It appears that one of Facebook’s fact checkers is themselves guilty of fact deception of the highest order in journalism, plagarizm. But this fact checker is none ofther then the CEO and co-founder of the legendary go-to fact-check source for Facebook, Snopes. That man is David Mikkelson, who under a pen name, wrote and published over 50 articles that were peppered with material allegededly plagarized by others.
Facebook uses fact-checkers to censor speech they disagree with. These fact-checkers (Lead Stories, Snopes, Politifact, Factcheck.org, Science Feedback) are often biased and unprofessional people. Many of them are just losers who dropped math in grade 9, and partied their way through journalism “school” while half drunk.
On Friday, it was revealed that the co-founder and CEO of the popular fact-checking site Snopes David Mikkelson has been writing articles using plagiarized content under a pseudonym for years.
A Buzzfeed News investigation found that Mikkelson wrote and published over 50 articles containing plagiarized material between 2015 and 2019.
“After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material,” wrote Buzzfeed.
Bill Collier- According to reports, the Covid-19 vaccines are losing 6% efficacy every 2 months, albeit only against mild infections, while the efficacy of the vaccines against death is reportedly at near 100% and very effective against serious illness. But if the vaccines are so quickly, at 6% per month, losing efficacy against mild illness, will it remain effective against serious illness or death a year from injection?
Hesitancy and doubt about the vaccines versus faith in the vaccines and fear the unvaccinated are only making this worse for everyone else is dividing society. The heart of the issue here is not that disinformation is out there and some of it is ridiculous, the core problem is a strong distrust of leading institutions. The faith of the public in lending institutions, from the White House and the CDC to the Press, is waning and all these institutions have earned that distrust.
The more brute force and authoritarian the response to the unvaccinated gets, the more people suspect and fear the vaccine is somehow either dangerous or ineffective. It doesn’t take a leap of logic to see that if the vaccines are losing efficacy against a minor level of infection that eventually they will lose efficacy against serious levels.
Arguments against vaccines range from weird theories of microchips to allegations the vaccine is “leaky” and actually leading to new varients and that these varients may not be protected against by the vaccines over the next year. Arguments for mass vaccination focus on how the unvaccinated may spread the virus and keep it alive, the basic idea being that if everyone is vaccinated at once then the virus will quickly dissipate. But this isn’t the case with influenza, the flu, which requires an annual shot.
It all comes back to trust. People who refuse the vaccine do not trust the officials and institutions pushing the vaccine. The retort that one has to believe everyone involved is deliberately lying in some conspiracy doesn’t mollify anyone’s fears. Accusing people of conspiracy theory thinking and denigrating them doesn’t tend to convince them.
Do I think, as the Publisher of The Freedomist, that the vaccines are somehow going to make everyone sick eventually and/or become useless? No. My own hesitancy is related to a practical need to ensure that I am able to take care of my wife, who has an illness that requires constant personal care.
Me being incapacitated is not good for her and people getting the vaccine have become very sick for up to a few weeks. For the risk to the unvaccinated this is actually seen as worth it, and I totally get that, but the consequences to my wife if I become incapacitated can be just as bad. Moreover, if she gets quite sick, with her underlying illness, it could cause her to take a turn for the worse.
But many have deeper fears and concerns, they do not have faith the vaccines will remain effective and, worse, they fear it will actually cause health issues in the long term. The draconian lockdown on information, deplatforming people who dare question the vaccine, has backfired in its intended effect: the feeling is “they” are hiding something.
Those who start or spread misinformation are insidious, but those who may be concealing information about problems with the virus are also insidious. Sorting out who is either spreading misinformation or concealing information is virtually impossible as one cannot trust sources and authorities these days.
My own instinct is, frankly, not to trust the skeptics and their claims, like that the vaccines alter your DA or that the entire system is geared toward some depopulation scheme. I strongly doubt that all the people involved in the vaccines are part of some conspiracy to make the population sick or make them infertile in order to reduce the human population. That’s insane and bizarre.
