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Archive for 2021
December 20, 2021
ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SHOULD BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS (CONT’D): Idaho sheriff charged after pulling gun on youth group leaving thank you notes: Investigators say Sheriff Craig Rowland aimed a gun at the group of girls, dragged their adult chaperone from the car by her hair, and threatened to execute her.
He faces felony charges, as he should.
NOT HEARING MUCH FROM FEMINISTS ON THIS: Uyghur women in China labor camps recall horror of rape, forced sterilization.
Flashback: House Democrats Won’t Schedule Vote on Bill to Sanction Chinese Slave Labor.
DOES ANYONE THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL SPEND THIS MONEY MORE WISELY THAN ELON MUSK WOULD HAVE?
VIDEO: No Exit. “Maybe you won’t watch all 25 minutes of this, but it’s worth watching the first six minutes to see how ordinary Americans who were sympathetic to early coronavirus restrictions have lost all patience with endless Covid Theater.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Churchgoing declined in the time of Covid.
TO BE HONEST, IT WAS A DREADFUL MISTAKE TO ELECT HIM FOR A FIRST TERM: Lucas: Even Democrats can see Biden should bow out of second term. And “even Democrats” know that, though most won’t admit it.
WHEN GOVERNMENT FAILS: As Biden’s Border Crisis Rages, Armed Texans Arrive to Round Up Illegal Aliens. “Some local officials are welcoming them, according to The Wall Street Journal. The new law allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing. The armed groups intend to find the illegals and deliver them to law enforcement officials for arrest.”
DR. FAUX CHI HAS A WOMAN PROBLEM: To put it as precisely as possible, loads of women don’t trust him. Neither do a lot of other Americans, according to the latest Issues & Insights/TIPP Survey. Among much else, the survey found that 37 percent of women trust Faux Chi, while 45 percent don’t, a key portion of the overall responses that prompted the following observation:
“The data clearly indicate that Fauci has become a lightning rod of sorts for partisan public opinion. The high degree of distrust suggests public disappointment with the handling of the pandemic, which has created economic and social uncertainty and further widened America’s already-wide political divide.”
ALLEGED, INDEED: Fauci, Emails, and Some Alleged Science.
From October 2-4, 2020, the American Institute for Economic Research hosted a small conference for scientists to discuss the Covid-19 lockdowns. Just four days later, Dr. Francis Collins, the retiring Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), would call the three of the scientists in attendance “fringe epidemiologists,” in a directive he sent to Anthony Fauci and other senior staff of his agency. They were “fringe epidemiologists” because they had the temerity to ask whether the lockdowns of 2020 were effective. Those three, Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford were simply doing what any good scientist would do: They were following the evidence.
They wrote the Great Barrington Declaration [GBD] as they parted company at AIER, posting it for all to see.
So why was Dr. Collins so intent on impugning these three scientists? It’s hard to know exactly, mostly because any scientist worth his salt should have been happy to see further research being done. That is, after all, how ignorance is replaced by knowledge. But Collins was clearly in no mood to replace his own possible ignorance with any kind of knowledge. He was pretty sure he knew all he had to know; and this is one of the most dangerous positions a scientist can take.
In an email obtained by AIER through a Freedom of Information Act request, Collins told Anthony Fauci, CCing Lawrence Tabak, Deputy Ethics Counselor at NIH, that he wanted “a quick and devastating published take down” of the Great Barrington Declaration’s premises.
Based on his track record, the most devastating thing Fauci could have done was to endorse it.
THE UALR LAW SCHOOL AFFAIR INSPIRES SOME THOUGHT: Antisemitism in Higher Education Isn’t Coming from the Right; It’s Coming from the Left.
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL: FACEBOOK’S “FACT-CHECKING” IS A LIE:
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,
We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta.
In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.
The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review.[1]
But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about “Missing context … Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were “partly false.”
Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories.[2]
We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible.
— It fails to provide any assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong
— It has a nonsensical title: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials”
— The first paragraph inaccurately labels The BMJ a “news blog”
— It contains a screenshot of our article with a stamp over it stating “Flaws Reviewed,” despite the Lead Stories article not identifying anything false or untrue in The BMJ article
— It published the story on its website under a URL that contains the phrase “hoax-alert”
We have contacted Lead Stories, but they refuse to change anything about their article or actions that have led to Facebook flagging our article.
We have also contacted Facebook directly, requesting immediate removal of the “fact checking” label and any link to the Lead Stories article, thereby allowing our readers to freely share the article on your platform.
There is also a wider concern that we wish to raise. We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. To give one other example, we would highlight the treatment by Instagram (also owned by Meta) of Cochrane, the international provider of high quality systematic reviews of the medical evidence.[3] Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task. Fact checking has been a staple of good journalism for decades. What has happened in this instance should be of concern to anyone who values and relies on sources such as The BMJ.
Facebook’s “fact checking” is a lie. It’s basically narrative-checking.
WHEN THE SOURCES ARE POLLUTED, CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE: The Dictionary Story.
MAKE YOUR DESCENDANTS THINK YOU’RE MENTALLY IMPAIRED: Report: COVID Vax Card and BLM Sticker Put In New Time Capsule Under Pedestal Of Removed Robert E. Lee Statue In Virginia.
GOOD: D.C. Has No “Standing” For J6 Lawsuit Against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
D.C. has no standing for a lot of things.
THIS IS NOT BEING REPORTED MUCH: DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust, told it’s ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’.
Now imagine someone made black children mimic picking cotton, being lynched. What do you think the media would do? Would we hear about anything else for years? Note I’m not saying that would be okay, as opposed to this. Both would be appalling. But one would be a cause to scream from the rooftops. And it’s not this one.
OF COURSE THEY WON’T. BUT EVERYONE KNOWS: COVID May Be Waning, but Will They Tell Us?
WE HAVE RESISTED MORE THAN EUROPE: A Path Will Rise to Meet Us.
But not nearly enough. It’s time to stand on two and say enough is enough. Remember you were endowed by your creator with the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That free will the Creator gave you? Let no man infringe.
And if you don’t believe in a creator, go along with us for this, anyway. You won’t regret it.