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Guinea Pigs United

Gilad Atzmon • January 9, 2021

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Not many countries are brave or reckless enough to execute a vast medical experiment on their entire population and put vulnerable people at risk. Britain and Israel did. On December 8, Britain was the first Western country to start “immunising its population.” Two weeks later, just a few days before Christmas, Britain grasped that it... Read More

Lockdown III

James Thompson • January 8, 2021

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The UK is under lockdown again. According to YouGov (4340 adults surveyed on 5th January) 85% of citizens approve. There may also be Tiers, of the four former sorts, and a possible fifth for very serious cases, but these have probably been superseded, and should be considered old news. Now it is just lockdown, and... Read More

Fourth Year at Unz

James Thompson • January 3, 2021

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Despite providing a lot of unsolicited spare time, 2020 was not the best of years. Enough said. Each post got an average of 6000 pageviews, and generated 19,600 comment words, resulting in a total of 530,000 comment words for the year. Since starting in 2013 I have posted 976 items, containing a total of 876,000... Read More

Covid Chronicle Crumbling

Italy, CDC, find Covid in 2019

Godfree Roberts • January 3, 2021

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Last March Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health, said that the Coronavirus might have been spreading quietly in humans for years, or even decades, without causing a detectable outbreak. A few weeks later, a British-German team led by evolutionary virologist Peter Forster published A phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes, reconstructing... Read More

Police Target Hockey in Canada As Viral Hysteria Intensifies

Tony Hall • January 2, 2021

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Calgary Police Services gave a distinctively Canadian twist to an episode highlighting the pent up frustrations aroused by the pervasive global lockdowns during the closing days of 2020. The lockdowns throughout much of the world have become, in effect, the economic nukes in a high-level crime spree that has made 2020 a year like no... Read More

The COVID Crematoria Conundrum

John Huss • January 1, 2021

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Uh-oh. Alarming news (is there any other kind these days?) suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has put a catastrophic strain on the world’s crematoria not seen since … well, we’ll get to that in a moment. Let us take these headlines at face value for the sake of argument: Zittau, Germany: Reports from this Saxony... Read More

Where Did Covid Come from?

Paul Craig Roberts • December 30, 2020

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The focus of the worldwide public’s attention on masks, lockdowns, infection rates, and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covid’s origin. Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible? If so, why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of... Read More

The Bitter Tiers of Mutant England

James Thompson • December 22, 2020

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This has been the year of counting the days. On Saturday morning people in England were preparing for a family Christmas. By 5 pm that afternoon they were phoning their regrets, in sadness and sometimes rage. All this may be good news. Opinions differ. The story so far is that the United Kingdom has not... Read More

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The 1918 Rockefeller-US Army Worldwide Pandemic

Larry Romanoff • December 18, 2020

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One new historical development that has been evolving over a few years and now brought into focus because of COVID-19, is the so-called "Spanish Flu" of 1918. Recurring reports and documentation are emerging to tell us that this 'Greatest Pandemic in History' was [1] not "Spanish", [2] not "the flu" and, [3] not a natural... Read More

Death to Heretics

The Case of Nobel laureate James Watson demonstrates the lengths the media is willing to go to suppress an honest,...

Edward Dutton • December 17, 2020

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This essay is drawn from the book Making Sense of Race, which can be purchased here. Many of us who appreciate the reality and importance of race have long hoped that “one day” an irreproachable, eminently credible scientist might speak some sense on the matter—breaking open the gates for the rest of us. As we... Read More

Western Public Health Officials Are Intentionally Withholding Life-Saving Safe Treatments for Covid

Paul Craig Roberts • December 16, 2020

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I have pointed out to you in a number of postings to this website that known cures for Covid are being suppressed. HCQ, for example, is being intentionally kept from people who as a result needlessly die from Covid. In other words, it is the intent of public health authorities for Covid to be deadly.... Read More

Why Black People Cannot Trust the Pfizer Vaccine

Wesley Muhammad • December 16, 2020

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The Pfizer pharmaceutical company beat everyone to the punch by being the first Covid-19 vaccine to be granted Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA. There is an aggressive media and government campaign to “[push] blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans to the front of the [vaccine] line, ahead of whites.” The Department of Veterans Affairs has... Read More

