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The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas
by Caitlin Johnstone

The elephant in the room with the ongoing controversy about the Biden administration's push for more internet censorship is the fact that both the US government and the Silicon Valley tech companies who are being pushed to censor are acutely aware that those companies can be brought to their knees by antitrust cases and other regulation if they don't censor people's voices in accordance with the government's wishes.

After Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the administration has given Facebook a list of accounts to ban for spreading "misinformation" about the Covid vaccine, she has now doubled down saying that people who circulate such materials online should be banned from not just one but all social media platforms.

"You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there," Psaki told the press on Friday.

When asked by the press for his thoughts on companies like Facebook, President Biden said the failure of those platforms to adequately censor posts about the vaccine makes them guilty of "killing people".

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Doesn't that make you feel better?
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/issue/nato/

The North Atlantic Council is the principal political decision-making body within NATO. It oversees the political and military process relating to security issues affecting the whole Alliance. It brings together representatives of each member country to discuss policy or operational questions requiring collective decisions, providing a forum for wide-ranging consultation between members on all issues affecting their peace and security.

Not so comforting after all. By the way how is Columbia now part of the North Atlantic TO?

In 2017, Colombia became one of NATO’s global partners, and the Alliance’s first Latin American partner.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_143936.htm
These imperialists are too much!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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I start to believe them ... /s
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Lets deconstruct what is really going on, and let me tell my own experience. I think it is very relevant to this situation.

Somebody has been trying to deplatform me everywhere I go. Also frankly I see a number of dangers a plot to steal democracy and take over the whole planets future for corporations, its going on in plain sight people are just too brainwashed to recognize the con for what it is. and I am just trying to be honest about them and get a discussion going about them. As I have said Social Security and Medicare are in the gravest danger.There is a ot of criticism on these deals in other countries but if you live here, you are met with drision for trying to discuss them. Also, people think we can do many things they have rigged the system to make nearly impossible. Meanwhile over 26 years maybe 1 million extra Americans have died because they could not get the healthcare they need and would have gtotten in all the civlized countries. Its not acceptable to let politicians off the hook or pretend they just cant cooperate. Its deliberate.

We live under state capture. Read my earlier post from today. in but we absolutely can not do that by walking into a trap. No matter who it was set up by or why.

I have already explained this trap countless times and I have tried to get a discussion going on it. That's what needs to happen. What can I do. we've been lied to shamelessly and I don't know why, except its probably corruption and money. They let corporate lobyiss write laws. ,

(although I can guess, its a scheme to use our misplaced trust against us.)

Don't our leaders want us to have affordable healthcare and remain healthy later in life?
(like other countries, are improving a lot.) instead of being put into unpayable debts - led into a trap. Set up to fail. Because there is no "choice" that works.
No, that debt is profit, The failure is intentional. We must open our eyes.

We've stagnated at the 1980s level and unlike so many other nations we are not going forward, were going back, because poor people cannot afford medical care. But we are not throwaway people, we deserve our own country back, we'e being set up to fail, .

How bad is the corporate capture of America? Its very bad.

This below is unrelated to my other arguments. We're ignoring possible treatments for a deadly disease, tha were so obvious that I thought of them literally the first time I heard about COVID. But this idea is not new. A student in Arkansas had it first and documented her hypothesis. She rightfully even won a prize, then. Subsequent research almost all of which is viewable free at PubMed makes it seem very likely to me that her proposal would work.

I would also like to point people to her Science Fair project

Ms Jennifer Zhang is from Little Rock, AK. A few years ago before this particular CoV pandemic Ms Zhang who was a student at Little Rock HS. She submitted the following Science Fair project for which she won an Intel Prize, in a national competition.
The stilbenoid resveratrol does inhibit covid-19 powerfully at environmentally relevant doses. Maybe it protects against covid. I think that possibility is very likely. I would put money on it. If so its likely some people have known for a long time. What are we afraid of?

See also this- Sirtuins are evolutionary conserved viral restriction factors..

https://mbio.asm.org/content/mbio/5/6/e02249-14.full.pdf

Here is Ms. J. Zhangs winning idea.

