21stcenturywire--2020-07-09--Why Washington’s War on Huawei is Not Working

Putting aside for one moment the the debate over the health and safety of 5G networks – it ’ s becoming clear by Washington ’ s behavior that these networks are more about government-corporate mass surveillance than it is about providing telecoms services .
For Washington , Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei presents a nearly unsolvable problem .
We can draw this conclusion by looking at how the US has chosen to compete , or rather , what it is substituting instead for what should be competition .
CNET in an article titled , “ White House reportedly considering federal intervention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The article notes that the US government also sought to organize a meeting with other tech giants in addition to Nokia and Ericsson including Dell , Intel , Microsoft and Samsung to discuss “ combating ” Huawei .
It is unclear how acquiring foreign networking companies already being out-competed by Huawei would tip the balance in Washington ’ s favor or how companies like Ericsson and Nokia with respectable market shares would benefit from being drawn into economic warfare between the US and China , two nations both companies currently enjoy doing business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is unlikely US efforts would materialize and begin showing results fast enough to significantly or permanently set Huawei back .
A Need for Competition , Not Coercion The US appears to have done everything in its power to fight Huawei besides actually competing against it .
Competition would involve the creation of technology similar or superior to Huawei ’ s either in terms of performance or cost , or both .
The US is unable to do this as even its own largest smartphone manufacturer , Apple , has all of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the US ’ most recently announced and perhaps most drastic measures so far against Huawei involve “ investments , ” “ equity firms , ” “ acquisitions ” and “ holding companies ” rather than improving education in relevant fields , domestic manufacturing and technical expertise , reflects a fundamental inability for the US to compete against China on equal terms .
As long as the US insists on facing its growing problems by moving numbers around on financial ledgers rather than picking and placing components on circuit boards inside the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s rise but in no way stop it .
If anything , these roadblocks force Huawei and others to restructure themselves in more resilient ways that will make it even more difficult in the future when and if the US ever decides to take on China through actual competition .
Another note ; Huawei ’ s 5G technology will undoubtedly do more than merely build Huawei up as a telecommunications company .
It will give nations deploying Huawei ’ s 5G infrastructure an edge across a multitude of IT-related economic activities , giving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to settle on alternatives because of US pressure to do so .
If these alternatives truly suit a nation ’ s telecommunications infrastructure and serve its economic potential that is one thing , but if these alternatives were picked because of political reasons it will cost these nations not only politically with China , but also economically .
US vs. Huawei : Real Security Concerns or a Smear Campaign ?
The CNET article would also repeat the justification for Washington ’ s growing hostility and aggressive tactics turned toward Huawei , claiming : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been expressed now for years by the US yet no evidence has been presented .
It is interesting that even attempts across the US-European and even Australian media to explain Washington ’ s growing obsession with Huawei generally admit these concerns are just an excuse and that protecting US dominance over global technology and the economic power and influence it provides , is the real goal .
ABC ( Australia ) in its article , “ Huawei and Apple smartphones are both made in China , so what is the difference ?
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or later , proven-to-be-false accusations ) have become the bread and butter of US foreign policy helping to grease the wheels of everything from economic warfare to literal wars .
Interestingly enough , there is real evidence that US intelligence agencies have infiltrated and compromised both software and hardware made in the West which could easily justify the same sort of measures the US is currently taking against Huawei to be turned back against US companies by the rest of the world .
MIT ’ s Technology Review magazine in a 2013 article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “ Problem from Hell ” , ” would admit ( my emphasis ) : In other words the US is in fact guilty and has been for quite some time of exactly what it is accusing Huawei of allegedly doing .
Yet nations around the globe have not attempted to cripple or shutter US tech companies or even ban them from their markets .
Government organizations around the globe may prudently opt for domestically produced telecommunications equipment , but in general , the world has been fairly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compromised its tech industry is by intelligence agencies and the special interests they work for .
Not only does the US fall short in creating viable alternatives to Huawei products , the products it does have and the corporations making them are as tainted in reality by ties to Washington ’ s intelligence agencies as it claims ( without evidence ) Huawei is with the Chinese government .
It would appear that , like Washington ’ s many literal wars around the globe burning US cash and its reputation upon the global stage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also doomed to failure .
Until constructive competition takes precedence over conquest and coercion , the US will continue down this unfortunate path where instead of promoting and showcasing American ingenuity , Washington opts to announcing its latest substitution for it .
*** Gunnar Ulson , a New York-based geopolitical analyst and writer especially for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” .

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Putting aside for one moment the debate over the health and safety of 5G networks – it’s becoming clear by Washington’s behavior that these networks are more about government-corporate mass surveillance than about providing telecoms services.
IMAGE: Huawei 5G base station unit.
Gunnar Ulson
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For Washington, Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei presents a nearly unsolvable problem. We can draw this conclusion by looking at how the US has chosen to compete, or rather, what it is substituting instead for what should be competition.
CNET in an article titled, “White House reportedly considering federal intervention in 5G,” would explain:
5G networks across the US could get a boost from the federal government, according to a report Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Trump administration officials are considering the move so they can compete better against Huawei globally, the report says.
The Trump administration has reportedly met with US networking companies including Cisco to discuss the acquisition of Western European networking giants Ericsson and Nokia. It’s also looking into giving tax breaks and financing to Ericsson and Nokia, the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
The article notes that the US government also sought to organize a meeting with other tech giants in addition to Nokia and Ericsson including Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Samsung to discuss “combating” Huawei.
It is unclear how acquiring foreign networking companies already being out-competed by Huawei would tip the balance in Washington’s favor or how companies like Ericsson and Nokia with respectable market shares would benefit from being drawn into economic warfare between the US and China, two nations both companies currently enjoy doing business in.
Even in the best-case scenario it is unlikely US efforts would materialize and begin showing results fast enough to significantly or permanently set Huawei back.
A Need for Competition, Not Coercion
The US appears to have done everything in its power to fight Huawei besides actually competing against it.
Competition would involve the creation of technology similar or superior to Huawei’s either in terms of performance or cost, or both.
The US is unable to do this as even its own largest smartphone manufacturer, Apple, has all of its phones made in China. The fact that the US’ most recently announced and perhaps most drastic measures so far against Huawei involve “investments,” “equity firms,” “acquisitions” and “holding companies” rather than improving education in relevant fields, domestic manufacturing and technical expertise, reflects a fundamental inability for the US to compete against China on equal terms.
As long as the US insists on facing its growing problems by moving numbers around on financial ledgers rather than picking and placing components on circuit boards inside the US, it may temporarily delay Huawei’s rise but in no way stop it.
If anything, these roadblocks force Huawei and others to restructure themselves in more resilient ways that will make it even more difficult in the future when and if the US ever decides to take on China through actual competition.
Another note; Huawei’s 5G technology will undoubtedly do more than merely build Huawei up as a telecommunications company. It will give nations deploying Huawei’s 5G infrastructure an edge across a multitude of IT-related economic activities, giving them an advantage over other nations forced to settle on alternatives because of US pressure to do so.
If these alternatives truly suit a nation’s telecommunications infrastructure and serve its economic potential that is one thing, but if these alternatives were picked because of political reasons it will cost these nations not only politically with China, but also economically.
US vs. Huawei: Real Security Concerns or a Smear Campaign?
The CNET article would also repeat the justification for Washington’s growing hostility and aggressive tactics turned toward Huawei, claiming:
Huawei was blacklisted last year by the US when it was added to the United States’ “entity list”. In addition, President Donald Trump at the same time signed an executive order essentially banning the company in light of national security concerns that Huawei had close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied that charge.
These “national security concerns” have been expressed now for years by the US yet no evidence has been presented.
It is interesting that even attempts across the US-European and even Australian media to explain Washington’s growing obsession with Huawei generally admit these concerns are just an excuse and that protecting US dominance over global technology and the economic power and influence it provides, is the real goal.
ABC (Australia) in its article, “Huawei and Apple smartphones are both made in China, so what is the difference?,” would note:
Professor Clive Williams from the Australian National University’s Centre for Military and Security Law told the ABC that to his knowledge, no evidence has yet been provided of Huawei conducting espionage. “Huawei is ahead of the field in 5G research so it could be an uncheckable way of reining it in and limiting its market share.
Uncheckable accusations (or later, proven-to-be-false accusations) have become the bread and butter of US foreign policy helping to grease the wheels of everything from economic warfare to literal wars.
Interestingly enough, there is real evidence that US intelligence agencies have infiltrated and compromised both software and hardware made in the West which could easily justify the same sort of measures the US is currently taking against Huawei to be turned back against US companies by the rest of the world.
MIT’s Technology Review magazine in a 2013 article titled, “NSA’s Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “Problem from Hell”,” would admit (my emphasis):
In 2011, General Michael Hayden, who had earlier been director of both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, described the idea of computer hardware with hidden “backdoors” planted by an enemy as “the problem from hell.” This month, news reports based on leaked documents said that the NSA itself has used that tactic, working with U.S. companies to insert secret backdoors into chips and other hardware to aid its surveillance efforts.
In other words the US is in fact guilty and has been for quite some time of exactly what it is accusing Huawei of allegedly doing. Yet nations around the globe have not attempted to cripple or shutter US tech companies or even ban them from their markets.
Government organizations around the globe may prudently opt for domestically produced telecommunications equipment, but in general, the world has been fairly lenient on the US despite just how compromised its tech industry is by intelligence agencies and the special interests they work for.
Not only does the US fall short in creating viable alternatives to Huawei products, the products it does have and the corporations making them are as tainted in reality by ties to Washington’s intelligence agencies as it claims (without evidence) Huawei is with the Chinese government.
It would appear that, like Washington’s many literal wars around the globe burning US cash and its reputation upon the global stage, Washington’s economic battles are also doomed to failure. Until constructive competition takes precedence over conquest and coercion, the US will continue down this unfortunate path where instead of promoting and showcasing American ingenuity, Washington opts to announcing its latest substitution for it.
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Gunnar Ulson, a New York-based geopolitical analyst and writer especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-09--INTERVIEW: Richard Grannon on Psychological Impact of COVID Lockdown

