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(126) UN expert shuts up reporter who questions her report blaming Israel for genocide | Janta Ka Reporter - YouTube

"UN expert Francesca Albanese has revealed in her latest report that she had found reasonable grounds to believe Israel committed genocide in its war on Gaza."

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The Great Mask Reversal - by Kevin Bass

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The Great Mask Reversal
A guest post by cancelled medical student Kevin Bass.

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Hi readers,

We intend on enriching and fortifying this publication with outside contributors on the occasion. We’ve been releasing substantive video/audio content continuously over the past week. Before we resume our next round of exciting, rich podcast episodes, here is a piece on masks by Kevin Bass.

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— Rav and Jay

On May 11, 2020, Stephanie Warriner left her Toronto hospital room to find something to eat. She wasn't wearing a mask. Guards confronted and restrained her. She suffered brain death due to "asphyxia following struggle and exertion" [1]. Her body was allowed to die two weeks later. Her family sued. The judge dismissed the case. Nobody will be held accountable for her death [2].

Other similar episodes happened around the world. What follows is only a tiny fraction of them. On April 11, 2020 a Philadelphia man was violently dragged from a bus by police for refusing to wear a mask [3]. On May 9, 2020, an Australian man protesting draconian COVID policies was restrained, arrested, and forcibly masked [4]. On May 14, 2020, a mother was wrestled to the ground by a squad of police officers in front of her child for not wearing a mask on a New York subway [5]. She sued and won. On August 11, 2020, a 21-year-old Australian mother of three was choked and arrested for not wearing a mask. She had been to the doctor and had a mask exemption. She was charged with assaulting a police officer [6]. On September 23, 2020, a woman was tased and arrested at a high school football game for refusing to wear a mask [7]. On May 20, 2021, a grandmother and Sunday school teacher spoke at a school board meeting against the school’s policy forcing children to wear masks. She was arrested [8]. On July 4th, 2021, a 12-year-old Australian girl was pepper sprayed and arrested by police in front of her family for not wearing a mask [9]. On June 15, 2021, an employee at a hardware store attacked a customer with a baseball bat for not wearing a mask. He beat the customer [10]. On July 1, 2021, elderly Australian store owners were beaten and arrested by police for telling customers not to wear masks [11]. On September 3, 2021, an Australian man was assaulted by police for not wearing a mask. He locked himself inside a car, but they smashed his windows and arrested him [12]. On September 24, 2021, five men entered a store in Australia without masks, and an elite police unit savagely beat and arrested them. When the incident was caught on camera, charges were dropped [13]. On October 4, 2021, a teenage boy objecting to the use of masks was arrested and ejected from a school board meeting. Some of the police involved were themselves not wearing a mask [14]. ​​On April 26, 2022, a man at Costco threatened to pepper spray customers and employees who were not wearing masks, claiming they were "threatening his life" [15].

During the pandemic, countless people's rights were violated without any benefit. All of these episodes happened because CDC and other public health organizations misled the public about the science of masking. They called it science, but it wasn't science at all. It was ideology.

What is most shocking is that the public health establishment has long known that the available evidence does not support masking for viral pathogens.

In 2019, the World Health Organization published a systematic review and meta-analysis on the use of face masks for the prevention of influenza, involving ten high-quality studies with more than 6000 participants [16]. Its conclusion:

"There was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."

In May 2020, the CDC conducted its own systematic review and meta-analysis, this time of fourteen high-quality studies [17]. Its conclusion:

"Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."

In 2019, when asked whether people should wear masks and socially distance themselves to avoid infection, Fauci laughed and called this “paranoia” [18]. Emails also show that in February [19] and March [20] of 2020, Fauci knew that masks do not protect against respiratory viral infection.

In early February 2020, Fauci himself wrote in a private email to the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell [19]:

“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep [sic] out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location.”"

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Reserve your ticket – Post-Capitalist Tech? Cosmolocalism & the Potential of Blockchain – University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, Thu 28 Mar 2024 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

"Join us in exploring with Michel Bauwens the realm of post-capitalist technology and the transformative potential of blockchain. The lecture and discussion will delve into how blockchain can serve as a catalyst for community-driven legal and economic frameworks, fostering empowerment and sustainability. As traditional centralized governance structures give way to decentralized models, and both public and private entities vie for influence, it's crucial for us to reconsider how we can create alternative, community-centric modes of existence and collaboration. This lecture is essential for researchers, activists, policymakers, and, above all, communities seeking to shape a more inclusive and resilient future."

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liber-net

"Free speech, privacy, and human autonomy are under assault. Under the cloak of countering “misinformation,” governments, NGOs, academics, and Big Tech now often collaborate to suppress information, ideas, and opinions expressed by everyday people. Meanwhile biometric ID systems are being built to control people’s movements and access, and digital currencies threaten citizen’s basic right to economic independence.

In a strange twist, many of those who defended our digital rights now lead this new authoritarianism. Recent revelations show many civil society leaders partner with government and Big Tech to promote top-down information controls - with some even seeking to break encrypted private messaging. During the Covid-19 crisis, rather than defending and protecting human rights from government abuse, many in the digital rights field cheered on and even collaborated to dismantle our rights and freedoms.

It is now the supposed liberals, as much as the conservatives, that most threaten digital civil liberties.

liber-net combats this new authoritarianism in order to reestablish free speech and civil liberties as the default standard for our networked age. Through journalism, research, media-making, events and network building, liber-net provides a platform to create alliances, shine a light on civil society corruption, and change the conversation.

The liber-net team comes from the digital rights field, which means we have a deep understanding of the problem and can connect to the many disaffected advocates who want change. We are willing to stick our necks out publicly, having collaborated on the Twitter Files and performed much of the research to expose the Censorship Industrial Complex."

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