On the other hand, the government and the CDC have proven to be liars and to cover up the worse, grossest crimes. The list of “conspiracies” actually conducted and eventually exposed is too long to mention. We all know about how the “intelligence community” has lied over and over for political reasons and how all these endless wars have only made the defense industry rich at the expense of American and innocent foreign lives.
The idea anyone is knowingly pushing a vaccine that makes people infertile or eventually makes them sick doesn’t pass the test of logic. But the idea a rushed vaccine with waning efficacy is being pushed by desperate politicians who need a big win to prevail in elections is quite plausible. The use by both sides of this issue for political gain is also problematic: the anti-mask and pro-mask crowds are basically split between Republicans and Democrats, both sides insisting the other side is using bunk science.
The waning efficacy of the vaccines for minor illnesses and its inability to prevent the vaccinated from carrying the virus is a fact acknowledged by the vaccine companies themselves. The logical next step feared by many is that this waning efficacy is that people who are vaccinated will begin to get very ill or die. I personally know a number of people who were vaccinated who became quite ill, although this is anecdotal and, in the main, the statistics show the vaccinated are most unlikely to get seriously ill or to die.
My own concerns are twofold:
I certainly fear the consequences of getting this virus. I have been exposed to it three times and thankfully did not get sick.
On the other hand, I sincerely fear the vaccine may make me sick enough to struggle to properly care for my wife, I fear that she will take a turn for the worse if she has a bad reaction to the vaccine, and I fear the vaccine will lose its efficacy and give a false sense of security.
I don’t have a strong reason to trust the authoritarians who are demanding everyone get vaccinated and I certainly don’t buy into the wild claims against the vaccine, which have a political motivation. If I had no concern about the consequences if I have a bad reaction to the vaccine, in light of my caregiving duty, I would be vaccinated. If my wife had no underlying illness that could be seriously impacted by a bad reaction to the vaccine, I would urge her to get it. As it stands, she has substantial concerns.
The waning efficacy of the vaccines will continue to make it difficult to get people to get the vaccine and the authoritarian and insulting response to these people will only make it worse.
PGC – The integration of people groups that are physiologically fundamentally different in confined spaces has long led to issues of physical oppression for the weaker in that exchange and physical aggression for the stronger.
Even among men, even among wome, if boundaried away from the rest of society, this physical reality will in due time emerge. This means, among men, who are far more physiologically balanced among one another than with any average woman, there will still be a measure of physical oppression that the weaker of the physical experience. When I speak of men and women, I speak primarily of individuals whose unaugmented endocrinological state is aligned with their genital state, what some might refer to as biological male and biological female. When the biological male is even in a company of females, maybe as many as four, maybe even five, he is almost always guaranteed to be the physically dominant person in that room
This physical reality is a glaring counter to the notion that gender can be defined and created wholly outside of the physical reality of humanity, so gender can be a state of preference that can ovverride the biochemical structures within us, making men equipped to become women and women equipped to become men. When it comes to women becoming men, the transition and potential clash with biological men is not that significant.
A biological woman coming into a biological male space is not a physical threat to men in general, less so than other biological men, in aggregate. When you create enclosed spaces where biological women are now cohabitating with biological males, especially ones whose sex organs are still intact, you are inviting physical, and also, by extension, sexual abuse by a physically superior person over physically inferior persons.
Soon after California allowed transgendered women to be placed in the same prison cells as biological women, reports began to come out about women being raped by transgendered women, many of whom still had their fully functioning male sex organs, resulting in several pregnancies as a result.
So it is in California prison systems occupied primarily by ladies with a few sly dudes in the mix. According to the Women’s Liberation Front, there is at least one knocked up female felon in the clink. All thanks to the new cuddly prison policies courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s up for recall, and state senator Scott Weiner…..
The bill that would expand the ban on teaching critical race theory concepts in Texas classrooms passed a Senate Committee on State Affairs hearing 5 to 2 on Tuesday.
It’s one of the governor’s priorities this special session, even though the bill itself does not contain the words critical, race or theory.