It ’ s been said that the COVID-19 Lockdown has been the world ’ s largest psychological experiment , and @ @ @ @ @ government-media complex are speaking openly and honestly about the psychological impact of mass quarantines of @ @ @ @ @ world .
In the first hour of EP 332 of the SUNDAY WIRE show , @ @ @ @ @ special guest , UK-based public speaker , personal coach and content creator , Richard Grannon @ @ @ @ @ impact of the COVID19 ‘ Lockdown ’ on individuals and on society as a whole @ @ @ @ @ conversation with insight into heady areas like psychological warfare and how people can make sense @ @ @ @ @ unusual and highly challenging situation which has affected the lives of so many .
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It’s been said that the COVID-19 Lockdown has been the world’s largest psychological experiment, and yet so few within the government-media complex are speaking openly and honestly about the psychological impact of mass quarantines of billions of households around the world.
In the first hour of EP 332 of the SUNDAY WIRE show, host Patrick Henningsen talks with special guest, UK-based public speaker, personal coach and content creator, Richard Grannon, to discuss the psychological impact of the COVID19 ‘Lockdown’ on individuals and on society as a whole. This was a fascinating conversation with insight into heady areas like psychological warfare and how people can make sense and better cope with this unusual and highly challenging situation which has affected the lives of so many. Listen:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-09--Why Democrats Don’t Want Joe Biden to Debate President Trump

According to famed neoliberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman , Joe Biden should be kept away from any Presidential debates with Donald Trump unless various conditions can be met .
He explains : “ I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump .
He should do it only under two conditions .
Otherwise , he ’ s giving Trump unfair advantages.
” Friedman has also excused the 77 year-old Biden ’ s conspicuous disappearance from public life as due to coronavirus : “ Because of Covid-19 , Biden has been sticking close to home , wearing a mask and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now spreading further , and Biden being a responsible individual and role model , it ’ s likely that he won ’ t be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day .
Therefore , the three scheduled televised debates , which will garner huge audiences , will carry more weight for him than ever.
” The reality is something much more fundamental : Joe Biden simply can not speak ‘ off the cuff ’ for more than a few minutes .
It ’ s not that he doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s more likely that he ’ s both mentally and physically unable to do so .
Is this really the Democrat Party ’ s best person to put forward as President of the United States of America ?
According the Tucker Carlson , Democrats want to hide their presumptive Presidential nominee until Election Day .
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According to famed neoliberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Joe Biden should be kept away from any Presidential debates with Donald Trump unless various conditions can be met. He explains:
“I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump. He should do it only under two conditions. Otherwise, he’s giving Trump unfair advantages.”
Friedman has also excused the 77 year-old Biden’s conspicuous disappearance from public life as due to coronavirus:
“Because of Covid-19, Biden has been sticking close to home, wearing a mask and social distancing. And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it’s likely that he won’t be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day. Therefore, the three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever.”
The reality is something much more fundamental: Joe Biden simply cannot speak ‘off the cuff’ for more than a few minutes. It’s not that he doesn’t want to, it’s more likely that he’s both mentally and physically unable to do so.
Is this really the Democrat Party’s best person to put forward as President of the United States of America?
According the Tucker Carlson, Democrats want to hide their presumptive Presidential nominee until Election Day. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-09--NYT Report: Israel Planted a Bomb at Iranian Nuclear Facility

Casually inserted below the headline of what seemed to be just another anti-Iranian article , “ Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site , Setting Back Program , ” published by the New York Times , is the story of Israel planting the bomb that caused a recent explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility last week .
The report , citing an anonymous source , states that Israel was responsible for the attack on the Natanz nuclear plant , although Israel has not officially admitted their role ( they rarely do ) .
Defence Minister Benny Gantz stated the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Everyone can suspect us in everything and all the time , but I don ’ t think that ’ s correct.
” The latest incident comes just one week after another major incident where 19 people died and 14 were injured during an explosion which hit the Sina Athar medical center north of Tehran .
If this is indeed the case , then it is incredibly risky behavior by Israel , and one which could potentially risk a major radiological incident .
The timing of this event is interesting .
Why would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now ?
An anonymous Middle Eastern intelligence official told The New York Times on Sunday that Israel was behind Thursday ’ s fire at Iran ’ s Natanz nuclear facility .
The official said Israel used a “ powerful bomb , ” which caused a fire that severely damaged the facility and set back Iran ’ s nuclear program by months .
The Times also spoke with an unnamed member of Iran ’ s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ) , who also said an explosive was used at the Natanz facility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IRGC member also said they ruled out the possibility of a cyberattack , which is a way Israel has attacked Iran ’ s nuclear infrastructure in the past .
In 2010 , Israel and the US attacked and damaged Iran ’ s nuclear facilities with a computer virus called Stuxnet .
The IRGC member said it was likely somebody carried a bomb into the facility , as opposed to the idea of a cruise missile or drone striking the building .
Israel has not taken responsibility for the incident , as they usually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which they often strike in Syria .
When asked about the incident , Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel was not “ necessarily ” behind it .
“ Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us , ” Gantz said .
Other mysterious incidents have recently occurred in Iran , with fires breaking out at power plants over the weekend .
The Middle Eastern intelligence official told the Times that the events were not related to Natanz explosion .
Iran has not officially blamed anyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israel is the culprit , the Islamic Republic will likely retaliate .
Although there is another suspect , before the Natanz incident was in the news , a dissident group called the Homeland Cheetahs wrote to BBC and took credit for the attack .

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Casually inserted below the headline of what seemed to be just another anti-Iranian article, “Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program,” published by the New York Times, is the story of Israel planting the bomb that caused a recent explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility last week.
The report, citing an anonymous source, states that Israel was responsible for the attack on the Natanz nuclear plant, although Israel has not officially admitted their role (they rarely do). Defence Minister Benny Gantz stated the following during a recent radio interview:
“Everyone can suspect us in everything and all the time, but I don’t think that’s correct.”
(Image Source: Institute for Science and International Security)
The latest incident comes just one week after another major incident where 19 people died and 14 were injured during an explosion which hit the Sina Athar medical center north of Tehran.
If this is indeed the case, then it is incredibly risky behavior by Israel, and one which could potentially risk a major radiological incident.
The timing of this event is interesting. Why would Tel Aviv be escalating tensions with Iran now?
Antiwar.com reports…
An anonymous Middle Eastern intelligence official told The New York Times on Sunday that Israel was behind Thursday’s fire at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. The official said Israel used a “powerful bomb,” which caused a fire that severely damaged the facility and set back Iran’s nuclear program by months.
The Times also spoke with an unnamed member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who also said an explosive was used at the Natanz facility but did not attribute blame. The IRGC member also said they ruled out the possibility of a cyberattack, which is a way Israel has attacked Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in the past. In 2010, Israel and the US attacked and damaged Iran’s nuclear facilities with a computer virus called Stuxnet.
The IRGC member said it was likely somebody carried a bomb into the facility, as opposed to the idea of a cruise missile or drone striking the building. Israel has not taken responsibility for the incident, as they usually keep silent on attacks against Iranian targets, which they often strike in Syria.
When asked about the incident, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel was not “necessarily” behind it. “Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us,” Gantz said.
Other mysterious incidents have recently occurred in Iran, with fires breaking out at power plants over the weekend. The Middle Eastern intelligence official told the Times that the events were not related to Natanz explosion.
Iran has not officially blamed anyone for the attack yet, but if Israel is the culprit, the Islamic Republic will likely retaliate. Although there is another suspect, before the Natanz incident was in the news, a dissident group called the Homeland Cheetahs wrote to BBC and took credit for the attack.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-10--Cancel Culture: Gad Saad on the Pathology Identity Politics and Postmodernist Thinking

