EU Social Media Regs Are “Pioneering” Model for US, ABC News Declares

Paul Collier November 9, 2021

ABC News Writer Assumes the Sale to Condition You to Welcome EU-Style Social Media Controls – Media Analysis

Kelvin Chan, a business writer for ABC News, recently penned an article called “Europe bolsters pioneering tech rules with help from Haugen.”

In the headline itself, Chan is using a tactic that I personally refer to “Assuming the Sale,” one which I have documented in past media analysis reports. The writer uses the adjective “pioneering,” which is a value-assuming term based on a presuppositional shared ‘hierarchy of value” as the well-known clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson phrases it. I myself simply prefer to it as the value that emerges from preference, or preference, to short-cut the term.

Value emerges from preference, and preference is not universal, as preference is, more often than not, tied to aggregates of like humans to be accomplished, such as preference to pursue an understanding of Christ. In aggregate, humans that share this preference will be far better equipped to grow in understanding, and thus get better at achieving this shared preference.

Preference is not universal, so value is not universal, but this writer is assuming that the values inherint in the EU’s framing of law that restricts digital social platform activity within their borders are naturally the same as the reader’s. If it’s not, at heuristic levels of understanding, your mind-body is adopting to an assumption of a reality of power that is based on this writer’s value they hope you will have has become your value through the process of assuming the sale.

Never ask a yes or no question, only ask questions that assume the sale. Never make statements that do not assume the sale is a forgone conclusion.

This news blurb is newsworthy in and of itself, I believe, but also offers a very succinct demonstration of the “assume the sale” tactic of the agit prop agent of the DNC, which this writer in fact or de facto actually represents. There is a lot more agit prop in here as well, mostly focused on other value-assuming words like “misinformation” and “harm” to give justice to the EU way of regulating human action in this digital media within their borders.

As you read the rest of the news blurb, and should you hopefully chooose to read the whole article. you will see just how foundational to the whole flow of adjectives this writer uses to describe every aspect of the EU’s “pioneering” spirit behind their tech rules, with “pioneering” implying, assuming that the EU way is the right way for all, objectively, and we don’t even have to make the argument (it’s so obvious), so we will just use language that assumes it to be true, thus making it true perceptively to the uncritical mind.

Europe bolsters pioneering tech rules with help from Haugen

From abcnews.go.com
2021-11-08 18:39:13

Excerpt:

European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook and other social media giants facing increasing blowback over misinformation and other harmful content that can proliferate on their platforms…..

….Jan Penfrat, senior policy adviser at digital rights group EDRi.

The question, Penfrat said, should also be: “Why is the U.S. so much lagging behind? And that may be because of the immense pressure from the homegrown companies” arguing to officials in Washington that stricter rules would hobble them as they compete with, for example, Chinese rivals.

Drawing up a new package of digital rules for the 27-nation European Union is getting a boost from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who answered questions Monday in Brussels from a European Parliament committee. It’s the latest sign of interest in her revelations that Facebook prioritized profits over safety after the former data scientist testified last month to the U.S. Senate and released internal documents.

If the EU rules are done right, “you can create a game-changer for the world, you can force platforms to price in societal risk to their business operations so the decisions about what products to build and how to build them is not purely based on profit maximization,” Haugen told lawmakers. “And you can show the world how transparency, oversight and enforcement should work.”

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Biden Jab or Job Mandate Crushed by 5th Circuit

Paul Collier November 8, 2021

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has just put a sudden halt to Biden’s dream of a jab for every arm or no job for you. Citing grave constitutional concerns, the court put an immediate suspension to the Biden administration’s edicts, giving hope to Americans that somewhere in our government there still resides Americans, respectors of the Constitutional Bill of Rights Democratic Republic that these United States are legally bound to be.

US Federal Appeals Court Freezes Biden’s Coercive Vaccine Mandate

From thefederalist.com
2021-11-06 20:29:38
Haley Strack
Excerpt:

A federal appeals court blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on Saturday, just two days after the administration issued the law through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The rule requires employees at companies with 100 or more workers to get the jab by Jan. 4 or be tested for the virus weekly to avoid getting fired or racking up massive fines.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, freezing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 mandate. The court’s decision came in response to a joint petition from entities in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah.

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More COVID-19 Therapies Means Less Justification of Vaccine Mandates

Parker Davis November 4, 2021

One of the justiciations of the vaccine mandate is the high rate of hospitalization and mortality, especially among vulnerable populations. But as scientists and doctors have experimented, often on the job, with the best way to treat people who get infected, more and more drugs and therapies are coming online that are daily reducing the threat of COVID-19 to the general public.