COVID-19 Un-Explained

Larry Romanoff • December 14, 2020

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Waves, Ripples and Surges Let's examine the normal pattern for an outbreak of a typical infectious disease. According to the US CDC: [1] "A common-source outbreak is one in which a group of persons are all exposed to an infectious agent or a toxin from the same source. If the number of cases during an... Read More

James Flynn, RIP

James Thompson • December 12, 2020

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James Flynn came to psychology from political science, and was a quick learner. He attacked Arthur Jensen’s 1969 paper, and Art wrote back quickly disposing of his objections, and then suggesting new lines of attack. James Flynn followed those up, and they began working together. I had met Arthur Jensen in 1970, when I gave... Read More

Race Denial Fanatics vs. Law Enforcement, Academic Reality

John Derbyshire • December 12, 2020

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The core ideology of our Ruling Class, which citizens contradict at peril of losing their livelihood, is Race Denialism. Statistical differences in outcome by race cannot possibly be biological in origin. The only reasons for those differences you may discuss in public are social:... Read More

The Arguments Against "Race"

Edward Dutton • December 10, 2020

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This essay is drawn from the book Making Sense of Race, which can be purchased here. "Race" is a coherent biological category, as much as is "species," and the cases against it simply don't add up. Is "race" an outmoded, morally dubious idea that was deservedly cast into the dustbin of history, along with Stalinism,... Read More

Is Brussels Broken?

James Thompson • December 8, 2020

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I have excellent memories of Brussels, Belgium, and in particular of the Grande Place, a gem of European architecture, dating back to the 13th century, but in its surviving form mostly the creation of 17th Guilds flaunting their wealth in finely decorated grand trading houses. To stand in it is to savour the refinements of... Read More

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The Covid-19 Vaccine and the U.S. Policy of Depopulation

Ava Muhammad • December 8, 2020

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Part I of a series on the Covid-19 vaccine In addition to the above words lifted from the Criterion on July 4, 2020, Minister Farrakhan said it would be a declaration of war on all of us if the government tried to physically force us to take the vaccine. Within days after he spoke, the... Read More

The Covid-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation?

Mike Whitney • December 4, 2020

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Here's what I think is currently going on in our country and across much of the western world. A public health crisis-- that was manufactured and gamed-out before the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China --has been used to short-circuit

Reckoning with Risk 2020

James Thompson • December 3, 2020

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With a few weeks to go till the end of 2020 it seems clear that, despite all the other things that have happened, the year will be remembered for the pandemic. Never have so many lives been interrupted for so long. Very roughly, 55 million people across the world die every year. Assume that the... Read More

No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World

Pepe Escobar • December 3, 2020

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The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as he sifts through the new Matrix that controls all our lives. Durand places the Digital Age in the... Read More

China: A Cold Shower

It’s only a lump. It will probably go away.

Fred Reed • November 29, 2020

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In a sort of distributed Ouija board enterprise, intellectuals these days predict the likely evolution of relations between China and America. These authorities do not wallow in consistency. China will take over the world. Alternatively, China will collapse because of a surfeit of men, because the different linguistic regions will become independent, because their debt... Read More

Here's Why You Should Skip the Covid Vaccine

Mike Whitney • November 28, 2020

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The new Covid vaccines will make billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies, but here's what they won't do: The vaccines will not cure Covid The vaccines will not prevent people from contracting Covid The vaccines will not prevent Covid-related hospitalizations The vaccines will not prevent Covid-caused deaths Now, I know what you're thinking.... Read More

Covid Is Not the Threat

Paul Craig Roberts • November 24, 2020

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Covid is a real virus. It is a threat to a small minority of the population—primarily people with poor immune systems and comorbidities. There are inexpensive ways of boosting immune systems with supplements, such as zinc, vitimans C and D3, Beta Glucan, and NAC. But public health officials have not educated the public about the... Read More

I Am Greta Isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World

Jonathan Cook • November 17, 2020

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Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual. In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane Society suggested that insanity referred not simply to the... Read More

Will Biden Listen to the Science?