“The bill would prohibit teaching concepts that one race or sex is superior to another, that one race or sex should be held to blame for actions committed in the past by other members of that race or sex,” Republican State Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) said, defending the bill in Tuesday’s hearing.
“No teacher we’ve heard from wants to teach those things. We have seen words creeping into teaching materials. And so we want to make sure we’re teaching the truth and the whole truth to our students,” Rep. Hughes said.
WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency’s internal watchdog is conducting a review of recent allegations made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the spy agency had improperly targeted his communications for surveillance, the agency and an official said.
Evidently, Gary Maynard, 47, a college professor at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University, and not climate change, is the culprit behind a number of wildfires raging in California. A criminal justice professor, nobody is reporting on his motivation, but the propensity of climate alarmists to manufacture results to “prove” the need for draconian and totalitarian “solutions” cannot be discounted as a possible motivation.
According to hard left news site The Daily Beast, “Gary Maynard, age 47, set a series of fires in Lassen National Forest and Shasta Trinity National Forest, an area in rural Northern California near where the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in state history, still burns, federal prosecutors allege. California Forestry Department agents arrested him Saturday. He is charged with intentionally setting fire to public land and is being held without bail in the Sacramento County Main Jail.”
His research covers “criminal justice, social science research methods, cults and deviant behavior.” This tends to align with the dangerous ideology of left-wing authoritarianism which, while invoking claims of justice and virtue-signalling, demonstrates a strong propensity toward intolerance and violence when challenged or opposed.
Maynard wanted to kill.
“He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie Fire,” court filings read. “In addition to the danger of enlarging the Dixie fire and threatening more lives and property, this increased the danger to the first responders.”
While Maynard is described as mentally unstable, questions as to how he became a part-time lecturer at a university or his political motivation are scrupulously avoided by the Democratic Party Press whose own political biases lean hard left. The idea these fires may have been leftwing terrorism aimed at frightening people into the climate change hysteria used to justify totalitarianism is off the radar of sympathetic “journalists” for whom his possible aims, if not his means, comport with their own authoritarian ideology.
It turns out, Maynard is a far left authoritarian loon. He was referenced in a radical leftwing website, artprofiler, being praised for his invectives against Donald Trump.
“Donald will not stay quiet or play nice,” says Dr. Gary Maynard. “The question then becomes, ‘will he get violent or spur on violence?’”
Maynard and the left are the only ones spurring violence.
The website breathlessly praised the would-be murderer:
Dr. Maynard believes Donald Trump suffers from the same illness, malignant NPD, which he fears could trigger in Trump the same kind of violent and destructive response to defeat, it did in Jones in 1978, when he thought the Congressman would expose Jonestown for what it was once he returned to Washington. Dr. Maynard explains what to look for in Trump, as the President reacts to his defeat—and how best to avert an irrational act of retribution with potentially far greater consequences and loss of life than Jonestown, between now and Trump’s last day in office two months from now.
They added this from an interview that became well-shared, making Maynard a poster boy for leftist activism aimed at destroying freedom in this country.
SWAMP: Do you think President Trump suffers from the same malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder as Jim Jones did?
MAYNARD: Yes, I do and I think he may not really be aware of the violent outburst that he is capable of since he grew up wealthy and bullied people, who basically let him get away with threats of physical or career violence without needing to actually physically attack people. For the American people, this issue of Donald Trump not really being aware of the violent tendencies he has inside him and has been building year after year (just watch his look of hatred and anger when Obama mocked him at the correspondent’s dinner in 2015).
Maynard turned out to be the violent one with mental illness and now the Democratic Party Press is covering up both his leftwing stance and his following as a poster child for the kind of ideas they promote.
The degenerate leftist agitator essentially prophesied his own actions, projecting his own mental illness on to Trump:
SWAMP: Have you seen evidence of his NPD since the polls closed Tuesday (specifically, his White House statement claiming victory early Wednesday morning)?