Not a day goes by these days that someone is not being deplatformed or “ canceled ” due to some @ @ @ @ @ media post .
We are now reaching an apogee of intolerance in society – where @ @ @ @ @ narrowing regarding what can and can ’ t be said publicly ( or even privately @ @ @ @ @ reprisal .
Is post-Enlightenment western society now regressing backwards ?
What is the end game @ @ @ @ @ host Freddie Sayers talks with Canadian evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad , about how ‘ wokeness @ @ @ @ @ and trans movements , and the ‘ cancerous ’ effects of identity politics on academia @ @ @ @ @ a new secular religion .
Saad also explains why Donald Trump , not Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ for president in 2020 .
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Not a day goes by that someone is not being deplatformed or “canceled” due to some politically incorrect comment or social media post. We are now reaching an apogee of intolerance in society – where the boundaries are rapidly narrowing regarding what can and can’t be said publicly (or even privately) without the threat of reprisal. Is post-Enlightenment western society now regressing backwards? What is the end game of the postmodernists?
UnHerd host Freddie Sayers talks with Canadian evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad, about how ‘wokeness’ culture driving the BLM and trans movements, and the ‘cancerous’ effects of identity politics on academia – which is evolving into a new secular religion. Saad also explains why Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, is the rational choice for president in 2020. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-10--Supreme Court Says NY Grand Jury Can Have Trump’s Tax Returns

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York grand jury subpoena to get the President ’ s tax returns and other financial records , rejecting previous White House calls for presidential immunity from a criminal investigation whilst serving in office .
It was a 7-2 decision with the court ruling , with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting .
As it turned out , the two justices which Trump appointed , Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch , both voted against him .
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision that “ the public has a right to every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that , “ Since the earliest days of the Republic , ‘ every man ’ has included the president of the United States .
Beginning with Jefferson and carrying on through Clinton , presidents have uniformly testified or produced documents in criminal proceedings when called upon by federal courts.
” Trump himself rejected any moves to sequester his financial records while he ’ s in office , claiming that the move was part of the long campaign of “ political persecution ” and “ witch hunt ” being waged against him by his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vance Jr. is seeking years worth of Trump ’ s tax returns as part of a wider probe into alleged ‘ hush-money ’ payments made to two women while House Democrats sought financial records from the Trump Organization ’ s accounting firm and two banks in order to determine if the Russia government was controlling the Trump campaign and Presidential .

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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York grand jury subpoena to get the President’s tax returns and other financial records, rejecting previous White House calls for presidential immunity from a criminal investigation whilst serving in office.
It was a 7-2 decision with the court ruling, with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting.
As it turned out, the two justices which Trump appointed, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, both voted against him.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision that “the public has a right to every man’s evidence.”
He added that, “Since the earliest days of the Republic, ‘every man’ has included the president of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson and carrying on through Clinton, presidents have uniformly testified or produced documents in criminal proceedings when called upon by federal courts.”
Trump himself rejected any moves to sequester his financial records while he’s in office, claiming that the move was part of the long campaign of “political persecution” and “witch hunt” being waged against him by his partisan adversaries.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281236214646034432?
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is seeking years worth of Trump’s tax returns as part of a wider probe into alleged ‘hush-money’ payments made to two women while House Democrats sought financial records from the Trump Organization’s accounting firm and two banks in order to determine if the Russian government was controlling the Trump campaign and the President.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-10--UKC News: Gov’t Announces New COVID Powers, While Adding Trillions in Debt

The UK Government has released a disturbing document which outlines draconian state powers to detain and test anyone “ suspected @ @ @ @ @ Coronavirus .
Will these new COVID powers be used by the state to exert more @ @ @ @ @ individuals ?
Meanwhile , governments are adding trillions in Debt to the public balance sheet @ @ @ @ @ pay it back through a decade of austerity and increased taxation .
Co-hosts Mike Robinson @ @ @ @ @ end of week news round-up .
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The UK Government has released a disturbing document which outlines draconian state powers to detain and test anyone “suspected of being infected” with Coronavirus. Will these new COVID powers be used by the state to exert more social and political control over individuals? Meanwhile, governments are adding trillions in debt to the public balance sheet and expecting the public to pay it back through a decade of austerity and increased taxation.
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with the end of week news round-up. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-10--Shellenberger: ‘Climate Change is a New Secular Religion’

In his new book , “ Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All , ” Michael Shellenberger argues that science doesn ’ t support doomsayers ’ claims .
“ If there ’ s one consistent message coming from activists and politicians pushing the Green New Deal and massive new subsidies for renewable energy it ’ s that if we don ’ t take radical action now , life on Earth as we know it will soon be irreversibly destroyed .
Greta Thunberg , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D–N.Y . )
, and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a dozen years left in which to save the planet .
The findings of the scientists studying global warming don ’ t support such alarmist claims , according to the new book , Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All .
Author Michael Shellenberger argues that deforestation and deaths from extreme weather are actually declining , and concerns about environmental damage from plastics are fundamentally misplaced .
Shellenberger , who began his career as an advocate for more government spending on wind and solar , was eventually disillusioned after witnessing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drawbacks of renewables .
Named a “ Hero of the Environment ” by Time magazine in 2008 , he is an “ expert reviewer ” for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [ IPCC ] , whose 2018 report has been widely misinterpreted as saying we had just 12 years to stave off catastrophic climate change.
” Reason ’ s Nick Gillespie speaks with Michael Shellenberger about his new book and why he believes that environmentalism has become a replacement for religion in an increasingly secular world .
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In his new book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All,” Michael Shellenberger argues that science doesn’t support doomsayers’ claims.
Reason reports…
“If there’s one consistent message coming from activists and politicians pushing the Green New Deal and massive new subsidies for renewable energy it’s that if we don’t take radical action now, life on Earth as we know it will soon be irreversibly destroyed. Greta Thunberg, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden all have claimed that we have less than a dozen years left in which to save the planet. The findings of the scientists studying global warming don’t support such alarmist claims, according to the new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Author Michael Shellenberger argues that deforestation and deaths from extreme weather are actually declining, and concerns about environmental damage from plastics are fundamentally misplaced. Shellenberger, who began his career as an advocate for more government spending on wind and solar, was eventually disillusioned after witnessing the failure of subsidies to fix the inherent drawbacks of renewables. Named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine in 2008, he is an “expert reviewer” for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], whose 2018 report has been widely misinterpreted as saying we had just 12 years to stave off catastrophic climate change.”
Reason’s Nick Gillespie speaks with Michael Shellenberger about his new book and why he believes that environmentalism has become a replacement for religion in an increasingly secular world. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-10--The Case Against America’s Racially-Driven ‘Revolution’

In the wake of the George Floyd incident , the United States and the world have embarked on an increasingly fraught conversation on race , history , law enforcement , and the underpinnings of modern civilization .
Is America ’ s ‘ progressive ’ left really a reactionary movement in disguise ?
“ A refugee from Africa , Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled to Europe to escape an arranged marriage , becoming an activist , ( now former ) member of the Dutch Parliament , and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution .
With a different set of life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hirsi Ali discusses how , as a Somalian , she views America as the best place on earth for minorities to grow up and achieve their potential .
While acknowledging the hardships and miseries that American Blacks have endured and that racism still exists in many quarters of American society , Hirsi Ali emphatically believes that America is more than capable of solving racial inequalities , provided it preserves the institutions that ultimately ended slavery and empowered the protest movements of the 1960s that birthed the Civil Rights Movement .
As she wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Street Journal , an opinion she reiterates on this show , “ There will be no resolution of America ’ s .
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problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld as sacrosanct .
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Without them , honest deliberation , mutual learning , and the American ethic of problem-solving are dead.
” Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the politics and race and ‘ privilege , ’ as well as the ethical failure of the American left .
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In the wake of the George Floyd incident, the United States and the world have embarked on an increasingly fraught conversation on race, history, law enforcement, and the underpinnings of modern civilization. Is America’s ‘progressive’ left really a reactionary movement in disguise?
“A refugee from Africa, Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled to Europe to escape an arranged marriage, becoming an activist, (now former) member of the Dutch Parliament, and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. With a different set of life experiences and perspectives from American-born Blacks, Hirsi Ali discusses how, as a Somalian, she views America as the best place on earth for minorities to grow up and achieve their potential. While acknowledging the hardships and miseries that American Blacks have endured and that racism still exists in many quarters of American society, Hirsi Ali emphatically believes that America is more than capable of solving racial inequalities, provided it preserves the institutions that ultimately ended slavery and empowered the protest movements of the 1960s that birthed the Civil Rights Movement. As she wrote in a recent column for the Wall Street Journal, an opinion she reiterates on this show, “There will be no resolution of America’s . . . problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld as sacrosanct. . . . Without them, honest deliberation, mutual learning, and the American ethic of problem-solving are dead.”
Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson talks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the politics and race and ‘privilege,’ as well as the ethical failure of the American left. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-11--Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone, Says Trial Was Based on a ‘Hoax’

