Damon Imani Barges into Democrat-Elite Bullshit Sessions to Drop Truth Bombs

Clever and Cathartic mashup by Damon Imani (also available on Rumble):

I'm waiting for the day when Democratic Elites acknowledge that they became adamantly pro-war, pro-censorship, shamelessly partisan, race-obsessed, cheering wide-open totally unregulated borders, anti-empiricist, anti-merit and opposed to hard-earned Enlightenment principles.

For many more examples of how corporate "news" sites work hard to A) prevent you from knowing things that are true and B) deprive you of critical context for stories and C) insist that you believe untrue things, check out the hundred of posts here at DI under the category of "Narratives in Media."

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FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff: Stanford’s Approach to Speech is Like Being in “An Upper Class Finishing School.”

Greg Lukianoff, reflecting on the time he attended Stanford University: Don't confuse "upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself.” Excerpt:

And one thing that was so clear when I got to a place like Stanford, was that people had a real tendency to confuse sort of upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself and therefore wanted everybody to talk exactly like rich white, over educated people. And there was like this lack of curiosity about whether or not those assumptions were even correct.

And you think about people who are on the spectrum, you think about people from other countries, you think about people who come from different economic classes or different regions or who are a little bit older or a little bit younger than everybody else, and it's just a series of landmines that you're supposed to either know they're there and if you know they're there, you're supposed to pretend you believe the following five things. It's a really messed up way for a place that is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas, to teach people to interact with each other.

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How Corporate Media is Trying to Turn Free Speech into a “Right Wing” Position

Notice this recent headline from the New York Times:

Six years ago, no one would have claimed that free speech was a "right wing" value. What happened? Glenn Greenwald discusses this issue with Matt Taibbi (Start at min 14):

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New Attempt to Prop Up the Corrupt Corporate News Media

Government funding is being proposed for corporate media. This will work in tandem with government censorship to muzzle everyone else (as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals made clear in the case of Missouri v Biden, about to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court). This dramatic and deplorable proposal is necessary because, as anyone who is paying attention knows, corporate media is a source of non-stop lies on virtually any issue of national importance.

Take-aways from this article:

Establishment media companies are facing a decline in their dominance due to competition from decentralized media.

Some media figures have used recent layoffs at news companies to claim the industry is facing a crisis.

In the U.S., these efforts have coalesced around the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which would funnel money from Big Tech to the media industry, while excluding independent competitors.

Establishment media companies already receive billions of dollars in subsidies from tech companies and governments around the world, but industry lobbyists still claim the bill is needed to save the industry.

The bill has attracted the support of the censorship industry, which presents the establishment media as a bulwark against alleged mis- and dis-information.

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The Inconvenient Recent COVID Data of the VAERS System

Now that signals are pouring in on the VAERS system (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that the COVID vaccinations are temporally associated with deaths and injuries, the Gates Foundation shows up right on schedule to attack the integrity of VAERS, warning of "Misinformation and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System."

Dr. Peter McCullough explains his concerns:

Every week in clinic I make entries into the US CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as I catch up on years of injuries, disabilities, and deaths that have occurred after vaccination. Because federal fines and penalties are severe for false reporting, I only enter cases in which I have the vaccine card, the full clinical vignette, and my clinical impression that the vaccine either directly caused the problem or significantly contributed in the causal pathway to the new disease or injury suffered by the patient. I did a PUBMED search today and there are > 500 papers that have relied on VAERS for epidemiologic studies of vaccine side effects including death in 126 manuscripts.

As the data mount, it should come at no surprise that the Gates Foundation, a major player in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex has come out with an attack on the integrity of VAERS. It came through a JAMA editorial from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, PhD, that implied VAERS is “misinformation” in the title uses the adjective “unverified.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Jamieson, whose Annenberg Center is funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, goes on to propose a name change to VAERS to further diminish its importance. . . I expect at some moment, the data on vaccine safety will be so overwhelming in VAERS that the CDC will simply shut down access the system for queries and research. As sponsors of the program, the agency will refuse to tell America or the world anything on the safety of the novel, genetic biological products.

For the record, U.S. public health officials have used and trusted the VAERS system for decades. From the current VAERS About Page:

About VAERS

Background and Public Health Importance

Medical professionals working with vaccines Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. VAERS is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS accepts and analyzes reports of adverse events (possible side effects) after a person has received a vaccination. Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. Healthcare professionals are required to report certain adverse events and vaccine manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their attention.

VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences to CDC and FDA. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem, but is especially useful for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse event reporting that might indicate a possible safety problem with a vaccine. This way, VAERS can provide CDC and FDA with valuable information that additional work and evaluation is necessary to further assess a possible safety concern.

Let's see whether this self-description of VAERS, or even fundamental aspects of the VAERS system, changes in response to new suspicious pressures . . .

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