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Best of the Web: Rogan debacle shows welding of media, government bureaucracy, big corporations, and banking together into a partisan weapon to punish dissenters

Zaid Jilani
Tablet
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images
Joe Rogan has found himself in the crosshairs of many of America's most powerful institutions. Although he has long been a thorn in the side of progressives who object to his free-wheeling conversations on America's most popular podcast, the latest controversy was kicked off by an open letter penned by 270 doctors, health care professionals, and academics who complained about interviews in which Rogan and his guests express skepticism about COVID vaccinations. The letter's authors demanded that Spotify "immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform."

Although they represented a tiny portion of America's medical professionals, these public health activists were able to win widespread coverage from the mainstream news media, with only minor protest from conservative media, which pointed out that more than two-thirds of the letter's signatories were neither medical doctors nor doctors of osteopathic medicine.

This activist-media alliance soon won support from a third group: major celebrities. The countercultural musician Neil Young announced that he would be pulling all his music from the Spotify streaming service in protest of Rogan's presence there. Despite his longtime support for free expression and his own scientific skepticism — he dubbed his 2006 antiwar concerts the "Freedom of Speech Tour," and remains an ardent opponent of the use of GMOs in food — Young effortlessly slotted himself into the new progressive censorship machine. Soon after, singer Joni Mitchell and rock musician Nils Lofgren joined in.
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Best of the Web: The Great Covid Media Pivot Of 2022

Quoth the Raven
quoththeraven.substack.com
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:06 UTC
Herd immunity
Herd immunity
Now that the billions have been made, natural immunity and other "conspiracy theories" have magically become "fact checked" mainstream narrative

I started out 2022 by predicting that capitalism and common sense would catalyze a massive pivot in how the mainstream media reports on Covid.

I believed that the media would eventually start the process of pivoting from hysteria and that politicians, understanding full well that they can't get re-elected during mid-terms this year on a platform of locking people in their homes, would follow.

All I can say one month into the year is holy shit, does it look like I was right.
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Flashback Best of the Web: South Sudan confirms outbreak of vaccine-derived polio


Seychelles News Agency
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:45 UTC
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© Yasuoshi Chiba/AFPChild receiving polio vaccine
Health officials in South Sudan on Thursday confirmed a new outbreak of polio, just months after declaring the wild version of the deadly virus eradicated in Africa's youngest country.

The health ministry said 15 cases of vaccine-derived polio - a form of the illness which occurs in rare incidents when the weakened virus in the vaccine mutates - had been identified in the country's northwest.

"Yes, there is an outbreak of vaccine-derived polio, and the Ministry of Health and its partners are working on it, and I think it is under control," the ministry's director general for preventative health services, Dr John Pasquale Romunu, told reporters. "It has affected quite a number of counties and states."

On August 25, South Sudan was among four African nations to receive confirmation that wild poliovirus had been eradicated within their borders - allowing the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the entire continent free of the crippling disease. It was just the second time a deadly virus had been declared eradicated in Africa since smallpox 40 years earlier.

But the fanfare was short lived. Just two days later the UN confirmed that more than a dozen cases of vaccine-derived polio had sprung up in nine states across Sudan.

Comment: Polio from vaccines is not all that rare:

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Flashback Best of the Web: The insanity of Empire: CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria

Nabih Bulos, W.J. Hennigan, Brian Bennett
Chicago Tribune
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:35 UTC
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© Delil Souleiman / Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesCIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria The Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces recently fought a CIA-armed militia. Such clashes have become routine.
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war.

The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.

In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.

"Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it," said Maj. Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq.

Comment: The 'reality creators' latest monstrosity seems to be getting away from them. All part of the plan?

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Best of the Web: Robert Malone: Regarding the defense medical epidemiological database data dump

Robert W Malone MD, MS
Substack
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:01 UTC
The Charge Of The Light Brigade, 1895 Painting Richard Caton Woodville
These are dangerous times, and we are in a 21st century global information war. Cannon balls are flying, and there are false flag operations and concern trollery to the left, right and center of us. And yet onward we ride. The light brigade.

Just to underscore the point, since the initial Joe Rogan hostage video dropped on Instagram, I have been on multiple media appearances that have approached this as yet another cancel culture skirmish. And as predicted, now we have a second Rogan hostage video. But I agree with Epoch times on this. The culture war aspect that has been so actively promoted is a distraction. This really has nothing to do with vaccines or vaccine safety, or vaccine mis/disinformation. It certainly has nothing to do with a commitment to truth. This is about money and power. Or money as an aspect of power. And it certainly has everything to do with totalitarianism and mass formation psychosis.

