Good report on #conspiracytheories and confused #political attitudes within the #wellness business. From the Guardian.
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline
One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?James Ball (The Guardian)
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Als Antwort auf _jayrope • • •Her friend was most likely right. Perhaps the heroine of this story had the flu and this article is a mediocre PR/propaganda.
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/influenza-update-n-379
Publications of the World Health Organization
For comparison:
The flu disappeared exactly when governments started making payments for covid diagnoses:
USA TODAY:
Her friend was most likely right. Perhaps the heroine of this story had the flu and this article is a mediocre PR/propaganda.
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/influenza-update-n-379
Publications of the World Health Organization
For comparison:
The flu disappeared exactly when governments started making payments for covid diagnoses:
USA TODAY: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/ (Michelle Rogers, USA TODAY)
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients with COVID-19, but a senator who first said that says he doesn't think the system is being gamed.
tass.ru/obschestvo/8064129 - In Moscow, hospitals allocated up to 200 thousand rubles for the treatment of each person infected with coronavirus.
Just a business - nothing personal. Big pharma business.
To add to this, the mass consciousness had been preparing for the perception of carnivorous (anagram of coronavirus) for many years before:
Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/208178858
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New Flu Strain Is Out
The Associated Press (The New York Times)_jayrope
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Jane's?
Do not want. Considering used terminology it looks like a common pro-state pr-opaganda.
The intelligence community and other agents of the state have used mainstream media to limit and control public discourse. Evidence of direct involvement of these agents of power in the creation of memes such as "conspiracy theorist" and the use of memes to limit challenges to power is compelling.
Politicians, the media and other agents of power often label those rejecting the official accounts of significant suspicious and impactful events as "conspiracy theorists" and their proposed alternative explanations as "conspiracy theories". Agents of power use these labels to dismiss the beliefs of those who question potential hegemonic control of what people believe.The conspiracy theory concept functions as an impediment to legitimate discursive examination of consp
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Jane's?
Do not want. Considering used terminology it looks like a common pro-state pr-opaganda.
The intelligence community and other agents of the state have used mainstream media to limit and control public discourse. Evidence of direct involvement of these agents of power in the creation of memes such as "conspiracy theorist" and the use of memes to limit challenges to power is compelling.
Politicians, the media and other agents of power often label those rejecting the official accounts of significant suspicious and impactful events as "conspiracy theorists" and their proposed alternative explanations as "conspiracy theories". Agents of power use these labels to dismiss the beliefs of those who question potential hegemonic control of what people believe.The conspiracy theory concept functions as an impediment to legitimate discursive examination of conspiracy suspicions. The effect of the label appears to constrain even the most respected thinkers. This impediment is particularly problematic in academia, where thorough, objective analysis of information is critical to uncovering truth, and where members of the academy are typically considered among the most important of epistemic authorities. This paper tracks the development and use of such terms as pejoratives used to shutdown critical thinking, analysis, and challenges to authority. The underlying research employed critical discourse analysis as a research methodology. Evidence suggesting government agents were instrumental in creating the pejorative meme "conspiracy theorist" has been found in contemporary media.
Quote from the "The Conspiracy Theory Meme as a Tool of Cultural Hegemony":
https://www.academia.edu/32778278 (James Rankin)
Those rejecting the official accounts of significant suspicious and impactful events are often labeled conspiracy theorists and the alternative explanations they propose are often referred to as conspiracy theories. These labels are often used to
The Conspiracy Theory Meme as a Tool of Cultural Hegemony_A Critical Discourse Analysis.pdf
James Rankin (www.academia.edu)_jayrope
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I quoted a hypothetical Jane:
"Jane – not her real name – is nervous about speaking to me. She has asked that I don’t identify her or the small, south-coast Devon town in which she lives. “I’m feeling disloyal, because I’m talking about people I’ve known for 30 to 40 years,” she says."
It was about her friend, not about the friend of the author of the article.
I checked the author. Article looks like promotion of his new book now: twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1…
"The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball is published by Bloomsbury. To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply"
Just a business - nothing personal.
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Ball studied for a BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and went on to enrol in the master's programme in journalism at City, University of London - looks like the biography of priveleged homager of the corona (crown). On guard of colonial feudalism.
James Ball (journalist) - Wikipedia
wl.vern.ccScript Kiddie mag das nicht.
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According to this article:
https://scribe.bus-hit.me/@jrball1/how-i-became-a-journalist-da319d08eba9
"My school, who’d discouraged me from applying, lost our application forms, meaning a teacher drove down a UCAS form handwritten in under an hour as my university entry, the biggest thing I’d ever done. Somehow, thankfully, it was enough".