Resveratrol: A New Anti-Coronavirus Drug
Zhang, Jennifer
Coronaviruses can cause fatal respiratory diseases in humans and are responsible for the most recent worldwide outbreak of
the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that claimed more than 400 lives. However, no anti-coronavirus drug is currently
available. In this study, resveratrol, a natural compound commonly found in some plants such as grapes, raspberries, and
peanuts, was evaluated for any anti-coronavirus activity in an in-vitro cell culture system. In this system, when the cells are
infected with a recombinant coronavirus that expresses a green fluorescence protein, virus infection and replication can be
monitored in real time by observing the green fluorescence under a microscope. It was found that resveratrol completely blocked
virus replication at a concentration of 25 μg/ml or higher. The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) was estimated to be 5.5 μg/ml.
Importantly, when virus-infected cells were treated with resveratrol starting as late as 6 hours following infection, resveratrol still
exhibited significant inhibitory effects on virus replication. These results demonstrate that resveratrol is potentially a potent anti-
coronavirus drug that can be further developed for treatment of coronavirus-caused diseases.

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I suspect that she may be right.

It should be mentioned that the highest natural source of Resveratrol is the roots of a plant called Japanese knotweed or Polygonum Cuspidatum. It grows wild all around the British Isles and the United States. It is classed as an invasive plant. It has been used in China for over 2000 yrs! And it is currently being used in China as "HuZhang" It is according to a CGTV panel discussion on March 26, 2020 (on he use of traditional Chinese medicine for Covid 19,) Used to treat COVID-19 in China. it was recommended for the TCM treatment of COVID and they said that it reduced the severity of the Covid infection. Polygonum Cuspidtum grows all over the world wherever humans live it lives, in some cases in such quantity and with such healthy and difficult to eradicate growth that it is classified as an invasive plant. It is almost impossible to eradicate. Why not use it to help reduce the severity of COVID in poor countries.

A tea made of its roots represents an age old medicine that has proven its worth apparently in reducing the severity of COVID, However this HuZhang contains another substance found in in Polygonum Cuspidatum, emodin, which is mildly toxic to the liver.

So Huzhang should be taken in moderation except for short periods of time. It should also be mentioned that emodin is another substance like resveratrol that software has indicated might be helpful in COVID-19.

I wonder if silymarin or Milk Thistle extract might prevent the hepatotoxicity. It does with many hepatotoxic substances. Also the amino acid taurine, that increases bile flow and other nutrients like n-acetylcysteine a protein (the highest natural source of cysteine is whey protein). May be helopful because the severity of COVID sees to be modulated greatly by a peron's redox status which becomes more depleted of glutathione as we get older. Resveratrol is markedly neuropotective and also has a very salutary effect on a multitude of other illnesses. It is powerfully neuroprotective and prtects nerves and helps heal nerves in crush injuries. For example, it is very useful in diseases of the spine and intervertebral disc. Perhaps when combined with acetycysteine it might prevent some cases of ARDS and or ALI.

A university in Califonia has done work with coronaviruses (imaging thye neuroinvasive aspect of CoVs in mice. This work is particularly relevant in Covid 19 infection of the CNS, as it could show, in animals if RESV prevented neuroinvasion via nasal instillation.

Work has been done that successfully prevented piglets from being nasally infected with porcine pseudorabies virus - a very virulent disease of pigs and especially piglets that is very contagious and has resulted in the death of millions of economically valuable piglets.

Its a very dangerous cause of mortality in COVID-19 . This research is available to read free online.

Resveratrol also inhibits many o the pathologies caused by CVID and chemicals release in large amounts by cells as they die. This is why I was originally drawn to the idea. This sudden release of endotoxins and cytokines is terifying to doctors, because it can cause sudden death from sepsis an sepsis like conditions, as well as causing the bl0od to clot suddenly. It can and does cause strokes and many other conditions related to coagulation. Resveratrol prvents this problem by modulating the immune response meaning that giving it to patients may prevent many of the most devastating complications of COVID.

Neuroinvasive aspects of COVID are among its most devastating dangers.

Most people know that people infected by COVID often lose their sense of smell early in the course of the infection. Such people are in danger because COVID infection of the CNS usually starting in the olfactory sensor neurons in the nose (OSNs) and progressing into the brain and eventually typically 7-10 days after symptoms first arrive the COVID vius reaches a ancient structure in the brain stem called the pre-Botzinger complex, which is the brains "clock oscillator" our regulator of the act of autonomous breathing. Sometimes when Covid reaches this structure people lose the ability to breathe in their sleep and many die. This is really tragic because this often happens when people seem to be starting to recover.

I have been trying to tell people about the strong possibility (I think) that resveratrol may protect the brain in COVID from this virus. Why might that be the case? Well, lets look back to Ms.zhangs paper. As she discussed resveratrol inhibits the replication of Covid virus. And its a food, one that has no real side effects at normal amounts in fact it makes virtually all people who take it healthier in a number of measurable ways..And its expected to be particularly useful because it improves the integrity of the respiratory epithelium, preventing pneumonia. As discussed it also protects nerves and the CNS.