Having set the stage now, please note that there are more intrepid, highly credentialed physicians who are stepping into the fray with Epoch Times. The Epoch Times has previously been attacked by a concerted MSNBC and Rachel Maddow smear campaign. However, even the NY Times (in yet another smear piece) concedes that it is "one of the country's most powerful digital publishers" (#4 on the Apple app chart, and #2 behind Fox News for December 2021 conservative websites).

Comment: Even with all the qualifiers suggested above, this list is absolutely damning. Watch how the PTB will scramble to cover for it somehow (as mentioned above, they've already gone into full swing). But even if this list is only right by half, the implication against Covid vaccines is stunning (although not exactly unexpected).

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Best of the Web: The 'Science' of Manipulation: researchers craft messages of guilt, shame to foster vaccine compliance

Ann Tomoko Rosen
Children's Health Defense
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
brain
There's an entire field of research dedicated to developing messaging designed to persuade "vaccine-hesitant" individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

None of the messaging examined by researchers involves conveying factual evidence that supports the claims — widely disseminated by Big Pharma, Big Media and public health agencies — that the vaccines are "safe" and "effective."

Researchers last month published the results of a clinical trial involving two survey experiments on how to manufacture consent for COVID vaccines.

The Yale-sponsored study, "Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions," examined how different persuasive messages affected
  1. intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,
  2. willingness to persuade friends and relatives to get the vaccine,
  3. fear of those who have not been vaccinated, and
  4. social judgment of people who choose not to vaccinate.

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Best of the Web: Freedom Convoy movement spreads across the globe


RT
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:49 UTC
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© Getty Images/Fiona GoodallPeople greet an anti-mandate convoy, Warkworth in Auckland, New Zealand
February 06, 2022
Canada-inspired Freedom Convoy movement is gaining momentum, with trucker demonstrations kicking off in multiple countries.

Canada-style Freedom Convoy protests against Covid-19 limitations and mandatory vaccination spilled into additional countries over the weekend as the movement gained traction globally.

In Europe, where trucker convoys from multiple EU member states are expected to "besiege" Brussels on February 14, a major protest was held in Finland's capital, Helsinki.

Dozens of trucks and other vehicles partaking in Convoy Finland flooded the city on Saturday, with participants demanding an end to all coronavirus-related restrictions and the resignation of the government, as well as fuel-price cuts.
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Best of the Web: The British Medical Journal story that exposed politicized "fact-checking"

Matt Taibbi
Substack
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:01 UTC
Paul Thacker
Paul Thacker
The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.

In February of 2010, the New York Times released a front page story entitled, "Research Ties Diabetes Drug to Heart Woes." The lede read:
Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.
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Best of the Web: Cancers coming back with a vengeance is very common after the COVID vax

Steve Kirsch
stevekirsch.substack.com
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:05 UTC
Cancers et vaccins anti-covid
© Inconnu
The DMED database shows the rate of cancer is up by 3X after the COVID vaccines rolled out. See ACT OF WAR: Thanks to COVID "vaccines," the military's cancer rate has more than TRIPLED

In talking with Ryan Cole about this, he believes this is primarily due to accelerating existing cancers (ones people already know they have or recent cancers that people never realized were there) rather than creating new cases of cancer.

Watch this video for more insight.
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Best of the Web: Blinken's booby traps: US Madrid propaganda paper pushes war with Russia while claiming the opposite

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:39 UTC
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© Dances with BearsBlinken baits the Russians into war
A soldier who lays a booby trap for his adversary thinks him fool enough to be tricked or lured to his own death. He thinks his enemy is inferior and deserves death. He hates him.

The German expression for war planned and executed like this is rassenkampf, race war. The German generals who planned and executed the 1941 invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarossa, claimed they didn't hate the Russians. Their war was krieg ohne hass, war without hate. They said that after their surrender or capture, when they were facing war crimes trials.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (lead image, centre) hates Russians; thinks them inferior to Americans; fools compared to himself; deserving of the fate Blinken intends for them. The evidence is in the booby traps Blinken set in the document the State Department arranged to leak in a Spanish newspaper last week. It is called "NON-PAPER CONFIDENTIAL/REL RUSSIA Areas of Engagement to Improve Security".

Comment: Putin has surrounded himslef with intelligent, cool-headed advisors. While the U.S. response to Russia's proposal is insulting in the extreme, Russia (along with China) is playing a long game. Rather than being baited into a misstep, Moscow's patience and ongoing efforts at dialogue may cause the Empire to stumble instead. Only time will tell.

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