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Friday, November 10, 2023

Sharing Exposing Govt/Medical Tyranny Via Dr. Robert Malone, Et Al

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 10, 2023

 

Dr. Robert Malone has become controversial to Globalists who have come to hate him and by many who fight Medical Tyranny also display animus toward Dr. Malone. 

 

The Globalists hate him because apparently he was an inner circle guy who decided to expose Medical Tyranny.

 

Many Medical Tyranny Fighters have either disagreed on minor issues brought up by Malone or distrust his past inner circle status leading to criticism. Apparently Dr. Malone has taken issue with his Anti-Medical Tyranny critics and has leveled lawsuits. Hence the Anti-Medical Tyranny animus toward Dr. Malone.

 

As for me, I am disappointed with the disunity in the ranks battling Medical Tyranny. BUT I have no medical or science degrees that qualify me to take a side. YET I have a history degree which means I can read and think. AND from what I have read, these guys have more in common with each other than not even as they all stick their academic hubris of whoever is correct or whoever is in error, while pleasing Globalists with self-destructive lawsuits. Frankly, I haven’t even paid attention to who is winning what or losing what in this silly lawfare stuff.

 

BUT I DO KNOW the information put out by Dr. Malone at the very least places dents in the agendas to control the majority with the unelected power of the (largely wealthy Leftist) Globalist minority.

 

AND SO, I share some recent information which Dr. Malone is the centerpiece (yet involves others) battling Globalist/Medical Tyranny. If you, like me, have noticed your Liberty and Freedom slipping away, YOU MIGHT WANT TO PAY ATTENTION.

 

Knowledge is power and ignorance leads to controlled slavery.

 

FIRST UP: The Brownstone Institute picked a Dr. Malone Substack publication and posted it on 11/9/23. Here’s the title: “Anatomy of Deep State Censorship”. The takes a look at a 104-page House Judiciary finding on the U.S. Government (as in Election Coup installed Biden Administration) defining what is GOOD-SPEECH and BAD-SPEECH regardless of actual facts, then SILENCING the defined BAD-SPEECH.

 

THEN LAST: Is a Bright Light News post I’ve been trying to get to for a while posted on 11/3/23 and features four panel discussion Rumble videos of a conference that took place in September 2023. The 4-video theme is “Fifth Generation Warfare”. The participants: Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone [Robert’s wife], Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Byram Bridle. The BLN title: “[FULL VIDEOS] BLN4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Drs. Robert Malone & Jill Malone with Drs. Byram Bridle and Mark Trozzi | Sept. 20, 2023”.

 

I discovered the BLN post from the Bright Light News Telegram Channel which posted a 2:49-minute of Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone which I am posting to my Bitchute Channel:

 

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Anatomy of Deep State Censorship

Hidden Deep (Brownstone Institute Photo from Shutterstock)

 

By ROBERT MALONE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Brownstone Institute

 

Fellow Americans, the government will take care of you!

 

They don’t want you to have to worry about information that they don’t approve in your social media accounts.

 

They don’t want you to worry that the US government would directly interfere with your First Amendment rights, and certainly would never meddle in an election or with your medical freedoms.

 

That said, the deep state will gladly “contract those jobs out to creepy left-wing “disinformation”-fighting firms.”

 

A bombshell new report has been published, titled: “WEAPONIZATION OF “DISINFORMATION” PSEUDO-EXPERTS AND BUREAUCRATS: HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERED WITH UNIVERSITIES TO CENSOR AMERICANS’ POLITICAL SPEECH,” Interim Staff Report by the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government U.S. House of Representatives was released on November 6, 2023.

 

In that report, the committee laid out the role of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and other astroturf organizations contracted (that means paid for) by the Department of Homeland Security to censor Americans.

 

Representative Jim Jordan on his Twitter account also provided the receipts in how the Election Integrity Partnership was founded, by attaching a letter from the Atlantic Council advising a “sync-up” whereby they created the Election Integrity Partnership in 2020. Ergo, a partnership of four organizations working in collaboration with both the US Government and the Atlantic Council.

 

Atlantic Council Letter Shared by Jim Jordan

 

In fact, the EIP is made up of four “partners.” They are the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), The U. of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP), Graphika, and the Atlantic Council. Each organization has a distinct role to play, from identifying “spreaders of misinformation,” to identifying the networks of social media landscapes that those so accused interacted on, to actual recommendations to social media companies for removal of identified offending posts, and communications back and further between the government and the EIP. This was done with government monies and resources.