Last night President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former advisor Roger Stone .
Stone was due to report to prison to serve 40 months for process crimes relating to the collapsed Mueller probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election .
The White House confirmed that Stone ’ s sentence would be commuted and added that he was a victim of the Democrat Party and Intelligence Community ’ s long-running Russiagate “ hoax.
” “ Roger Stone has already suffered greatly , ” said White House in a statement issued to the press .
“ He was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others in this case .
Roger Stone is now a free man !
” The move in certain to incense the left-wing mainstream media as the 2020 election cycle begins to gain steam .
SEE ALSO : Roger Stone ’ s conviction is the last hope to save RussiaGate Stone , 67 , had previously been sentenced in February for the charge of lying to Congress over having what turned out to be a nonexistent “ back channel ” to WikiLeaks and and Julian Assange .
Stone also was charged with witness tampering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is believed that the Democrat Party and Robert Mueller needed to secure a conviction in order to advance the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign was somehow in collaboration with WikiLeaks and the Russian government , as they attempted to prove the theory of “ Russian collusion .
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Last night President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former advisor Roger Stone.
Stone was due to report to prison to serve 40 months for process crimes relating to the collapsed Mueller probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
The White House confirmed that Stone’s sentence would be commuted and added that he was a victim of the Democrat Party and Intelligence Community’s long-running Russiagate “hoax.”
“Roger Stone has already suffered greatly,” said White House in a statement issued to the press.
“He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a free man!”
The move in certain to incense the left-wing mainstream media as the 2020 election cycle begins to gain steam.
SEE ALSO: Roger Stone’s conviction is the last hope to save RussiaGate
Stone, 67, had previously been sentenced in February for the charge of lying to Congress over having what turned out to be a nonexistent “back channel” to WikiLeaks and and Julian Assange. Stone also was charged with witness tampering and obstructing the Democrat House investigation.
It is believed that the Democrat Party and Robert Mueller needed to secure a conviction in order to advance the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign was somehow in collaboration with WikiLeaks and the Russian government, as they attempted to prove the theory of “Russian collusion.”
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-11--Neil Oliver on the Breakdown of Free Speech and Threat of Civil War

Could the current antisocial climate of political intolerance in the West lead to future violence , or even civil war @ @ @ @ @ of this possibility .
“ We forget how close war is .
War is almost @ @ @ @ @ beings and we ’ ve lived in relative piece in much of Europe for a @ @ @ @ @ trick ourselves into thinking that it won ’ t happen to us.
” “ It @ @ @ @ @ t talk , when the dialogue breaks down either between nations or between individuals .
@ @ @ @ @ be speech there will be violence.
” UK Radio host Mike Graham speaks with Neil @ @ @ @ @ in communication in the wake of the coronavirus and the recent wave of social unrest @ @ @

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Could the current antisocial climate of political intolerance in the West lead to future violence, or even civil war? Historian Neil Oliver warns of this possibility.
“We forget how close war is. War is almost a natural state of human beings and we’ve lived in relative piece in much of Europe for a long time and we can trick ourselves into thinking that it won’t happen to us.”
“It comes when populations can’t talk, when the dialogue breaks down either between nations or between individuals. If there can’t be speech there will be violence.”
UK Radio host Mike Graham speaks with Neil Oliver to discuss the breakdown in communication in the wake of the coronavirus and the recent wave of social unrest. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-11--‘Memory Palace’: Advanced Technique for Increasing Memory Skills

Imagine being able to memorize 10,000 digits of pi .
It ’ s possible… Many people complain about having a @ @ @ @ @ , friends ’ birthdays , statistics for an exam – they just don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ brain .
But memory isn ’ t as set in stone as you might imagine @ @ @ @ @ , you may well be able to remember almost anything at all .
Nelson Dellis @ @ @ @ @ Champion and Grandmaster of Memory .
Some of his feats of recollection include memorising 10,000 @ @ @ @ @ order of more nine shuffled decks of cards and lists of hundreds of names after @ @ @ @ @ But with a little dedication , Dellis says that anyone can improve their memory .
@ @ @ @ @ follow that will get your filling your head with information…

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Imagine being able to memorize 10,000 digits of pi. It’s possible…
WIRED reports…
Many people complain about having a terrible memory. Shopping lists, friends’ birthdays, statistics for an exam – they just don’t seem to stick in the brain. But memory isn’t as set in stone as you might imagine. With the right technique, you may well be able to remember almost anything at all.
Nelson Dellis is a four-time USA Memory Champion and Grandmaster of Memory. Some of his feats of recollection include memorising 10,000 digits of pi, the order of more nine shuffled decks of cards and lists of hundreds of names after only hearing them once.
But with a little dedication, Dellis says that anyone can improve their memory. Here are five steps to follow that will get your filling your head with information…
Learn more at WIRED
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-12--Adam Creighton on Australia’s Economic Suicide as It Reimposes COVID Lockdown

Have the Australian public been brainwashed and indoctrinated by coronavirus alarmism ?
Since the ‘ pandemic ’ began , there have only been 106 deaths attributed to COVID , and yet the Australian government ’ s financial outlays have been greater than combined government spending on education , defence , interest on public debt , transport and communication , public order and safety , and housing and community amenities .
According to new figures , the country ’ s “ coronavirus response ” will cost approximaely 3.3 % of GDP this year , and 6.1 % next year .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government shutdown of the economy , state spending has increased almost 10.6 % of GDP .
The Australian ’ s Adam Creighton discusses the true economic ramifications of the mass-panic policies and government lockdowns .
Mr Creighton points out that most recessions “ occur naturally ” as part of the business cycle , but that “ for the first time in at least modern history , you ’ ve had governments around the world , not just here , try to shut down their economies ” .
“ I believe in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back on relatively easily , ” he adds .
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Have the Australian public been brainwashed and indoctrinated by coronavirus alarmism?
Since the ‘pandemic’ began, there have only been 106 deaths attributed to COVID, and yet the Australian government’s financial outlays have been greater than combined government spending on education, defence, interest on public debt, transport and communication, public order and safety, and housing and community amenities.
According to new figures, the country’s “coronavirus response” will cost approximately 3.3% of GDP this year, and 6.1% next year.
To makes matters even worse, to offset the government shutdown of the economy, state spending has increased almost 10.6% of GDP.
The Australian’s Adam Creighton discusses the true economic ramifications of the mass-panic policies and government lockdowns.
Mr Creighton points out that most recessions “occur naturally” as part of the business cycle, but that “for the first time in at least modern history, you’ve had governments around the world, not just here, try to shut down their economies”.
“I believe in the naive belief, they can switch them back on relatively easily,” he adds. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-12--Explained: Why Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong

Partisan mainstream outlets and Democratic Party leaders are in an uproar over President Trump granting clemency to former advisor Roger @ @ @ @ @ 3 1/2 years in prison for various process crimes stemming from the failed Mueller Probe @ @ @ @ @ ’ claims “ Trump has made a mockery of the justice system , ” but @ @ @ @ @ What crimes did Roger Stone actually commit ?
Was his conviction linked to the US @ @ @ @ @ vendetta against WikiLeaks and the DOJ ’ s indictments of Julian Assange ?
21WIRE editor @ @ @ @ @ International about Stone ’ s release and what it really means .
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Partisan mainstream outlets and Democratic Party leaders are in an uproar over President Trump granting clemency to former advisor Roger Stone, saving him from 3 1/2 years in prison for various process crimes stemming from the failed Mueller Probe.
The anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ claims “Trump has made a mockery of the justice system,” but is this really true? What crimes did Roger Stone actually commit? Was his conviction linked to the US government’s long running vendetta against WikiLeaks and the DOJ’s indictments of Julian Assange?
21WIRE editor Patrick Henningsen spoke with RT International about Stone’s release and what it really means. Watch:
SEE ALSO: Roger Stone’s conviction is the last hope to save RussiaGate
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-12--Hitchens: UK Government Worried Its Power Will ‘Drain Away’ If Can’t Keep the Fear Up

UK columnist Peter Hitchens is criticising the ‘ re-locking down ’ of the city of Leicester after a supposed ‘ @ @ @ @ @ .
But is this based on a credibly threat to public health ?
“ Having @ @ @ @ @ the beginning , the government feels the danger that its power will drain away If @ @ @ @ @ the fear up.
” Hitchens speaks to talkRADIO host Mike Graham , warning that continued @ @ @ @ @ Wave ’ of COVID has become a government mechanism for maintaining its unprecedented grip on @ @ @ @