Ron Paul • November 16, 2020

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Former Vice President Joe Biden has not been officially declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but that has not stopped him from forming a coronavirus task force. The task force is composed of supporters of increased government control. One idea Biden and his task force are considering is a four to six weeks... Read More

Lockdown Politics -- the Great Travesty

Carl Boggs • November 13, 2020

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Nearly one year into the COVID pandemic, even a modicum of critical thinking should tell us that lockdown politics as practiced in the United States is an unmitigated disaster, and with no end in sight. The reference here to lockdown politics is meant to signify a particularly assaultive, tyrannical set of government policies that in... Read More

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0

Fauci Versus Frontline Doctors and Science: Pandemic Malpractice

Joel S. Hirschhorn • November 6, 2020

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Americans suffer and die unnecessarily in this pandemic. Frontline doctors are ready and willing to use an effective at home/outpatient remedy. But they are being blocked because their medical freedom has been squashed. Dr. Anthony Fauci has ensured that the government only addressed the COVID-19 pandemic through contagion control and hospital treatment. Missing is what... Read More

No Vaccine for Tyranny

Ron Paul • November 2, 2020

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently admitted that lockdowns cause more harm than good. Following this announcement, one would have expected American politicians to immediately end the lockdowns. After all, the WHO ‘s pronouncements are considered infallible, so much so that social media sites silence anyone who dares challenge the great and powerful WHO. Yet,... Read More

Actually, COVID Comes Courtesy of the Chinese PEOPLE

Ilana Mercer • October 22, 2020

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China’s plague-delivery pedigree is solid. Courtesy of China, the West got the H2N2 virus in 1957 and the H3N2 virus in 1968. Granted, the Chinese viral supply chain was broken with H1N1 flu; it came from Mexico. But, with the bird flu, SARS and SARS-Cov-2, China has fully reestablished its disease-delivery credentials. Alas, going by... Read More

The Covidian Cult

C.J. Hopkins • October 13, 2020

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One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the “Cold War” or the “War on Terror” narratives. A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts. Nazism and Stalinism are... Read More

Western Civilization Has Surrendered to Barbarians

Paul Craig Roberts • October 12, 2020

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Last June Cambridge University college Gonville and Caius announced that it was taking down a window commemorating Sir Ronald Fisher, the creator of modern statistics. shorturl.at/fuJPS The window allegedly “gave offense” because Fisher also headed up Cambridge University’s eugenics research program, which has, through accusation and Third Reich genetic experiments, come to be associated with... Read More

35 Myths Debunked

James Thompson • October 7, 2020

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Many people have very strong beliefs about intelligence testing. All too often those beliefs are negative and unrepresentative of intelligence research. For intelligence researchers, it is a bemusing, irritating, and depressing state of affairs. Steven Pinker, being interviewed at the International Society for Intelligence Research conference in Montreal in 2017, when asked why public understanding... Read More

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Three Evolutionary Siege Howitzers and a Popgun

Fred Reed • October 7, 2020

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This is a much-updated version of a previous column on evolution, is atrociously long, criminally even, by internet standards but I post it anyway because I get occasional requests. Few will read it, which is understandable. Apologies. The Devil made me do it. I will get transcendently stupid email saying that I am a snake-handling... Read More

White Racialism in America, Then and Now

Ron Unz • October 5, 2020

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One morning a couple of years ago I received an urgent email from a moderately prominent libertarian figure strongly focused on antiwar issues. He warned me that our publication had been branded a "White Supremacist website" by the Washington Post, and urged me to immediately respond, perhaps by demanding a formal retraction or even taking... Read More

Ga’er Monastery in the Sanjangyuan Region, Tibet. Photo by Kyle Obermann.

China's Environment Today

Godfree Roberts • October 4, 2020

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Though more numerous today than ever, the Chinese thrive on land that they have tilled for five thousand years, land that hosts ten percent of world’s plant species and fourteen percent of its wild animals, thanks to their assumption that, since man and Mother Nature are mutually dependent, man must care for his Mother. The... Read More

Richard Lynn's MEMOIRS of A DISSIDENT PSYCHOLOGIST: Life Story of A Genuine Scientist

Martin Witkerk • October 2, 2020

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Earlier: Richard Lynn Stripped Of Emeritus Status For Saying The Same Things That Made Him A Professor In The First Place and “He Kept The Faith”—A Conversation With Richard Lynn Everyone with an interest in why our world is the way it is owes a debt of gratitude to Richard Lynn, the indefatigable psychometrician best... Read More

Where Did Covid-19 Come from?