At some point, perhaps a point we already passed, people might ask themselves when we no longer face a danger that justifies the draconian measures that are still being undertaken in America today. On top of that list of measures that must go in light of this new reality are the vaccine mandates themselves.

From doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org – Early COVID Treatment Works

This study points to a more effective therapeutic treatment using a combination of Ivermectin and Doxycycline. In the study, the therpy was able to produce effective results for both the use of Ivermectin-Doxycycline and Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin, with the former combination outperforming the latter (the former being from Group B).

A Comparative Study on Ivermectin-Doxycycline and Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin Therapy on COVID-19 Patients, Abu Taiub Mohammed Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahbaz, Md Rezaul Karim, Jahirul Islam, Guo Dan, Shuixiang He

Results: All subjects in Group A reached a negative PCR, at a mean of 8.93 days, and reached symptomatic recovery, at a
mean of 5.93 days, with 55.10% symptom-free by the fifth day. In group B, 96.36% reached a negative PCR at a mean of
9.33 days and were symptoms-free at 6.99 days. In group A 31.67% of patients expressed symptoms caused by medication, this was 46.43% in group B.
Conclusion: The combination therapy of Ivermectin-Doxycycline showed a trend towards superiority to the combination of Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin for mild to moderate COVID19 disease.

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For patients that end up having to be admitted, a therpeutic is emerging called a prophylactic anticoagulation, which is reducing the mortiality rate of those admitted to hospital by more than 50% from 27% to 13%. The findings also found no health risks associated with the treatment itself.

Early initiation of prophylactic anticoagulation for prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 mortality in patients admitted to hospital in the United States: cohort study, Matthew S Freiberg, et al

Results Of 4297 patients admitted to hospital with covid-19, 3627 (84.4%) received prophylactic anticoagulation within 24 hours of admission. More than 99% (n=3600) of treated patients received subcutaneous heparin or enoxaparin. 622 deaths occurred within 30 days of hospital admission, 513 among those who received prophylactic anticoagulation. Most deaths (510/622, 82%) occurred during hospital stay. Using inverse probability of treatment weighted analyses, the cumulative incidence of mortality at 30 days was 14.3% (95% confidence interval 13.1% to 15.5%) among those who received prophylactic anticoagulation and 18.7% (15.1% to 22.9%) among those who did not. Compared with patients who did not receive prophylactic anticoagulation, those who did had a 27% decreased risk for 30 day mortality (hazard ratio 0.73, 95% confidence interval 0.66 to 0.81). Similar associations were found for inpatient mortality and initiation of therapeutic anticoagulation. Receipt of prophylactic anticoagulation was not associated with increased risk of bleeding that required transfusion (hazard ratio 0.87, 0.71 to 1.05). Quantitative bias analysis showed that results were robust to unmeasured confounding (e-value lower 95% confidence interval 1.77 for 30 day mortality). Results persisted in several sensitivity analyses.

Conclusions Early initiation of prophylactic anticoagulation compared with no anticoagulation among patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 was associated with a decreased risk of 30 day mortality and no increased risk of serious bleeding events. These findings provide strong real world evidence to support guidelines recommending the use of prophylactic anticoagulation as initial treatment for patients with covid-19 on hospital admission.

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Melatonin is proving to be an effective therapeutic in the treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The study tracked 24 patients in an intervention group (the ones that got the treatment) and 20 patients in a control group. None of these patients were in critical condition. The patients in the Melatonin group recovereved much more quickly than those in the control group did, suggesting melatonin can be an effective treatment for patients hospitalized, but not in critical condition.

Efficacy of a Low Dose of Melatonin… in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19, GholamHossein Alishiri

A total of 24 patients in the intervention group and 20 patients in the control group completed the treatment. Compared with the control group, the clinical symptoms such as cough, dyspnea, and fatigue, as well as the level of CRP and the pulmonary involvement in the intervention group had significantly improved (p <0.05). The mean time of hospital discharge of patients and return to baseline health was significantly shorter in the intervention group compared to the control group (p <0.05). No deaths and adverse events were observed in both groups.

Conclusions

Adjuvant use of melatonin has a potential to improve clinical symptoms of COVID-19 patients and contribute to a faster return of patients to baseline health.