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UK columnist Peter Hitchens is criticising the ‘re-locking down’ of the city of Leicester after a supposed ‘spike’ in Covid-19 cases. But is this based on a credible threat to public health?
“Having frightened the country stiff at the beginning, the government feels the danger that its power will drain away If it doesn’t keep the fear up.”
Hitchens speaks to talkRADIO host Mike Graham, warning that continued fearmongering of a ‘Second Wave’ of COVID has become a government mechanism for maintaining its unprecedented grip on power. Listen:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-12--SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Suffer No Fools’ (2014)

Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE .
On the major social and political issues of our time , African-American academic and economist Walter Williams has been one of America ’ s most important and provocative thinkers .
His views are heterodox to America ’ s ruling Democratic and left-liberal establishment ; he ’ s black , yet he opposes affirmative action .
He believes that the Civil Rights Act and the welfare state have been counter productive for Black America , and that the minimum wage actually creates unemployment , and that federal regulations have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Williams , other featured appearances by authors and scholars include : Shelby Steele , Thomas Sowell , Douglas Ginsberg and others .
From his childhood in the Philadelphia housing projects , to becoming one of America ’ s most important authors and commentators on the events of the 1960 ’ s – when Williams realized “ black people can not make great progress until they understand the economic system.
” Watch : Run time : 55 min Written , Directed , Produced by Tony Machi Released by the Free To Choose Network ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.
On the major social and political issues of our time, African-American academic and economist Walter Williams has been one of America’s most important and provocative thinkers. His views are heterodox to America’s ruling Democratic and left-liberal establishment; he’s black, yet he opposes affirmative action. He believes that the Civil Rights Act and the welfare state have been counter productive for Black America, and that the minimum wage actually creates unemployment, and that federal regulations have been working against minorities. Alongside Dr. Williams, other featured appearances by authors and scholars include: Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Douglas Ginsberg and others. From his childhood in the Philadelphia housing projects, to becoming one of America’s most important authors and commentators on the events of the 1960’s – when Williams realized “black people cannot make great progress until they understand the economic system.” Watch:
Run time: 55 min
Written, Directed, Produced by Tony Machi
Released by the Free To Choose Network (2014)
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-12--Episode #333 – ‘Latent Civil War’ with Patrick Henningsen

Episode # 333 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week , July 12 , 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen @ @ @ @ @ Alternate Current Radio Network ( ACR ) … 5pm-8pm UK Time | 12pm-3pm EST ( @ @ @ @ @ ( US ) This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick @ @ @ @ @ in the US , Europe and internationally .
America is in the grips of an @ @ @ @ @ most people haven ’ t yet acknowledged it .
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Episode #333 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week, July 12, 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen, broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR)…
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This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covering the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. America is in the grips of an undeclared civil war, only most people haven’t yet acknowledged it. All this and much, more. Enjoy the show…
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-13--UKC News: Governments and Media are Manipulating COVID Figures, Manufacturing Crisis

With each passing day , it ’ s becoming increasingly obvious that governments and mainstream media are manipulating the narrative @ @ @ @ @ .
Essentially , they are manufacturing a self-sustaining , open-ended crisis .
NBC News caught @ @ @ @ @ the COVID crisis .
Turkey continues its path towards Islamification by converting the historic world @ @ @ @ @ cathedral , into a mosque .
All this and much more .
Co-hosts Mike Robinson @ @ @ @ @ guest David Scott with the early week news round-up .
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With each passing day, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that governments and mainstream media are manipulating the narrative and actual figures for COVID-19. Essentially, they are manufacturing a self-sustaining, open-ended crisis. NBC News was caught red-handed producing fake news on the COVID crisis. Turkey continues its path towards Islamification by converting the historic world heritage site, Hagia Sophia cathedral, into a mosque. All this and much more.
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with special guest David Scott with the early week news round-up. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr30K_x-RsQ
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-13--Swedish Study: T-Cell Immunity is Significant Factor in COVID Herd Immunity

We hear a lot about Sweden ’ s experience of Covid-19 , with the New York Times declaring this week that that country is now “ the world ’ s cautionary tale.
” But what ’ s it really like on the ground ?
Dr Soo Aleman has been both on the front lines of the Covid-19 epidemic as a senior physician at Stockholm ’ s leading Karolinska hospital , and on the research side , as Assistant Professor at the Karolinska Institute and one of a group that last week published new data around T-cell immunity .
We talked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study , and how it matches what she is seeing in her hospital .
Immunity to COVID-19 is probably higher than tests have shown “ Intensive care units are getting empty , the wards are getting empty , we are really seeing a decrease — and that despite that people are really loosening up .
The beaches are crowded , social distancing is not kept very well … but still the numbers are really decreasing .
That means that something else is happening – we are actually getting closer to herd immunity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason.
” “ I can ’ t say if the Swedish approach was right or wrong – I think we can say that in one or two years when we are looking back .
You have to look at the mortality over the whole period.
” “ I don ’ t think that we have more new cases , I think we are just detecting more cases.
” “ We found that if you have a mild case you can be negative for antibodies afterwards … in those almost all of them had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that there are cases that you can have a strong T-cell response even though you have not had antibodies , meaning that you have encountered the virus and built up immunity.
” UnHerd host Freddie Sayers speaks with Dr. Soo Aleman from Sweden about findings of her new study on the immune response to Covid-19 .
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We hear a lot about Sweden’s experience of Covid-19, with the New York Times declaring this week that that country is now “the world’s cautionary tale.” But what’s it really like on the ground?
Dr Soo Aleman has been both on the front lines of the Covid-19 epidemic as a senior physician at Stockholm’s leading Karolinska hospital, and on the research side, as Assistant Professor at the Karolinska Institute and one of a group that last week published new data around T-cell immunity.
We talked to her about the findings of that study, and how it matches what she is seeing in her hospital.
Link to the Karolinska Institute T Cell study:
Immunity to COVID-19 is probably higher than tests have shown
“Intensive care units are getting empty, the wards are getting empty, we are really seeing a decrease — and that despite that people are really loosening up. The beaches are crowded, social distancing is not kept very well … but still the numbers are really decreasing. That means that something else is happening – we are actually getting closer to herd immunity. I can’t really see another reason.”
“I can’t say if the Swedish approach was right or wrong – I think we can say that in one or two years when we are looking back. You have to look at the mortality over the whole period.”
“I don’t think that we have more new cases, I think we are just detecting more cases.”
“We found that if you have a mild case you can be negative for antibodies afterwards … in those almost all of them had strong T-cell activity. This study says that there are cases that you can have a strong T-cell response even though you have not had antibodies, meaning that you have encountered the virus and built up immunity.”
UnHerd host Freddie Sayers speaks with Dr. Soo Aleman from Sweden about findings of her new study on the immune response to Covid-19. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-14--The Surveillance State: How to Disappear

