The FDA’s inaction has created a black market dominated by unregulated imports, many from China. According to my own research, roughly 85 percent of pouches now sold in convenience stores are technically illegal.
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Hegel valorized the state as god marching on earth, a force of social firmament bending history to inevitable conquest of rightful victors. Adopted by the right (national socialism) & left (international socialism) to infuse the state with an air of inevitability.
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What we blame as capitalism is often not capitalism at all. It’s the result of government overreach, unchecked money printing, massive deficit spending, and collusion between the state and mega-corporations.

That’s not a free market.
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In the triumph of luxury politics, the costs of the rich suffused in the golden glow of virtue are borne by the poor. Should a billion more Chinese and Indians have stayed poor and destitute over the last four decades, so Westerners could feel virtuous-green?

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May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor's tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
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This is not about partisanship or ideology. It is about human life and if society can survive this onslaught of violence whether private or public. We must expose those who fund the unraveling of our society and see that they are stopped by legal means.
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Daszak can plead ignorance on the meaning of gain-of-function research (he claims he does not “have a personal definition”), but there is a well-documented history demonstrating his obstinate pursuit of gain-of-function research at EcoHealth.
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[T]he vast number of sectors we think of as serving society are really serving mainly narrow interests at the expense of everyone else. Deep, middle, and shallow layers: that’s the structure of the system that is at war with freedom. brownstone.org/articles/ana...

More free speech would have resulted in a better informed and better protected society.
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He’s been criticized so heavily, he had to shut down his X account and hide on Bluesky.

Holden Thorp is paid over $700,000 and AAAS’s biggest single funder, from what I can tell, is the US federal government. Why are taxpayers subsidizing this kind of nonsense?
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Babel isn’t just a story about tribalism. It’s a story about loss of stability & displacement to a new reality. It’s a metaphor for what’s happening not just between right & left, pro- & anti-narrative, but for what’s shifting in institutions, culture, & ourselves. brownstone.org/articles/tog...

While Gorski and Yamey provided no evidence that Koch money funded the GBD signatories, the BMJ still published their piece….The BMJ article is full of errors that ought to have never found their way into any publication,” wrote Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator. brownstone.org/articles/cov...

"Perhaps most chilling is the complete absence of informed consent. The crisis revealed how quickly we abandoned our most sacred protections." brownstone.org/articles/how...

The pandemic opened the curtain to expose the folly of expert worship. Experts are just as fallible and prone to biases, toxic groupthink and political influence as anyone else. brownstone.org/articles/fal...

"No matter how low our opinion is of the 'expert' class, it’s clearly not low enough."
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Our most read article this month:
"The battle we kicked off with the Great Barrington Declaration is hardly over."
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Wow, who knew there were so many cats here? Apparently BlueSky is filled with cats. Kinda like Tumblr back in the day?

Five years ago or even two years ago, so much seemed hopeless. Brownstone Institute has undertaken the hard lifting to drive us away from dystopia back into hope for a better future.

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Can anyone who has read Doddsworth’s essential A State of Fear, or read German government’s “Panic Paper” doubt the conscious & cynical desire by governments, who supposedly serve at the pleasure of the people, to inflict trauma on the populations of those countries?
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Emails obtained through FOIA show that Fauci was alerted by January 27, 2020, that his institute had funded “among the biggest players in coronavirus work,” namely EcoHealth Alliance and its collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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