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In an analysis of multiple studies, a case is being made for Hydroxychloroquine being made widely available for the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients and for the FDA warning label to be removed from the drug. The mortality rate reduction for those treated with the drug is shown to be 75%, and for those who use the drug therapeutically at the start, it reduces their chances of hospitalization by 44%.

Hydroxychloroquine in Early Treatment of High-Risk COVID-19 Outpatients: Efficacy and Safety Evidence, Risch, Harvey.

It is readily apparent that every one of the studies of high-risk outpatient HCQ use has shown
risk reduction for hospitalization or mortality, averaging 44% for the former and 75% for the
latter, and that the numerous systematic case-series studies have shown exceedingly good
treatment benefit vs mortality. The “natural experiment” studies of population responses
provide compelling evidence of temporal relations between medication use and mortality. The
RCT studies proclaimed as definitively showing no benefit of HCQ use in outpatients have all
involved almost entirely low-risk subjects with virtually no information about risks of
hospitalization and mortality and are irrelevant for bearing upon HCQ use in high-risk
outpatients. The totality of fatal cardiac arrhythmia events among more than 8,000 patients
treated with HCQ and HCQ+azithromycin is zero. The large database study of more than
320,000 older patients taking HCQ+azithromycin shows no excess all-cause mortality (Risch
2020b) and minuscule excess fatal arrhythmia frequency, 9/100,000 patients, compared to the
large number of patients whose lives will be saved by outpatient use of these medications. I
have not discussed all of the other even lesser-frequent adverse events than the arrhythmias,
but these are equally minuscule, and the FDA did not invoke them for its warning about
outpatient use in the title statement of the warning. The FDA has stated publicly that it relied
upon adverse event data from hospital inpatients to make policy applying to outpatient use.
There are no systematic adverse event arrhythmia data of US outpatients from the beginning
of 2020 through the present. The FDA website also publicly cautions that only (i.e., “due to”)
arrhythmia data are relevant to its warning, by omitting from the title any assertions that other
potential adverse events were important or frequent enough to be determinative. The FDA’s
extrapolation from adverse events in hospitalized patients to supposed risks in outpatients is
flagrantly unwarranted. Outpatient viral replication is an entirely different disease than
inpatient florid cytokine-driven pneumonia (Park et al., 2020) and the treatments are different.
The need for outpatient use of HCQ is crucial for saving the lives of high-risk COVID-19
patients. The most recent published recommendations for early treatment of COVID-19
outpatients (McCullough et al., 2020) consider HCQ use and related medications of critical
importance and is authored by some 50 clinicians providing this treatment. There is no
comparison between the number of lives to be saved with early outpatient treatment and the
minuscule numbers addressed in the analyses of adverse events, even what would be
postulated to occur with widespread outpatient use. All of these data have been available to
the FDA for some time. The improper warning on the FDA website must be removed
immediately, and widespread early outpatient treatment must start immediately.

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DNC States Sue Home-Built Gun Kit Companies

Freedomist Editor October 15, 2021

California Joins Lawsuit Againt Ghost Gun Manufacturers – CBS San Francisco

From sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
2021-10-13 20:38:00

Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The state of California is jumping into an historic lawsuit against companies who make kits to assemble so-called “ghost guns.”

The suit, originally filed in August by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office along with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters, accuses three companies of selling illegal prepackaged kits, allowing people to make a firearm at home. These ghost guns don’t have serial numbers, making them untraceable.

In joining the lawsuit against Blackhawk Manufacturing Group, Inc., GS Performance, LLC, and MDX Corporation, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the defendants are violating the federal Gun Control Act and two state gun control measures by not meeting basic safety requirements.

“Fifteen minutes — that’s the little time it takes to put it together. We’re not talking about a kit of Legos, we’re not talking about Blue Apron or Martha Stewart’s meal kit, and we’re not talking about a COVID test. We’re talking about a ghost gun kit,” said Bonta. “These weapons have been used in mass shootings. Criminals have used them to murder innocent children in our classrooms. They have been linked to serious crimes here in San Francisco and across the nation. And in America, we have a gun problem. We have to acknowledge that.”

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10 States Now Challenge Social Media’s “Right” to Censor Speech

Paul Collier September 27, 2021

Republican States now numbering 10 in total are seeking redress from the courts to check the power of social media platforms to censor Americans for political reasons. This move is just one of many moves that have been made ever since Twitter censored Donald J Trump while he was President and banned him while he was still President as well. That was the canary in the coal mine for the political class, in general, around the world. But how have we gotten to this point and what is next to come?