 

Below is a link for each partner, together with a description of their technologies or recent activities.

 

·       The Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO): Stanford has removed the SIO page from their website, although the Wayback Machine has a somewhat functional archival copy. Within those pages, is information about their operation “Platform Takedown”, which was developed to get information removed from the major social media platforms. The SIO Platform takedown only lists case reports up to June 2020, but the Wayback Machine has some detailed reports up through 2022.

 

·       The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP): Their mission “is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.”
As of this month (Nov 2023), the CIP has now turned its identification of targets for censorship to identifying the flow of what they view as the “new elites” of X (ergo influencers with large followings) regarding how they share information regarding the Hamas/Israel conflict. The implication being that “X” will be targeted in the future for more harassment by the Election Integrity Partnership.

 

Rapid Research Report - Target 'new elites' of X

 

·       Graphika: This is a company that specializes in “cutting-edge technology that creates large-scale explorable maps of social media landscapes.” Their in-depth analysis reveals insights to help “clients and partners understand complex online networks and take decisive action.” Graphika lists Harvard, Oxford, and DARPA (DARPA = CIA) as its partners. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

Near-Real-Time Technology

 

·       The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab):

The Atlantic Council’s DFRL is staffed by former US intelligence establishment technology staffers (ergo, ex CIA and DIA = “Deep State” personnel), and of course the Atlantic Council itself is known as a landing bed for Deep State operatives (otherwise known as a cutout organization). [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

The DFRL website states:

 

Centralized and decentralized platforms share a common set of threats from motivated malicious users—and require a common set of investments to ensure trustworthy, user-focused outcomes…

 

Further research and capability building are necessary to avoid the further proliferation of these threats.

 

Within industry, decades of “trust and safety” (T&S) practice has developed into a field that can illuminate the complexities of building and operating online spaces. Outside industry, civil society groups, independent researchers, and academics continue to lead the way in building collective understanding of how risks propagate via online platforms—and how products could be constructed to better promote social well-being and to mitigate harms.

 

Take away all the flowery words and it sure sounds like organized government-sponsored Deep State censorship to me!

 

Beyond the websites listed above, the House Report does an excellent job of showing how the Election Integrity Partnership worked to censor the American People.

 

Let’s go back to the Congressional report on censorship. It reads:

 

Enter the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a consortium of “disinformation” academics led by Stanford University’s Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) that worked directly with the Department of Homeland Security and the Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the State Department, to monitor and censor Americans’ online speech in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Created in the summer of 2020 “at the request” of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the EIP provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny.

 

This interim staff report details the federal government’s heavy-handed involvement in the creation and operation of the EIP, which facilitated the censorship of Americans’ political speech in the weeks and months leading up to the 2020 election. This report also publicly reveals for the first time secret “misinformation” reports from the EIP’s centralized reporting system, previously accessible only to select parties, including federal agencies, universities, and Big Tech. The Committee and Select Subcommittee obtained these nonpublic reports from Stanford University only under the threat of contempt of Congress. These reports of alleged mis- and disinformation were used to censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.

 

As this new information reveals, and this report outlines, the federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions. This pressure was largely directed in a way that benefited one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as “misinformation” while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors. The pseudoscience of disinformation is now—and has always been—nothing more than a political ruse most frequently targeted at communities and individuals holding views contrary to the prevailing narratives.

 

<in other words, people that were saying things that the Deep State did not want to be said were the ones being censored>

 

The EIP’s operation was straightforward: “external stakeholders,” including federal agencies and organizations funded by the federal government, submitted misinformation reports directly to the EIP. The EIP’s misinformation “analysts” next scoured the internet for additional examples for censorship. If the submitted report flagged a Facebook post, for example, the EIP analysts searched for similar content on Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and other major social media platforms.

 

Once all of the offending links were compiled, the EIP sent the most significant ones directly to Big Tech with specific recommendations on how the social media platforms should censor the posts, such as reducing the posts’ “discoverability,” “suspending [an account’s] ability to continue tweeting for 12 hours,” “monitoring if any of the tagged influencer accounts retweet” a particular user, and, of course, removing thousands of Americans’ posts.

 

The House committee (through Rep. Jim Jordan) also released a google doc (Jira Tickets) that lists some of those censored in chronological order and what their alleged “crimes” were.

