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Twitter partners with big media to combat 'misinformation'

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:18 UTC
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Twitter is partnering with Reuters and the Associated Press in a new scheme to combat alleged "misinformation," following in Facebook's footsteps by outsourcing part of the company's "fact-checking" to corporate media organizations.

The goal, according to Twitter, is to help the company feed "reliable content" to its users, although the news organizations will not be involved in removing alleged "misinformation" from the platform, a role that remains the purview of Twitter's powerful Trust & Safety team.

According to Twitter, the partnership with AP and Reuters is aimed at "ensuring that credible information is available in real time around key conversations as they emerge on Twitter, especially where facts are in dispute or when Twitter's Curation team doesn't have the specific expertise or access to a high enough volume of reputable reporting on Twitter."

Comment: The continued push for total control of information is making these guys look pretty desperate. The only problem is that the very control and resistance they have to the truth getting out is also what causes people with remaining functioning neurons to get an inkling of what is going on.

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China seals off city as 'dozens' of coronavirus cases detected, largest outbreak in a year


Independent.ie
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:50 UTC
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People wearing face masks to help protect against COVID-19 walk through a subway station during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.
China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic has escalated with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.

Since the initial outbreak was tamed last year, China's people had lived virtually free of the virus, with strict border controls and local distancing and quarantine measures stamping out scattered flare-ups.


Comment: Sweden didn't lockdown at all, and, like China, has fared much better than the majority of countries that did, such as the UK.


Now the country is on high alert as an outbreak connected to the international airport in the eastern city of Nanjing touched at least 17 provinces.

China reported 71 new cases of Covid-19 from local transmission on Wednesday, more than half of them in coastal Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)



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Ya think? Bill Gates opens up about divorce, says it was a 'mistake' to meet Epstein

Jesse O'Neill
New York Post
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:58 UTC
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
© Reuters
Bill Gates called his divorce a “very sad milestone.”
Bill Gates opened up about his recent divorce to Melinda French Gates in an interview on Wednesday and said his relationship to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a "mistake."

The Microsoft founder told CNN's Anderson Cooper that his split with Melinda was a "very sad milestone," and a source of "personal sadness."

Gates told the anchor that he and his ex-wife will continue their philanthropy work together, citing her "incredible strengths" in furthering the missions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Melinda has said she will try to work with Bill on the foundation for at least two more years.

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If you let COVID-19 fearmongers bridle you again, you learned nothing from the last year

Elle Reynolds
The Federalist
Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:53 UTC
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Here we go again.

The Biden administration on Thursday suggested they're considering demanding new lockdowns, business shutdowns, and school closures. Using the COVID-19 Delta variant as justification, the Biden administration's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reversed itself on Tuesday and told Americans that vaccination won't save them from having to wear a mask again.

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Slap in the face for motherhood as World Breastfeeding Week prioritizes trans women's 'chestfeeding' over the safety of young moms

Damian Wilson
RT
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:11 UTC
Trans parents Racquelle Tramell and Liam Johnson
© Getty Images / Barcroft Media
FILE PHOTO. Trans parents Racquelle Tramell and Liam Johnson with their one-year-old daughter Aspen, in Michigan, USA on 6 March 2017.
Woke activists in UK and Australia infiltrate support groups and insist female counselors must provide support for trans 'mothers', ignoring the idea that male sexual arousal could be driving the activity.

Nothing quite celebrates motherhood like kicking off World Breastfeeding Week with the sacking of a bunch of female counselors for refusing to engage with trans women 'chestfeeders'.

But that's exactly what happened in Australia where three of the seven breastfeeding counselors recently suspended from the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) for balking at offering support to male-born 'new moms' on nursing babies have now been handed their marching orders. Perfect timing at the start of an internationally recognized week from August 1 to 7 dedicated to the benefits of breastfeeding. Trans activists 3, Born-women 0.

The problem is that anyone working in the mothers' support field who dares voice gender critical views is bullied, coerced and cajoled into adopting the ideology, and if that fails, they're cancelled. Simple. What's even more problematic is that those who are silenced - women - are those with the most skin in the game.

