A person collapses on an athletic field, and suddenly entire portions of our population are not allowed to speak

The Ethical Skeptic’s Razor (The Antiwisdom of Crowds)

Among competing alternatives, all other things being equal, prefer the one for which discussion or research is embargoed.

A person collapses on an athletic field, and suddenly entire portions of our population are not allowed to speak.

See how this works? They insist on a conclusion through coercion – not science or evidence.

Social Skepticism is fake science, fake virtue, fake humanity.

We have a problem right now. Mandated silence is poison.

It is a creeping form of social insanity, a panic-dissonance which is in itself just as dangerous as the very malady they are attempting to embargo from discussion.

Those who are ignorant of the social tyranny of the last 3 years, climate change, borders, etc. – the canceling and censorship – are destined to repeat it on the next disaster… which will be much worse.

Originally tweeted by Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) on January 3, 2023.

Judge Orders Biden Admin to Hand Over Communications With Tech Companies

A federal judge ordered the Biden administration to hand over communication documents between the federal government and big tech companies. U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty, of the Western District of Louisiana, granted the order of discovery sought by Republican Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana.

President Joe Biden, members of his administration, and select social media companies must turn over documents and answer questions within the next 30 days during a discovery phase of a lawsuit alleging collusion to suppress freedom of speech, a court ruled. The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri filed a lawsuit in May alleging Biden and eight high-ranking members of his administration and the government colluded with and/or coerced social media companies Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress “disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social medial platforms.” 

Terry Doughty, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled there is “good cause” for the discovery process and set a timetable, including specific deadlines for depositions.

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HACKED RUSSIAN FILES REVEAL PROPAGANDA AGREEMENT WITH CHINA

Since the war broke out in February, experts have been struck by a convergence in Russian and Chinese media narratives. While some of the convergence was likely happenstance, occurring when storylines aided both governments’ goals, documents found in a trove of hacked emails from Russia state broadcaster VGTRK show that China and Russia have pledged to join forces in media content by inking cooperation agreements at the ministerial level.

bilateral agreement signed July 2021 makes clear that cooperating on news coverage and narratives is a big goal for both governments. At a virtual summit that month, leading Russian and Chinese government and media figures discussed dozens of news products and cooperative ventures, including exchanging news content, trading digital media strategies, and co-producing television shows. The effort was led by Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communication and Mass Media, and by China’s National Radio and Television Administration.

In the propaganda agreement, the two sides pledged to “further cooperate in the field of information exchange, promoting objective, comprehensive and accurate coverage of the most important world events.” They also laid out plans to cooperate on online and social media, a space that both countries have used to seed disinformation, pledging to strengthen “mutually beneficial cooperation in such issues as integration, the application of new technologies, and industry regulation.” 

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How Yahweh Conquered Rome: Christianity and the Big Lie ~ Laurent Guyénot

The question is, very simply: How is it that Rome ended up adopting as its spiritual foundation a doctrine and a book claiming that God chose the Jews, at a period of widespread Roman Judeophobia? And how is it possible, that, less than two centuries after turning Jerusalem into a Greek city named Aelia Capitolina, where Jews were forbidden to enter, Rome adopted officially a religion that announced the fall of Rome and a new Jerusalem?

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This is the essay discussed in the video posted below. I have only begun reading this essay but the basic premise as stated above is most intriguing. The essay is long, so I would recommend viewing the video first for most people. ABN

Evidence of severe mortality in China purportedly from covid

There are many videos like these coming out of China claiming large numbers of dead bodies from covid are overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums. At the same time, the Chinese government’s official position is no one is dying from covid. This kind of vague, confusing, and contradictory picture is normal for China in virtually all areas. There are several explanations for why there are so many dead bodies, including: 1) they are victims of a massive political purge which is using covid as a cover story; 2) there is a real outbreak of covid which is hitting hard because Chinese have become immunologically naive due to mass lockdowns; 3) a new and more deadly variant of covid has appeared in China and will soon spread across the world; 4) this is more political theater aimed at confusing the people of China and the world as Xi Jinping consolidates absolute power. Feel free to add your own because nobody knows. ABN