Before Twitter decided to censor the tweets of an American President, nation-states around the world were beginning to question the soundness of allowing a public discourse digital platform to dominate your nation-state that is managed by individuals willing to use that platform to enforce their particular political, moral, and ethical beliefs, meaning citizens in nation-states around the world were having their thoughts regulated more by billionaires in silicon valley and Beijing than by their own state governments.

For the most part, though, Twitter began to cooperate with states, having in part initially built its reputation on being a source for revolutions with the #iranelection revolution of 2009. By 2016, Twitter was no longer the source for information sharing for any group at fundamental odds with the state authority of their land. Here in America, the authority is more from the corporation than the state, though its power is ultimarely derived from the state willing to protect its assets after it violates the bills of rights of its customers.

Twitter reflected the values of the ruling authorities.

But that changed when Twitter began to interfere in an election, choosing not only to target people who fell outside the orthodoxy of the state, but of a particular political party. Twitter became the moral authoritarian of the DNC, willing to even target an American President for censorship in an effort to protect the DNC from a political election loss. At the moment that the first tweet by an American President was censored, all the other wanna-be rulers of the world began to see Twitter not only as a cultural adversary, but now, a state political one. Twitter was, and still is, positioning itself to be the kingmaker throughout the world.

For all the small nation-states, especially, this moment must have seemed even more chilling. After all, if Twitter could censor the American President without consequence, what would protect them from being the victim of Twitter’s international political opinions. Twitter is de facto colonizing the world, through force, to become their Silicon Valley and Beijing (there’s plenty of overlap between these two, though some notable differences) cultures if they want to stay in power at all.

The effect is that many small nation-statees especially havee begun to move to rid itself of the need of Twitter by building state-sponsored digitial public discourse platforms of their own.

That was the international effect of Twitter’s possibly treasonous actions (using their market power to subvert an American election by censoring the government itself), but domesticallly, many governments at the local to state level also received this message as a chilling grab for political power by the billionaires of silicon vallley, who were attempting, and still are, to make themselves the kingmakers of political power in America, at all levels, after all, if they could censor the American President, they can censor anyone.

With that in mind, the states are making moves to use the levers of political power to check the power grab attempt by Twitter, to criminalize the censorship of Americans for political beliefs and for claiming to be stopping the spreading of ‘misinformation,’ a task no free people would ever wish to see centralizedd and definable by the very few, the billionaires of silicon valley, over the vast many.

What will follow will be more lawsuits by states, more legislation by states, aimed at curtailing social media powwer. The final decision will be made by the Supreme Court and that, perhaps, is 3 or 4 years away from culmination.

Worldwide, the relevence of all the current major social media platforms will only decrease as more and more nation-focused alternatives emerge, and the internet, in general, will begin to seprate itself from itself as nation-states ruled by their respective political classes move to control the vehicle of power that is digital public discourse.

Attorney General Paxton Joins 10-State Coalition to Regulate Big Tech Censorship

From texasborderbusiness.com
2021-09-21 15:21:20

Excerpt:

Attorney General Paxton led a 10-state coalition that filed an amicus brief in the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Florida’s law that regulates censorship on Big Tech platforms by requiring them to apply their content-moderation practices in a consistent manner and to provide disclosures to affected users. The brief explains why relevant provisions of Florida’s law are fully compatible with the First Amendment, which guarantees Americans’ right to freedom of speech, expression, and political beliefs.

“The regulation of big tech censorship will inevitably suppress the ideas and beliefs of millions of Americans,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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Fake News is Something Normies Can Smell, MIT Says

Paul Collier September 10, 2021

When the news media first started to build the fake news narrative, the thought of many at that time was this, if human beings in America are not able to discern what real and fake news actually is, this is a reflection of the poor quality of our government schools. When the response to this ‘threat’ was to push for censorship on social media platforms, many responded that training people to discern fake news from real news (really, just training them to be crticial thinkers and how to use the internet to find more objective-type date to figure things out for yourself) would be way more effective and not fundamentally in violation of the spirit of the Bill of Rights, to live dangerously in freedom, ESPECIALLY when it comes to expression, and even more esssentially when it comes to news reporting.

A new study might give the public schools a bit of a defense, while indicting those who would have you believe humans are too stupid to figure out when people are making things up. You might fool them to some degree, but ultimately people have a heuristic understanding of inauthenticity, of fakeness.