With each passing day , supposedly ‘ free and democratic ’ western governments are working overtime to emulate the type of surveillance states we see in countries like China and North Korea .
The goal is 24/7 digital tracking of every citizen , and this authoritarian agenda is being accelerated during the current manufactured COVID-19 ‘ crisis.
’ Besides going off-grid to a remote rural area , is it still possible to opt-out ?
To answer this question , you will first need to audit which lines of tracking are currently in use .
Is it possible for a person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grid of surveillance and social control ?
Even when wearing a mask in public , the State and its corporate enablers still have multiple lines of tracking honed on members of the public .
To create effective privacy shields , it is first necessary to deconstruct your current web of digital networks .
In addition , there are also a number a new tools at your disposal .
If extricating yourself from the electrical grid is , to some degree , a test of moxie and patience , extracting yourself from the web @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of both .
If you live in a dense urban environment , you are being watched , in all kinds of ways .
A graphic released by the Future of Privacy Forum highlights just how many sensors , CCTCV cameras , RFID readers , and other nodes of observation might be eying you as you maneuver around a city ’ s blocks .
As cities race to fit themselves with smart technologies , it ’ s nearly impossible to know precisely how much data they ’ re accumulating , how it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ll do with it .
“ By and large , right now , it ’ s the Wild West , and the sheriff is also the bad guy , or could be , ” says Albert Gidari , the director of privacy at Stanford Law School ’ s Center for Internet and Society .
Smart technologies can ease traffic , carve out safer pedestrian passages , and analyze environmental factors such as water quality and air pollution .
But , as my colleague Linda Poon points out , their adoption is also stirring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been aroused in Oakland , California , Seattle , and Chicago , and the applications of laws protecting citizen privacy are murky .
For instance : data that ’ s stored on a server indefinitely could potentially infringe on the “ right to be forgotten ” that ’ s protected in some European countries .
But accountability and recourse can be slippery , because civilians can ’ t necessarily sue cities for violating privacy torts , explains Gidari .
What would it look like to leapfrog that murkiness by opting out entirely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surveillance ?
I asked Gidari and Lee Tien , a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation , to teach me how to disappear .
During the course of our conversations , Tien and Gidari each remind me , again and again , that this was a fool ’ s errand : You can ’ t truly hide from urban surveillance .
In an email before our phone call , Tien points out that we ’ re not even aware of all the traces of ourselves that are out in the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meters , streetlight cameras , automatic license plate readers , and more—to a kind of binary DNA that we ’ re constantly sloughing .
Trying to scrub these streams of data would be impossible .
Moreover , as the tools of surveillance have become more sophisticated , detecting them has become a harder task .
“ There was a time when you could spot cameras , ” Tien says .
Maybe a bodega would hang up a metal sign warning passersby that they were being recorded by a clunky , conspicuous device .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ smaller , recessed , and don ’ t look like what you expect them to look like.
” Other cameras are in the sky .
As Buzzfeed has reported , some federal surveillance technologies are mounted in sound-dampened planes and helicopters that cruise over cities , using augmented reality to overlay a grid that identifies targets at a granular level .
“ There are sensors everywhere , ” Gidari says .
“ The public has no ability to even see where they are.
” The surest way to dodge surveillance is to not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s not a simple ask .
While various groups have tried to plot out routes that allow pedestrians to literally sidestep nodes of surveillance , they haven ’ t been especially successful .
In 2013 , two software developers released a beta version of an app called Surv , which aspired to be a crowdsourced guide to cameras mounted in cities around the world .
The app would detect cameras within a 100-meter radius of the user ’ s phone , but it failed to meet its crowdfunding threshold on Kickstarter .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ least practical ones .
To defeat facial recognition software , “ you would have to wear a mask or disguises , ” Tien says .
“ That doesn ’ t really scale up for people.
” Other strategies include makeup that screws with a camera ’ s ability to recognize the contours of a human face , or thwarting cameras by blinding them with infrared LED lights fastened to a hat or glasses , as researchers at Japan ’ s National Institute of Informatics attempted in 2012 .
Those techniques are hardly subtle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you would stick out to the naked eye .
And as biometrics continue to advance , cameras will likely be less dupable , too .
There are also legal hiccups to consider : Drivers who don ’ t want city officials to know where they parked or when , Gidari says , would have to outwit license plate recognition tools by obscuring their license plate , such as with the noPhoto camera jammer , a new $ 399 device that fires a flash at red light cameras in an attempt to scramble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is already illegal in many cities and states , and others are chewing on new procedures .
In their book Obfuscation : A User ’ s Guide for Privacy and Protest , Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum , both professors at New York University , champion a strategy of “ throwing some sand in the gears , kicking up dust and making some noise , ” essentially relying on the melee of data jamming to “ hide in a cloud of signals.
” A number of apps , websites , and browser extensions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of misdirection—say , for instance , by running in the background of your regular web activities , trying to cover your digital tracks by throwing surveillance off your scent .
For example : A site called Internet Noise searches for randomized phrases and opens five fresh tabs every ten seconds .
( I left it running as I wrote this , and now my browser history includes pictures of badgers , an online mattress store , an NPR article about the Supreme Court , and a research paper about gene mutation in hamsters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s not a perfect veil , writes Emily Dreyfess in Wired : “ It ’ s actually too random .
It doesn ’ t linger on sites very long , nor does it revisit them .
In other words , it doesn ’ t really look human , and smart-enough tracking algorithms likely know that.
” The site is more of a protest over Congress rolling back a not-yet-implemented FCC regulation that would have stymied ISPs from selling users ’ browsing history .
Still , Tien advocates a certain degree of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a kind of digital hygiene—the “ equivalent of washing your hands when you go to the bathroom , ” or getting a flu shot .
But he stresses that they ’ re only a partial prophylactic : “ Nothing that will make you immune from the problem.
” Other techniques include employing Tor—a network that tries to anonymize the source and destination of your web searches by routing traffic along a convoluted path—and Signal , which offers encrypted messaging and phone calls .
The Electronic Frontier Foundation ’ s Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenarios .
People participating in protests , the guide suggests , might consider stripping meta-data from photos , to make it harder to match them with identities and locations .
But this isn ’ t a perfect solution , either , Tien says , because you can only control what you post .
“ If I take a picture and scrub the metadata , that ’ s one thing , ” Tien says .
“ If my friend takes a picture of me , I can ’ t do anything about that.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instructions for phone security at a protest , from adding an access passcode to turning on encryption settings .
On a daily basis , Tien tells me , “ I don ’ t think you or I can exercise much meaningful self-help against the kind of tracking we ’ ll be seeing in real-world physical space.
” That ’ s fodder for a point he makes about a fundamental asymmetry in the information that ’ s available to the bodies that install the cameras and those who are surveilled by them .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expectation of privacy in a public space .
The officials and organizations that install sensors , cameras , and ever-more-sensitive devices , he says , “ have much more money than you do , much more technology than you do , and they don ’ t have to tell you what they ’ re doing.
” Ultimately , Tien and Gidari both take a long view , arguing that the most payoff will come from pushing for more transparency about just what this technology is up to .
Part and parcel of that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ idea that data is inherently neutral .
The whole messy , jumbled mass of it contains information that could have tangible consequences on people ’ s lives .
Tien says citizens need to remind their elected officials what ’ s at stake with data—and in the process , maybe “ dampen their enthusiasm ” for the collection of it .
He points out that sanctuary cities could be a prime example .
There , he says , some advocates of immigrant rights are realizing that data collected via municipal surveillance “ might not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re interested in protecting immigrants and the federal government is interested in deporting them.
” The practical strategies for opting out—of becoming invisible to some of these modes of surveillance—are imperfect , to say the least .
That ’ s not to say that data collection is inherently nefarious , Gidari says—as he wrote in a blog post for the CIS , “ no one wants to live in a ‘ dumb ’ city.
” But he says that opting out shouldn ’ t need to be the default : “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been opted in in the first place.
” Jessica Leigh Hester is a former senior associate editor at CityLab , covering environment and culture .
Her work also appears in the New Yorker , The Atlantic , New York Times , Modern Farmer , Village Voice , Slate , BBC , NPR , and other outlets .