 

In the Jira Tickets list, it is worth noting that on 11 June 2021, the list abruptly changed its focus from “election misinformation” to “vaccine misinformation” and renamed these efforts as the virality project. Almost like there was some sort of directive from the top <sarcasm>.

 

On the last page of Jira Tickets list, they have included the censorship of my original interview with Tucker Carlson for Fox News. Almost directly after that, the list ends. So, how many times I was recommended for censorship is an unknown. Except that based on the obvious shadow-banning over the past two years, most likely it was in the hundreds of times.

 

Some screenshots from the Jira Tickets report generated on me regarding the Tucker interview (page nine):

 

My sin, as shown in the screenshot below, was that I claimed on the Fox interview that the risks outweigh the benefits in teenagers and young adults (per June 30, 2021).

Jira Ticket - Robert Malone

 

In the image below, the Election Integrity Partnership (now the Virality partnership) notes I am both “General anti-vaccination and also “right wing” in my affiliations.

 

So this is really creepy. That fact that my political leanings are mentioned implies that being “right-wing” was/is criteria enough for censorship. That this criteria was enough for censorship shows direct election interference.

 

As this list also labels me as being generally against vaccination. As if being against the mRNA gene therapy for specific vulnerable groups makes one against vaccination. This was enough apparently to be censored.

 

Jira Ticket - Right Wing General Anti-Vaxx

 

I believe that is a listing of where that had been shared prior to the censorship:

Jira Tickets on Websites

 

The Election Integrity Partnership also notes that I am a “repeat offender.”

Jira Tickets on Malone Repeat Offender

 

Frankly, the whole document and the House Committee report makes me feel violated.

 

The House report then goes to document how even Congresspeople were censored and that under Biden, the censorship efforts were ramped up domestically.

 

This did not end with the 2020 election.

 

After President Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, the government’s censorship regime ramped up. At CISA, the CFITF team dropped any pretense of a “foreign”-focus and relabeled itself as the “MDM team” that would focus on foreign and domestic speech that the government considered mis-, dis-, or malinformation. Throughout 2021, the Biden White House engaged in a pressure campaign against Facebook and other social media companies to censor anti-vaccine content, even if it was true. By 2022, CISA invited Dr. Starbird, then Twitter Executive Vijaya Gadde, and others to form an advisory MDM Subcommittee to consult with CISA about how the agency could and should combat Americans’ speech that the government considered to be mis-, dis-, or malinformation.

 

But by 2023, as Republicans retook the majority in the House of Representatives and initiated oversight of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, CISA scrubbed its website of references to domestic censorship. The Committee and Select Subcommittee obtained and revealed how Facebook changed its policies because of pressure from the Biden Administration. Internal Facebook documents showed that the Biden White House in particular wanted true information and satire censored at a rate even Big Tech found objectionable.

 

Based on the Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s work, even the mainstream media could no longer ignore these constitutional violations. The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden have obtained significant victories before a federal district court and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and now will have their case heard by the Supreme Court. Public reporting shows that universities are reconsidering whether to permit their professors to receive funding and engage in censorship work. But the work is not done yet. The Committee and Select Subcommittee’s investigation remains ongoing.

 

Clearly, the hit pieces on me by the Atlantic MonthlyNew York TimesWashington Post (twice), Business Insider, the Scientist and Rolling Stone and other mainstream media outlets within a very short timeframe were a coordinated effort to bring me down by the Deep State. I believe that this effort was led by the intelligence agencies and DHS through the Deep State.

 

Kash Patel nicely discusses how this these types of hits are conducted in his book, Government Gangsters. Whereby the government feeds information into operatives working in mainstream media (ergo, as in CIA Operation Mockingbird). Now I am told that those same hit pieces were used against me in other government circles.

 

The Supreme Court case, Sullivan v New York Times, resulted in a situation whereby people in the public eye can almost never win a lawsuit for malicious defamation. The Deep State uses this fact to attack, malign, defame, harass and engage in direct character assassination. This is evil. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

For me, I will never get my reputation back as it once was. However, I will not give up fighting for our freedoms, whether it be to bring back integrity to the FDA, CDC, NIH, DoD and HHS or whether it be reining in the intelligence agency. We all must continue to bring our government to heal.

 

I will not concede to the Deep State character assassination. I will not let them ruin my life and reputation. And I will not allow them to victimize me.

