A Case of “Intellectual Capture?” On YouTube’s Demonetization of Bret Weinstein, by Matt Taibbi
YouTube’s use of government guidelines to regulate speech raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture. Click here to see full discussion video.
Heavy-Handed Marketing of COVID Vaccines, Passports Brings George Orwell’s ‘Freedom Is Slavery’ to the Fore
Vaccine “passports” being put in place by the European Union and Australia as well as some U.S. states and businesses are one of the more alarming instruments advancing the “heart and soul of Technocracy and Scientific Dictatorship.”
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
The potential consequences of the origins of the virus (a Wuhan lab leak) are shattering – if they can be proved.
How “Trust Us” Liberals FAILED Us: Thomas Frank with Briahna Joy Gray
Mr. Frank and Ms. Joy Gray discuss the future of both left and right populism in this country, and what history tells us about how to “push Biden left” as so many liberals promised to do. They also dig into Frank’s enormously popular Guardian article on how the media silenced a possible COVID origin story and what it it reveals about our media that the topic is only now considered “acceptable” discourse.
The NHS just changed how they count Covid “cases”…here’s why.
NHS source claims new data will be “more realistic” in the future, by removing “incidental” Covid cases from the records.
Alameda County COVID-19 Death Toll Lowered by 25% After Counting Method Change
Using the older definition of COVID-19 deaths, a resident who had COVID-19 but died due to another cause, like a car accident, this person would be included in the total number of reported COVID-19 deaths for Alameda County. Under the updated definition of COVID-19 deaths, this person would not be included in the total because COVID-19 was not a contributing factor in the death.
Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be “Right-Wing”?
A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists. Ivermectin has suffered the same fate as thousands of other news topics since Donald Trump first announced his run for the presidency nearly six years ago, cleaved in two to inhabit separate factual universes for left and right audiences.
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’s Book Is Rubbish!
He says the greenhouse gases from factory farms are not because of factory farms and putting animals in prisons … it’s because the cows were the problem. They had four stomachs and the four stomachs make the methane.” —Vandana Shiva