An enduring mystery in Genesis is how this talking serpent knew about the forbidden fruit, the knowledge of good and evil, and what would happen as a result of eating this fruit. How did this serpent become so knowledgeable? Was the serpent an agent of God’s will? Had the serpent eaten the fruit and thus acquired the …
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Applying Praxeology to the Book of Genesis
According to the Book of Genesis, human beings were created in the image of God. It is this likeness to God which distinguishes humans from all other animals. But what exactly is this likeness? How are humans like God? Beyond any presumed physical appearance, the likeness seems to consist in the fact that humans act. Human action, …
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A Sense of Conspiracy: Notes on The Tom Woods Show, Episode 1810
In episode 1810 of the Tom Woods Show (TWS), Tom Woods and his guest, Antony Sammeroff, talk about what they call the “grand global conspiracy,” the plot to usher in world government (see https://odysee.com/@TomWoodsTV:e/ep.-1810-the-idea-of-a-grand-conspiracy:2). Citing a recent post by Sammeroff, Woods begins by expressing his concern about the “conspiratorial mindset.” (Woods does not name …
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Scene Analysis: Pro-Roosevelt War Propaganda in The Best Years of Our Lives
Was World War II a “good” war? According to the official narrative, yes, it was. Yet several historians have questioned the official narrative. Among these historians are John T. Flynn, Charles A. Beard, William Henry Chamberlin, and Harry Elmer Barnes. Together, they shed light on certain facts that may prompt us to reconsider the conventional …
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How Pfizer Lies with Statistics: A Second Look at Pfizer’s Efficacy Claim
The announcement came on November 18, 2020. Having only just begun studying the effects of its novel mRNA vaccine eight months earlier, Pfizer—with great fanfare—announced that its drug was “95% effective against COVID-19″. In support of its claim, Pfizer submitted an article to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) which summarized the data collected …
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About Those “Vaccines”
“The heresy of heresies was common sense.” —George Orwell, 1984 According to The New York Times, the CDC is withholding “large portions of the COVID-19 data it collects.” That’s strange. What sort of data? “The performance of vaccines and boosters, particularly in younger adults,” The Times reports, “is among the most glaring omissions in data …
In Other News: Turns Out the CDC Over Counted Covid Deaths After All
Well, well, well… After all the verbal abuse, insinuation, and gas-lighting directed at people who had the nerve to question the official COVID statistics, the CDC recently announced that it has removed from its COVID-19 death tracker tens of thousands of deaths that were somehow misclassified. Well, well, well indeed. The data correction resulted in …
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How Many Shots Does It Take?
In an interview with CBS News, Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, now says a fourth shot of his company’s product is necessary. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pfizer-fourth-vaccine-albert-bourla-b2035615.html.) (See full transcript here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/albert-bourla-face-the-nation-full-transcript-03-13-2022/.) Two months earlier, back in January, the Pfizer CEO was again speaking in his own cause, this time asserting that a third shot was necessary—and he …
More of Evidence of CDC Deception (Part II): The Delaware Study
Prepare to have your intelligence insulted, dear reader—not by me, of course, but by the CDC—you know, the Care Bears from the government who are just here to help (https://areamanonfire.com/?p=336). On January 5, 2021, the CDC posted a Tweet praising Delaware’s universal mask mandate for having helped reduce the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, …
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Know Your Enemy: A Review of Tragedy and Hope 101
Joseph Plummer’s Tragedy and Hope 101 is the shortest and surest way to understand the origin of some of the government’s most destructive policies—the sacred cow policies that stay in place no matter how wasteful and counterproductive they may be (e.g., inflationary monetary policy, Orwellian mass surveillance, the permanent war economy that hollows out the …
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