 

Republished from the author’s Substack

 

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Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. You can find him at Substack and Gettr

 

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[FULL VIDEOS] BLN4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Drs. Robert Malone & Jill Malone with Drs. Byram Bridle and Mark Trozzi | Sept. 20, 2023

 

By Gord Parks

November 3, 2023

Bright Light News

 

(Sept. 20, 2023) Bright Light News Live Panel 4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Dr. Robert Malone was another stellar evening shining a light on Covid-19 harms, the greater agenda and its machinations. The Covid mass propaganda campaign spurred a humanitarian catastrophe, a restructuring of social norms and helped to normalize authoritarian rule, invisible to most. At stake are individual human rights, the rule of law and democracy…in short, life as we used to know it in favour of a planetary social credit system.

Join us for this special evening, as Dr. Robert Malone, joined by Dr. Jill Glasspool MaloneDr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Byram Bridle, share vital information on how we can participate in dismantling the wrecking ball that is the “new normal.”

 

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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Leftist Censors to Support Communist Line



John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© April 26, 2020

A FEE article points that Youtube owned by Google who is owned by Alphabet is preparing to censor any video that does not tow the Communist World Health Organization (WHO) line on COVID-19. FEE author Dan Sanchez points impending Youtube censorship is something you can nothing about because it is a privately owned company. Meaning the government can’t censor Youtube, but Youtube can censor whomever they please. Even if that means favoring Communist propaganda over truth.

YOU – a private citizen – can abandon Youtube during censorship to more friendly video platforms such as Vimeo, Dailymotion, DTube, BitChute, Brighteon, Liveleak, etc.

I’m also cross posting an Activist Post article that not only touches on Youtube censorship but examines some of the WHO’s Liberty-robbing demands (e.g. no alcohol during COVID), WHO bad-science idiocy to support Communist China, local police persecuting teenager for posting their Instagram experience on Instagram AND Harvard upset closed Public Schools are allowing homeschooled students to bypass Leftist-society brainwashing.

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YouTube to Ban Content That Contradicts WHO on COVID-19, Despite the UN Agency’s Catastrophic Track Record of Misinformation
The policy represents a betrayal of the pioneering platform’s founding principles.

Susan Wojcicki - Image credit: TechCrunch on Flickr | CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

April 23, 2020

Soon, YouTubers will be silenced if they don’t agree with the United Nations on public health. As The Verdict reports:

YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Wojcicki announced the policy on CNN on Sunday. WHO is an agency of the UN, charged with overseeing global public health. The Verdict report continues:

Wojcicki said that the Google-owned video streaming platform would be “removing information that is problematic”.

She told host Brian Stelter that this would include “anything that is medically unsubstantiated”.

“So people saying ‘take vitamin C; take turmeric, we’ll cure you’, those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy,” she said.

“Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”

While the decision has been welcomed by many, some have accused the streaming giant of censorship.

To be clear, for American YouTubers, this kind of censorship is not a violation of their constitutional right of free speech. The First Amendment protects citizens against government censorship, and YouTube is a private platform. Were the US government to force the private owners of YouTube to continue broadcasting certain videos against their will, that would be much more a violation of the First Amendment.

While YouTube’s decision is not unconstitutional, it is unwise, exhibiting far too much deference to central authority in general and to WHO especially.

WHO’s Track Record on the Issue

The World Health Organization is far from infallible. Its handling of information throughout the coronavirus emergency has been a long string of failures. As policy analyst Ross Marchand has recounted here on FEE last week, WHO failed to raise the alarm as the coronavirus rapidly spread through China during the crucial early period of the global crisis in January of this year. Then, as Marchand wrote:

The global bureaucracy uncritically reported that Chinese authorities had seen "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus” on January 14, just one day after acknowledging the first case outside of China (in Thailand). WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his “political commitment” and “political leadership” despite these repeated, reprehensible attempts to keep the world in the dark about the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump recently announced that the US would cease its funding of WHO over its many coronavirus-related failures.

And it is not just American conservatives who have been critical. As FEE’s Jon Miltimore wrote a month ago:

Our World in Data, an online publication based at the University of Oxford, announced on Tuesday that it had stopped relying on World Health Organization (WHO) data for its models, citing errors and other factors.

This raises an interesting question: would YouTube censor Oxford if it posted a video on the coronavirus issue with recommendations based on data that contradicts WHO’s?

As Miltimore wrote, “Recent reports suggest US intelligence agencies relied heavily on WHO in its national assessment of the COVID-19 threat.”

