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"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men will have to reject." - Ayn Rand

[Nifkins Bridge @Nifkinsbridge]

A cautionary tale for civilized humans by Matthew Bracken https://t.co/Uc4fRfxmPi

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Canada is run on a pyramid scheme if you don't increase population, pensions and healthcare will fail. The number of working-age people for every senior aged 65 and older dropped from 7.7 in 1966 to 3.4 in 2022, and is projected to fall near 3. Young people now pay more tax's to support a failing system than their predecessors did and doubtful they will even collect a pension when they reach retirement age as Canada's birth rate is dramatically declining and is producing half of what is necessary to sustain Canada's pensions and healthcare costs.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

One of the biggest contributors to the unwarranted hatred of unvaccinated Canadians was the media. We can’t forget the enormous roll they played in twisting the minds of fearful Canadians to hate us.
And they continue to keep the population divided, fearful & distracted to this day.
There is no doubt they have caused immense harm to democracy & the minds of so many.
These are just some of the headlines I saved from that time.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

2020: The Science™ is settled

2021: Trust the Science™

2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™

2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market

2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th

[Blazingcatfur @fancypants_s]

Canadian Population Underreported, Artificially Improving Job Data: CIBC https://t.co/vsZybkW1yo

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Took me almost a full week, but I’ve finally finished the Fauci Diaries. It is a look inside the state/corporatist system possibly without precedent. It doesn’t provide the entire picture of events but it is remarkably candid.

The first spin on this book is partially correct: it’s an exercise in vanity. True. But there is much more here. It’s the story of the descent of a soul at every stage of decline: social climbing, egomania, megalomania, duplicity, self deception, intensifying levels of malice, exhaustion using courtiers as salve, and ending in total defeat realized only inchoately.

Reading it is a remarkable experience. It’s obviously not well written but that is a strength, a bit like how the “Blair Witch Project” is scarier due to its low budget. It’s raw and painful, alarming and shocking, and ultimately speaks to much more than the life of the author. It’s really a window into systemic corruption of nearly all the commanding heights of society itself, and offers a devastating indictment of the ruling class in government, media, science, and industry.

Does Fauci catch on that the media is using him as much as he is using them, that is, that he inhabited a world of fakery? Maybe but he decides early on that it is only choice. He has to keep it up else his whole world crumbles. This Icarus just kept flapping his wings without realizing that they were melting.

Another feature that stands out: It was always political theater and never about science. Multiple times, Fauci overrides evidence in favor of messaging toward his preferred political and industrial end.

Then you have this strange and persistent obsession of Fauci of maintaining social position with daily infusions of assurance that he is great, loved, admired, admitted to all the right parties, attended all the best events, with a contacts list that included the world’s rich, famous, and powerful. This is all he had to assure himself of his grand life. Even in the end, he does not seem to realize the role he played in upending the very system to which he so desperately wanted to belong.

Yes, nearly every page makes me angry but finishing it leaves me with something I had not expected; something like the sadness you feel in a Gothic novel when a promising life takes a terrible turn toward perdition and somehow cannot find the escape from that path.

The Picture of Dorian Grey also comes to mind. Fauci guarded his reputation as a scientist just as Dorian guarded his seeming youth. To do so required a costly exchange. In both stories, the status of the soul (represented by the painting for Dorian) belies appearances.

Nowhere could he have anticipated during the writing of the book that six years after his apotheosis that he would be trapped in a chair in a Senate chamber, ashen and defeated, surrounded by silent lawyers, his accusers on all sides, pleading the 5th amendment 111 times.

The wings completely melted. De profundis clamavi.

I invite you and everyone to spend time with this book for the ages.

https://t.co/LClU1nL4kK

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"There is no trade war with the United States. It's pure nonsense. The U.S. administration has simply concluded that globalization is a failed policy and is now implementing protectionist trade measures against nearly every country in the world. The term “war” merely serves a convenient political purpose for Ottawa."