Ukrainian war, politics, its future and what Poland might do

During this talk, Mercouris and Christoforou repeatedly say that Zelensky is pursuing strategies based on political considerations: 1) to bolster morale in Ukraine and 2) to show Western donor nations they are succeeding in the war and thus deserve to be given more money. The problem I have with this take on the situation, and there’s much to be said for it, is that Ukrainian politics for a long time has not been run by Ukrainians. It’s run by American neocons and non-Ukrainian oligarchs. Zelensky was selected and raised to the presidency by those people and is clearly one of them or one of their puppets. That group of people will have no problem watching Russian Slavs and Ukrainian Slavs kill each other. I imagine they have post-war plans for that region that are not in the best interests of Ukrainians or Russians. Zelensky does want the money but I do not believe he expects Ukraine to benefit from any of it. ABN

FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden Sent Twitter Numerous Censorship Requests Right Before 2020 Election

Emails released on Saturday as part of the latest dump of the “Twitter Files” reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter — so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it “odd.” This blockbuster detail from the weekend came mere days after the FBI issued a statement framing coverage of the “Twitter Files” as “misinformation” being peddled by “conspiracy theorists.”

The FBI has “some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations,” then-Twitter legal executive Stacia Cardille stressed in a Nov. 3, 2020, email to Jim Baker, the then-deputy general counsel for Twitter. “This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions.” 

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International Federation of Journalists Demands US Drop All Charges Against Assange

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have launched the “Free Assange Now” campaign on its website calling for the United States to drop all charges, including those involving espionage, against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Monday, Wikileaks tweeted out that the “The International Federation of Journalists, representing more than 600,000 journalists worldwide, calls for Julian Assange’s immediate release.”

Assange has been locked up in a London prison since 2019 and prior to that he was on the run for seven years. He had sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy between 2012 through 2019 when the asylum was withdrawn.

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After all we have seen from the US government over the past several years, it’s obvious not even a shred of justification remains for continuing to persecute Assange. ABN

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

1. THREAD:

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.

3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @TheFP, is one piece of that important story.

4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.

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How doctors are groomed; how mind-control is done; how the preposterous covid narrative was all but forced on helpless populations; with some hope at the end

1. Here’s one of my MORE important threads –

I’m getting a lot of questions on how do we FIGHT BACK against MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX and BIG PHARMA.

Here’s what I think, we need to use the SAME tactics that PHARMA uses against us.
Let me share with you one.

2. In the Pharma industry, you must understand that there is a SYMBIOTIC relationship between Physicians and Pharma. Physicians are people like us too. They also want to have career progressions like the rest of us.

3. One of the paths to progress your career is by riding Pharma’s machinery.
In Pharma, we categorize a group of Physicians as Key Opinion Leaders.

4. What are key opinion leaders? Basically, we rank every doctor according to 4 criteria.
a. The number of papers they published
b. The number of talks they have given
c. The frequency of talks they have given
d. Their medical association/ranks
There are other criterias too.

5. “Key Opinion Leaders” are doctors who SHAPES the general conversation or narratives. For example, these are the ones that will say “The Vaccines are Safe and Effective” and all other doctors simply follow their guidelines.

6. You must understand that doctors are extremely busy with patients/paper work. They don’t have much time to read and critically analyse Clinical Papers/Research etc.

7. One of the things that doctors MUST do to maintain their license is to get CME Points. They need CME points to renew their medical license to continue their work. CME stands for “Continuous Medical Education”.

8. CME Points are awarded by regulators on Speaker Events and conferences. These events and conferences are like educational talks where a doctor must go to renew their knowledge, get the points and renew the licenses. It’s called “CME Accredited Events”.

[This is an important thread. It clearly shows how doctors are brought into a system of controlled thought through a process that continuously maintains that system. Since we all experienced this aberrant medical system first-hand during covid, we should be able to rather easily extrapolate it to academia, police, military, law, journalism, politics, and so on. Our society and its “mass formation psychosis” has been engineered in this way over several generations beginning at the end of WW2. Virtually all professions and most walks of life have been indoctrinated into systems much like the one described in this post. ABN]

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1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES” ~ Matt Taibbi

1.THREAD: The Twitter Files
TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES"

After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday.

2.It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.”

3.They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI. After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?

4.The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.

5.The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors – from local cops to media to state governments.

6.Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track. Is today the DOD, and tomorrow the FBI? Is it the weekly call, or the monthly meeting? It was dizzying.

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