I'm posting nothing lately beacuse I've been spending the last 5 days trying to reconfigure personal and business life with less interconnectedness to big tech, I.e. on the run.
Almost one year late and with suspicious timing:
"PCR positive is no longer = Covid. You are not Covid now unless you get a second test to confirm it, and are presenting clinical symptoms. We shall see what the net impact of this indeed is.
Released 20/21 Jan 2020" @EthicalSkeptic
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05
"PCR positive is no longer = Covid. You are not Covid now unless you get a second test to confirm it, and are presenting clinical symptoms. We shall see what the net impact of this indeed is.
Released 20/21 Jan 2020" @EthicalSkeptic
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05
https://thepostmillennial.com/who-warns-that-pcr-covid-tests-are-more-likely-to-give-false-positives
The Post Millennial
WHO warns that PCR COVID tests are more likely to give false positives
The notice was issued only one hour after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, leading some observers to question the timing of the release.
Woke yesterday to find LinkedIn account was gone and with it 18K critical business contacts across health, wellness and aging.
I can only guess my "crime" was to have a post in which a 1st deg connection, a surgeon commented that his electronic medical record system had cause of death locked to COVID-19 (you can view a screenshot [1]).
Or it was this post, ironically questioning big tech censorship ---> (click comment to see)
I can only guess my "crime" was to have a post in which a 1st deg connection, a surgeon commented that his electronic medical record system had cause of death locked to COVID-19 (you can view a screenshot [1]).
Or it was this post, ironically questioning big tech censorship ---> (click comment to see)
Forwarded from World Doctors Alliance
Today, the threat that Milton faced has changed. Gatekeeping is no longer performed by states, but by Big Tech companies. Like the printing press, the internet initially brought a rapid decentralization and ground-level networking of human communication. But after the initial freedom of the World Wide Web, "web 2.0" made us all reliant on centralized operators—Big Tech companies that amass our data for profit.
In Poland, we have watched with alarm as a consortium of ever more powerful, monopolistic Big Tech companies have done what was once unthinkable: de-platforming a sitting U.S. president. For us, this example—which has alarmed presidents and prime ministers across Europe and, indeed, the world—is merely the straw that broke the camel's back. The debate about who and what social media companies should be able to ban is now firmly in the public eye.
For the citizens of Poland and other countries that value true democratic accountability, we have concluded that this situation can go on no longer. As media across the world have noted, Poland has proposed a law establishing a "Freedom of Speech Council" to guarantee that Polish citizens are not arbitrarily manipulated by Big Tech companies.
At the heart of our proposal is an effort to guarantee Polish citizens their constitutional right to freedom of speech on major internet platforms. The Freedom of Speech Council we propose will decide what Big Tech can and cannot remove from its platforms, lest they attempt to impose restrictions beyond the laws that govern and protect speech in Poland. Far from a partisan or factional initiative, the Freedom of Speech Council will convoke members for six-year terms after they have been nominated by a three-fifths majority in Parliament.
The remedy befits the magnitude of the problem. Two thousand years ago, the Roman comedian Juvenal asked, "Who will watch the watchers?" In the case of Big Tech, I believe that the answer lies with the people—not nameless moderators operating with no transparency and no ability for recourse. The Freedom Act I have proposed in Poland is not only a law that would guarantee Polish citizens their constitutional right to freedom of speech, but it provides a blueprint for how to confront the problem of unaccountable speech regulation by Silicon Valley oligarchs.
Poland suffered under Soviet-imposed Communism for 45 years and endured decades of censorship. We are particularly sensitive to any attempts to curtail freedom of speech: We do not seek the power to remove any content from social media; rather, we simply want to ensure that lawful content is not removed.
...
The political volatility in the United States may obscure what Big Tech has now done. But viewed from abroad, the rapid imposition of a censorship regime by virtually every social media company—from Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Reddit and Instagram to Snapchat and many providers of internet infrastructure—has now put the world on alert.
Big Tech's decisions with respect to President Trump have give governments around the world cause for concern. Big Tech's power and overreach are inspiring leaders to guarantee their citizens' rights in the face of an encroaching giant.
...
Guaranteeing citizens recourse against Big Tech arbitrariness is a first step in the direction of orienting the internet toward the public good. Polish citizens—and, hopefully, citizens of other countries as well—will soon be able to conduct themselves responsibly online without fearing that an unknown, unseen censor will suspend their account in the middle of the night.
The arbitrary exclusion of voices, and even companies, from the internet makes it clearer than ever that social media companies are not just platforms, but publishers—and not merely publishers either, but monopoly gatekeepers for the rapid transmission of information to the public at large.
- Sebastian Kaleta is a deputy minister of justice in the Polish government and a member of the Polish parliament.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-i-decided-regulate-big-tech-poland-opinion-1562819
In Poland, we have watched with alarm as a consortium of ever more powerful, monopolistic Big Tech companies have done what was once unthinkable: de-platforming a sitting U.S. president. For us, this example—which has alarmed presidents and prime ministers across Europe and, indeed, the world—is merely the straw that broke the camel's back. The debate about who and what social media companies should be able to ban is now firmly in the public eye.