Paul Craig Roberts • September 30, 2020

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Evidence indicates that it came from NIH funding of EcoHealth Alliance, an entity doing “gain-of-function” research in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Many experts believe that the virus was created by that research and escaped from the Wuhan lab. Gain-of-function research involves enhancing the pathogenicity and transmissibility of pathogens. Many scientists are opposed... Read More

The Covid Deception

Paul Craig Roberts • September 28, 2020

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We have been deceived by public health authorities about Covid, partly from public authorities’ ignorance of the virus, its spread and treatment, but mainly on purpose. One reason we were intentionally deceived by public health authorities, and continue to be deceived by them, is to create a market for a Covid vaccination. There are billions... Read More

Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends. Covid 19, Part II.

James Thompson • September 25, 2020

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After a brief summer, in which we dared to hope that we could eventually go to the pub without booking a table, and without choosing our food in advance, the darling buds of May have given way to the surly scowls of September, and we are down in the dumps again. This pandemic is testing... Read More

"They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses"— the Corruption of Scientific American

John Derbyshire • September 25, 2020

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Earlier: It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Recently I had things to say about wokeness at the fine old magazine Scientific American. Their September issue had run a long article, headlined Reckoning With Our Mistakes, in which the editors groveled, rent... Read More

Belgian Medical Profession Demands a Halt to Covid Pandemic Propaganda

Paul Craig Roberts • September 18, 2020

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See: Also avaliable at It has been apparent from the beginning that Covid-19 was being used for agendas unrelated to public health. Big Pharma and its associates—WHO, CDC, NIH—used social media and the presstitutes to control the explanations given to the public and to censor dissenting medical professionals. More people died from being denied successful... Read More

Medical Authorities Continue to Block Effective Covid Treatment

Paul Craig Roberts • August 28, 2020

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The conflict of interest between clinical trials of drugs that determine their effectiveness and safety and the pharmaceutical industry that funds most of the trials is astonishing. Yet nothing is done about it. Two-thirds of the Federal Food and Drug Administration’s budget for evaluating prescription drugs comes from the industry that the FDA regulates. In... Read More

9 Snappy Questions on Intelligence

James Thompson • August 24, 2020

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You may remember that in 2011 Heiner Rindermann and I worked on the concept of cognitive capitalism, developed that over the next few years, and in 2018 Rindermann published a major book on the topic. Here is a brief interview in which he answers a few questions which generally come up regarding intelligence. Usually, media... Read More

Where Is #MeToo When All of Us Are About to be Raped by Forced Vaccination?

Paul Craig Roberts • August 24, 2020

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The United States and the Western World fared poorly in responding to Covid for two main reasons. One reason is Big Pharma and associated public health organizations such as NIH saw big profits in the virus. The response to the virus was not to protect public health but to create a mass market for a... Read More

The Great Awokening Leading to the Great Retraction—and A New Dark Age for Science

Lance Welton • August 22, 2020

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The “Great Awokening”—the Maoist Cultural Revolution we are living through—is impacting academia heavily[The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution, by Eric Kaufmann, Quillette, June 22, 2020]. We’ve seen the closing of the London Conference on Intelligence in 2018 and the firing of researcher Noah Carl by Cambridge University partly for attending the London Conference... Read More

From Lockdown to Police State: the “Great Reset” Rolls Out

Ellen Brown • August 22, 2020

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Mayhem in Melbourne On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy western society.’” The gist of an August 13th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the... Read More

CODENAME: Operation Virus Identification 2019; the Elitist Plan to Remake Society

Mike Whitney • August 16, 2020

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Everything we were originally told about the Coronavirus has turned out to be wrong. In fact, it's not a "novel" one-of-a-kind infection at all, but a member of a larger family of which there have been many iterations in the recent past. It's also not the most contagious or most lethal virus we've ever seen,... Read More

Covid-19: Cui Bono?

Afterthoughts on the Aftermath

Godfree Roberts • August 15, 2020

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Since Coronavirus outbreaks under Presidents Ford and Bush produced only hugely expensive, failed vaccines and political headaches, the policy has been to ignore moderately lethal outbreaks and conflate their results with seasonal flu stats–an eminently sensible policy many contributors have blessed right here in the Unz Review. So Washington ignored a novel coronavirus when it... Read More

Covid-19 Does Not Have to be a Problem

Paul Craig Roberts • August 11, 2020

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Here is the presstitute CNN’s report on US Covid-19 cases— . According to the report, the US has the most cases of all countries and the highest number of deaths. If this is correct, it says something about our health care system and the quality of leadership at CDC and NIH. Normally, CNN is very... Read More

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