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Free speech, more important than your feelings.

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind"-Bernard Baruch - Investor (1870 - 1965)

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Amen!! All the dystopian novels were prophetic- “the Truth will out”!

And 1984 Rocked! Loved my 80’s hair!😂

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Aug 19, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

All Google search to my inquiry ( “FDA approval of Ivermectin” ) states that FDA approval of Ivermectin for Covid is not true -- literally 100s of items explicitly state it is NOT true to my inquiry.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/doctors-can-prescribe-ivermectin-for-covid-19-fda-5456584

https://mustreadalaska.com/feds-admit-in-court-doctors-have-the-right-to-prescribe-ivermectin-for-covid/

• On Tuesday, August 8th, a DOJ attorney testified in a Louisiana courtroom at an FDA hearing that the FDA had always allowed physicians to prescribe ivermectin for COVID-19. For some in the courtroom it was a startling untruth to unexpectedly hear, but she did state that.

• A lawyer representing the FDA said “FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe Ivermectin to treat COVID.” That lawyer is Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA. She made her comments during oral arguments on August 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

We live in an Empire of Lies as intelligent Putin calls US…

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Nice research, Boris. Thanks for sharing.

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But yet.

Look at You Tube's most recent update of posting guidelines.

Go to Examples, Treatment Misinformation.

They list Ivermecten and Hdroxy treatments as off limits, they will censor.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13813322

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

100% excellent article. The heart of the entire matter

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

I don’t remember reading 1984 (but plan to) but do remember reading “animal farm” which was required in my school. I see a lot of the same things going on today in politics, politicians, & the news media that was happening on the farm. Isn’t it amazing how easy it is “they” lie to our faces while they are taking away our freedom, murdering us, & committing crimes against humanity against us?

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Every time I now hear someone utter, land of the free, I say - think again!

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Now would be a good time to study how previously censored, communist-controlled societies emerged out from that way of thinking. See what we can learn about what to do to lift this dystopian mental fog.

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

I'm with you 99 percent. Would adjust to make it 100 percent with the following (to me it is important)

"The beauty of a Constitutional Republic [democracy] is that if you consider Wilde a pompous blowhard, you’re free to say so."

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SO the big question (and I don’t have the answer): What can we do about it except leave computers and TV behind and talk to our neighbors?

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Which is worse? Disagreeing with someone or disagreeing with someone's right to disagree. Those on the wrong side of right don't even know the difference.

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So there you go we are all equal. No one can change that unless you disagree. And that is your human privilege no matter we’re you are on this planet. 🌎

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Great writing Jenna. Yes de facto we were more free in 1984, but our perceptions were just as managed as they are now, because Woodrow Wilson hired Edward Bernays to manage the public perceptions in about 1918.

Though the snooping tendency of government has always been present, it was limited by technology. As Louis Brandeis pointed out so many times a century ago, for many in government courts the constitution and First Amendment are but a parchment barrier. Edward Snowden the world how the government has no regard for the letter or spirit of the rule of law.

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Rachel Maddow or Tucker Carlson?

They weren't News Reporters.

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Freedom is gone it will take decades or even a century to gain it back.

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A Question: There have apparently been reports on Substack that Ivermectin has now been approved for Covid treatment. Is this correct or not?

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That is correct Boris:

A lawyer representing the FDA said “FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe Ivermectin to treat COVID.” That lawyer is Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA. She made her comments during oral arguments on August 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

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Thank you very much but -- apparently this is not sufficient -- DoJ people are known to lie a lot ;-))

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I read '1984' in the year itself. I was 17 at the time. I now realise that the freedoms that my generation enjoyed back then will never return. There was no fearmongering of 'pandemics', no hype about climate change being an 'ermergency' (when it wasn't and still isn't), in fact very little media attention to climate issues at all.

For us 1980's teenagers the main global concern was the possibility of nuclear war, as the Cowboy President, his Texan sidekick and their cronies genuinely believed that a nuclear was winnable. Then as now we were supposed to fear the Russians, but I never did and still don't. The main political issue for my generation during 1984/85 was supporting the miners in their battle with the Thatcher government.

But I'm British and most of my generation never gave a toss one way or the other about the Common Market, the EEC, unlike the current generation who obsessively support the EU. Oh well!

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