For the citizens of Poland and other countries that value true democratic accountability, we have concluded that this situation can go on no longer. As media across the world have noted, Poland has proposed a law establishing a "Freedom of Speech Council" to guarantee that Polish citizens are not arbitrarily manipulated by Big Tech companies.
At the heart of our proposal is an effort to guarantee Polish citizens their constitutional right to freedom of speech on major internet platforms. The Freedom of Speech Council we propose will decide what Big Tech can and cannot remove from its platforms, lest they attempt to impose restrictions beyond the laws that govern and protect speech in Poland. Far from a partisan or factional initiative, the Freedom of Speech Council will convoke members for six-year terms after they have been nominated by a three-fifths majority in Parliament.
The remedy befits the magnitude of the problem. Two thousand years ago, the Roman comedian Juvenal asked, "Who will watch the watchers?" In the case of Big Tech, I believe that the answer lies with the people—not nameless moderators operating with no transparency and no ability for recourse. The Freedom Act I have proposed in Poland is not only a law that would guarantee Polish citizens their constitutional right to freedom of speech, but it provides a blueprint for how to confront the problem of unaccountable speech regulation by Silicon Valley oligarchs.
Poland suffered under Soviet-imposed Communism for 45 years and endured decades of censorship. We are particularly sensitive to any attempts to curtail freedom of speech: We do not seek the power to remove any content from social media; rather, we simply want to ensure that lawful content is not removed.
...
The political volatility in the United States may obscure what Big Tech has now done. But viewed from abroad, the rapid imposition of a censorship regime by virtually every social media company—from Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Reddit and Instagram to Snapchat and many providers of internet infrastructure—has now put the world on alert.
Big Tech's decisions with respect to President Trump have give governments around the world cause for concern. Big Tech's power and overreach are inspiring leaders to guarantee their citizens' rights in the face of an encroaching giant.
...
Guaranteeing citizens recourse against Big Tech arbitrariness is a first step in the direction of orienting the internet toward the public good. Polish citizens—and, hopefully, citizens of other countries as well—will soon be able to conduct themselves responsibly online without fearing that an unknown, unseen censor will suspend their account in the middle of the night.
The arbitrary exclusion of voices, and even companies, from the internet makes it clearer than ever that social media companies are not just platforms, but publishers—and not merely publishers either, but monopoly gatekeepers for the rapid transmission of information to the public at large.
- Sebastian Kaleta is a deputy minister of justice in the Polish government and a member of the Polish parliament.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-i-decided-regulate-big-tech-poland-opinion-1562819
Newsweek
Why I Decided To Regulate Big Tech in Poland
It is time for democratic governments to protect their citizens and restore a free internet.
The science was not clear in March but it is now being cited like something infallible. But journalists are not questioning why ‘Professor Lockdown’ (as The Times calls Professor Neil Ferguson) is still involved in supplying it. Last year, Ferguson lost his status as a government adviser, temporarily, after he broke his own lockdown rules to visit his lover. But the scandal that should have ruled him out of playing any role in policymaking – now or ever – is almost 20 years old.
In 2001, Ferguson’s models proved instrumental in the slaughter of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs during an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. By 2003, this was estimated to have cost the UK ‘£3.1 billion to agriculture, including losses in export value, with similar losses to tourism and business of £2.7-3.2 billion’. In 2016, a Vet Times investigation concluded the cull
‘was based on a model that was crude and wrong… Wendy Vere, a West Country veterinarian, commented in the Devon Independent Inquiry: “It was carnage by computer.” Retrospective analysis showed the Imperial model was flawed. It is noteworthy that the report of the Royal Society’s inquiry, published after the outbreak, stated: “It is not satisfactory to rely on the development of models during an outbreak, or even to make other than minor modifications to existing research tools.”’
In 2009, Ferguson’s models ‘forecasted that 65,000 people in the UK could die of swine flu, which prompted the WHO’s issuing of a pandemic’. The eventual death toll was 457. His prediction for deaths from mad cow disease was 50,000, and the actual death toll… 177.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/20/it-is-a-journalists-duty-to-question-lockdown/
In 2001, Ferguson’s models proved instrumental in the slaughter of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs during an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. By 2003, this was estimated to have cost the UK ‘£3.1 billion to agriculture, including losses in export value, with similar losses to tourism and business of £2.7-3.2 billion’. In 2016, a Vet Times investigation concluded the cull
‘was based on a model that was crude and wrong… Wendy Vere, a West Country veterinarian, commented in the Devon Independent Inquiry: “It was carnage by computer.” Retrospective analysis showed the Imperial model was flawed. It is noteworthy that the report of the Royal Society’s inquiry, published after the outbreak, stated: “It is not satisfactory to rely on the development of models during an outbreak, or even to make other than minor modifications to existing research tools.”’