This is gravely concerning because bad information leads to bad policies. This is true not only for government policy (like mayors, governors, and heads of state deciding to largely shut down the economy in their jurisdiction), but for the policies of private decision-makers like doctors, business-owners, and individuals making decisions about the health and overall lives of themselves and their families.

Indeed, WHO’s misinformation early in the crisis squandered the most precious part of the world’s prep time, which likely crippled the public’s responses and may have cost many lives.

YouTube risks compounding that tragedy by now insisting that the public’s response to the coronavirus emergency conforms even more strictly with WHO’s dubious pronouncements. Wojcicki wants to protect WHO’s recommendations from contradiction. But WHO’s recommendations are necessarily informed by WHO’s information, which has proven to be extremely suspect. Sheltering untrustworthy pronouncements risks amplifying their dangerous influence.

Why Censorship Is Counter-Productive

So, it is ironic that YouTube justifies this policy in the name of protecting the public from dangerous misinformation.

It is true that many videos contradicting official pronouncements are themselves full of medical quackery and other misleading falsehoods. But, censorship is the worst way to combat them.

For one, censorship can actually boost the perceived credibility of an untruth. Believers interpret it as validation: evidence that they are onto a truth that is feared by the powers-that-be. And they use that interpretation as a powerful selling point in their underground evangelism.

Censorship also insulates falsehoods from debunking, allowing them to circulate largely uncriticized in the dark corners of public discourse.

This makes censorship especially counterproductive because it is open-air debunking that is one of the most effective ways to counter misinformation and bad ideas. As Justice Louis Brandeis expressed in a US Supreme Court opinion, the ideal remedy for bad speech, “is more speech, not enforced silence.”

Again, YouTube has a right to set the terms of service of its own website. But the general principle applies here as well: the truth has a much better fighting chance with a proliferation of competing voices than with inquisitorial efforts to circumscribe discourse within a narrow orthodoxy.

A Systematic Problem

Moreover, WHO’s track record of misinformation is not exceptional among government organizations in neither its degree of error nor in its disastrous impact. Governments and the experts they employ not only get things wrong but have frequently proven to be fundamentally wrong-headed on big questions.

To take another example in the realm of public health, it is increasingly widely recognized that the high-carb, low-fat diet recommendations, as depicted by the USDA’s “Food Pyramid,” and successfully promoted for decades to the population by the US government and the most respected authorities on dietary science and epidemiology, was basically backward. Science journalist Gary Taub tells the whole story of bad science, corrupt influence, and obtuse orthodoxy in his book Good Calories, Bad Calories.

Again, bad information leads to bad advice which leads to bad choices. So how much illness and even death was caused by generations of Americans uncritically swallowing “official” diet advice and by Americans largely only having one choice on the “menu” of diet advice?

The more we centralize decision-making and the management of actionable information, the wider the scope of the damage caused by any single error. But if we let a thousand errors bloom along with a thousand truths, any single error will be circumscribed in its damage and more likely to be corrected through experience and counter-argument.

Knowledge Problems

Champions of policies like YouTube’s like to cast the issue in simplistic terms: as a black-and-white battle between respectable experts and wild-eyed crackpots. But the issue is more complex than that.

It is just as often a matter of overweening technocrats making pronouncements on matters that are way beyond them in complexity, that involve factors that fall way outside their domain of expertise, and that drastically impact the lives of millions or even billions. For example: a few dozen epidemiologists, with limited understanding of economics and a great many other relevant disciplines, holding sway over whole economies.

It is also a matter of dissenting experts being silenced along with the actual crackpots.

And, perhaps most fundamentally, it is a matter of weakening the individual’s ability to discern between truth and falsehood, good advice and bad, by denying them the responsibility and practice of doing so in the first place—of turning self-reliant, free men and women into irresponsible wards to be led by the nose like dumb, deferential livestock by their “expert” caretakers.

That is not where we are, but that is the direction that the rigid enforcement of centralized orthodoxies tends toward.

A Challenge

Let’s choose a different direction. YouTube, do better. Trust your users more. Treat them like human beings with all the capacities for learning, growth, discourse, and cooperation that are the distinctive glories of being human.
After all, that is what made you great in the first place. Your very name is derived from your original faith in the individual. YouTube (a crowd-sourced, individual-driven, pluralistic platform) is what made the boob tube (centralized, institutionalized, and homogenizing broadcast television) largely obsolete. As such, you had a starring role in the internet’s democratization of information and learning.

