2021-09-30
Worthy
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Brainwashing Theories: the Myth and the History
The CIA instructed one of its agents whose cover job was that of a journalist, Edward Hunter, to “invent” and spread the word “brainwashing,” presenting it as the translation of an expression allegedly used by the Chinese. In fact, the CIA and Hunter had taken the concept of “brainwashing” from the novel 1984 by George Orwell, where Big Brother “washes clean” the brains of the citizens of a fictional regime modeled after Soviet Russia. Paradoxically, the CIA came to believe in its own propaganda, and tried to replicate the Communist “brainwashing” in its own experiments.
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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, alert level raised to 'warning'
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Siberian dog ancestry shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade
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160km, estimates here. A Megacomet—One So Big, It Was Previously Misidentified As a Dwarf Planet!—Is Approaching Our Solar System | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Obit
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets
That works out to a masking rate of 41% and helmet-wearing rate of 17%. ... at one of America’s leading research universities, students wear masks on bicycles at a higher rate than they wear helmets.
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Why "Natural Immunity" Is A Political Problem For The Regime | ZeroHedge
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Free Speech Immunity: YouTube Bans Channels Airing Criticism of Vaccines – JONATHAN TURLEY
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New York healthcare workers fired over mandate won't get unemployment insurance
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Two dead from taking ivermectin in New Mexico
Officials from the state’s department of health announced the deaths during a press briefing on 22 September. The two people who died were among 14 who were hospitalised after taking the animal drug. As of 20 September, The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 1,440 cases of ivermectin poisoning in 2021 – more than three times the amount during the same periods in 2019 and 2020.
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The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes
She therefore follows deBoer in explicitly disavowing meritocracy, approvingly citing a passage in which he writes: “Equality of opportunity is … a ruse, a dodge. It’s a way for progressive people to give their blessing to inequality.” Instead, Harden argues that it is “our responsibility to arrange society so that it benefits all people, not just people with a certain set of genetic characteristics.” She invites us to radically expand our definition of “structural” sources of inequality to include social environments which allow “morally arbitrary” genetic differences to give rise to unequal socioeconomic outcomes. She even goes so far as to describe societies like ours that provide such social environments as “eugenic.”
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We Are On The Verge Of The Greatest Shortage Of Healthcare Workers In US History - The Lid
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School Boards Ask Biden to Review Protests as Possible ‘Domestic Terrorism’
Asked by Education Week whether his group thought arrests and charges by local law enforcement were an insufficient response to the situation, Slaven said that “safety and deterrence” are NSBA’s main goals in seeking federal assistance. The circumstances call for a coordinated response at the local, state, and federal levels to ensure school officials can focus on their jobs, he said.
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
Economicon
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What happened to construction productivity? Part 1: Measurement - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
This is pretty dire. Productivity is supposed to improve over time, as humanity learns better and better ways to do things. If it’s declining, that means that the institutions we use to implement the construction technologies we have — things like purchasing, permitting, and regulation — are getting less efficient faster than new construction technology is being invented. In other words, social sclerosis is outrunning human ingenuity. That’s not good.
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Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
Crime / Police
Security / Militaria
World
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Pound at lowest level since 2020 as 'stagflation' crisis fears take hold
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German activists pretended to deliver a far-right party’s election fliers
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German activists pretended to deliver a far-right party’s election fliers
Its fake business — which the activists now describe as “the world market leader in not distributing Nazi fliers” — got orders “worth millions” to deliver 5 million fliers. The group has collected the bulk of the remaining leaflets, which it called “72 tons of AfD rubbish.”
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After Knife Attack, New Zealand Criminalizes Terror Plotting
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China Panics: Beijing Orders Energy Firms To "Secure Supplies At All Costs" | ZeroHedge