Comment: Pushing "trans rights" frequently and invariably comes at the expense of women. We cannot indulge the delusional fantasies of a few without causing problem for the many.

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Bad Guys

Tucker Carlson on the rise of complete LAWLESSNESS in America


The Duran
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC
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© Stephen Yang/New York Post
Looters steal from a store in Union Square as a racial justice protest takes place nearby in New York.
This is what happens when a nation rejects its founding principles in fear of a little tiny virus that mostly doesn't hurt anybody.

Guess what, renters? You no longer have to pay rent!

Guess what, owners? You still have to pay your mortgages and taxes.

What will that do to you? You know: It will strip you of the property you own (unless you own it outright), but even then, the lack of income from rents will drive you off your own property eventually because you will not be able to afford the property taxes.

There was no representation in making this "law". It happened by edict, and not even the edict of the President, but by the director of the Centers for Disease Control, which itself is often criticized as being the punk b — h of the National Education Association.
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AOC caught putting on mask for photo op, goes without it before and after

Phil Shiver
The Blaze
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:42 UTC
AOC mask photo op, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
© Twitter screenshot
Progressive Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was caught recently donning a mask solely for the purposes of a photo op on Capitol Hill.

The lawmaker was reportedly attending a demonstration calling for the nationwide eviction moratorium to be extended on Tuesday when Breitbart News filmed her engaging in the politically motivated stunt.

Based on video of the incident posted to Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez can be seen mingling in a crowd of people without wearing a mask both before and after photographs were taken. Breitbart News reported that the lawmaker had been maskless for the previous 45 minutes.

But when one protester suggested to the group that a photo should be taken to "keep the pressure up" and encourage other lawmakers to join, Ocasio-Cortez pulled a mask from her pocket and placed it over her mouth and nose.

According to the Post Millennial, only seconds after the photos were taken, the lawmaker proceeded to remove the mask and continue talking with people around her.

Comment: Just to address what everyone was gathered there to support, there wouldn't have been a need for an eviction moratorium had the government not locked down the country, shut down the economy, and hampered its re-opening and recovery.

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NYC's de Blasio mandates proof of vaccination for many indoor settings

Nolan Hicks and Sam Raskin
New York Post
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:21 UTC
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The Excelsior Pass app provides digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results.
New York City is mandating proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter certain indoor businesses — including all indoor restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

"It's time for people to see vaccination as necessary to living a good and full and healthy life," de Blasio said during his daily press briefing.

"This is crucial, because we know that this will encourage a lot more vaccination."

The program, which de Blasio dubbed the "Key to NYC Pass," makes New York the first major US city to create such a mandate, and marks a significant escalation of the city's efforts to curb the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. The initiative will launch on Aug. 16, the mayor said.

Comment: This followed up an earlier "recommendation" that vaccinated New Yorkers resume wearing masks indoors. NY1 reported:
The new recommendation is based on new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that suggest that the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus spreads even more quickly than previously thought, Chokshi said.

"Today, I'm making a strong recommendation that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask in public indoor settings," Chokshi said, stopping short of issuing a mandate.

The announcement came as de Blasio said that all newly hired city workers must be vaccinated before they begin their jobs, and as he has introduced further rules aimed at pushing vaccination up throughout the city.

In July, de Blasio mandated that all city employees must either be vaccinated or face required weekly testing for COVID-19 starting in September. That rule went into effect for city health workers on Monday.

"It's incentive on the one hand and growing mandates on the other hand," he said Monday.

De Blasio also said that he expected further rules to spur vaccination, especially ahead of the reopening of public schools on Sept. 13.

"All options are on the table," he said.
The squeeze is spreading to the corporate world.

From Reuters:
Tyson Foods Inc, Microsoft Corp and Detroit's Big Three automakers joined a growing list of U.S. companies that are changing their vaccination and masking policies as the Delta variant triggers renewed pandemic restrictions.

Gap Inc. said any employee who enters its office buildings in its Bay Area, New York, and Albuquerque hubs must show proof of vaccination starting Sept. 7.