Don’t betray that legacy. Not now. Not when we need open platforms for the free flow of information and discourse more than ever.

Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor of FEE.org.
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Coronavirus Response: Ban Alcohol, Free Speech, and Homeschooling (This Week’s Dystopian News)


April 24, 2020

For this week’s round-up of articles, we’re taking a look at some of the things the government thinks should be banned in response to coronavirus.

WHO urges governments to ban alcohol during lockdown

Last week we talked about how the World Health Organization was coming for your sick family members.

This week, they want your booze.

WHO says that alcohol compromises the immune system. And since we are fighting a virus, they think that prohibition is necessary.

In fact, alcohol restrictions can be justified by governments for the same reason coronavirus lockdowns are needed.

WHO notes that even in good times, alcohol is the cause of major health issues, addiction, and death. Alcohol accounts for 3 million deaths per year worldwide– far more than the coronavirus.

So it almost seems like WHO’s argument for banning alcohol has little to do with the coronavirus.

If it’s all about good health and saving lives, why not mandate a WHO-approved diet and exercise regimen for the masses as well? Why not ban sugar while they’re at it?

Where does the madness stop?


Not that you can disagree with the WHO anyhow…

Speaking of which, it’s difficult to even disagree with the WHO anymore; YouTube’s CEO indicated yesterday that her video platform would delete any content that goes against official WHO guidance.

Specifically she told CNN: “Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”

Bear in mind that the WHO was totally incompetent, especially in the early days of this pandemic. Here’s a quick review:

December 31: China first notifies WHO of the outbreak

January 5: WHO “does not recommend any specific measures for travellers” and “advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China”

January 23: Even as China begins its lockdown of Wuhan and the virus spreads across Asia, WHO still insists “it is still too early to declare a PHEIC” [Public Health Emergency of International Concern].

January 30: WHO still “does not recommend any travel or trade restriction” and praises the Chinese government’s “commitment to transparency.”

February 27: After many countries began introducing travel restrictions, WHO lamented that these restrictions would lead to “unnecessary interference with international traffic, including negative repercussions on the tourism sector.”

March 11: After more than 100,000 cases in dozens of countries worldwide, WHO finally declares this a global pandemic.

Oh I almost forgot: the WHO is the same organization that made a brutal murderer– former Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe– one of its GOODWILL ambassadors! You can’t make this stuff up.

And now YouTube wants to ban content that disagrees with an organization that is corrupt and incompetent.

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Police threaten arrest for Instagram post about coronavirus

Amyiah Cohoon is a high school sophomore who went on a band trip to Disney World in March.

When she came back home she developed a fever and dry cough and doctors “concluded that her symptoms matched those of COVID-19.”

Amyiah posted a picture from the Disney trip on Instagram with a caption telling her friends she had Covid-19 and would not be able to see anyone for a while she quarantined herself.

After a short stay in the hospital, Amyiah posted a picture from her stay, again with a caption that she was recovering from Covid-19.

The next day, a Sheriff’s Deputy knocked on the family’s door. He demanded that Amyiah delete the Instagram posts, or else he would cite the family for disorderly conduct and “start taking people to jail.”

The family offered to show the Deputy the documents from the hospital proving that doctors believed Amyiah had Covid-19. The Deputy was not interested.

He said the Sheriff told him to make sure the posts were deleted, because the county officially had no confirmed cases of Covid-19.

Intimidated, and threatened with jail, Amyiah compiled and deleted the posts.

Turns out it was the school superintendent who contacted the Sheriff about the Instagram post who claimed it was Amyiah’s “foolish means to get attention.”


Harvard professor: parents can’t be trusted with their kids

With American schools closed, homeschooling is the new normal for many families. This trend was already increasing, and will probably be accelerated by fears of the continuing spread of coronavirus.

But a Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet, the faculty director of the Child Advocacy Program at the law school, is calling for a ban on homeschooling.

She says that homeschooling, “not only violates children’s right to a meaningful education and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.”

She adds that a large percentage of homeschool families are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, which she seems to think constitutes child abuse. . .

Professor Bartholet says that some parents are deliberately trying to keep their kids from the mainstream culture taught in schools which includes “democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints.”

Yep. She’s all about tolerance of other people’s viewpoints. As long as those viewpoints conform with her own. Otherwise she’s not tolerant.

It is hard to imagine that this is a real person, and not a caricature villain created by Ayn Rand.


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