A study from MIT suggests that regular readers have proven to be as effective as professional fact-checkers at discering fake stories from real stories. The study itself, however, is not being used to push back against the gatekeeper approach, protecting the dumbs from the dangerous misinformations, but rather to develop models in which you utilize reader groups of proportional representational size to fact-check the content users post on a given social media platform (in this case, Facebook).

Scienceblog itself refers to the problem of misinformation in its opening senten.ce from the article we blurb from below,

In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news organizations often employ fact-checkers to sort the real from the false. But fact-checkers can only assess a small portion of the stories floating around online.

“Grave concerns” is the tone this site chose to reflect, missing, like, perhaps, MIT itself, the broader ramifications of its study, that no filters are needed at all, and that if you took the time to educate people on how to discern stories for themselves you would be far more effective in actually screening out misinformation, but then again, its not misinformation these platforms hope to contain, for misiniformation is regularly approved at the highest levels of government and media and news on an almost daily basis, rather its the orthodox version of reality, in terms of the phenomenology of it, as well as the moral, social, and cultural version of reality.

The DNC theorizes, based on the CCP model of recent decades, that they need not worry about loss of productive excellence at the highest levels being so affected by taking so much control over the lives of the people of the land they coercively control.

Thus, where concentrated power perceives it can extend itself and cut itself off from competition going forward, it will do so, and this is the reality of power assumption of the DNC, an ambition that would be fundamentally threatened if the perception of the the threat of misinformation to the welfare of others no longer held sway over any significant portion of humans that live in this land, and this study certainly lends credence to the opposing fear-based narrative of the DNC.

Study: Crowds can wise up to fake news

From scienceblog.com
2021-09-01 19:02:09
MIT
Excerpt:

In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news organizations often employ fact-checkers to sort the real from the false. But fact-checkers can only assess a small portion of the stories floating around online.

A new study by MIT researchers suggests an alternate approach: Crowdsourced accuracy judgements from groups of normal readers can be virtually as effective as the work of professional fact-checkers.

“One problem with fact-checking is that there is just way too much content for professional fact-checkers to be able to cover, especially within a reasonable time frame,” says Jennifer Allen, a PhD student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study.

But the current study, examining over 200 news stories that Facebook’s algorithms had flagged for further scrutiny, may have found a way to address that problem, by using relatively small, politically balanced groups of lay readers to…

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Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coerv

Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coercive Power Behind It

Mark Clouse September 3, 2021

Opinion – Chairman Xi has been moving forward aggressively reshaping the socio-cultural reality reinforced with state lethality control, strict and broadly applied death governance power.

He has been working diligently to clip the wings of the nuveau-riche billionaires of China’s Silicon Valley. He ended, in 2017, the three-person council as the final word of the current Communist Policy and made it all about his edicts alone. He revised the Maoist custom of writing “Thoughts,” really dicatates to the society about what society indeed was and the general pentalties for violating what the society is as defined by these thoughts. Mao had his Mao Thoughts and now XI, in 2017, issued his own Xi Thoughts.

He adds to the thoughts as he sees fit. But, until now, the distribution of Xi Thoughts has not been especially forced on others. A whole generation has little knowledge as to what Xi Thoughts even are and what they might even mean. But now, all this has changed, as now Xi seeks to inject his particular version of society to the children, and to the adults, with companies now coming under scrutiny for violating the beliefs, the ethics, really, of Xi Thoughts.

One can see some parallels between the DNC pushing its particular remedy to solving injuustice and inequality, whatever you want to call it (as of the writing of this article, the going favorite label is ‘Critical race Theory,” but, as usual it’s more complicated than that, even though there is enough truth in that label to use that phrase from here going forward), and the CCP pushing Xi Thoughts to all ages through coercive means.

In the case of the DNC, the real power limits on their ability to move as nearly unopposed as Xi will be able to move is a shadow of what Xi is capable to do from the beginning of an idea to the execution of an idea.

He can do that in a nation-state that has 3 times the people within it that we Americans do. For good or for ill, Xi has the power to make the dream real at a a massive scale, and with great haste, far beyond what any human being has on this planet in the here and now. He is the apex of all apex existentials within our earthly frame.

And he is about to become, for the generation in primary education age, the very DNA they will either build a lifetime of options around, or a lifetime of overcoming. This is also what falls upon many of the children in America today, but Americans, at least for now, have the venue to dissent from the presupposutional ethos of the authorities that choose to inject such beliefs into our public schools.

How America comes out of this, or doesn’t, remains to be seen, but at least, for now, we still have options and the power to dissent.

