Warren Buffet predicts that his shares in Big Pharma are going to increase in value.
Jimmy Dore: Is another pandemic right around the corner? It would certainly seem that way, if recent media reports are to believed. Or elderly billionaire Warren Buffett, who recently argued that one of any number of potential cataclysms might be upon us any day now. So it might be smart to stock up on facemasks and sleeveless t-shirts.
"If you don't feel bad for being white and enforce this shite on everyone else, then you're out of a job."
Anything Goes
...potential to restrict free expression and political dissent, paving the way for a digital censorship regime reminiscent of Soviet Lysenkoism.
Authored by Rebekah Barnett: The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack down on misinformation and disinformation have drawn intense criticism for their potential to restrict free expression and political dissent, paving the way for a digital censorship regime reminiscent of Soviet Lysenkoism...
Digital platforms will be required to share information with ACMA on demand, and to implement stronger systems and processes for handling of misinformation and disinformation.
ACMA will be empowered to devise and enforce digital codes with a “graduated set of tools” including infringement notices, remedial directions, injunctions and civil penalties, with fines of up to $550,000 (individuals) and $2.75 million (corporations). Criminal penalties, including imprisonment, may apply in extreme cases.
What we once trusted, we now doubt and even disbelieve as a matter of new habit...
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker: The last three and a half years have been times of enormous upheaval.
What we once trusted, we now doubt and even disbelieve as a matter of new habit. The simple categories of understanding that we once deployed to make sense of the world have been tested, challenged and even overthrown. Old forms of ideological commitments have opened their way to new.
This particularly pertains to intellectuals. Or should in any case.
If you have not shifted your thinking in some respect over these years, you are either a prophet, asleep or in denial.
The way social media works today, influencers are reluctant to admit it lest risk their followings built out of a prior cultural landscape. This is really too bad.
There is nothing wrong with changing, adapting, migrating and calling out truth even if that contradicts what you once said or how you used to believe.
Alex Jones was right...
Authored by Steve Watson: There are reports circulating that colleges and offices are beginning to reinstate COVID mask mandates and contact tracing despite no new cases of the virus being reported.
The report notes that students and staff will all be asked to mask up while on campus, only one week after classes began.
A communication issued by the college claims there have been “reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center,” a consortium of black colleges and universities located on the western side of Atlanta.
From Instagram Morris Brown College bringing back a mask mandate. pic.twitter.com/KyqJUjMJgy
— Covid Report (@CovidDataReport) August 21, 2023
"I really think the greatest sin of man was listening to women, because I really think women are a weak spot in the family unit. We are so susceptible to propaganda."
Pearl