In 2009, Ferguson’s models ‘forecasted that 65,000 people in the UK could die of swine flu, which prompted the WHO’s issuing of a pandemic’. The eventual death toll was 457. His prediction for deaths from mad cow disease was 50,000, and the actual death toll… 177.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/20/it-is-a-journalists-duty-to-question-lockdown/
Spiked-Online
It is a journalist’s duty to question lockdown
Much of the press is all too happy to toe the government line.
The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago.
We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies
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Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology.
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features the amazing declaration from former Facebook security official Alex Stamos, talking to the very concerned CNN host Brian Stelter, about the need for social media companies to use the same tactics against U.S. citizens
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Stamos noted the real problem: “there are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than people on daytime CNN” — and it’s time for CNN and other mainstream outlets to seize the monopoly on information dissemination to which they are divinely entitled by taking away the platforms of those whom people actually want to watch and listen to
...
Media and political elites have placed as many Americans as they can — and it is a lot — into full-blown fear and panic mode, and when that happens, people are willing to acquiesce to anything claimed necessary to stop that threat, as the first War on Terror, still going strong twenty years later, decisively proved.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is
We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies
...
Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology.
...
features the amazing declaration from former Facebook security official Alex Stamos, talking to the very concerned CNN host Brian Stelter, about the need for social media companies to use the same tactics against U.S. citizens
...
Stamos noted the real problem: “there are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than people on daytime CNN” — and it’s time for CNN and other mainstream outlets to seize the monopoly on information dissemination to which they are divinely entitled by taking away the platforms of those whom people actually want to watch and listen to
...
Media and political elites have placed as many Americans as they can — and it is a lot — into full-blown fear and panic mode, and when that happens, people are willing to acquiesce to anything claimed necessary to stop that threat, as the first War on Terror, still going strong twenty years later, decisively proved.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is
Glenn Greenwald
The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
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Second 'Heather Higgins: How to Counter Runaway Narratives & Big Tech Censorship | American Thought Leaders' https://lbry.tv/@Dryburgh:7/Heather-Higgins_-How-to-Counter-Runaway-Narratives---Big-Tech-Censorship-_-American-Thought-Leaders:c
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“If you've lived in Communist China, if you've lived in a repressive society, where only permitted, allowed thoughts are tolerated, then you see this for what it is. Whether the mechanism to get there...
Forwarded from World Doctors Alliance
Media is too big
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"Healthy people cannot transmit a virus to someone else" - Dr John Denis 22/1/21 https://brandnewtube.com/watch/wda-experts-speak-out-asymptomatic-spread-dr-johan-denis-22-1-21_ch3XkpJFqst9qro.html
Now that the UK has introduced the requirement for all inbound travellers to show evidence of a negative PCR test, travellers now have to group together for extended periods of time to present this great burden of proof to the state to demonstrate that they are healthy individuals and with it, worthy of onward travel.
LinkedIn have not told me what the misinformation was. Nor obviously given a chance to appeal it. It's basically I'm a persona non grata on a platform I spent 16 years building curated 18.5 B2B contacts critical for my business. Persona non grata for essentially have the "wrong" thoughts and sharing the "wrong" narrative.
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CORBETT ON "WHEN WILL THE SCANDEMIC END?" AND "ACTS OF RESISTANCE"
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Corbett speculates that the next "PsyOp" will be that the PCR test threshold is reduced thereby giving the appearance that the vaccine was very effective.
I think he's most likely to be correct that the PCR shenanigans used to inflate the "cases" and "deaths" will be dialed down soon.
I suspect though that for Americans, there will also be months of a show to portray Joe Biden as "scientifically" taking "control of a virus" and winning the "war". During this time there will be 100 days of national costume dress to scare away Rona.
Whilst the performance theatre plays out, on the back end accounting systems will be changed. A SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive will no longer automatically equal a COVID-19 case, instead cases will need to meet normal disease diagnostic criteria e.g. present with clinical symptoms etc. And the PCR Ct will be reduced down to <=35.
--Clipped from Corbett's Interview 1611 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
I think he's most likely to be correct that the PCR shenanigans used to inflate the "cases" and "deaths" will be dialed down soon.
I suspect though that for Americans, there will also be months of a show to portray Joe Biden as "scientifically" taking "control of a virus" and winning the "war". During this time there will be 100 days of national costume dress to scare away Rona.
Whilst the performance theatre plays out, on the back end accounting systems will be changed. A SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive will no longer automatically equal a COVID-19 case, instead cases will need to meet normal disease diagnostic criteria e.g. present with clinical symptoms etc. And the PCR Ct will be reduced down to <=35.
--Clipped from Corbett's Interview 1611 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Couple viral videos from China... Once you accept having to prove "health" for a basic civil liberty (e.g. onward travel), the "proving" will become more frequent, more widespread, and the definition of "health" will only keep expanding (e.g. mental health). Mark my words: it' enabling a technocracy. Tech giants, Big Pharma & unelected global institutions will. It will extend beyond travel, to even monetary access (eventually). You won't even be able to question it, as such speech will be censored on the big tech platforms; in fact for even the attempt of such speech, further civil liberties will be cut as a punishment.