Xi Jinping Thought, for children

From www.economist.com
2021-09-02 14:48:27

Excerpt:

Sep 4th 2021

ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data, abusing workers, bullying smaller firms or exploiting young consumers with addictive video games and online fan clubs. Is Mr Xi revealing himself as an ideologue, bent on re-imposing Communist Party control over the economy at the expense of growth? Or is he more pragmatic than that: a nationalist strongman who is helping to make China stable at home and mighty abroad? There is chatter among the country’s grandees, but no consensus.

Given such confusion among grown-ups, this is a bold moment to issue a new series of textbooks to all students in Chinese schools, colleges and universities, with the aim of explaining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, as Mr Xi’s political philosophy is formally known.

As the academic year began on September 1st, teachers and lecturers began distributing these books, tailored for each age-group, down to children as young as six. The use of stand-alone schoolbooks devoted to a serving leader marks a break with decades of caution. The last time that hundreds of millions of youngsters clutched books devoted to the wisdom of one man was under Mao Zedong, the object (and instigator) of a disastrous personality cult.

Books for the young are especially revealing, for they have to keep their messages simple. Primary schools have long taught the general rudiments of ideology. Via courses with names like “ethics and law”, children have studied…

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CDC Being Turned Into Anti-Gun Agit Prop Mill for DNC

Ivo Fysic September 1, 2021

The CDC’s Framing of Homicide and Suicide As ‘Public Health’ Issues Provides Cover for Biden’s Gun Control Agenda – Reason.com

From reason.com
2021-08-30 19:00:33

Excerpt:

As director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky has a lot on her plate right now—perhaps too much, given her history of misrepresenting COVID-19 research, promoting dangerously mixed messages about vaccination, issuing confusing and scientifically dubious advice, and laying claim to vast powers that Congress never gave her. But Walensky’s pandemic-related duties did not deter her from publicly switching focus to a highly contentious subject that has always spelled trouble for the CDC: gun violence.

“Something has to be done about this,” Walensky told CNN last week. “Now is the time. It’s pedal-to-the-metal time.”

Although that metaphor suggests hasty action, Walensky emphasized that she is not calling for new gun controls. “I’m not here about gun control,” she said. “I’m here about preventing gun violence and gun death.”

In Walensky’s view, the CDC needs to investigate the causes of gun-related deaths so that…

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VA Supreme Court Rules for Teacher Fired for Pronoun-Choice Refusal

Freedomist Curator September 1, 2021

Virginia Supreme Court upholds reinstatement of anti-transgender teacher – Washington Blade

From www.washingtonblade.com
2021-08-31 13:24:24

Excerpt:

The Virginia Supreme Court on Monday upheld the reinstatement of a Loudoun County gym teacher who had been suspended after he spoke against a policy that protects transgender students.

The Loudoun County School Board earlier this month approved Policy 8040, which allows trans students to use their preferred names and pronouns and school facilities that align with their gender identity. This policy is in accordance with legislation that Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed into law last year.

….Tanner Cross, a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, at a May 25 hearing stated it was against his beliefs to “affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa” and was placed on administrative leave.

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City Council Wants to Declare “Health Misinformation a Public Health Crisis”

Paul Collier August 30, 2021

A San Diego School Board is attempting to create social media monitoring power for a city council to assure that all posts of their citizens are not health information. They are even attempting to declara a ‘health misinformation a public health crisis,’ hoping to get more draconian emergency powers to assure that only one narrative is allowed to exist in the ‘public square.’

Liberal-dominated San Diego County Board floats COVID declaration conservative critics say impedes free speech

From www.foxnews.com
2021-08-29 01:45:02

Excerpt:

San Diego’s Democrat-controlled county board of supervisors will consider an agenda item Wednesday that would declare “health misinformation a public health crisis” and enact measures to try to “combat” posts that counter the county’s official positions on the coronavirus.

A summary of the proposal claims that “health misinformation now presents a greater threat to public health than a variant of COVID-19.”

“In response, the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego recognizes the vaccine hesitancy, that stands in the way of the County moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, is being fueled by the spread of health misinformation and commits to developing strategies to actively combat health misinformation.”

SAN DIEGO STUDENTS TOLD TO MASK UP OUTDOORS AT SCHOOL AND WHILE WATING AT BUS STOPS

Residents say they’re concerned that giving the country the right to determine what counts as “information” and “misinformation” could infringe on their rights to free speech.

Jim Desmond, a…

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