2022-02-17

Worthy

• Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

  Obviously, we’ll just go ahead and dismiss homeopathy based on the underlying mechanism and the fact that these trials show minor results and are run by motivated institutions which are prone to slightly altering numbers, not publishing any negative results, and doing as much statistical manipulation as possible without revealing the actual data unless required. ... But the exact same thing can be stated about many therapies, ranging from statins to aducanumab. Yet doctors seem perfectly happy to prescribe a lot of low-impact drugs.

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• New York Times Misses the Point(s) on Surging Traffic Deaths

• Cargo Ship Full of Porsches and VWs Is on Fire and Adrift in The Atlantic

• Plane crashes into tractor-trailer on North Carolina highway

Horseshit

• Olympics curling ice water is so pure it'd burn your throat

• Disney is developing planned communities for fans

• Intel’s True Believer

• Zero-Click Hacks Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them

• The taboo of 'selling out' for a better-paying job

Crypto con games

• Cryptocurrency is akin to ‘Ponzi scheme’

• Charlie Munger: Crypto Is 'Like Some Venereal Disease'

• ‘Crypto Ruined My Life’: The Mental Health Crisis Hitting Bitcoin Investors

• NYSE Moves Closer To NFT Trading With Trademark Application

• Bitcoin mining operation in New York runs up against state's climate law

• Lobby3: Bringing the voices of Web3 to Washington DC

celebrity gossip

• Bob Saget's head injury was so severe it was like he'd been hit with a BASEBALL BAT, says doctor | Daily Mail Online

• Britain's former deputy prime minister is now one of the most powerful people at Meta

• Elon Musk tells a judge the SEC’s investigation is stifling his free speech

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns there’s ‘a very real risk’ the US won’t be a democracy in 10 years

• Public’s Top Priority for 2022: Strengthening the Nation’s Economy

• Twitter Allows Actual Hacked Doxxing Of Freedom Convoy Donors After Censoring Hunter Biden ...

• Censorship Is Worse Than You Think | Kerry Jones - Musings

Freedom Convoy

• Canada Is Ordering Crypto Exchanges to Blacklist ‘Freedom Convoy’ Addresses

• Trudeau accuses Conservatives of standing with ‘people who wave swastikas’

• Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on protests could make things worse

  The other proposed change would let individuals file legal complaints against people pre-emptively, if they fear that they may be about to say something hateful.

  • HN thread

• Famous 'cyberterrorist' goes on TikTok to take credit for GiveSendGo hack

• Canadian Banks are having outages | Hacker News

  + [Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long
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  • Canada's major banks go offline in mysterious hours-long outage

• Reality Honks Back - by N.S. Lyons - The Upheaval

  If all this seemed awfully synchronized, that’s the whole point. Systematic information control, or what the Chinese Communist Party refers to as “public opinion management,” is now the entire strategic response of the Virtual class to every political problem.

• Canada's Justice Minister: Trump Supporters Could Have Accounts Frozen

• Freedom Convoy Protesters Are About To Get Arrested En Masse | ZeroHedge

• Threats close Gelato Café after owner's name appears in GiveSendGo data leak

• Musk Compares Canada’s Trudeau to Hitler in Unhinged Trucker Crypto Freakout

• Canada protests: Ottawa stand-off continues as blockades cleared

• Tensions rise in Ottawa as police warn truckers to leave

• New Zealand Threatens to Use Military Against Civilian Anti-Mandate Protesters

• Trudeau’s Trucker Terrorists: Why the Emergency Powers Endanger the Rights of All Groups From Truckers to Marchers – JONATHAN TURLEY

• Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

• Ilhan Omar: Why are journalists doxxing donors to Canada trucker protests? – HotAir

COVID / VaxCult

• The Pandemic Isn’t over for Immunocompromised People

• What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines

• Adidas drops vaccine mandate for US employees, as archrival Nike stands firm

• Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid?

• Large study show significant increase risk of mental heath disorders after Covid

• New Omicron Subvariant BA.2 Accounts 1 Out of Every 5 New Covid Cases

• CDC to Relax Mask Guidance

• The Midterms Will End the Pandemic

• Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore

• Omicron Sub-Variant May Cause New Surge of Infections in Current Wave

• Xi Jinping intervention raises threat of ‘more draconian’ Hong Kong Covid measures

• The CDC wants to ‘give people a break’ from masking up indoors as hospitalizations, cases, and deaths drop

• COVID-19 deaths continue to rise among children in the US

• In Leaked Audio, CDC’s Rochelle Walensky Privately Confirms She Won’t Relax School Mask Guidance

• Doctors Group Demands Investigation Into Sudden Increase In Young Male Deaths In UK | ZeroHedge

• Why were scientists so slow to study Covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

• Germany to Begin Relaxing Most COVID Restrictions

• Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough? | AP News

• Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Federal Mask Mandate On Planes, Public Transport

• Covid-19 vaccines likely provide broader protection than natural infection

• Nearly three-quarters of Americans have some Covid immunity, experts say

  • Roughly 75% Of Americans Are Already Immune To Omicron | ZeroHedge

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• 'Managing' The World's Population | Frontpagemag

• WaPo Describes Justice Thomas: "the Black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives."