It has been identified in a plethora of surveys for substances possibly valuable in Covid. It blocks Covid replication.The math adds up. Very sophisticated cutting edge software keeps telling us to investigate resveratrol for prevention of Covid 19 infecton. A number of related stilbenoids one example is polydatin, all bind to and block the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) virus. It makes blood flow better and reduces coagulopathy probbly reducing strokes from COVID and preventing the los of brain ells from stroke, which is a major danger from COVID-19. RESV has been shown in the test tube to strongly inhibit Covid 19. Most of the substances being proposed as useful in this context are expensive and potentially risky and unhealthy but COVID is not in fact its a food. not a drug.

In fact it is contained in one of Christanity's sacraments.Resveratrol is not a drug, its food. Its already widely available and cheap, imagine that. It occurs widely in Nature and has been shown to be one of the most healthy foods known to man. It strongly modulates inflammation, and has been found o protect the heart and improve vascular flow. It also seems to protect astronauts in space somewhat from the strength stealing effects of microgravity on long space voyages. Otherwise bones lose mass. It seems to be protective to older humans preventing osteoporosis. Its certainly helped me a great deal with my own health issues. (unrelated to COVID which I have never had, thankfully.
( I have also been vaccinated twice. I am not an anti vaxxer.) However as we know, millions of us have not been able to get vaccines yet. A battle is going on over intellectual property laws and many feel that the big pharma firms are preventing developing countries from execising their rights to issue compulsoy licenses to manufacture their own drug in emergencies. They are not cooperating in a way that allows them to get the vaccines into production. So millios in developing countries remain unvacinated and millions are dying in large numbers.Last months huge numbers of Indians wee dying. Now it is killing Indonesians. This situation is madness.

Polygonum cuspidatum is in a sense an immigrant. Prized both as a medicine (for more than 2000 yrs) as well as an ornamental plant, it has been brought around the world and now has become naturalized in countries far from its birthplace in East Asia. Since the unpurified decoction of the root can be processed to make resveratrol in trivial process, not requiring much of a lab at all, that presents an opportunity for developing country medicine to save a great many live, a an affordable cost perhaps. It would also appear to quite possibly be useful in helping prevent essential workers infection.

and help humans of all financial backgrounds avoid the worst and most potentially damaging health condition. possibly reducing the most financially devastating aspect of COVID, a CNS infection. That enters through the nose and potentially damages the brain. Since January of 2020 I have been sending emails trying to get scientists to investigate this problem, in the first few months I received a few responses but then they stopped. I think somebody is deleting my outgoing email, just deleting it. Also I am pretty sure that my hosting provider and my VOIP provider have been contacted by somebody or something peridoicly attempting to deplatform me. WHY? In a saner world, nobody would be attacking me, but now somebody is. One of those sites is Common Dreams. Only a few people on CD appeared to even be seeing my posts. Judging by who responded to me. The were some reasons why I came to the conclusion that they were as Twitter puts it, "ingenuine". Anyway, two days ago I was, as CD puts it, "cancelled". (Yes, they ctually used that word! The same thing happened to me on Twitter. That story is particularly interesting but because it involves another person, a good person, who was honest with me about a subject we both care very deeply about, I will not tell the whole story. But suffice it to say he was and is a trade expert. Who has written extensively on the same subject that I am particularly interested in in Gats. He is one of a very few other people in the world who follows this subject closely.

Anyway, it appears that something with GATS and it appears to me, two governments is very wrong. And I refuse to be GATSlighted.

Either we are a democracy and people have a right to free speech or we are not. Right now it doesn't look good It looks unavoidable tome that not only are we being lied to but also for the worst possible of reasons. powerful people are trying to dishonestly steal our social safety net programs by the most ridiculous and shameful dishonesty. Now I am respectfully reaching out for your support, I would like each and very one of you to reach into your minds and roladexes, and call five other people. Or email them. The proof is there to see hiding in plain sight.

Read the first paragraph of these words.
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/10-anfin_e.htm

now read this too
https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/54-ufins_e.htm#standstill
and this
http://www.ciel.org/Publications/PublicServicesScope.pdf
You can also find some more in here
https://www.citizen.org/documents/GATS-financial-dereg.pdf

Please its important.

How are we being manipulated?

Read the cockroach paper, also known as the Pied Piper paper. I'll have to tell you the story about how that is connected later. But it was an insane coincidence, where I asked a fairly specific question and I got my expert friend's immediate spur of the moment answer. Which went right to the answer.
https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp551/papers/HalloyEtAl-RobotsAndRoaches-Sc...