MAYNARD: Yes, and the lawsuits he filed and him retreating is worrisome. With vain malignant narcissism – if they brood and burn up in quiet desperation as their power slips away, that is when they decide to say “Fuck it – let’s go out and take out those who harmed and sabotaged and betrayed me.”
Maynard allegedly tried to kill firefighters to promote the climate change hysteria that demands a totalitarian response. Everything he and the left say about Trump is projection.
The move by the Teachers’ Union to sue a Rhode island Mom for trying to get information about what the school is teaching her kids might in fact be illegal if Legal Insurrection is correct in citing a Rhode Island Supreme Court Ruling that suggests it might be.
The Mom in question has been making an inordinate number of FOIA requests of this local government, so the issue for the local government might not specifically be with her requesting information as it is the proliferation of what she wants, and whether some data is within FOIA parameters or not.
However, once a Union of government employees steps into the fray and seeks to stop a citizen from getting information by suing them, now the legal questions begin to form.
There is a Rhode Island Supreme Court case that is going to have to be addressed, and which seems to sink the unions’ lawsuit. Ilana Cutler, Esq., Legal Insurrection Foundation Investigations Counsel, found the case, and it appears to be good law. And let’s just say I was shocked to find a case seemingly so on point and not addressed in the unions’ papers that it could present a major problem for the lawsuit.
The case is a 2004 Rhode Island Supreme Court case, In re New England Gas Co., 842 A.2d 545, 551–52 (R.I. 2004), in which the court found no right of a non-party to the public records process (in the position of the unions here) to seek to prevent disclosure of allegedly non-public information. That case even relied upon prior precident involving a different union’s attempt to intervene.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, July 14, 2021 in Bell Gardens, CA.
Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may face more of an uphill battle in the upcoming recall election than initially expected.
Counties will send ballots to every registered voter in mid-August, giving the Democratic governor a month to boost turn out for the Sept. 14 special election.
The odds may seem to be in Newsom’s favor, especially as registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans in the…
Apparently, the Clmate Czar himself, John Kerry, chose to fly private to his righteous world-saving meeting at Martha’s Vineyard with former President Barack Hussein Obama. The meeting was actually a birthday party for Barack, which was celebrated by a whose who of celebrities and business leaders.
This article has been updated from a previous version to reflect a statement from a State Department spokesperson.
A State Department spokesperson fired back after initial reports claimed that United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry took a private jet to the island of…
PGC – CNN continues to use its considerable power and advantage to target everyday Americans for economic destruction should they dare oppose CNN’s manner of conducting business, which is to essentially become a DNC propaganda machine using increasingly violent and divisive rhetoric in clear efforts to trigger violent thoughts and action to anyone who cares to pay attention.
That same CNN has decided to dox a private citizen they claim is sharing “medical misinformation.” They’ve already conditioned the perpetually angries among us that minformation is just as bad as the worse sin you could ever commit if you could hope to be considered human, being racist.
Misinformation usage will be called a dog whistle of white supremacism soon enough, with the definition of mininformation, again, being declared by the most powerful of power among us, the few that control our state, our markets, our culture, our schools.
Using this epithet, it was easy enough for CNN to whip its minions into a frenzy to do what the angries do, rip their neighbors to shreds to feel better about their own moral standing in an authoritarian land.
CNN showed up at his office. CNN showed up at his house. CNN eventually hunted him down on a bike ride.
[We wanted to ask him] about the misinformation he’s been posting like masks don’t work, vaccines can be dangerous, and vitamin C or D can prevent or treat the coronavirus.
And now, CNN gets to gloss over this story so as to protect the enforcers from having to look at the metaphorical dead body they just about already created. This doctor will have his whole life destroyed, economically and socially, by the angries that these DNC war machines mostly created, agnries who will do what they have to do to satisfy the great god ba’al that is CNN, a god that demands you sacrifice your children to appease him.
Feeling hatred for your fellow man is the surest sign you’re a corpo-woketarianz, of the CNN and Google and DNC variety.
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