The New York Times recently wrote about Twitter’s suspension of the personal (not the official) account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Twitter applied its rule of “five strikes and you’re out” because she posted misinformation about COVID and vaccines that could cause harm to others. Among other things, she had posted on Twitter that COVID was not dangerous and that vaccines should not be mandated; that the vaccines were “failing”; and that many people who got the vaccines had died.
While reading this article, I learned of a website called The Center for Countering Digital Hate. This organization published research on the dozen most influential social influencers who spread misinformation about vaccines.
The Center surveyed major social media platforms and found that 12 people were the source of 2/3 of the lies about COVID and the vaccines. The only name familiar to me was that of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The leading influencer was one Dr. Joseph Mercola. His Twitter handle was @drmercola. Perhaps he was banned by Twitter. But he now reappears as @mercola.
At the time the CCDH report was written, the COVID death toll in the U.S. was 500,000. It is now over 800,000. It’s likely that the Dirty Dozen caused some of those deaths (and will be responsible for many more) by encouraging resistance to the life-saving vaccines.
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My question is, why aren’t those on this list who are doctors being censured by the AMA and other medical organizations?
Why doesn’t the NEA and AFT censure teachers and adminimals who have implemented the standards and testing malpractice regime?
The mob creating dangerous scenes that might lead to chaos and anarchy. To mind comes the mobs during the time when Hitler was on his way ‘up’.
The “Dirty Dozen” is far more than a dozen. And their Global FINANCING of Armed, Organized Resistance to life-saving vaccines has gone International. They have paid for the Canadian blockades, the mobbed Anti- Vax uprisings in the streets of Brussels and now Wellington, NZ.
But Wellington authorities have a strategic sense of humor! Instead of tear gas, they have employed music. New Zealand is playing Barry Manilow’s Greatest Hits to dislodge their protesters camped outside the Wellington parliament building.
Manilow tunes are blaring on a 15-minute loop at the “Convoy for Freedom” who are anti-Vax, street-blockers & NOW, Manilow fans. When the Manilow tape subsides, the loudspeaker takes over with a loud, repeating, and hopefully repelling, rendition of The Macarena.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60362529
It reminds me of when Philly had a starling problem it wanted to solve. Elvis’ music was blasted around City Hall to keep the birds from roosting in all the nooks and crannies on the building’s facade.
It reminds me of the Waco siege of the Branch Davidians by the FBI.
When they failed to drive them out of their compound, the FBI killed most of them. Including many children. Don’t teach that. It’s un-American.
I would have suggested they play the Eagles.
For the starlings not the Davidians.
The military used KC and the Sunshine Band, Guns and Roses, Black Sabbath, and more to get Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican Embassy in 1989. There has, in my humble opinion, been a lot of insipid mush added to the popular music genre since.
Or you’re just getting to be an older fart! 🙂
(like me)
Trust me. My musical taste is older than I am. I am sort of in the Nineteenth century.
Reblogged this on Lloyd Lofthouse and commented:
Discover the 12 people that are responsible for about two-thirds of the lies about COVID and the vaccines.
The anti-vaxx campaign at school board meetings is a product of the right wing including media and people on social platforms, whose goal is a culture war. The propaganda is tied primarily to individual freedom and parent control rather than vaccine efficacy.
Hillsdale College (a convergence of libertarians, evangelicals and conservative Catholics)
held its first ever March for Life in 2021. Scott Atlas of Stanford and Hoover leads Hillsdale’s Academy for Science and Freedom.
Today, it’s reported that the Christian fundraising site, GiveSendGo provided $9 mil for the Canadian trucker protest.
We need to stop giving religious lobbying groups and political groups like ALEC tax exempt status. They are trying to undermine a civil society and democracy.
Agree, they are not acting for the public good. Wealthy people don’t like paying taxes so they shelter their money by funding a villainthropy with hired staff who advance anti-democratic and oligarchical plots.
Those groups are not supposed to be tax exempt under current laws.
The problem is that the existing laws are not being enforced.
Also, think tanks should be excluded from tax exempt status as should any organization that funds them. They are so e of the most political organizations in the US.
We need a new Schoolhouse Rock song and video about the rest of the “I’m Just A Bill” story. One about over- and non-enforcement of the laws. Again, another tried and true method that fascists and local police officer federations use to claim they are following the laws as they codify injustice.
And come to think of it, aren’t they already unmasked?
Now I can’t talk about the rest of the Nation and Canada is not the US in spite of similarities like ex (or current) police and military being part of these fascist protests . As stated by Public authorities in Canada.
The Black lives Matter movement was mostly peaceful protests, up to 15 million Demonstrators. . In NYC looting broke out on the third or fourth night. . We can debate how much if any of the looting in NYC was committed by some of the same people who were demonstrating. We can debate whether NYPD drove by looters to attack demonstrators .
On night one of the protests, demonstrators marched on Barklay center a large sporting venue in Brooklyn. They were kettled (penned in) by police in full riot gear and attacked with batons. On day two a group of demonstrators also in Brooklyn were roto washed by a police helicopter ,kind of like being in a sand storm except road debris is not as clean. The following Day 2 police vehicles tried force their way through a demonstration . Numerous other times police vehicles were used in a reckless manner to drive demonstrators off the streets. Numerous times demonstrators were kettled including a peaceful demonstration in the Bronx where the demonstrators were again surrounded by police 15 minutes before curfew, not allowed to leave and then beaten. As documented in a Human Rights Watch report.
The NY Times in an online article that included numerous videos, documented police charging into crowds of Demonstrators from behind . On the direction of a commanding officer to grab an individual. The purpose to intimidate the crowd.
In fact three different reports, one by the City investigations Commission ,one by the State Attorney General and one by Human Rights Watch found the police tactics used by NYPD during the protests to be violations of Civil or Human rights.
So does anyone think that if the fascist faux trucker demonstration had been on the American side of the border the police would have responded in the same manner they did in NYC or for that matter anytime BLM or Occupy blocked a Highway.
Is it a wonder why the Suffolk , Nassau County and NYC PBA were key players in the war against CRT or History on Long Island . Is it a wonder that there was an intentional police slow down in gun arrests starting when deBlasio called for a Vaccine mandate for the Uniform services. That slow down which started in October resulted in December being the first month since April that murders in NYC rose over 2020 . In fact there had been 65 fewer murders in the high crime summer months from July to November 2021, than there had been in the same period in 2020. The NYPD got exactly what they wanted when murders rose starting the last week of November through the third week of December. 20 more murders in December allowed the PBA/NYPD to play the Willie Horton card .
Even though murders were lower than when Bloomberg was calling NYC the safest big city in America. The complicit media including the supposed “Liberal” media played their roll . There was only one crime stat that was out of control in spite of the headlines, auto theft . Of course a 42% year over year rise in used car prices would not have anything to do with that.
So if fascist truckers block a highway in NYC or any town USA will they get to meet the same NYPD that greeted other peaceful demonstrators.
Correction June to November.
To answer you question at the end:
NO!
Media and the city police were corporate owned.
Ownership of the police, rural and urban, shifted to Trump and his rich enablers.