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With each passing day, supposedly ‘free and democratic’ western governments are working overtime to emulate the type of surveillance states we see in countries like China and North Korea. The goal is 24/7 digital tracking of every citizen, and this authoritarian agenda is being accelerated during the current manufactured COVID-19 ‘crisis.’ Besides going off-grid to a remote rural area, is it still possible to opt-out?
To answer this question, you will first need to audit which lines of tracking are currently in use.
Is it possible for a person to successfully evade this rapidly emerging Orwellian grid of surveillance and social control?
Even when wearing a mask in public, the State and its corporate enablers still have multiple lines of tracking honed on members of the public.
To create effective privacy shields, it is first necessary to deconstruct your current web of digital networks. In addition, there are also a number a new tools at your disposal.
City Lab reports…
If extricating yourself from the electrical grid is, to some degree, a test of moxie and patience, extracting yourself from the web of urban surveillance technology strains the limits of both. If you live in a dense urban environment, you are being watched, in all kinds of ways. A graphic released by the Future of Privacy Forum highlights just how many sensors, CCTCV cameras, RFID readers, and other nodes of observation might be eying you as you maneuver around a city’s blocks. As cities race to fit themselves with smart technologies, it’s nearly impossible to know precisely how much data they’re accumulating, how it’s being stored, or what they’ll do with it.
“By and large, right now, it’s the Wild West, and the sheriff is also the bad guy, or could be,” says Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
Future of Privacy Forum)
Smart technologies can ease traffic, carve out safer pedestrian passages, and analyze environmental factors such as water quality and air pollution. But, as my colleague Linda Poon points out, their adoption is also stirring up a legal maelstrom. Surveillance fears have been aroused in Oakland, California, Seattle, and Chicago, and the applications of laws protecting citizen privacy are murky. For instance: data that’s stored on a server indefinitely could potentially infringe on the “right to be forgotten” that’s protected in some European countries. But accountability and recourse can be slippery, because civilians can’t necessarily sue cities for violating privacy torts, explains Gidari.
What would it look like to leapfrog that murkiness by opting out entirely? Can a contemporary urbanite successfully skirt surveillance? I asked Gidari and Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to teach me how to disappear.
During the course of our conversations, Tien and Gidari each remind me, again and again, that this was a fool’s errand: You can’t truly hide from urban surveillance. In an email before our phone call, Tien points out that we’re not even aware of all the traces of ourselves that are out in the world. He likens our data trail—from parking meters, streetlight cameras, automatic license plate readers, and more—to a kind of binary DNA that we’re constantly sloughing. Trying to scrub these streams of data would be impossible.
Moreover, as the tools of surveillance have become more sophisticated, detecting them has become a harder task. “There was a time when you could spot cameras,” Tien says. Maybe a bodega would hang up a metal sign warning passersby that they were being recorded by a clunky, conspicuous device. “But now, they’re smaller, recessed, and don’t look like what you expect them to look like.”
Other cameras are in the sky. As Buzzfeed has reported, some federal surveillance technologies are mounted in sound-dampened planes and helicopters that cruise over cities, using augmented reality to overlay a grid that identifies targets at a granular level. “There are sensors everywhere,” Gidari says. “The public has no ability to even see where they are.”
The surest way to dodge surveillance is to not encounter it in the first place—but that’s not a simple ask. While various groups have tried to plot out routes that allow pedestrians to literally sidestep nodes of surveillance, they haven’t been especially successful. In 2013, two software developers released a beta version of an app called Surv, which aspired to be a crowdsourced guide to cameras mounted in cities around the world. The app would detect cameras within a 100-meter radius of the user’s phone, but it failed to meet its crowdfunding threshold on Kickstarter.
The most effective solutions are also the least practical ones. To defeat facial recognition software, “you would have to wear a mask or disguises,” Tien says. “That doesn’t really scale up for people.” Other strategies include makeup that screws with a camera’s ability to recognize the contours of a human face, or thwarting cameras by blinding them with infrared LED lights fastened to a hat or glasses, as researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics attempted in 2012. Those techniques are hardly subtle, though—in trying to trick the technology, you would stick out to the naked eye. And as biometrics continue to advance, cameras will likely be less dupable, too. There are also legal hiccups to consider: Drivers who don’t want city officials to know where they parked or when, Gidari says, would have to outwit license plate recognition tools by obscuring their license plate, such as with the noPhoto camera jammer, a new $399 device that fires a flash at red light cameras in an attempt to scramble a readable image. Obscuring license plates is already illegal in many cities and states, and others are chewing on new procedures.
Image Source: National institute of Informatics)
In their book Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, both professors at New York University, champion a strategy of “throwing some sand in the gears, kicking up dust and making some noise,” essentially relying on the melee of data jamming to “hide in a cloud of signals.” A number of apps, websites, and browser extensions attempt to aid users in this type of misdirection—say, for instance, by running in the background of your regular web activities, trying to cover your digital tracks by throwing surveillance off your scent.
For example: A site called Internet Noise searches for randomized phrases and opens five fresh tabs every ten seconds. (I left it running as I wrote this, and now my browser history includes pictures of badgers, an online mattress store, an NPR article about the Supreme Court, and a research paper about gene mutation in hamsters.) As a cloaking technique, it’s not a perfect veil, writes Emily Dreyfess in Wired: “It’s actually too random. It doesn’t linger on sites very long, nor does it revisit them. In other words, it doesn’t really look human, and smart-enough tracking algorithms likely know that.” The site is more of a protest over Congress rolling back a not-yet-implemented FCC regulation that would have stymied ISPs from selling users’ browsing history.
Still, Tien advocates a certain degree of self-protection. He views these measures as a kind of digital hygiene—the “equivalent of washing your hands when you go to the bathroom,” or getting a flu shot. But he stresses that they’re only a partial prophylactic: “Nothing that will make you immune from the problem.”
Other techniques include employing Tor—a network that tries to anonymize the source and destination of your web searches by routing traffic along a convoluted path—and Signal, which offers encrypted messaging and phone calls. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit also suggests particular tools and behaviors for specific scenarios. People participating in protests, the guide suggests, might consider stripping meta-data from photos, to make it harder to match them with identities and locations. But this isn’t a perfect solution, either, Tien says, because you can only control what you post. “If I take a picture and scrub the metadata, that’s one thing,” Tien says. “If my friend takes a picture of me, I can’t do anything about that.” The Intercept produced a video illustrating step-by-step instructions for phone security at a protest, from adding an access passcode to turning on encryption settings.
On a daily basis, Tien tells me, “I don’t think you or I can exercise much meaningful self-help against the kind of tracking we’ll be seeing in real-world physical space.” That’s fodder for a point he makes about a fundamental asymmetry in the information that’s available to the bodies that install the cameras and those who are surveilled by them. There are relatively few laws relating to the expectation of privacy in a public space. The officials and organizations that install sensors, cameras, and ever-more-sensitive devices, he says, “have much more money than you do, much more technology than you do, and they don’t have to tell you what they’re doing.”
Ultimately, Tien and Gidari both take a long view, arguing that the most payoff will come from pushing for more transparency about just what this technology is up to. Part and parcel of that, Tien says, is resisting the idea that data is inherently neutral. The whole messy, jumbled mass of it contains information that could have tangible consequences on people’s lives. Tien says citizens need to remind their elected officials what’s at stake with data—and in the process, maybe “dampen their enthusiasm” for the collection of it.
He points out that sanctuary cities could be a prime example. There, he says, some advocates of immigrant rights are realizing that data collected via municipal surveillance “might not be such a good thing when we’re interested in protecting immigrants and the federal government is interested in deporting them.”
The practical strategies for opting out—of becoming invisible to some of these modes of surveillance—are imperfect, to say the least. That’s not to say that data collection is inherently nefarious, Gidari says—as he wrote in a blog post for the CIS, “no one wants to live in a ‘dumb’ city.” But he says that opting out shouldn’t need to be the default: “I don’t think you should have been opted in in the first place.”
Jessica Leigh Hester is a former senior associate editor at CityLab, covering environment and culture. Her work also appears in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Times, Modern Farmer, Village Voice, Slate, BBC, NPR, and other outlets.
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-14--Jason Riley: ‘Black Americans Have Been Failed by Good Intentions’

“ My beef with the black left is that they want to keep the focus on what government or Washington @ @ @ @ @ general can do for blacks – instead of what blacks can do for themselves , @ @ @ @ @ author of Please Stop Helping Us : How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to @ @ @ @ @ that America ’ s infamous drug war doesn ’ t explain black-on-black violence and ending @ @ @ @ @ urban America in the way libertarians insist .
He also argues against the minimum wage @ @ @ @ @ family unit is actually the best “ anti-poverty ” program society could ever hope for @ @ @ @ @ Nick Gillespie talks with author and editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal , @ @ @ @ @ Civil Rights acts of the 1960s , and how ‘ diversity ’ policies have actually @ @ @ @ @ black graduation rates in America .
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“My beef with the black left is that they want to keep the focus on what government or Washington or politicians or whites in general can do for blacks – instead of what blacks can do for themselves,” says Jason Riley, author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed.
Riley also argues that America’s infamous drug war doesn’t explain black-on-black violence and ending it won’t transform urban America in the way libertarians insist. He also argues against the minimum wage laws and how an intact family unit is actually the best “anti-poverty” program society could ever hope for.
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie talks with author and editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley, about the Civil Rights acts of the 1960s, and how ‘diversity’ policies have actually had a negative effect on black graduation rates in America. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-14--Claire Fox: Woke Movement, Identity Politics Are Creating Toxic Division

How do you define ‘ racism ’ ?
Is slavery a legacy of the historic Empires ?
Has wokeness become @ @ @ @ @ this generation of youth ?
One this is certain : wokeness , rabid identity politics @ @ @ @ @ culture of division .
Whose got it right , and whose got it wrong ?
@ @ @ @ @ Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox is taking on the woke movement and the culture wars @ @ @ @ @ left-wing Revolutionary Communist Party member , she analyses the current Black Lives Matter movement and @ @ @ @ @ social justice.
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How do you define ‘racism’? Is slavery a legacy of the historic Empires? Has wokeness become the new secular religion for this generation of youth? One thing is certain: wokeness, rabid identity politics are now creating a toxic culture of division. Whose got it right, and whose got it wrong?
Writer and broadcaster and former Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox is taking on the woke movement and the culture wars. As a former radical left-wing Revolutionary Communist Party member, she analyses the current Black Lives Matter movement and the wide-spread fight for ‘social justice.’
Burning Questions host Steven Edginton speaks to Claire Fox about these and many other issues. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-15--Why IPCC ‘Climate Science’ Doesn’t Add Up, Facebook Censoring the Debate