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... mehr anzeigenI would say: too touching. It looks like a classic social democratic legend of a simple working good guy. It is also interesting that his age and date of birth are not indicated anywhere. But judging by the photo, his comes from a "normal family" after receiving an "aristocratic" education at the age of 20-30 he suddenly becomes the global editor of Bureau of Investigative Journalism and receives many awards.
"Thanks to a new course launching at City, I was still in time to apply for a qualification due to its later deadline — I had no idea bursaries existed, and would have been too late for them in any case. I got in thanks to a series of happy accidents and a direct email to the then-head of the department."
Happy accidents, but how else. A simple normal guy of unknown age and with unnamed parents receives awards for participating in an investigative project, meanwhile others are killed or imprisoned fo
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I would say: too touching. It looks like a classic social democratic legend of a simple working good guy. It is also interesting that his age and date of birth are not indicated anywhere. But judging by the photo, his comes from a "normal family" after receiving an "aristocratic" education at the age of 20-30 he suddenly becomes the global editor of Bureau of Investigative Journalism and receives many awards.
"Thanks to a new course launching at City, I was still in time to apply for a qualification due to its later deadline — I had no idea bursaries existed, and would have been too late for them in any case. I got in thanks to a series of happy accidents and a direct email to the then-head of the department."
Happy accidents, but how else. A simple normal guy of unknown age and with unnamed parents receives awards for participating in an investigative project, meanwhile others are killed or imprisoned for similar activities.
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/08/israel-shamir-julian-assange-cult-machismo (James Ball)
James Ball: That Shamir ever gained access outraged many at WikiLeaks. Now Assange's dictator-admiring friend has surpassed himself
..."Scandals, intrigues, investigations"...in russian culture there is an idiom for such characters "zaslaniy kazachok", "mishandled cossack" (regarding his inside revelations of wikileaks)
Israel Shamir and Julian Assange's cult of machismo
James Ball (The Guardian)_jayrope
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In Joyce's Ulysses i read and memorized the old Irish proverb: "Never trust a woman, and also an Englishman". In my region, this Ball would be called "Peace Door Ball".
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Sure, it s surely ok for CIA&NSA.
Active Measures: https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia (Kit Klarenberg)
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time.
Accordingly, Signal was and remains very prominently used and promoted by dissidents and protesters backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government agency explicitly created to do overtly what the CIA once did covertly. This was the case in Hong Kong, where Endowment fundi
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Sure, it s surely ok for CIA&NSA.
Active Measures: https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia (Kit Klarenberg)
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time.
Accordingly, Signal was and remains very prominently used and promoted by dissidents and protesters backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government agency explicitly created to do overtly what the CIA once did covertly. This was the case in Hong Kong, where Endowment funding serendipitously began flowing to opposition groups a year before Signal’s launch. In July 2020, it became the island’s most downloaded app, after the controversial National Security Law passed.
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal US and British intelligence agencies devote considerable time and resources to deanonymizing Tor users. Simultaneously though, they go to great lengths to ensure people aren’t discouraged from using the browser. One file - titled ‘Tor: Overview of Existing Techniques’ - reveals GCHQ and the NSA actively attempt to direct traffic toward servers they operate, attack other privacy software used by Tor visitors, and even undertake efforts to influence Tor’s future development.
This is understandable, given Tor - along with many other “Internet Freedom” tools championed by OTF - congregates anyone and everyone with something to hide on a single network, innately vulnerable to Western spy agency penetration. Surveilling user activities and monitoring their conversations is thus all the easier. Now, recall how “two-thirds of all mobile users globally have technology incubated by OTF on their device”?
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
Kit Klarenberg (Kit’s Newsletter)Scott M. Stolz
Als Antwort auf _jayrope • • •There are so many factors here, it makes your head spin.
Most people only focus on one of the aspects listed above, so they come to different conclusions than others.
There is a saying that some politicians seem to abide by: "never let a good crisis go to waste."
You had an emergency and you had a lot of players with different agendas, which when combined together, made a perfect storm.
So I believe the Spanish Flu and COVID-19 were real. But I also think that unscrupulous people took advantage of the situation and abused their power or tried to make money at other people's expense.
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If you'll recall: all political leaders (both liberals and conservatives) have called for believing in carnivorous and getting vaccinated. There were rare exceptions in the backwaters of Western mainstream media:
Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said the kits had "technical errors".
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If you'll recall: all political leaders (both liberals and conservatives) have called for believing in carnivorous and getting vaccinated. There were rare exceptions in the backwaters of Western mainstream media:
Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said the kits had "technical errors".