• Amazon boots Black Lives Matter off AmazonSmile as scrutiny intensifies

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why I Advised a Student Sleuth Not to Publish Evidence of Reverse Racism

• What Pundits Don’t Understand About the San Francisco Recall

• SF School Board Commissioner: Now we know what it costs to buy an election

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans

• Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms

• Former Gettr Employee Says Site Was Run 'Like a High School Operation'

• Twitter Officially Launches Labels To Identify the ‘Good Bots’

• Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On

TechSuck

• NY Attorney General Warns of Tracking Threat from Malicious Apple AirTag Users

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Renters across US face sharp increases – averaging up to 40% in some cities

• Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

• Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The Biggest Midterm Challenge for Democrats in 2022: Winning Back Parents

• 'The brand is so toxic': Dems fear extinction in rural US | AP News

• FAA chief Steve Dickson announces resignation midway through term

• Revealed: Clintonworld takeover of Black Lives Matter | Washington Examiner

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Clintonworld-Controlled BLM Bails Out Anti-Gun Activist Charged In Shooting Of Louisville Mayoral Candidate | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Why is the White House stealing $7bn from the people of Afghanistan?

• Russia Expels US #2 Top Diplomat From Country, US Vows Retaliation | ZeroHedge

• Russian hackers obtained defense information technology targeting US contractors

Ukraine

• Ukrainian Armed Forces Fire Mortar Shells, Grenades on 4 LPR Localities

• Russian Claims of Ukraine Pullback Are False, U.S. Charges

• China says U.S. is exaggerating Russian threat to Ukraine

• Chomsky: US Push to “Reign Supreme” Stokes the Ukraine Conflict

• Another All-Time Media Faceplant - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• US Warns Russia Preparing For "Imminent" Attack As Shelling Between Ukraine, Rebels Has Begun | ZeroHedge

• Ukraine says Russia is engaging in 'provocative shelling' on the border

• Analysis: Russia says its units are going home after exercises near Ukraine. Evidence suggests otherwise

• Pro-Russian Forces Shell Ukrainian Kindergarten Full of Kids

• Ukraine denies Russian state media claims that it shelled separatists, accuses rebels of attack

• Ukraine: What We Know

• Russia deploys 7,000 more troops to Ukraine border, US official says

• Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin’s aim, threat alone could meet goals

• Bridge Appears In Chernobyl Exclusion Zone That Could Give Russia Unique Access To Ukraine

  It's not clear if the bridge is still there now. Radar satellite imagery of this location taken today from commercial provider Sentinel Hub suggests it has already been broken down, although the radar image alone cannot provide a reliable conclusion. Even if that is the case, the fact that it could be removed so quickly, and erected with such speed, to begin with, underscores just how easy it would be to put back in place in the future.

• Russia's Massive Military Buildup Near Ukraine Remains In Place Despite Withdrawal Claims (Updated)

• Biden Says Ukraine Invasion Risk "Very High"; Russia Expels US Deputy Amb., Demands US Leave Eastern Europe | ZeroHedge

• This Time Biden "Senses" Russia Will Invade Ukraine In "Next Several Days" | ZeroHedge

• Officials: Nearly half of Russia's groups surrounding Ukraine now about 31 miles from border

• Ukraine, West accuse Russia of trying to create pretext for invasion after shelling in east

• 'They are prepared to go in': Biden says Russia invasion is imminent

• Biden: 'Every indication' is that Russia will attack Ukraine 'within the next several days'

• Ukraine and rebel region trade shelling allegations

• Blinken Lays Out Russian False Flag 'Chemical Attack' Claims In Dramatic UN Security Council Speech | ZeroHedge

• “I love Ukraine but I will not die for it”: Locals on risk of Russian invasion

World

• Reporter infiltrates campaign of far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour

• Israeli Army's Brutal Honesty: Prep for Major Earthquake with 'Thousands Dead'

• Kuwaiti army allows women in combat roles – but without guns

• China’s New ‘Robotic Yak’ Will Support Ground Troops, But Its Abilities Appear to Be Overhyped

• LNG Replacing Declining Russian Gas Exports to Europe

• France, European allies announce military withdrawal from Mali

Health / Medicine

• Psychedelics Alter Metaphysical Beliefs

• Overfed and undernourished – the global issue of obesity and malnutrition

• Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Accusations of 'greenwashing' by big oil companies are well-founded, new study

• Biden his time: how the US president is failing on the climate crisis

• Scientists can’t agree about Chernobyl’s impact on wildlife

• Computer models show how crop production increases soil nitrous oxide emissions

• Study finds elk are too smart for their own good, and the good of Utah

• Microplastics increase the toxicity of organic pollutants in the environment by a factor of 10

• Fishy Results on Ocean Acidification

• The term 'drought' may be insufficient to capture what is happening in the West

• Corn ethanol no better–and probably worse–than burning gasoline, study says

• Air pollution may affect sperm quality, says study