Weekly News-Feb9-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – Government-Funded Entities Build Network to Flag “Misinformation” In Private Messages
by Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net
Image by Freepik
More reports are emerging about the various forms in which the Big Tech/government collusion is taking place in the US.
It’s not just directly pressuring, or “communicating with” – as current White House officials like to put it, social sites; reports are now emerging about companies getting hired to make massive databases of supposedly unlawful speech that are compiled thanks to users effectively spying and reporting on each other on messaging platforms like WhatsApp.
Former State Department official, now executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online, Mike Benz, calls this “a snitch network of citizen informants.” Information thus obtained is then analyzed using some form of AI, resulting in identification of “misinformation trends.” Read full article >
#2 – Netanyahu Refuses to End War, Rejects Hostage Deal
by D. Michael DeRidder | The New American
State Department Photo/Public Domain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused a proposal offered by Hamas that would have resulted in the release of all hostages in exchange for a 135-day ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. At a press conference, Netanyahu said, “There is no other solution but a complete and final victory,” and “If Hamas will survive in Gaza, it’s only a question of time until the next massacre,” reiterating the Israeli objective of completely destroying Hamas. Read full article >
#3 – Harvard Renews COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Joining 69 Other Schools
by Matthew Lysiak | The Epoch Times
Photo by Pascal Bernardon on Unsplash
Students at Harvard University will continue to be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to register for the upcoming semester, the school has recently announced, joining 69 other schools around the country that still require the shot.
“Harvard requires all students who will be on campus to have some protection from COVID-19 through vaccination,” reads a statement posted by the school. “This may be through the initial primary series of COVID-19 vaccination or one of the most recent COVID-19 boosters.”
Students who fail to show approved documentation will be unable to sign up for classes, with the website warning that should they “fall out of compliance at any time for any of the required immunizations, registration holds will be automatically applied.” Read full article >
#4 – Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn: The Criminalizing of Free Speech in America
by Patrick Wood | Technocracy News
Michael Mann holding hockey stick. Credit: Sydney Herdle
Climate “scientist” Michael Mann, inventor of the discredited “hockey stick,” just won a $1 million judgment from popular conservative commentator Mark Steyn in a U.S. court, effectively criminalizing Free Speech. Mann sued the late Dr. Tim Ball in Canada over his authoritative criticism of the hockey stick. Ball cleaned Mann’s clock in the Canada Supreme Court.
I wrote in Global Warming Activist Michael Mann Demands Censorship Of Dissenters in 2021,
Michael Mann is the discredited climate scientist who fabricated the infamous “hockey stick” model of global warming. His answer to critics like Dr. Tim Ball is to sue them. Now he wants all dissenters forcibly censored and removed from public discussion. This is how the “science is settled” by pseudo-science ideologues.
Climate alarmists like Mann cannot stand up to the traditional rigor of scientific debate, so their only defense is to simply shut critics out of the discussion. This is why Mann repeatedly attacked Dr. Tim Ball, an eminent climate scientist in Canada. Mann lost his defamation lawsuit against Ball in the BC Supreme Court in 2019.
That’s right. This was already decided in the BC Supreme Court in 2019. Mann was also held in contempt of court for REFUSING TO SURRENDER HIS DATA proving his Hockey Stick theory. Why would he withhold data? Because it is fraudulent, as Dr. Tim Ball said along. Read full article >
#5 – US Spy Community Looks to Autonomously Track People & Vehicles with AI, Video Data
by Tim Hinchcliffe | The Sociable
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is putting together a research program for the US spy community to autonomously identify, track, and trace people and their vehicles over long distances and periods of time.
Last week, the research funding arm of the US intelligence community, IARPA, published the technical draft for its Video Linking and Intelligence from Non-Collaborative Sensors (Video LINCS) research program.
The newly-updated draft broad agency announcement and funding opportunity details how the US spy community is looking to autonomously identify, track, and trace people, vehicles, and objects by using AI to analyze video footage captured by CCTV cameras, drones, and potentially webcams and phones (as evidenced in the Video LINCS Program Design image below).
“The program will start with person reID, progress to vehicle reID, and culminate with reID of generic objects across a video collection”
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 –What NO ONE is Saying About Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview
by Kit Knightly | Off-Guardian
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Everyone is talking about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The two-hour long conversation was live-streamed on twitter. Every major news outlet has had some form of coverage.
You can watch the whole thing here:
Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview pic.twitter.com/67YuZRkfLL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2024
After eight years of covering the Ukraine coup/civil War, and more specifically Western propaganda on Russia, I could pretty much tell you everything Putin was going to say before he said it.
Anybody who has covered Russia or Ukraine could tell you that….
…He’s an intelligent and persuasive speaker, and he was always going to do well.
And, if this was 2014, that would be great.
But it’s not 2014 is it?
It’s 2024 & the world is being hurried fast toward the Brave New (“multipolar”) Normal. Russia is on board with Agenda 2030 & very powerful western establishment voices are now promoting Putin & his once-sidelined views. Read full article >
#2 – First UK Patients Receive Experimental Messenger RNA Cancer Therapy
by Robin McKee | The Guardian
Image by DC Studio on Freepik
A revolutionary new cancer treatment known as mRNA therapy has been administered to patients at Hammersmith hospital in west London. The trial has been set up to evaluate the therapy’s safety and effectiveness in treating melanoma, lung cancer and other solid tumours.
The new treatment uses genetic material known as messenger RNA – or mRNA – and works by presenting common markers from tumours to the patient’s immune system. Read full article >
#3 – New Report Indicates Christians Face Increasing Erosion of Religious Freedom in the West
by Andreas Wailzer | LifeSite News
A new report from the Family Research Council (FRC) highlights the growing persecution and intolerance towards Christians in the West.
The report entitled “Free to Believe? The Intensifying Intolerance Toward Christians in the West” documents 168 incidents of persecution or unfair discrimination against Christians across 16 countries between 2019 and 2023.
Tony Perkins, President of FRC, called the report a “warning call” and said, “These stories are alarming and show the diverse ways Western governments—which ought to be the standard bearers for upholding freedom of religion and expression—are undermining the fundamental human right to religious freedom.” Read full article >
#4 – Everything App: Musk Will “Discontinue Phone Number and Only Use X for Text & Calls”
by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
“In a few months, I will discontinue my phone number and only use X for texts and audio/video calls,” Elon Musk wrote on X early Friday morning. The post was viewed 16 million times as of 0820 ET.
In a few months, I will discontinue my phone number and only use X for texts and audio/video calls
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2024
Musk has repeatedly said he will transform X into an “everything app.”
Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
#5 – The WHO Overplays its Hand and Watches Support Drain Away
by Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley | The Daily Skeptic
Image: screenshot
Cracks are forming in the World Health Organisation’s plans to secure a vast expansion of its powers and resources. Presented as a necessarily urgent response to the empirically unsupported assertion that pandemics are increasing in frequency and severity, negotiations for a broad package of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and a new parallel Pandemic Treaty had been expected to be over by the end of 2023. Having missed that deadline, in late January the Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pleaded for WHO member states to give ground so that the negotiations could be completed at all. In the same comments he sought to apportion blame for the unexpected headwinds on those who had misconstrued, or misrepresented, the benign intentions of the WHO and its key supporters (which include China and some wealthy private organisations). Read full article >
