Book of Days: asher553

AMSTERDAM PROTESTERS BEATEN, MAULED.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1477633528858824706
"Unauthorized protest."

JOE ROGAN JOINS GETTR.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-joe-rogan-joins-gettr-as-twitter-censorship-intensifies
'"Just in case shit over at Twitter gets even dumber, I'm here now as well. Rejoice!" Rogan wrote on his GETTR account Sunday afternoon.'

GLENN GREENWALD: CONGRESS TELLS TECHNOCRATS TO CENSOR MORE.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech
'For the third time in less than five months, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to pressure and coerce them to censor more content from their platforms. On March 25, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will interrogate Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Facebooks’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai at a hearing which the Committee announced will focus “on misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms.”'

Key point: '... the key point raised by these last threats from House Democrats is an often-overlooked one: while the First Amendment does not apply to voluntary choices made by a private company about what speech to allow or prohibit, it does bar the U.S. Government from coercing or threatening such companies to censor. In other words, Congress violates the First Amendment when it attempts to require private companies to impose viewpoint-based speech restrictions which the government itself would be constitutionally barred from imposing.'

The techocrats are bidden to pay special attention to censoring Covid-19 debate, and any discussion of fraud in the so-called "election" of 2020.

https://reclaimthenet.org/disillusioned-journalists-form-alliance-against-censorship-coronavirus/
'A group of 26 journalists has come together to object to the COVID-19 “fearmongering” and the censorship of alternative views by mainstream media and Big Tech platforms since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to the group, the result of the fearmongering and censorship has been the public receiving a “distorted view of the truth.”

The group calls itself “Holding the Line: Journalists Against COVID Censorship.” ...'

https://oregoncatalyst.com/54395-uo-researchers-gov-brown-stop-promoting-vaccines.html

Well, Governor Kate Brown is indeed a bad messenger, but that's not the main thing. The whole premise of this survey is "If only we could find the right 'messenger' to tell you to do the thing we want you to do, then we could get you to do the thing."

That doesn't account for the fact that at the end of the day, many of us ultimately make that decision based on how we assess the risks and benefits, irrespective of who the 'messenger' is.

If you wanted to get my trust on this issue, you would have to undo the actions of every major health organization, and all of the social media censorship on the issue, for the past 18 months.

REPORT: COMMUNIST CHINA DISCUSSED BIOWEAPONS TARGETING SPECIFIC RACES.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/06/28/report-china-discussed-making-bioweapons-targeting-specific-races-n1457765
'“It wasn’t clear from their declaration whether this was for potential offensive use of synthetic biology and other techniques … but it certainly appears to lay out what they felt were going to be the drivers of a more potent offense in the future decade related to biotechnology,” [David] Asher said. “This is probably the most disturbing thing to note that there could be a type of population-targeting or ethnic targeting using biology, according to the Chinese. That doesn’t mean they did it in the case of Covid-19 or anything else but it definitely implied that they were fully aware that this is feasible and possible.”'

JONATHAN SPYER ON NETANYAHU'S FALL.
https://jonathanspyer.com/2021/06/14/splits-in-israeli-right-led-to-fall-of-netanyahu/
Spyer shares an article he published earlier, identifying some of the trends that would lead to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's fall from power. 'Since the process whereby splits in the Israeli right have now resulted in the fall of PM Netanyahu and the ending, for now at least, of Likud rule in Israel, I thought it might be an opportune time to repost this article of mine identifying the trend back in March. This is partly because there are few things that political analysts like to do more than saying ‘I told you so.’ But also I think the trends noted here remain relevant. I failed, of course, to see that Bennett would break his vow not to go with Lapid. Oh well.'

ARIZONA: MARICOPA COUNTY TO REPLACE VOTING MACHINES AFTER AUDIT.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/arizonas-maricopa-county-will-replace-all-voting-machines-after-audit_3879202.html
'The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which oversees elections in the county, issued a response to a letter sent by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, saying the county “shares [her] concerns” that the integrity and security of the Dominion Voting Systems machines and ballots might have been compromised during the audit.' [subscription article]

There hasn't been anything like this in my lifetime.

I came into the world just after the polio vaccine had been introduced. Polio was something we heard about from our parents, who had vivid memories of being kept indoors as children because of polio outbreaks. There was a man in my school, a counselor named Mr. Nichols, who was crippled in one arm - it was small, like a child's, and he could not use it - from having had polio as a boy.

Before polio, there was the Spanish Flu. It got its name because it broke out near the end of the Great War, and most of the belligerents in WWI had imposed wartime censorship on their presses. Only in neutral Spain could news of the influenza epidemic be read. We still call it the Spanish flu for convenience, not because anybody hates Spain, but because "Spanish flu" is a lot easier to say than "nineteen eighteen influenza epidemic".

And there was dysentery, familiar to us only from the Oregon Trail video game. And cholera, smallpox, and (farther back in history) bubonic plague. And it's amazing to me that, growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I lived a childhood blessedly unscathed by outbreaks of serious infectious diseases.

Something to ponder, while sheltering in place and practicing social distancing.