This story has to be understood and it is the truth. It cant be evaded or spun, it just is. The future of the Democratic Party is also in grave danger. A false flag attack is occurring by very skilled people who seem determined to destroy our essential social protections by a sophisticated disinformation campaign indeed, but because it is an extrinsic fraud everything is BACKWARDS.

They are the ones spouting disinformation and as we all know this has repeatedly been the case all along.

Many experts tell us and they are right that a small group of extremists have almost succeeded in taking over our country with their cult. The cult is the cult of the Invisible Hand.

This paper in Health Affairs is informative.
They are doing their best to both lead us astray into actions which will be like waving a red flag in front of a bull, their intention is to elicit a punitive WTO ruling stripping medicare and social security of their abilty to be subsidized by the US government. By breaking hard and fast WTO rules. I hope people realize they made all sevices tradable in 1994 Part of a process thats been going on for more than 35 years to give corporations absolute certainty and strip democracy and the right to regulate, not to vote but to actually do something with it and strip our votes and leaders of the power to do anything that matters, for corporation.. Ellen Gould explains it here using Ulysses having himself tied to the mast as an analogy.
They are taking from us the power we used to have that can change important things. Thats been stolen.

They also are fakes who want to alienate people against both one another ande the genuine Democrats (not the Pied Pipers ho hide the GATS they are phonies) along with the fake ones.

Its right there in black and white how they want to destroy Medicare and Social Security. In a previous post earlier today I laid out the outline, rather than spam this group again I will only put an outline here. Its late and I am profoudly exhausted I dont want to be "cancelled" out of existence here like I was on Common Dreams (making all my previous three years of posts invisible, because i had proven them. Also on twitter a year ago within minutes after I got a post from an authoritaitve source now a British government trade expert and expert on Article 1:3e verifying my hypothesis about the GATS art 1:3's protection all my posts vanished. So somebody or some group, I think I know who is trying to deplatform me. And when they fail because what I am saying IS TRUE, they just mke my posts vanish, they cancel me.

I am begging people to spread this story far and wise and maybe some of you can read it and (its simple) understand it. I am so used to people who tell me again and again they dont understand or didnt hear what I said, They are basically putting their fingers in their ears and calling out lalalalalalala That is the state of affairs in America now.

I hope they are happy. A million of us have died during the 25 years our healthcare system has been rigged. Its a crime against humanity. This is fascism. he real thing, not the reality TV actor, and tragic character and golfing buddy of a former President.

Here are some aids, to help. you need to understand the meaning of the term "services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority" as opposed to simply services.. (these are in the scope of the GATS and are subject to the very restrictive rules which tear them to shreds. )

PLease lets get to the point where we understand whats being done. I am so so tired of trying to explain this over and over to people who should know better.. I know lots of people who grew up under totalitarianism and I recognize the road that could lead us into it. Now. here in America. GATS was our first biggest mistake. A "criminogenic document"

We need to make our escape, we need to get out of these traps. (notice the Europeans are trying to defend their services-FROM us and our negative list - "next generation trade deals" attacks)

We need to join with them to amend the problematic definition of services and services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority. Now.

RIP Nicholas Skala (died August 8, 2009) read his paper, watch his last video.

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@zed2

He has lots of information on what’s coming and you’re right, it’s not good. Pluto too sees what is coming…little hint?

Also frankly I see a number of dangers a plot to steal democracy and take over the hole planets future for orporations, its going on in plasin sight people arejust too brainwashed to recognize the con for hat it is. and I am just trying to be honest about them and get a discussion going about them. As I have said Social Security and Medicare are in the gravest danger.

Yep. We have been seeing them doing it for awhile already by buying up land everywhere. Bush bought land in Paraguay that has lots of water and Gates is buying farm land and the Saudis bought land in California that has water that they use to grow alfalfa to send home. Rinse and repeat in lots of other things. It’s theft from the people.

Whether this is true or not it fits the scenario. Lots of info in this whether it’s true or not I do not know.

For almost 100 years there has been a Secret Ruling Cabal of Banksters and Industrialists from the City of London Financial District that has been running the USG and setting the policies of America which are based on Big Lies and Major Deceptions.

1. Contrary to what USG officials keep parroting through the CMMM, the United States of America is a Republic, not a Democracy and the Founding fathers specifically designed the Constitution to prevent America from ever becoming a democracy by creating what was to be a permanent separation of powers between Congress, the Judiciary and the Executive (Administration including the President). The system was designed to prevent the President from becoming a petty dictator, but that is what has happened under Bush 1&2 and Clinton, and now Obama.

This has occurred because Congress has allowed these presidents to start and fight undeclared, unprovoked, unConstitutional, illegal wars without impeaching the President. And the judiciary has been blackmailed into submission by Cutouts of the Cabal using secret wiretaps from the NSA.