Is the public getting fair and balanced information regarding the climate debate ?
One reason the facts are not making @ @ @ @ @ that there are active campaigns like “ Climate Feedback ” and “ Climate Power 2020 @ @ @ @ @ anti-fossil-fuel activist Tom Steyer , who have convinced Facebook to actively remove the any content @ @ @ @ @ s ‘ climate change ’ narrative .
One of the most credible voices in real @ @ @ @ @ and expert analyst Dr. Caleb Rossiter , who is currently Chairman of the CO2 Coalition @ @ @ @ @ the following : • His controversial OpEd in 2014 which triggered the climate alarmists • @ @ @ @ @ especially coal , are crucial to African prosperity .
• None How Rossiter became suspicious @ @ @ @ @ None How the “ paid off by the fossil fuel industry ” narrative is laughable @ @ @ @ @ Green Lobby is systematically censoring social media content which questions the climate orthodoxy .
Power @ @ @ @ @ with Dr. Caleb Rossiter about the real facts regarding climate change .
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Is the public getting fair and balanced information regarding the climate debate? One reason the facts are not making it into mainstream discourse is that there are active campaigns like “Climate Feedback” and “Climate Power 2020,” led by billionaire anti-fossil-fuel activist Tom Steyer, who have convinced Facebook to actively remove any content which challenges the Establishment’s ‘climate change’ narrative.
One of the most credible voices in real scientific debate is American academic and expert analyst Dr. Caleb Rossiter, who is currently Chairman of the CO2 Coalition. The following segment covers the following:
Some highlights include:
Rossiter’s decades-long work on African issues.
His controversial OpEd in 2014 which triggered the climate alarmists
Why fossil fuels, especially coal, are crucial to African prosperity.
How Rossiter became suspicious of climate models.
CO2 as a warming gas and a plant fertilizing gas.
How challenging climate ‘catastrophism’ hurt Rossiter’s career.
How the “paid off by the fossil fuel industry” narrative is laughable.
How the elite Green Lobby is systematically censoring social media content which questions the climate orthodoxy.
Power Hour host Alex Epstein talks with Dr. Caleb Rossiter about the real facts regarding climate change. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-15--Ex-Google Tech Lead: Why ‘Diversity’ Policy is Garbage

We ’ re told that institutional ‘ bias reduction ’ training and ‘ diversity ’ hiring policies are meant to @ @ @ @ @ values and respects minorities .
Certainly , Silicon Valley believes it is leading the world @ @ @ @ @ Upon closer inspection , the opposite seems to be the case .
Diversity training and @ @ @ @ @ prejudice – they actually promote it .
Ex-Google and Facebook employee , Patrick Shyu , @ @ @ @ @ policy creates more problems than solutions .
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We’re told that institutional ‘bias reduction’ training and ‘diversity’ hiring policies are meant to create an inclusive environment which values and respects minorities. Certainly, Silicon Valley believes it is leading the world in advancing such values. Upon closer inspection, the opposite seems to be the case. Diversity training and hiring practices do not extinguish prejudice – they actually promote it.
Ex-Google and Facebook employee, Patrick Shyu, explains why ‘diversity’ policy creates more problems than solutions. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-15--Are Masks Helpful, or a Strategy of Tension?

Incredibly , the issue of masks has become a partisan political issue in America .
Are people reacting to a @ @ @ @ @ , or are they simply reacting to a constant stream of government-media medical propaganda ?
@ @ @ @ @ like Anthony Fauci and the W.H.O .
been sending the public mixed messages ?
Valuetainment @ @ @ @ @ some of the mainstream research and reasoning behind wearing masks .
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Incredibly, the issue of masks has become a partisan political issue in America. Are people reacting to a genuine threat to public health, or are they simply reacting to a constant stream of government-media medical propaganda?
Why have government health officials like Anthony Fauci and the W.H.O. been sending the public mixed messages?
Valuetainment’s Patrick Bet-David reviews some of the mainstream research and reasoning behind wearing masks. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-07-17--Russiagate Meets COVID: UK Spooks Claim ‘Cozy Bear’ Tried to Hack Coronavirus Vaccine

Given the abject folly which is the government-media complex , it was only a matter of time before this story emerged .
Following the demise of the RussiaGate narrative in the U.S. and the exposure of the secret government-run propaganda operation known as the Integrity Initiative in the UK , the Five Eyes intelligence cartel have been looking for a new story in which to re-engage the public with the concept of the ubiquitous Russian menace .
Why not simply blend it with the government ’ s coronavirus vaccine public relations push ?
Regardless of how discredited some of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , what this story demonstrates is that the Integrity Initiative is still operational , and that outrageous Russian fantasy fiction will continue to be being planted in press .
As usual , no specifics are given , only that it is said to have happened the way the security services are claiming it did , and that it ’ s “ almost certainly ” the Russians , and must be “ part of Russian intelligence services.
” The implications of the story are obvious : that Moscow is somehow trying to sabotage the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experimental COVID-19 vaccine , and thus plunge the West into further chaos , etc .
If readers have an attention span longer than 5 seconds , and actually read he article , the real kicker is only a few sentences in : “ It did not specify which organisations had been targeted , or whether any information had been stolen.
” But here is where it gets comical : “ Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt .
“ Cozy Bear [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail , and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.
” As with most mainstream media propaganda pieces , this story contradicts itself .
If you read a little bit further , it actually refutes its own bombastic headline by admitting that it ’ s probably not the the Russians after all : “ They are all trying to steal this kind of stuff all the time.
” • They ’ re ‘ almost certain ’ the Russians are at it again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , probably “ Cozy Bear ” • Not sure which organisations were targeted • Not sure which information was stolen • But then again , it might not be the Russians Normally , a story like this would get laughed off the headlines , but i seems that ‘ anything goes ’ in the current hysterical ‘ global pandemic ’ political environment… Russian spies are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the UK , US and Canada , security services have warned .
The UK ’ s National Cyber Security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ almost certainly ” operated as “ part of Russian intelligence services ” .
It did not specify which organisations had been targeted , or whether any information had been stolen .
But it said vaccine research had not been hindered by the hackers .
“ We do not have information about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies and research centres in Great Britain .
We can say one thing – Russia has nothing at all to do with these attempts , ” said Dmitry Peskov , a spokesman for President Putin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The warning was published by an international group of security services : One expert said it was “ plausible ” that , despite the Kremlin ’ s denials , Russian spies were involved .
“ The received wisdom is that in cyber-space , attribution is difficult but not impossible , ” commented Emily Taylor from the Chatham House think tank .
“ Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt .
“ Cozy Bear [ the named group ] has been implicated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a trail , and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.
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Given the abject folly which is the government-media complex, it was only a matter of time before this story emerged.
Following the demise of the RussiaGate narrative in the U.S. and the exposure of the secret government-run propaganda operation known as the Integrity Initiative in the UK, the Five Eyes intelligence cartel have been looking for a new story in which to re-engage the public with the concept of the ubiquitous Russian menace. Why not simply blend it with the government’s coronavirus vaccine public relations push?
Regardless of how discredited some of these broader ‘Russia!’ themes are, what this story demonstrates is that the Integrity Initiative is still operational, and that outrageous Russian fantasy fiction will continue to be planted in the press.
As usual, no specifics are given, only that it is said to have happened the way the security services are claiming it did, and that it’s “almost certainly” the Russians, and that said hackers must be “part of Russian intelligence services.”
The implications of the story are obvious: that Moscow is somehow trying to sabotage the US, UK and Canada’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, and thus plunge the West into further COVID chaos.
It should also be pointed out that 21WIRE debunked the false narrative that the Russians had somehow hacked the 2016 Trump-Clinton election.
Any readers with an attention span longer than 5 seconds will be rewarded by the real kicker which is only a few sentences into to this BBC masterpiece: “It did not specify which organisations had been targeted, or whether any information had been stolen.”
But here is where it gets comical:
“Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt. “Cozy Bear [the named group] has been implicated in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail, and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.”
As with most mainstream media propaganda pieces, this story contradicts itself. If you read a little bit further, it actually refutes its own bombastic headline by admitting that it’s probably not the the Russians after all:
But one cyber-security expert said the Russians were unlikely to be the only ones involved in such a campaign. “They have lots of people, we have lots of people, the Americans have even more people, as do the Chinese,” commented Prof Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory. “They are all trying to steal this kind of stuff all the time.”
So in summation:
They’re ‘almost certain’ the Russians are at it again
It’s probably the Russians, probably “Cozy Bear”
Not sure which organisations were targeted
Not sure which information was stolen
But then again, it might not be the Russians
Normally, a story like this would get laughed off the headlines, but it seems that ‘anything goes’ in the current hysterical ‘global pandemic’ political environment…
BBC claims that…
Russian spies are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, US and Canada, security services have warned.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of Russian intelligence services”.
It did not specify which organisations had been targeted, or whether any information had been stolen.
But it said vaccine research had not been hindered by the hackers.
Russia has denied responsibility.
“We do not have information about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies and research centres in Great Britain. We can say one thing – Russia has nothing at all to do with these attempts,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Putin, according to the Tass news agency.
The warning was published by an international group of security services:
the UK’s NCSC
the Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE)
the United States Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber-security Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
the US National Security Agency (NSA)
One expert said it was “plausible” that, despite the Kremlin’s denials, Russian spies were involved.
“The received wisdom is that in cyber-space, attribution is difficult but not impossible,” commented Emily Taylor from the Chatham House think tank.
“Usually the security services are much more hedgy in their language if they think there is any doubt.
“Cozy Bear [the named group] has been implicated in past cyber-attacks and has left quite a trail, and there are fairly good links to the Russian state itself.”
See the original story at BBC
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