertion was directed toward one thing only, and that was the production of food. For most of human history, people labored their entire lives, from sun-up to sundown, six or […]
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continued … As the graphics above indicate, there is no proof that lockdowns decreased transmission of the Covid-19 virus. That is the first thing to note. The notion that “lockdowns saved a million lives,” as Snopes recently put it, is not merely an unsubstantiated claim: it will definitely turn out to be the precise opposite […]
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These are both recent photos — and they pretty well encapsulate everything significant about the Covid-19 disparities and vicissitudes and inanities: This first one is Malmo, Sweden — one of the few countries which, as you know, did not succumb to mass hysteria, nor conform nor cave to the intense consensus pressure which is still […]
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Covid-19 may have an overall lethality that’s closer to seasonal flu than previously thought, but in the following two ways it is not like seasonal flu: If it were like the flu, 700 children would now be dead and 150 infants would be deceased. As it is, 17 deaths across both age brackets have been […]
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Today Denmark, which reopened its schools on April 15th, declared its first day of no Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began. Denmark’s state epidemiologist also recently said a second wave is “very unlikely.” Full article via Reuters: The following if from 2006 survey of disease mitigation strategies by several top epidemiologists, who back then […]
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Light is life. Light is light. This fellow has been indefatigable. The real scandal and outrage in this whole ghastly spectacle has been the criminal policies enacted anent nursing homes and the elderly. Remember that. It is not going away, and I, for one, will make sure that this bureaucratic abomination be exposed. Assuming 10:1 […]
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This is from the Miami Herald: At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January — and at least eight of them both had not traveled and did not have contact with another person infected by the virus. The trend continued into February. Read the full article here. The […]
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This video clip shows real human beings, young and old, lining up for the food pantry in South Africa. This is a glimpse of the appalling toll that forced lockdowns are already taking upon Africa. You may be certain that it will get much worse quickly. Starvation has a 100 percent fatality-rate. Covid-19 has a […]
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In that late autumn of 1968, a novel virus swept across the entire world, entering America in December of that same year– a virus that quickly became known as the Hong Kong virus. It was, as Bojan Pancevski recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, a virus “responsible for eventually killing more than 1 million […]
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011