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As demonstrated by Fisman, et al., public health models in the hands of the wrong people can result in devastatingly harmful and brutally misleading public messaging. This, in turn, could lead to the introduction of inappropriate health policies.
Mind control is an important aspect of any democratic society. Indeed, Bernays maintains that without the āconscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the massesā, democracy simply would not āworkā.
An NBC News poll conducted in January 2022 showed that only 44 percent of Americans trust the CDC while 43 percent do not trust the agency. Another poll by Pew Research conducted in February showed that 60 percent of Americans were confused by the CDCās changing guidelines for COVID-19.2.
The more you give politicians the power to regulate information, the more they will use that power to do only rational thing: use that power to preserve their leadership positions. While Democrats may think this will help them, very likely, the shoe will be on the other foot quickly and it will be used against them.
A chronicle of Covid Cult defiance, and its cost. Ultimately, though, it matters little. I do not regret taking a stand against these horrible pathologies that society adopted as ānormal.ā
No matter how much evidence accumulates against their usage and how ludicrously absurd their statements and justifications are, Philadelphia and Los Angeles represent the future of masking; a clearly useless intervention, designed by incompetent and panicked āexperts.ā
The Coronavirus response has resembled the Vietnam War. ToĀ begin with, theĀ justifications for starting the War and the Lockdowns were similarly questionable.Ā
Agile governance may sound innocentābut in practice, it most certainly stands for a world in which transparent citizens live in a proverbial panopticon, monitored by technologyāand billionaires enjoy traditional private lives and their large oceanfront properties, and limit their kidsā access to technology so that they grow up sharp.
Ellsberg: The rationale that US and Russian leaders use when sabre-rattling is clear: the threat of nuclear war justifies obscene military spending and lines the pockets of arms dealers in both countries.
This might be news to many members of the public, but it is a long-accepted scientific fact that lipid nanoparticles used to deliver the mRNA in āvaccinesā can be toxic.
Chris Hedges speaks with British journalist Peter Oborne about worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians, and those, such as Palestinians or Iraqis, we ignore.
How AI software, typically used to develop drugs for treating, say, Pitt-Hopkins syndrome or Chagas disease, might be sidetracked for more nefarious purposes.