Day: January 16, 2022
Issa Toumi [Photo courtesy of Issa Touma]How the CDC fooled the world
Sunday, 16 January 2022 — Swiss Policy Research
CDC: Science or Politics? (Pat Cross)
Throughout the pandemic, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) published numerous false and misleading studies that bolstered national and international political goals and guided social media censorship. Three recent examples illustrate the issue.
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Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back
Saturday, 15 January 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 5
Three centuries of mass resistance to privatization and dispossession
Articles in this series:
- Commons and classes before capitalism
- ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
- Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
- Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
- Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back
by Ian Angus
In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a dissolved monastery, Wilton Abbey near Salisbury. Herbert didn’t need farmland, so he had the buildings torn down, expelled the monastery’s tenants, and physically destroyed an entire village. In their place he built a large mansion, and fenced off the surrounding lands as a private park for hunting.
99.9987% of Under-20s Survive Covid, Study Finds – And 97.1% of the Elderly Do As Well
Monday, 10 January 2022 — The Daily Sceptic
How deadly is COVID-19? Early last year renowned epidemiologist Professor John Ioannidis published an analysis of seroprevalence (antibody) studies from 2020 which concluded the infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 – the proportion of those infected who die – was around 0.15% globally. It varied significantly by region, up to 0.3%-0.4% in Europe and the Americas and down to 0.05% in Africa and Asia.
The New Dark Age 