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This Could Save You A Whole Lot of Trouble

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 30, 2024 | Blog

In the last couple weeks, two disastrous events have occurred, capturing Americans' attention—and imaginations. On March 22, gunmen killed over one hundred concert-goers at Crocus City Hall near Moscow. A week later, on March 29, a cargo ship crashed into a support of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the entire thing. With both events, everyone rushed to "have a take," from false flag terrorism, to globalist plots to destroy American infrastructure. On this email list, we've been learning together how to disseminate propaganda in search of the truth. One major lesson...

‘Integrated Deterrence’ Means Provoking China

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In its most recent National Defense Strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense declared a policy of “integrated deterrence” against the People’s Republic of China, its primary “pacing challenge.” The document defined “integrated deterrence” as: "...working seamlessly across warfighting domains, theaters, the spectrum of conflict, all instruments of U.S. national power, and our network of Alliances and partnerships. Tailored to specific circumstances, it applies a coordinated, multifaceted approach to reducing competitors’ perceptions of the net benefits of aggression relative to restraint....

CIA Further Discredits ‘Uyghur Genocide’ by Admitting Covert Influence Campaign

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On March 14, Reuters released a bombshell report: in 2019 the Donald Trump White House began a clandestine CIA influence campaign to smear China's international reputation. According to three former U.S. officials with direct knowledge, “the CIA created a small team of operatives who used bogus internet identities to spread negative narratives about Xi Jinping’s government while leaking disparaging intelligence to overseas news outlets.” The information releases “targeted public opinion” both internationally and in China itself. Along with influencing public opinion, the campaign sought to...

‘Haitian Cannibal’ Extravaganza! Ep. 272

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 20, 2024 | Vital Dissent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B08T0h5T9cw Patrick breaks down his latest article on the Haitian cannibalism hysteria. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Culture Warriors Spread Disinfo on ‘Haitian Cannibals By Patrick MacFarlane Original "Haitian Cannibalism" Report from Daily Express US Dom Lucre Misframed Haitian Cannibal Video Email Update with links to the Twitter Space Dan Cohen's Haiti Documentary

Culture Warriors Spread Disinfo on ‘Haitian Cannibals’

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In the first few years of the 2020s, the world witnessed a revolution in the dissemination of atrocity propaganda. Thanks to the proliferation of social media, smartphone ownership, and artificial intelligence, atrocity claims can now be manufactured, disseminated, and, thankfully, debunked in real time. Although technology may be evolving, lies do not change much. During World War I, the British claimed Germans boiled the corpses of their war dead to make fat and glycerin for munitions. More recently, we’ve seen accusations of industrial organ harvesting in Xinjiang, China and claims that...

These are Major Developments

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog

Times, they are a-changing. This morning I was walking my son down the hallway of the elementary school to his classroom. A great number of the parents and kids were late to school, and the teachers were grumbling about difficulties caused by Daylight Savings Time. I asked my four year old, "don't you think it's strange that no one wants to do Daylight Savings Time, but we all do it anyways? Do you know why that is? Cause the government sucks," I said. Of course, he didn't really understand what I was talking about. But, he did ask me "why does the government suck, Dad?" I smiled and said,...

The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline Ep. 271

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 8, 2024 | Vital Dissent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOi3IkdYYbI Patrick discusses his latest article at the Libertarian Institute about the links between anti-wokism and zionism in the modern online conservative movement. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.libertyweekly.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline | The Libertarian Institute

The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline

by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

On February 24, Chaya Raichik, creator of the famous social media brand “Libs of Tiktok,” granted an interview to her nemesis, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz. The clash was not the first between the two; in April 2022, Lorenz published an expose doxxing Raichik as the then-anonymous creator behind Libs of Tiktok. With this recent interview, Lorenz sought to denigrate Raichik’s credibility as an icon of modern American conservatism. To this end, Lorenz was actually successful, albeit in a way that she was incapable of truly exploiting, given her credentials. When Lorenz asked Raichik...