Many of corporate America's biggest names have acted following the CDC's guidance, including mask mandates from McDonald's Corp and Apple Inc, and vaccination requirements by Walmart and Walt Disney.
Disney's adoption of the "guidelines" are mystifying. Anyone with two neurons firing would understand that between staffing problems due to vaccine side effects, and the loss of visitors who will bridle at the restrictions being applied to their children, they may be setting up a massive losing situation:
Disney joins a growing list of US corporate entities who are deciding to enact COVID vaccine requirements as a matter of company policy.

"At The Walt Disney Company, the safety and well-being of our employees during the pandemic has been and continues to be a top priority," the company said in a statement.

"Toward that end, and based on the latest recommendations of scientists, health officials and our own medical professionals that the COVID-19 vaccine provides the best protection against severe infection, we are requiring that all salaried and non-union hourly employees in the US working at any of our sites be fully vaccinated."

It was back on Wednesday that Disney made a related announcement about mandates. For attendees of their amusement parks, the company decided to bring back mask requirements whenever people are indoors at their locations.

When it comes to this newest vaccine mandate for Disney employees, reporting suggests the blanket requirement extends to the amusement park entities too.

The Walt Disney Company named a deadline for currently unvaccinated employees to schedule their COVID shot.
Still the brave fight back:
Louis Rossmann, whose biting commentaries on 'right-to-repair' and a wide range of other issues have earned him a large social media following, published a video on Wednesday in which he announced that his Manhattan computer repair shop would not be turning away customers based on their vaccination status. As a specialist in Apple repairs, Rossmann has championed legislation that would allow people to repair their devices without having to rely on services offered exclusively by the Silicon Valley giant.


Stressing that he was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and believes that the benefits of inoculation far outweigh the risks, Rossmann said it was clear that New York City's leaders "don't understand the concept of consent."

He argued that people are capable of weighing the risks and consequences associated with not getting vaccinated and that it should be a personal choice.
Well said, Mr. Rossman!

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Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
black lives matter
Politically correct ideology is masking and contributing to the widespread failure of our institutions.

We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies.

We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness.

And we know, too, how such insanity — from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism — can spread, despite alienating most of the population, through fear and the threat of personal ruin or worse. These are the dark sides of the tulip, hula-hoop, and pet-rock fads, the mass obsessions so suited to past affluent Western societies.

But does wokeism serve another purpose as well? Specifically, does it either hide preexisting incompetence or fuel it?

In the last 18 months, we have seen most of our major institutions go woke and spend considerable amounts of time, capital, and labor on what might be called "commissarism." Yet in their zeal to rectify society in general and sermonize, virtue signal, pontificate, and perform to the public, many institutions are increasingly failing at what they were established to do.

Of course, public servants have long suffered the "Bloomberg effect" — focusing on misdemeanors to virtue signal competence as penance for failing to solve the existential crises. If you cannot clear New York City of snow in a timely manner, then lecture the trapped on everything from global warming to the dangers of super-sized soft drinks. Yet wokeism is a bit different since it now pervades our societies as a pandemic of its own.
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Leveling Down to Utopia

Caroline Breashears
American Institute For Economic Research
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Road to Sefdom
Decades ago, F. A. Hayek warned that socialism was the Road to Serfdom. He explained not only why central planning was impossible but how the attempt destroys morality: planning leads to misery and increasing control, then totalitarianism, the corruption of truth, and finally even the ability to articulate it.

Today we are heading down a similar path, recast as the freeway toward "equity" and "justice." No student should be forced to repay loans, no retiree should be deprived of free hearing aids, and no Asian-Americans should have an advantage in college admissions based on outstanding records.

This is not, we are reassured by Democratic Socialists, the route mapped by the old, mean authoritarians, but a new way toward equal outcomes planned by the Enlightened and the Majority.

Never mind how slim the Congressional Majority might be. Never mind that some of the Enlightened promoting equity are unable to master basic grammar ("CRT is a verb"), much less math. These experts know how to fix things.

Let's grant the possibility that they do. Let's grant that democratically elected officials could magically solve the knowledge problem and lead us down this road in which equal outcome would follow equal outcome until no disparities existed in health, wealth, or achievement. Where would we be? What would we be?
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