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A tool of control: How health officials weaponize language to manage public perception of COVID vaccines


Children's Health Defense
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
1984 novel
The deployment of clever linguistic tricks has created a hostile upside-down universe, where even the vaccine-injured are tarnished as "anti-vaxxers" or liars rather than acknowledged as ex-vaxxers who took risks that turned out to be life-changing.

Psychological and linguistic manipulation are, for those in power, proven tools for building, consolidating and maintaining dominance — a reality keenly depicted in George Orwell's never-more-relevant novel, "1984."

As phrased by master propagandist Edward Bernays, an approximate contemporary of Orwell's, the mind of the people "is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion."

Recent events surrounding COVID vaccines have shown that medicine and public health — with the help of a complicit media — are particularly skilled at "pull[ing] the wires which control the public mind."

The clever bag of linguistic tricks deployed by the medical cartel includes seeding evocative terms such as "vaccine hesitancy" and "lockdowns" (which is prison terminology) into popular and scientific discourse, forging slippery new definitions of words with formerly fixed meanings (such as "pandemic," "herd immunity" and "vaccine"), and circling failed products back around by giving them the positive spin of "boosters."
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Amazon disables ISIS propaganda website using AWS to host content

M. Moon
Engadget
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
isis
© AAMIR QURESHI via Getty Images
It's been around since April, at least.

The Islamic State's propaganda arm used Amazon Web Services to host content promoting extremism, according to The Washington Post. Nida-e-Haqq, the group's media arm, posted messages on the website in the Urdu language, including ones celebrating the recent suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 170 people. Since Amazon's policy bars clients from using its services to incite violence and terror, the company pulled the website after The Post alerted it to its existence.

The website Amazon disabled provided content for the Nida-e-Haqq app, which recently showed an image of the Kabul bomber wrapped in a suicide vest. It's currently password-protected and not viewable, but it's been active since at least April, based on the online domain records The Post saw. Amazon spokesperson Casey McGee told the publication in a statement: "(F)ollowing an investigation, we have disabled a website that was linked to this app as it was in violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy."
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US: 2 cops indicted in murder of scientist having psychotic break and threatening suicide


MyNorthwest
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:30 UTC
Krycia
© Austin Police Department via APThis combination of photos released by the Austin (Texas) Police Department shows police officers Christopher Taylor, left and Karl Krycia, right. Taylor and Krycia have been indicted for murder for a line-of-duty fatal shooting of an Austin scientist. One officer, Christopher Taylor, was already under a murder indictment for another on-duty shooting death in Austin, Texas.
Two Texas police officers, including one already under a murder indictment, were indicted Friday in the July 2019 shooting of an Austin scientist who neighbors reported as having a mental health crisis.

A special Travis County grand jury indicted Austin police officers Christopher Taylor and Karl Krycia on murder and deadly conduct counts in the shooting death of Mauris de Silva. The shooting happened after neighbors in a downtown condominium building reported de Silva was having a psychotic break and holding a knife to his neck.

According to police reports, Taylor, Krycia and a third officer confronted de Silva and told him to drop the knife. When De Silva lowered the knife to his side and advanced toward the officers, Taylor and Krycia shot him while the third officer fired a stun gun.

Comment: Cops in other countries, even when actually threatened, will risk their lives to remedy a situation whilst also doing their utmost to save that of their suspect; but not in the USA.

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Judge strips Chicago mother of parental rights 'until she gets vaccinated'

Dane Placko
Fox 32 Chicago
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:54 UTC
Rebecca Firlit
A Chicago mother says a Cook County judge has taken away her parental rights after learning that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.

In what all parties agree is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented step, a judge at Chicago's Daley Center has stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot.

"I miss my son more than anything. It's been very difficult. I haven't seen him since August 10th," Firlit told FOX 32 News in an exclusive interview.
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Over 3,000 medical professionals sue Biden Admin over transgender mandate

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:50 UTC
Biden
© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden
Pediatricians and other health care workers are suing the Biden administration over a mandate tied to health care which would, according to the suit, require medical professionals to provide gender-related services and surgeries despite objections, medical or otherwise.

Objections, even to treating children, would be considered "discrimination," pursuant to Biden's reinterpretation of sex to include sexual orientation and "gender identity."

