Michael Bates: December 2021 Archives
"Receipts" of the strong claims from Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, President Biden, Rachel Maddow that "the virus stops with every vaccinated person" [Maddow, March 29, 2021], that "vaccinated people do not carry the virus" [Walensky, April 2, 2021], that vaccinated people "become a dead end to the virus" [Fauci, May 16, 2021], that "you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations" [Biden, July 2021], plus receipts for the redefinition of herd immunity, vaccination, and vaccine. Fauci and others are now gaslighting us to say that they never claimed the vaccine would stop the virus from spreading. "in any sort of just world, we'd be getting ready to ship these pernicious propogandists to guantanamo (and send every media talking head that lobbed them softballs and never asked about their lies and inversions with them)."
Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg | The BMJ
Facebook is preventing circulation of a British Medical Journal peer-reviewed article based on a sloppy "fact-check" article from a Facebook contractor:
"In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia's trial sites.
"The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ's usual high level editorial oversight and review.
"But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about 'Missing context ... Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.' Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share 'false information' might have their posts moved lower in Facebook's News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were 'partly false.'...
"Rather than investing a proportion of Meta's substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task."
Benny Strickler in Tulsa with Bob Wills
"The BENNY STRICKLER Story: Bob Wills & Tulsa, 1941-42" by Dave Radlauer, published in the Winter 2013 edition of the Frisco Cricket, the newsletter of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation.
"Strickler was transformational in two contrasting music genres: Bob Wills Texas Playboys Western Swing orchestra, and the San Francisco Traditional jazz sound of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
"Colorful interview clips vividly describe Benny's key role in Wills' superlative 'Tulsa Orchestra' of 1941-42 and his meteoric rise in Los Angeles, Tulsa and San Francisco, before his career was ended by tuberculosis at age 25."
Part 2, focused on Strickler's brief time in San Francisco and his untimely death, here.
Minimizing exposure of personal information on mobile phones - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com
A user on a forum for BlackBerry phone owners and enthusiasts has a list of 8 steps you can take to minimize the exposure of personal information to apps on your mobile phone, starting with purchasing an unlocked phone with cash, purchasing a pre-paid Mint Mobile SIM card with cash, setting up an alias email account with Proton Mail or Tutanota just for use with that device, using Privacy.com to create virtual credit cards for online purchases, and creating virtual phone numbers rather than the carrier-issued number.
