PP NewsBrief: 2021-01-28

We need to begin to reclaim control over the institutions which have such oversized roles in our lives. As you read this people work tirelessly to see to it that you are dumb and docile. Let's stop them.

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WATCH: Libby Emmons takes aim at Netflix and Ibram Kendi over critical race theory

"Netflix announced two weeks ago that they would be adapting three of Kendi's books into Netflix shows for all ages, including Antiracist Baby, which is meant for preschoolers.

Antiracist Baby asserts that readers must advance "equity," a concept whereby one actively discriminates on the basis of race and disregards equal opportunity in order to establish equality of outcome. It further suggests that one must promote equity to be antiracist, and that anyone who does not actively discriminate on the basis of equity is a racist.

Asked how parents can "fight back" against the adoption of critical race theory in institutions and governments, Emmons said that it's "a pretty big problem," and that "Antiracist baby directs toddlers to confess their racism, and I think also in putting these kinds of programming, feeding it to toddlers and little kids, where teaching kids that the only way to look at the world is through the leans of race, where teaching them that race is the most important factor about a person.""

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The Media Destroyed America

"That fake news can have such real world consequences should scare every American to death.

Notice also how the fake news story worsens with each repeat. On January 6, the alleged insurrection was by “Trump supporters.”  By January 23 Trump supporters had been morphed into “White supremacist insurrectionists.”  

The entire world now believes in something that does not exist.

This is an example of what it means to live in The Matrix.  Everyone lives in a false world created by lies repeated endlessly by pressitutes.

The ruling lies are lies that enable Establishment agendas by getting rid of non-establishment explanations and shutting down non-establishment leaders.  Trump had to go because he was in the way of Establishment agendas.  An example is being made of Trump as a lesson to others who value service to the people higher than service to the Establishment.

There is no doubt whatsoever that Trump won reelection.  The accumulated evidence of electoral fraud is overwhelming.  Yet the Lie Machine was able to prevent the evidence being presented and examined.  All the presstitutes ever said was that “there is no evidence of fraud,” followed by “all who support examining the evidence are enemies of democracy.”  

In other words, democracy is a stolen election.  If you protest the theft, you are an enemy of democracy."

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“Privacy Poor” vs. “Privacy Rich” in a “Digital Bastille”. The “Death of Privacy” under the Helm of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

"“Citizen concerns over privacy ….. will require adjustments in thinking”.

 -Klaus Schwab, 2016

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The likes of Tom Paine and Ben Franklyn wouldn’t stand a chance in the Reset’s totally digital environment. A first hint of discord would be immediately detected by algorithm. To suppress dissent, the authorities might initially send agents to reeducate the heretics by “cognitive infiltration”, as proposed by Harvard legal monsters Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule [Side note: Sunstein was recently tapped by the World Health Organization to develop programs to overcome growing “vaccine hesitancy” among the public]. And if non-violent cognitive infiltration is not sufficient, how else might the authorities deal with nonconformists?

In 1968, two of the West’s greatest historians published a little tome, The Lessons of History, in which they concluded that

“… the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.”

But scratch that bit of wisdom, because the digital world, as the saying goes, “changes everything”, and that includes historical patterns. It was, once upon a time, possible for souls defiant against corrupt power to foment rebellion away from authoritarian notice. But the digital world has become one gigantic listening device that is always being refined and extended. Leaving one’s country in an attempt to find a safer society is pointless now, because the digital world of the “Reset” is global. There is no longer any safe “away”."

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There’s about to be a big push to encourage people to pay with their face

"The practice of paying for goods and services via facial recognition devices, without the need to use a card, a phone or in any other way prove one’s identity, is already well-established in China.

In the US, a startup pioneering the use of facial recognition is PopID. The BBC says that their services are used by about 70 restaurants and cafes on the West Coast, and that they are talking to major card processing companies, who are apparently eager to find a way around relying on apps like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

In his comments, company’s CEO John Miller downplayed the glaring privacy concerns, saying “Our view is that using your face to pay is no different [than using your phone].

“It’s just another way to identify yourself. The [digital] picture [taken at point of sale] is destroyed immediately, and the data isn’t shared with anyone.”"

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Newsweek edits 5-year-old article which contradicted smear campaign against Tom Cotton

This type of action is straight out of 1984. They are literally going back and altering the historical record to suit their present-day agendas.

"Cotton has never claimed to have been part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, only noting that he was an Army Ranger which, while not referring to the more well-known regiment, is nevertheless factual. Regardless, the story was picked up by Newsweek, writing "[those] who complete the challenging course are then able to wear a Ranger tab on their uniform, but they are not technically considered an Army Ranger."

There was only one complication – Newsweek had previously described graduates of the Army Ranger School as Army Rangers.

"For the first time in the Army Ranger School's 64-year history, two women have completed the intense training program and will become Rangers," Newsweek published in a 2015 article.