But such heretics soon paid for their public scepticism:
A Kenyan newspaper reported on 10 March 2021 that "an African leader" was being treated for COVID-19 at a hospital in Nairobi, leading to speculation that it could be President Magufuli.[91] Opposition politician Tundu Lissu, citing unnamed sources but without providing evidence, said it was Magufuli who was hospitalised, having contracted COVID-19.[92][91]
This was done strictly according to the scenario planned by the previous Kyoto Protocol deadline:
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-tNG7MjZUicS-wiJb/page/n17/mode/2up
This public document was automatically mirrored from PDFy.Original filename: Scenarios for the Future ofTechnology and International Development.pdf URL:...
12 years ago, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change was extended for 8 years, probably due to the alarmist and apocalyptic rhetoric in the western media:
South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1100990/kyoto-protocol-extended-2020-fight-climate-change (Shi Jiangtao)
Almost 200 nations yesterday extended a weakened UN plan to fight global warming until 2020, averting a new setback to two decades of UN efforts that have failed to halt growing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Kyoto Protocol extended to 2020 to fight climate change
Published: 12:00am, 9 Dec, 2012
But after that, once again, despite an obvious attempt by the Western media to promote the climate change agenda, the Protocol's extension has failed, and than "Lock Step" scenario was probably activated at last.
Kyoto Protocol extended to 2020 to fight climate change
Shi Jiangtao (South China Morning Post)ivan zlax
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In Western authoritarian democracies, everyone is supposed to believe whatever the mass media says and preach their beliefs. It's well known.
Little-known details about the origins of "The Spanish Flu":...
Little-known features of the origin and naming of carnivorous coronavirus:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ty…
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ussr.winScott M. Stolz
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I guess I am surrounded by free thinkers, because most of the people I talk to recognize that they are spouting B.S. We don't trust them. Never did. Most Americans are skeptical of government and the media. I am not sure about other western democracies.
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And also to illustrate the spread of modern viruses:
The peak number of diagnoses in the RF was, according to official statistics, on 15 February, a week before the start of the Special Military Operation:
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
This page has a large number of charts on the pandemic. In the box below you can select any country you are interested in – or several, if you want to compare countries.
@Scott M. Stolz
And also to illustrate the spread of modern viruses:
The peak number of diagnoses in the RF was, according to official statistics, on 15 February, a week before the start of the Special Military Operation:
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
This page has a large number of charts on the pandemic. In the box below you can select any country you are interested in – or several, if you want to compare countries.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia
Russia Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
Just before the Special Military Operation, a year ago, there was a peak in the increase of covid diagnoses and deaths in RF, which quickly dropped to values lower than at the beginning of the pandemic with the start of the military operation.
And a similar healing effect soon happened all over the world:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Daily and weekly updated statistics tracking the number of COVID-19 cases, recovered, and deaths. Historical data with cumulative charts, graphs, and updates.
This is easy to understand: modern media viruses spread through mass media. As soon as masks changed to helmets, the healing began.
You should be grateful to the Russian Federation and Ukraine for your cure from the carnivorous virus.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases
Our World in DataScott M. Stolz
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As I said before, there are multiple factors at play. I know people who DIED from whatever this was. Maybe it was the flu. Maybe it was COVID. Maybe it was something else. But people I know actually died.
Just because the media and politicians overhyped it and exaggerated its threat does not mean that it did not exist.
This is how the media and politicians work, worldwide. They take something that really exists, and then they exaggerate it and manipulate the truth to get what they want. So even if they were lying about how big of a threat it was, that does not mean it never existed at all.
Both facts can be true at the same time. Something made people sick. Politicians and the media were lying to you. Both can be true.
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Nature: https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-proposal
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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research - Nature
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I have no idea. But I am sure they benefit from it, just like anyone else who wants to hide their IP address.
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Formally - U.S. Naval Research Lab:
https://www.torproject.org/about/history/
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
But in fact, the project is controlled by the NSA:
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/us-government-funding-tor-18m-onion-router (Alex Hern)
Despite attempts by the National Security Agency to crack the anonymous browser, the US increased state funding through third parties. By Alex Hern
WIRED: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nsa-targeting-tor-users (Kim Zetter)
If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA
pcmag.com/news/how-the-nsa-tak…
Use privacy services? The NSA is probably tracking you
Kim Zetter (WIRED UK)Script Kiddie
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Which website exactly and why do you think so?
Running. Sent you an authorisation request here: terabithia@anonym.im