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Europe rights court rules obligatory vaccination necessary in democratic society(twitter.com)
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Congress Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively(greenwald.substack.com)
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Oakland will give low-income families of color $500 a month, no strings attached(edition.cnn.com)
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U.S. intelligence community increasingly involving itself in domestic politics(greenwald.substack.com)
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And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology is one of only two BSL–4 labs in China.
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Every offical that was selling the initial lockdown. Just have to get the R0 below 1, remember? You really think the masses would have been OK with a year of lockdowns and the despair that entails up front? Your conclusions don't match
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by offby37years 5y ago
Lockdowns were just meant to be for two weeks to “flatten the curve”, remember?
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — John Dalberg-Acton
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California COVID death rate: 0.146% Florida COVID death rate: 0.155% These numbers are statistically tied. Yet, FL's economy is open, kids are in school, Disney World entertaining tourists. CA's business are closed & kids are
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“Westerners with PC leanings” are considered ridiculous by most every culture in the world. If there is any ideology that has a “power grab over language and definition” it is the modern, Western left.
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When you only have a hammer...
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Square: Crypto Book of Bitcoin Mythology(bitcoinmythology.org)
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Before the internet you could have two local newspapers in every town, each profitably reporting facts. Then the internet came and commoditised facts. New facts are disseminated immediately across social media. Open Google News and you can
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Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter(greenwald.substack.com)
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There are only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale: free markets and physical power. Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power.
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Bombholing. > The innovation was to use banner headlines to saturate news cycles, often to the exclusion of nearly any other news, before moving to the next controversy so quickly that mistakes, errors, or rhetorical letdowns were memory
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"It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger num
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Russia threatens to block Twitter in a month as content dispute escalates(smh.com.au)
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The idiotic culture war is media led: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great... > In 2011, just 35% of white liberals thought racism in the United States was “a big problem,” accordin
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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale... https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-start-demanding...
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What's the COVID-induced death rate among children again?
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It is impossible to study the long-term effects of any vaccine within a year. Impossible. Unless you are elderly or immunocompromised you are almost certainly exposing yourself to more personal risk by being vaccinated.
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Now halted in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Thailand, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Congo and Bulgaria. Meanwhile Trudeau has the gall to assure the AstraZeneca vaccine is "safe and effective": https://www
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UK parliament to debate requiring verified ID to open a social media account(petition.parliament.uk)
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The US won't even mandate ID for voting, requiring verification for internet comments is a stretch.
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Amazon's Profits, AWS and Advertising(ben-evans.com)
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The US is already at Soviet levels: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-sovietization-of-the-ameri...
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Why would big tech voluntarily surrender the unprecedented power to shape worldwide discourse? "Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them." — James F. Byrnes
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Thankfully, as seen in Russia and India, those thousands of cultures have no wish to be moderated by the self-anointed SV elite.
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The ability for individual actors to divorce themselves from MMT driven inflation.

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