A Democracy is mob rule, that is, simple majority rule which is what the Ruling Cabal wants since it has been able to easily mass mind-kontrol the public by controlling the major mass media. The Ruling Cabal was able to change the process for electing US Senators from appointment by the state legislatures to popular vote, which was not what the Founding fathers wanted, either, and makes Congress even more easily controlled by the Cabal “money-men” who have unlimited funds for K-Street lobbyists and other various types of support to Congresspersons before and after they are elected

Lots more info in the article.

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

John Adams

They killed Kennedy in front of the world and future presidents got the message. "Don’t deviate from the plan that has been set in motion!" Didn’t Obama mention that once? There was no difference between Obama and Trump except Trump acted like a bull in a China shop and appointed who he wanted except for the people Israel wanted in his cabinet. Like Bolton. Citibank appointed Obama’s staff and Powers, Blinken and others in their think tank appointed Biden’s.

we've been lied to shamelesly and I dont know why,

Sure you do.

We've stagnated at the 1980s level and unlike so many other nations we are not going forward, were going back, because poor people cannot afford medical care. .

This seems to be when the PTB came out from the shadows and people started noticing what they were doing. Thatcher and Reagan started the unraveling of their countries and Clinton then sold the democrats to the Koch brothers and abandoning the working class and transferring money upwards and away from us.

Great comment, Dawn. Lots to unravel. One thing that they are shouting is that anyone who exposes their dirty secrets must be silenced. Julian Assange is their test case. If he’s extradited here it’s goodbye to free speech and press. Obama the effing asshole prosecuted 9 whistleblowers for exposing their lies. Assange and Daniel Hale are the latest victims. Covid also exposed the rot and corruption of the PTB. They don’t care how many people die from lack of anything that makes us human because there are too many deplorables and more will take their places if they die. Just look at how congress allows Amazon to treat its workers just to name one company. The CDC relaxed the mask mandate because big business told them to. Frito Lay has treated its workers in a criminal way but congress turned a blind eye to it as they did all through the epidemic by letting OSHA let companies off…going on a rant…

And why the hell are fireworks going off right now? It’s not St Brigham's day until the 24th.

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@snoopydawg a bit long but once it starts it's hard to stop watching

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8]

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@zed2
The fact that is has been used for 2000 years in Chinese traditional medicine makes it unpatentable and therefore useless for marketing as a suitable anti-coronavirus drug. /s

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@zed2 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/white-house-wants-facebook-action-18...

Christian Datoc
Fri, July 16, 2021, 1:42 PM·4 min read
White House wants Facebook to censor posts claiming COVID vaccines cause infertility
In this article:

The Biden administration approached Facebook and other social media companies about taking down posts that claimed coronavirus vaccines cause infertility.

"It shouldn't come as any surprise that we're in regular touch with social media platforms, just like we're in regular touch with all of you and your media outlets," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday when asked to elaborate on comments she and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy made at Thursday's briefing on the matter. "We are regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives, dangerous to public health, that we and many other Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media."

NO BIDEN ISN'T SECRETLY POLICING YOUR TEXTS — BUT POLITICAL OPERATIVE HAVE BEEN READING SOME FOR YEARS

Psaki said the administration is working "to engage with them to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policies" before singling out "the false narrative that remains active out there about COVID-19 vaccines causing infertility."

"Again, this is troubling, but a persistent narrative that we and many have seen, and we want to know that the social media platforms are taking steps to address it," she continued. "That is inaccurate, false information. If you were a parent, you would look at that information, and that would naturally raise concerns, but it's inaccurate. And that is an example of the kind of information that we are flagging or raising."

The intelligence community believes Russia and China are amplifying the infertility messaging, Psaki said, claiming social media users typically are not able to tell when posts originate in other countries.

It's worth noting that Moderna just launched an efficacy trial for COVID vaccinations in pregnant women months after being granted an Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration.

Psaki first revealed Thursday that the administration is "flagging" coronavirus misinformation in accord with Murthy's just-announced surgeon general's warning on "health misinformation."

"I am urging all Americans to help slow the spread of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond," Murthy announced during the briefing. "Health misinformation is a serious threat to public health. It can cause confusion, sow mistrust, harm people’s health, and undermine public health efforts. Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative that will require a whole-of-society effort."

The administration estimates that "12 people" account for 65% of the posts spreading vaccine misinformation on Facebook, and Psaki promised reporters on Friday the White House would supply data to back up that claim.

Psaki appeared to be referencing the "Disinformation Dozen" report compiled by the Center for Countering Digital Hate in May.