"The American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and an OB-GYN doctor who specializes in caring for adolescents filed suit in federal court to challenge a Biden administration mandate requiring doctors to perform gender transition procedures on any patient, including a child, if the procedure violates a doctor's medical judgment or religious beliefs," read a press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Media silent as 'thousands' of protesters clog London in march against vaccine passports


RT
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:41 UTC
London COVID vaccine passport protest
© AP | ReutersDemonstrators opposing coronavirus vaccines and the idea of vaccine passports gathered in central London on Saturday
Protesters have packed into central London in a demonstration against the government's ongoing plans to introduce so-called vaccine passports. Though largely ignored by the media, "thousands" of people reportedly took part.

The protest march kicked off at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon and set off across Vauxhall Bridge and toward Clapham Common. London's Metropolitan Police reported road blockages and bus delays along the route, and officers remained in close proximity to the marchers at all times.

Video footage showed a dense crowd of people in attendance. Some waved religious banners, some held placards opposing vaccination full stop, and others demanded the government drop its plans to require patrons of certain venues be vaccinated against Covid-19.

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Poll: 50% of Americans think military aid to Israel should be restricted

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:36 UTC
us aid israel
Although Israeli racism and daily war crimes are very clear, the US pays multi billions to the Israeli occupation in different forms of assistance
New polling from the 2021 Chicago Council Survey found that 50% of Americans want the U.S. to restrict military aid to Israel. The survey also shows that a majority of Democrats want it restricted.

The survey, which was conducted in July, shows that there's still a sizable partisan split on the issue. 62% of Democrats think Israel should "prohibit its use in military operations against Palestinians." 32% are opposed to such an idea. With Republicans it's almost the exact opposite: 32% are in favor of restrictions and 61% oppose them.

The study also indicates that there's a growing acceptance for a one-state solution in the region. 56% of Americans said an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza was acceptable, while 60% said a "one-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians are treated as equal citizens" was acceptable.
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US announces drone strike on ISIS in Afghanistan after deadly Kabul attack

Idrees Ali
Reuters
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC
Islamic State (IS) fighters
© Welayat Raqa / AFP
The United States launched a drone strike against an Islamic State attack "planner" in eastern Afghanistan, the military said on Friday, a day after a suicide bombing at Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians.

President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday that the United States would hunt down those responsible for the attack, saying he had ordered the Pentagon to come up with plans to strike at the perpetrators.

U.S. Central Command said the strike took place in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul and bordering Pakistan.

Comment: See also: Who profits from the Kabul suicide bombing?

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Pentagon reports that 'thousands' of ISIS combatants released by Taliban

Isaac Schorr
National Review
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:10 UTC
ISIS flag
© AgenciesMembers of Syrian Democratic Forces hold a flag of the Islamic State militants
Raqqa, Syria • October 4, 2017
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that "thousands" of prisoners affiliated with ISIS-K (Islamic State Khorosan Province) — the terrorist group responsible for yesterday's attacks at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul — had been freed from Afghan prisons in recent months as the United States moved forward with a military withdrawal.

On Friday, Fox News's Jennifer Griffin asked Kirby "how many ISIS-K prisoners were left at Bagram and believed to have been released from the prison there and why weren't they removed before the U.S. pulled out to some place like Gitmo?"

Kirby responded by conceding that "clearly, it's in the thousands" while maintaining that he did not have an exact number. Bagram Airbase fell to the Taliban on August 15, just a little over a month after U.S. forces abandoned the base in the dead of night without notifying the Afghan commander on site and even cutting the electricity to the base to aid their exodus.
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Kremlin says allegations of persecution of free press in Russia 'deserve attention'


RT
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:13 UTC
Dmitry Peskov
© unknownRussian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov
An open letter published Friday by nearly a dozen Russian media outlets, decrying a number of recent decisions that they believe impedes press freedom in the country, potentially merits consideration, the Kremlin has acknowledged.

On Friday, ten separate news groups published versions of a statement addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and a number of top officials, decrying what they said was "the persecution of independent journalism in the country."

While the specific claims varied from outlet to outlet, liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta's copy of the letter urged authorities to abandon the practice of designating outlets as 'foreign agents,' to prevent "fictitious" legal cases being brought against reporters, and to investigate allegations that journalists have been beaten by police at protests.
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