Noting this inconsistency, Cotton’s communications director Caroline Tabler contacted Newsweek to inform them of the incongruence.

Instead of retracting the story, Newsweek edited the 2015 article to say simply that the women "will be allowed to wear the coveted Ranger tab on their uniforms." They also issued a correction stating that the "article has been changed to note that completion of the course allows one to wear the Ranger tab, but does not make one a Ranger.""

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Cops accused of being “constitutionally illiterate” after arresting man over distasteful meme

"Freedom of online expression and the way it is protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution is an issue highlighted in a recent arrest of a man who posted a fake anti-police photo on social media.

The man, Tennessee-based Joshua Andrew Garton, was arrested for harassment, with the bond for his release set at $76,000 after he shared an image, supposedly showing two persons urinating on the grave of a local police officer killed on duty two years ago.

But the photo uploaded by Garton – in fact a cover of a single released by the band The Rites in 2009, with the image of the officer edited onto the tombstone – is a meme, argues Daniel A. Horwitz, who is described in reports as a specialist in First Amendment litigation."

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The Biden White House says “conspiracy theories” and “disinformation” will not be “tolerated”

"Deputy White House press secretary T.J. Ducklo said reporters covering the White House will be expected to “operate in good faith and tell their audience the truth.” He added:

   “Organizations or individuals who traffic in conspiracy theories, propaganda and lies to spread disinformation will not be tolerated, and we’ll work with the WHCA to decide how to handle those instances moving forward.”

Of course, what constitutes a conspiracy theory, propaganda, lies or disinformation varies widely depending upon who is making the determination.

For example, Joe Biden has consistently claimed that a New York Post story alleging that he and his son Hunter Biden engaged in a corruption scandal was “Russian disinformation.”"

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Some employees are annoyed Signal can’t be censored

"Several anonymous current and one former named employee are reportedly worried that Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app that has seen huge growth in recent months, is not doing enough to police speech happening on the platform and enforce rules that would “remove bad actors.”

Signal, along with Telegram, gained millions of new users after Facebook’s latest privacy undermining policy changes, this time affecting the giant’s WhatsApp messaging app. And as people are leaving WhatsApp and discovering and joining alternative, more secure platforms, that also have business models ensuring data privacy – these apps started coming under attack from the outside, from some corporate media and political circles.

But now, dramatically titled articles like this one, typical of today’s world, announcing “the Battle inside Signal,” suggest that the platform and the company behind it are also criticized from within – for their reported unwillingness to implement a “content policy.”"

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COVID Mask: The Psychology of Surrender?

"Wearing ‘the mask’ is for those who suffer feelings of fear and/or guilt. Think about it.

One might reject such a notion “No, no, I’m just worried about being fined, that’s why I wear it”. Or “I don’t want to take any risks, the health authorities wouldn’t tell us to wear masks unless there was some protection benefit.”

Are these valid responses? Both are based primarily on fear. Fear of what an authority might do if one was to disobey the rules, and fear of sickness should one not follow the authorities’ instructions.

But who are ‘the authorities?’ And are their demands backed by empirical evidence that the wearing  of a mask is a proven defence against infection by Covid? Will our mask wearer ask these questions? And if not – why not?

“Well, I do wonder what it’s all about – but there doesn’t seem to be much point in questioning it, does there.”

Right, in effect this is an admission of intellectual laziness coupled with an egregious obedience to the commands of ‘the authority’. This is the state of mind of those unwilling to think for themselves.

Allowing one’s self to be herded because one does not want to question the command, is a psychological sickness which presents an open book for the unchecked spread of fascistic authoritarianism."

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To Hell With Unity

"For the first nearly 90 years of the United States, from the Founding to the Civil War, individual states regularly asserted the right of nullification. This widely misunderstood principle did not allow states to violate the Constitution—exactly the opposite: It protected states from the federal government violating the Constitution, by allowing states to invalidate unconstitutional federal laws. In other words, the question of what was constitutional and what wasn’t was decided by the states, not the Supreme Court.

The Civil War did huge damage to states’ rights, which became bound up in the question of slavery and secession. A direct consequence was to elevate the power of the federal government—and the Supreme Court—to previously unimagined heights.

You might argue that there is no basis for allowing states to decide what is constitutional. But there is less basis for allowing the Supreme Court to decide: Judicial review was invented out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court itself. Nullification cases always end up in federal court, where they lose—and why wouldn’t they? To ask the Supreme Court to decide on nullification would be like asking Joe Biden whether he should be president.

But one issue—perhaps the one and only issue—on which the Left and the Right agree is that the Supreme Court has too much power. The Constitution did not intend a system in which one branch can outmuscle the other two. Nullification is a serious alternative that spreads the court’s bonus powers over more people in more places and shrinks the Supreme Court to what it was originally intended to be: The court of final appeal."