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"Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." Potter Stewart

"Censorship is the child of fear, the father of ignorance, and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere." Laurie Halse Anderson

"When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say." George R.R. Martin

"It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different." George Carlin

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theintercept.com 3y ago

Empire by Invitation

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Was the True Meaning of Capitalism Forgotten?

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Don’t Blame Students for Using ChatGPT to Cheat

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Elon Musk Shares Personal Experience with Serious Vaccine Side Effects

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Who Benefits Most from a Bloated Pentagon Budget? The Weapons Industry

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Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds

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Toxic exposure victims slam military, DOJ for delaying their pursuit of justice

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America’s Police Exodus

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www.thetimes.co.uk 3y ago

Why is Britain falling behind Europe on excess deaths?

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Vaccine Safety: 57% Want Congress to Investigate CDC

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WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Real Time US National Debt Clock

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The Rich’s Search for the Key to Immortality Is Harmful to the Rest of Us

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Saudi Arabia Just Killed the Petrodollar

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John Kerry Says We Need “Money, Money“ to Combat 1.5 Degrees of Climate Change

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The cost of China’s zero-child policy

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Study suggests US freshwater fish highly contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

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Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Push for Generic Vaccine

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Is Spain too late to apologise for fascism?

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Why America will never give up on war

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Five unanswered questions about Biden’s classified documents

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New Stock Listings Open the Way to American Investment in the Israeli Occupation

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What the United States Owes Afghan Women

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Sick and All Alone: Patient Protection Bill

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Omicron subvariant XBB possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated: officials

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Guards cleared in hospital death of Stephanie Warriner. Footage no jury will see

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Of course it's not a german invention. But very few people know that the germans improved upon the British ones (say that publicly and you risk being labelled a conspiracy theorist). And on and on with the chain of history. I was just trying to make a point about hypocrisy, double standards etc.

I want pharma and medical innovation to be huge money makers. I want founders and early employees in companies that innovate in these spaces to be fabulously wealthy.

Sure, in an utopian world that would work. But, here on planet Earth, that would massively increase the incentives of fraud. There are already huge issues with this. Increasing the payout by x100 would do more harm than good in this context.

Perhaps this is already forgotten history, but for all the talk about desperate despots the US is still actually the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs in combat, twice. On civilian cities mind you. And the circumstances were anything but desperate for them.

I have trouble with the idea that all of the members of this group – the mainstream media – whose membership is so ambiguous, could establish a shared agenda.

If you’ve ever worked for a big company, you know how many different people work there, all with different opinions, different goals, different everything. News agencies are no different.

Multiply that by the sheer number of news agencies, and add in the tight and unforgiving deadlines and you can see how improbable a broad, coordinated agenda would be.

When interests converge you don’t need to gather around a table to set the agenda, as George Carlin used to say.

Peter Daszak is pictured leaving the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China on February 3, 2021, as a members of the World Health Organization COVID origins investigation team.

You can’t make this up. Then they wonder how/why the people lost the trust in the institutions.

The silly thing is he probably had really good immunity from his actual case of COVID in '20. I don't think anyone claims that vaccine immunity > natural immunity anymore.

2021 was a weird period in history where one could make extraordinary claims without providing extraordinary evidence while those pointing this out were being ostracized.

Seven clusters, all in rural areas, had a low risk of an association between autism and family lineage.

“We’re really not sure why some rural areas seemed to have what might be called a protective effect,” Richards-Steed says. “It’s certainly possible that parents and grandparents living in urban areas had different environmental exposures or experiences.”

“What we can say, based on our findings, is what we are being exposed to now is probably not just affecting us or even our children but maybe even our children’s children.”

“Evidence shows our environment has a deterministic effect on our growth and development, which includes the germline cells we carry for the next generation,” VanDerslice says.

tl;dr: a less toxic environment certainly helps

A survey by Gallup, published in October, found that just 34 percent of Americans trusted the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, slightly higher than the lowest number that the organization recorded, in 2016. In Finland, 76 percent of Finns consider print and digital newspapers to be reliable.

Americans seems to be doing an alright job at spotting misinformation/disinformation. There's always room for improvement.

This is not just an UK phenomenon though. You can find reports from countries from all the continents, except for Africa. It seems they fared the best in the last 3 years notwithstanding all the apocalyptic news headlines in early 2020 predicting a blood bath once Covid reached them.

ChatGPT or any other language model is limited by the material set it was trained on. Would you trust a language model trained by let's say BigPharma? Or any other big conglomerate with obvious interests that don't necessarily align with yours?

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I guess they will have the same fate as rural everywhere. Are they still alive in Africa, btw?