According to that list, the "Dozen" are Joseph Mercola, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji, Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, and Kevin Jenkins.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

@zed2

and will have to come back to read your full post.

Just wanted to second the recommendation re: Japanese knotweed tea - I ordered and was
drinking it early on last year but then fell out of the habit - this motivates me to re-up my supply. Reseveratrol is important and knotweed tea the most effective way I know of to get it (don't give up your red wine, though).

Great post so far, thank you.

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You're Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

still can't get over how brazen the Biden administration is being in just announcing that it's their place to determine who should be banned from social media platforms and how little backlash there is against this.

Just imagine the outrage if Trump had done this. Seriously, imagine it. The Biden administration instructing the world's largest social media platform who to censor is the biggest "Imagine if Trump had done that" moment so far.

They said we need internet censorship because of Russia.

They said we need internet censorship because of Covid.

They said we need internet censorship because of election security.

They said we need internet censorship because of the Capitol riot.

They said we need internet censorship because of domestic extremism.

Pretty sure they just want internet censorship.

Trump couldn’t do it because people know it’s wrong and would get ticked. Just like if Bush 1 had done what Clinton did or Obama did that Bush the lesser couldn’t have done. But Biden can do censorship in the open because Trump.

I just reread the essay I did on the start of the open censorship through The Atlantic Council just after Alex Jones was being banned. It’s a great essay because of the comments in it. Anyone interested can search the site with Atlantic Council and see it or the others people wrote about them. I’ll post the link to mine and I hope people take the time to read it. Give me a few to post it.

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@snoopydawg @snoopydawg Since 1986 we've been involved in a huge restructuring of the laws that effect all out economic life, I just posted a coment that contains links to a number of explanations of whats being done (the first part thats called GATS. Clearly they want the ability to censor discussions of the so called democracy deficits inherent to these activities. Imagine if somebody stole your right to vote for changes in economic policy forever, sticking you with an ever mor restrictive path of unstoppable increasing of deregulation that could not be undone except at such a prohibitive cost the cure was almost worse than the affliction. Our first mistake was allowing the Clinton Administration to sign our rights to regulate away with the URAA, signed on December 8, 1994. That put the whole thing on autopilot. After GATS comes TISA which is GATS on steroids..They would never put any of this up for a vote. Because it would lose so very badly. So they are trying to win without any vote. You notice how Trump was antitrade deals but didnt actuaolly talk about their details at all. Similarly with Biden, he is pro globalization but not a peep about the devilish details of what were working feverishly to implement. Not a peep. People who do try to bring this theft of democracy and jobs and the public sector by a nascent mega corporate state out into the sunshine get banned as soon as they get to the beef of whats being done.

And the deplatforming bullshit always tries to nullify the facts. Now they claim that people are sowing misinformation even (especialloy ) when itis true.

Its no coincidence that Common Dreams cancelled me after I attempted to bring peoples attention to a document about preferential market access to jobs for qualified foreign firms from the world's least equal nations. Preferences in getting jobs-- called the LDC services waiver and the fact that it gives firms from the lowest paid most unequal countries (who rarely if ever hire costly Americans unless rules make it necessary or advantageous to do so) a small preference that makes it easier for their firms to win contracts involving public funds expenditures, for example on infrastructure.
Additionally in 2015 the US formally committed to hiring foreign firms from LDCS as much as we could

This is the trading away of future jobs for markets (But we cannot set quotas or numerical limits on how many workers could be brought in. Even if they are so cheap that they replaced nearly all jobs.

The last election was an attempt to innoculate thie huge con job with a fake electoral contest between the two most vagueist candidtaes ever. making me certain that this was a huge thetrical performance and those who are involved are most certainly doing something so terribly wrong that the only words for it fail in conveying the horid and extreme nature f uirt.

Its been planned over a very long time too. Since the 15-0 September 1986 meeting iin the closed expensive city of Punta Del Este, Uruguay. .

The 1980s. And it has something to do with Third World Debt and odious debt.

They cant do something this sordid and just get away with it.

Using the twisted Biden Trump contest as a proxy for disclosure of any kind is a fraud on the country. Because nobody hs even the foggiest clue of what is being done, unfortunately.

