(2020-07-16). Every Billionaire Is A Predator: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Step 2: Buy up all news media. | Step 3: Structure outlets to elevate voices who defend the status quo. | Step 4: Smear non-plutocratic media who don't protect the status quo as crazy conspiracy theorists and Russian propaganda. | Step 5: Dominate the narrative about what's going on in the world. | ~ | Mainstream news is just advertising. You watch advertisements for maintaining the plutocratic status quo, then you watch advertisements between those advertisements for useless crap to make plutocrats even richer. It's all just different layers of marketing. When I was getting my journalism degree they used to talk…
(2020-07-15). [Research Paper] Assessing the risk-benefit profile of ramucirumab in patients with advanced solid tumors: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. thelancet.com In this meta-analysis of RCTs, use of ramucirumab in patients with advanced cancer was associated with increased risk of treatment related serious and possibly fatal adverse events but the magnitude of clinical benefit from ramucirumab was mostly negligible with no trial reporting an improvement in QOL. These relative risks and benefits should be considered in clinical and regulatory decision making.
(2020-07-15). Let the oil flow: Dakota Access pipeline to continue operation for now, appeals court says as legal battle drags on. rt.com 
A US appeals court has allowed the Dakota Access oil line to stay in operation while legal wrangling continues over the controversial project, overturning a lower court's ruling handed down last week to shutter the pipeline. | The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Tuesday that Energy Transfer LP — the firm controlling Dakota Access — could keep the 570,000-barrel-per-day pipeline running as it considers a final decision on whether to delay enforcement of the previous court order. | Last week, the US District Court for the District of Columbia called on Energy Transfer to halt…
(2020-07-15). The End of History lasted 2 Years: I'll give the Great Reset 18 Months. dissidentvoice.org The many similarities in the unfolding narrative of Covid-19 to that of September 11, 2001 — the mass hysteria, the banker bailouts, the insider trading, the censorship of dissent, the apparent foreknowledge (Lockstep, Event 201, PNAC, Catastrophic Terrorism, A Clean Break etc), the rollout of mass surveillance measures and more — make the two seem …
(2020-07-15). Corporate Media Give Trump Powers He Doesn't Actually Possess. commondreams.org It's crucial that media report on Trump's executive orders accurately—and not grant Trump powers that he doesn't actually possess. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-07-15). Propaganda Will Not Be Enough to Win Joe Biden the White House. mintpressnews.com The biggest threat to Biden's chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.
(2020-07-15). France: Protesters confront Macron, chant 'Resign!'. yenisafak.com An evening stroll late Tuesday by first couple Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron through Paris's Tuileries Gardens included …
(2020-07-14). 'We should be allowed to say what we want': Idris Elba blasts censorship of movies & TV over offensive material. rt.com 
'Luther' star Idris Elba has pushed back against moves to censor past movies and television shows, saying he believes in "freedom of speech" and is against censorship to protect audiences. | "The thing about freedom of speech is that it's not suitable for everybody," Elba told "To mock the truth, you have to know the truth. But to censor racist themes within a show, to…
(2020-07-14). Europe Uncensored: An Online Warning Shot. strategic-culture.org 
Being a part of the Strategic Culture Foundation certainly has its benefits, one of them was receiving a personal request from someone in EU politics (who will remain unnamed) to watch and comment on what could turn out to be a very important moment for the direction of the continent. "
(2020-07-14). A Country Without an Honest Media Is Lost. thealtworld.com For some time I have reported to you that in place of a media, a media that our founding fathers relied on to protect our society, the United States has had a propaganda ministry whose sole purpose is to destroy our society. | I learned of New York Times editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter to A. G. Sulzberger from a relative and from friends who called to ask if I wrote the letter as it sounds so much like me. | No, of course I did not write the letter. This is an extraordinary letter written by a journalist of real principle and integrity who realized that such highly valuable journalistic traits were no longe…
(2020-07-14). Propaganda on Government Action and Inequality from David Leonhardt. counterpunch.org It really gets annoying how all discussions in the media of inequality in the media take the White Savior route, where we need the government to act to reduce inequality created by the natural workings of the market. David Leonhardt gave us another dose of this one today when he speculated about the state of
(2020-07-14). Bipartisan back-to-work campaign produces catastrophe. wsws.org The uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in the United States is a social crime. Definite individuals, acting on behalf of the financial oligarchy, are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
(2020-07-14). Hydroxyethyl Starch vs Saline for Volume Expansion After Abdominal Surgery. jamanetwork.com To the Editor Dr Futier and colleagues reported the effects of HES vs saline in high-risk surgical patients. This placebo-controlled trial found no significant difference in the primary end point, a composite of death and preselected major postoperative complications.
(2020-07-14). Lockdowns: Essential to the Master Plan. globalresearch.ca If given the choice between maintaining a toxic world of fear, pollution and violence controlled by the State or a
(2020-07-14). Divide We Fall: America Has Been Blacklisted and McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age. mintpressnews.com Who needs a government censor when the American people are already doing such a great job at censoring themselves and each other.
(2020-07-13). [Research Paper] Lockdown timing and efficacy in controlling COVID-19 using mobile phone tracking. thelancet.com It appears that the less rigid lockdown led to an insufficient decrease in mobility to reverse an outbreak such as COVID-19. With a tighter lockdown, mobility decreased enough to bring down transmission promptly below the level needed to sustain the epidemic.
(2020-07-13). The Russiagate Spectacle: Season 2? counterpunch.org 
If it's an election year, there must be a Russiagate story. The Clintons and their neoliberal progeny, including the current standard bearer for corporate liberalism, have turned the Democratic Party into a branch office of the Deep State Inc., whose propaganda drones, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC act like hired guns for the Office of War Information.
(2020-07-13). Why has coronavirus exploded in Brazil and seems controlled in Argentina? peoplesdispatch.org While in Bolsonaro's Brazil, the death toll is counted in the thousands, in Argentina Fernández's administration took drastic, timely measures and seems to have controlled the cases. Prioritizing economy or health, two political approaches that lead to very different outcomes.
(2020-07-13). How The Pentagon Failed To Sell Afghan Government's Bunk 'Bountygate' Story. popularresistance.org The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, "Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says." A predictable media and political frenzy followed, reviving the anti-Russian hysteria that has excited the Beltway establishment for the past four years. | But a closer look at the reporting by the Times and other mainstream outlets vying to confirm its coverage reveals another scandal, not unlike Russiagate itself: the core elements of the story appear to have been fabricated by Afghan government intelligence…
(2020-07-13). One Of The Wealthiest States Might Pass An Opportunity To Tackle Housing Segregation. popularresistance.org Despite its liberal reputation — and Democrats controlling the legislature for the last 23 years and the governor's mansion for nine — Connecticut is one of the most segregated places in the country. And with thousands of residents pouring into the streets this month to protest racism, housing advocates and progressive Democrats saw an opportunity to change that, calling for an overhaul of the state's exclusionary housing laws. | That opportunity, however, appears to be fading. | At the state Capitol, Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders have shelved a raft of proposals that could spur more afforda…
(2020-07-13). Trump Regulator Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Big Banks and Other Lenders. truthout.org This story was co-published with The Capitol Forum. | In the spring of 2018, bank regulators trained to spot discriminatory lending detected something alarming at Bank of America. | The bank was offering fewer loans to minority homebuyers in Philadelphia than to white people in a way that troubled examiners from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), according to two people directly involved in the probe and internal documents reviewed by ProPublica and The Capitol Forum. | Th…