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  What If the “Big Lie” Is the Big Lie? James Howard Kunstler Maybe now that Dr. Tony Fauci has begun to spill the beans on his doings in service to the Wuhan virology lab, the phrase “conspiracy theory,” flogged by the media as jauntily and incessantly as by the soviet kommissars of yore, will have worn out its welcome. In a sane polity, Dr. Fauci would be cooked. He looks circumstantially like an epic villain of history, who promoted and funded dangerous research activities knowingly, which led to an international disaster that killed millions of people and destroyed countless livelihoods and households, perhaps even the whole global economy, when all is said and done — and he appears to have lied at every step along the way. As a practical matter, what is the “Joe Biden” admin going to do about him?  Throw him under the bus ? I don’t think they can at this point. Dr. Fauci has come to represent not just the falsehoods employed around the Covid-19 fiasco but more generally t...

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  Escape from America: 90 Countries and Counting As published at  Unz Review ,  TruthSeeker ,  Smirking Chimp  and  OpEd News , 6/3/21: With my  Escape from America  series, I’ve interviewed American ex-pats who have  settled  in  Mexico , the  Philippines ,  Hungary ,  Costa Rica ,  Brazil  or  England ,  etc. , but you’re constantly escaping from one country to the next, with the goal of experiencing all 180 of them! What made you choose such an unusual lifestyle, and how did you prepare yourself for it? No preparation whatsoever and, in fact, no plan. I'd had what's called a 'liquidity event' back in NYC. Two, actually: a startup sale and then an IPO. Which just means I don't have to work again if I don't want to. I was burnt out. 15 years of 10 hour days, grinding towards some pointless goal of accumulation. When I cashed out I wasn't sure what to do next. I looked around and decided it was tim...

3 Tips for Checking Whether a Medical Study is Legit or Bullsh*t Tools to help you learn to quickly sort out whether a paper is solid or shaky. Rosemary Frei, via  her website You’ve just watched a video of a high-profile, Covid-sceptic speaker saying that shedding of the spike protein from vaccinated people endangers those they come in close contact with. You want to find out more, so you look at one or two of the links under the video that provide source material for what the speaker said. (Great those links are there; most videos don’t have them.) Or a friend who is a believer in the official narrative about Covid has sent you a news item with a scary headline about the Indian ‘triple-mutation new variant.’ You’re pretty sure the article is very misleading, so you want to check out the study it’s based on. How can you find source material and — if and when you find it – try to quickly figure out whether it’s legit? Because there’s a huge, hot complicated mess of claims and count...