For example the theft of our policy space to ever implement any kind of public or affordable health care. Thats what GATS requires and a disaster the los of Medicare and or Social Security is what happens hhappens if we follow the proposals that are being made now t their words as they have been put forward. Look here for proof the discussion that needs to happen has been put out of the media by making similar sounding things toxic. Its a classic intelligence disinformation campaign. Its amazing we are falling for it.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDJ0i33L0Y]

Notice how Bernie Sanders never discussed how GATS actually bars the entire platform he was claiming to be running on. It also would dismantle the subsidies supporting Medicare making it no more than just another for profit insurance scheme closed to a huge number of us. Even if we had all the money demanded.. It only gets to be better by being part of our statutory system of social security. So that means it has to be part of it, having Medicare start before Social Security breaks its ability to receive subsidies. As you can see, what I am telling you is true.. (read it in print here )

This is also why they are so angry at Julian Assange, the journalist who leaked the TISA core text and many other parts of it. These things taken together are nothing less than an attempt to completely steal and remake the entire future totally to a corporate wish list of rejected policy that people would never ever in a million years vote for.

A discussion o what they are doing - which is discoverable if you look, That is what they are trying to censor. And its very very bad. For example, they want to eliminate cash, why?

Well, lets think. Since Americans are too expensive most jobs even here wil be done by much cheaper guest workers, so that mans many will be forced to aply for help in areas olike healthcare, but GATS prohibits anything that competes with te foreign suppliers in any real way, it outright prohiits it. If you are truly destitute they will help you but in exchange you have to remove yourself from the job market and remember there will bbe no way of making additional money besides online services which will likely make you ineligible or help.

This is what happened in Massachusetts under Massachusetts health care.

They could not admit that the for profit system constraints made it impossible for the chronically ill, and in fact if somebody successfully navigates these kids of rigged systems for more than a few years they started investigating people for fraud. And if they dont find any they hit themj with a huge bill just to see what happens. Some are driven to suicide.

AAnd with a cashless system or the new forced income management, or Robodebt system being digital tthey can literally claw money directly out of the poor's bank accounts. This is what they were and qquite possibly plan to do again in Australia despite losing a court case.

This is why the Internet companies want the cashless totalitarian future. Free money. Thats what Biden is threatning them with if they dont censor for him the loss o all this free money they will get under these Digital poorhouse type programs.

They want to make both the whole nation and the Internet companis dependent on thm, and they dont even intent to give people anything they need ir want thats functional not the GATS requirs that everything be the most humiliating and painful possible. It pulls up the laddes to success. Public education public wter, public roads, police, fire, all must be privatized but by bit.

Isnt it obvious. But they have the power and they intend to use it to consolidate corporate rule as quickly and repressively as possible. People arent terrorists but the government is projecting crimes on themk because of pathological projection. Its subconscious mind is accusing the on what it knows it wille guilty of. Like Sam Lowry the protagonist in the Terry Gillam's film Brazil who naively tries to fix an administrtive screw up regarding man who is mistaken for somebody else and taken away nevr to e seen again. That world where even air is privatized and sold is the wold GAts, TISA and terrorist events are concocted likely by a government which is determined to be as repressive as uit can to maintain the most coercive kinds of control. Such a government will drive all its most creative people away, and even if it cntrols the entire world will not be a democracy, or legitimately whats desired by its people.

So they are planning a repressive future, which os predictable given how we have been pushed here by dishonesty. They expect there wil be push back from those marginalized and pushed out by their scheme, who had been convinced by a disinformation campaign that needed progressive changes were right around the corner.

How gullible they all were. Read about how dictaors operate. Throughout history. They dont ever operate honestly, thats for sure.

People are led to think they have a voice and they want whats going to be done whether they want it or not and any that speak out are crushed. Because these changes are not negotiable. Democracy and the need to ollow all the changes the labor victories of the last 100 years makes business a lot less profitable than if they could just roll back the gains to 1920 or earlier. Thats whats being done, a global race to the bottom on regulation.

See The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA.
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GATS the one thats in charge now on services, scope and breadth is very wide http://unctad.org/en/docs/edmmisc232add31_en.pdf

Also it freezes our regulation on financial services, son the changes made in the ACA all violated the GATS except in very limited emergency situations so atr time limited. A large portion of the country is unisurable under the system that existed on the standstill date in 1998. So we will be pushed back into the regulatory state that existed then. That wiull be an impossible situation but its tyheir rigid ideology so they cannot change it. This is how the biggest disasters n the world have happened, because of rigid extremist ideologies and their various tricks. I am sure people can see now how much effort thgey have put intoo this thing, wasting millions of peoples lives and time over the last few years. Well they are just getting started.

So of course they want censorship to lock in the "benefit of the doubt" without wich people would start fact checking these lies. Which are all very big and costly lies that people are believing.

Note at the end how GATS blocks new public services like healthcare if they inhibit the ability of foreign corporations to fully exploit the financial aspects of their consumer market..

GATS also caused the 2008 financial crisis. Costing the world's families and small investors trillions of dollars most of which vanished forever - almost none of the fraudsters got off scot free.