[Far Side Fix @farsidefix]

#TheFarSide

[Nifkins Bridge @Nifkinsbridge]

Summer of Our Discontent https://t.co/fAUMrwcxJI

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

"The kettle is boiling faster than we planned and the frogs are noticing"

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Lawful Access vs. Privacy https://t.co/n1P8dDWW8a

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The Fifth Man https://t.co/YDyYR6l8Ox

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Why Fauci Matters https://t.co/1U1fMvJbj9

[Theo Fleury @TheoFleury14]

This didn’t age very well!!!! Canada’s #1 vaccine salesman should be arrested.

[Handre @Handre]

The Cash for Clunkers program, which Congress passed in June 2009 and burned through its $3 billion budget in under two months, destroyed functional wealth on a national scale, and somehow they called it "stimulus."

The mechanics were simple: trade in a working car, receive up to $4,500 toward a new one, and watch government employees pour sodium silicate into the old engine to make it seize permanently. Around 700,000 vehicles got crushed. These were not rusted-out death traps. The eligibility rules required the trade-in to be drivable and insured. You were watching the state systematically annihilate usable capital because Keynesian demand theory told it that destruction generates recovery. Frederic Bastiat explained why this is wrong in 1850, in an essay short enough to read on your lunch break. Congress ignored it.

The ripple effect hit people the government never mentioned in its press releases. Mechanics lost repair work. Used-car dealers watched their inventory evaporate. Low-income buyers who depend on the sub-$5,000 market faced prices that jumped roughly 10% in the years after the program. Free market economists call this "seen versus unseen." Politicians only showed you the gleaming new Chevy Malibu driving off the lot. They never showed you the single mother in Akron who needed a $3,000 Corolla and found nothing affordable left on the lot.

Even the environmental justification collapsed under basic scrutiny. A 2009 study by Resources for the Future calculated that the program cost between $237 and $365 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced. The voluntary carbon credit market at the time priced a ton around $10 to $20. The government spent up to thirty times the market rate to achieve an environmental outcome the market was already pricing far more efficiently.

This is what central planning always does. It takes your money, destroys real assets, and transfers wealth from the poor to auto manufacturers and their financiers. The program's designers received awards. The Akron mother paid higher prices. The engines sat crushed in junkyards. Nobody in Washington answered for any of it.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Trudeau claims no one was forced to take the product yet here he is clearly condoning the use of coercion. More young people felt forced to take the injection after they were told they would be banned from society.
And just listen to his language, “We said, you don’t get to get back to things you like to do…unless you get vaccinated…”

The population just let these tyrants control their lives? Think about that. This is why the Freedom Convoy was so important.

Now this guy travels the world without a care in the world? Like this never even happened?

Never forget.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

There are certain moments in Fauci's book that just send chills up the spine, causing an experience of darkness for which no one can prepare you. This inauspicious and cold passage did that for me. Seems like nothing but actually 1) we knew for sure that children are of near-zero risk of medically significant effects of infection, 2) the injectable product did not stop infection, 3) the injectable product did not stop the spread. Even so, you have Fauci celebrating how paid-off and deeply compromised "experts" voted unanimously to push shots on the kids, and for only one reason: it indemnifies the industry against claims of harm. This is really hard to take, from Nov 21, 2021.

[Matt Alexander @RealMattA_]

A kid on a rink, a snitch, a taser & 2 fumbling cops.

Canada in a nutshell.

The 2020s highlighted a dramatic change to the collective Canadian psyche - clearly seen in the arrest of Ocean Weisblatt, during Covid.

Once friendly, rugged and dependable Canadians became snitching, paranoid and hateful.

A sweaty-palmed, snitchline caller was offended that kids were playing hockey, outside.

Police drew a taser on the last kid on the ice, then attacked him.

His crime?

Standing alone, outside, on a hockey rink - endangering Grandma.

This is what Canada has become.

LOST FREEDOM FILES # 5267

[Nifkins Bridge @Nifkinsbridge]

@TomTSEC Fickle is the standard.