This is what happens when you live under state capture.

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in treatment of viral infections. Unlike the US and the other highly capitalistic countries, the CPC does not put the health and well being of their nation behind the grotesque profiteering of the drug companies.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the treatment of COVID-19 and other viral infections: Efficacies and mechanisms
Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Abstract

COVID-19 has remained an uncontained, worldwide pandemic. While battling for the disease in China, six Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recipes have been shown to be remarkably effective for treating patients with COVID-19. The present review discusses principles of TCM in curing infectious disease, and clinical evidence and mechanisms of the 6 most effective TCM recipes used in treating COVID-19 in 92% of all of the confirmed cases in China. Applications of TCM and specific recipes in the treatment of other viral infections, such as those caused by SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, influenza A virus (including H1N1 and H7N9), influenza B, dengue virus as well as Ebola virus, are also discussed. Among the 6 TCM recipes, Jinhua Qinggan (JHQG) granules and Lianhua Qingwen (LHQW) capsules are recommended during medical observation; Lung Cleansing and Detoxifying Decoction (LCDD) is recommended for the treatment of both severe and non-severe patients; Xuanfeibaidu (XFBD) granules are recommended for treating moderate cases; while Huashibaidu (HSBD) and Xuebijing (XBJ) have been used in managing severe cases effectively. The common components and the active ingredients of the six TCM recipes have been summarized to reveal most promising drug candidates. The potential molecular mechanisms of the active ingredients in the six TCM recipes that target ACE2, 3CLpro and IL-6, revealed by molecular biological studies and/or network pharmacology prediction/molecular docking analysis/visualization analysis, are fully discussed. Therefore, further investigation of these TCM recipes may be of high translational value in enabling novel targeted therapies for COVID-19, potentially via purification and characterization of the active ingredients in the effective TCM recipes.

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health intake over the years when issues cropped up. One of them (PEA)is under study for possible mitigation of inflammation caused by Covid and one I've taken for over 20 years (Milk Thistle Phytosome) has been mentioned as a support during Covid. My point being is that I have an open mind to supplementation to avoid prescription drug use.

But, if the Chinese through TCM have so many great herbals, etc. that people are recommending for Covid, then why did so many Chinese get sick and die from the virus?

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Relatively few Chinese got sick and even fewer died from COVID-19.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
July 19, 2021

China
Cases: 92,277
Deaths: 4,636
Total cases: 64/million
Total deaths: 3/million

United States
Cases: 34,964,151
Deaths: 624,746
Total cases: 104,988/million
Total deaths: 1,876/million

The role played by traditional Chinese medicine in preventing and treating COVID-19 in China

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an ancient system of alternative medicine, played an active role in the prevention and control of COVID-19 in China. It improved the clinical symptoms of patients, reduced the mortality rate, improved the recovery rate, and effectively relieved the operating pressure on the national medical system during critical conditions. In light of the current global pandemic, TCM-related measures might open up a new channel in the control of COVID-19 in other countries and regions. Here, we summarize the TCM-related measures that were widely used in China, including TCM guidelines, the Wuchang pattern, mobile cabin hospitals, integrated treatment of TCM and modern medicine for critical patients, and non-medicine therapy for convalescent patients, and describe how TCM effectively treated patients afflicted with the COVID-19. Effective TCM therapies could, therefore, be recommended and practiced based on the existing medical evidence from increased scientific studies.

Covid-19: China shares TCM diagnosis and treatment protocol with Pakistan

China has exchanged views on Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) diagnosis and treatment protocol for COVID-19, effective TCM prescriptions and clinical experiences with 82 countries and regions including Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Pakistan, and donated TCM products to more than 10 countries.

Besides, it also dispatched TCM doctors to 27 countries and regions for epidemic relief, which indicated the sense of responsibility of a major country, People’s Daily reported.
So far, TCM has been introduced to 183 countries and regions around the world, and China has signed TCM cooperation agreements with over 40 foreign governments, regional organizations and international organizations.
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Meanwhile, the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been given full play to in China’s COVID-19 response as the country spares no effort to treat patients and save lives. The traditional medicine branch has been used in treating 92 percent of all confirmed COVID-19 cases across China.

The National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, comprehensively promoting the application of TCM in epidemic prevention and control, dispatched TCM experts to Wuhan, former epicenter in central China's Hubei province for investigation and treatment at the first opportunity. It also established TCM teams to run designated and makeshift hospitals in Wuhan, treat patients and carry out clinical research, and explore a treatment model that is characterized by TCM and the combined use of TCM and western medicine.
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How much? Where is a definitive clinical study on this?

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