Monthly Archives: January 2022

2022-01-05: News Headlines

David Swanson (2022-01-05). The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda. warisacrime.org By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 5, 2022 Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived. The actual impact is on thousands of …

sputniknews (2022-01-05). Democrats Doing Utmost to Exploit US Capitol Breach for Political Gain, Ex-FBI Agent Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Democratic Party and the mainstream media are trying their hardest to take full political advantage of the 6 January assault on the US Capitol, former FBI Special Agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley told Sputnik.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-01-05). GOP controlled House could try to impeach Biden. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 05 (MNA) —A top Republican senator said that "there's a chance" Republicans will impeach Joe Biden if they win the House majority in this year's midterm elections.

Yue Wang, Yu Zhao, Yuan Ge, Jin Cen, Yun Liao, Gufeng Xu (2022-01-05). Reproductive outcomes and reproductive tract microbiota shift in women with moderate-to-severe intrauterine adhesions following 30-day post-hysteroscopic placement of balloon stents or intrauterine contraceptive devices: A randomized controlled trial. thelancet.com Balloon placement has a similar effect on ongoing pregnancy rates as intrauterine device (IUD) placement. Patients who underwent balloon placement had a lower miscarriage rate, although the difference was not significant. There were no differences in the recurrence rate of IUA, reduction of American Fertility Society scores, or rate of new chronic endometritis. The balloon stent has less effects on the uterine microbiota.

Staff (2022-01-04). Facebook takes cue from Twitter, suspends Republican congresswoman. rt.com Marjorie Taylor Greene had her Facebook account suspended for 24 hours, after being banned from Twitter | Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring her, after the social media giants suspended her accounts. | The congresswoman took to conservative social media platform Gettr, saying that Facebook's suspension of her account for 24 hours "is beyond censorship of speech." | It comes just one day after Twitter permanently banned Greene from using one of her accounts over what the company described as "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy." | In her post on…

Staff (2022-01-04). Rand Paul quits YouTube over 'despicable' censorship. rt.com Citing the platform's rampant censorship practices, the lawmaker said he was leaving YouTube as part of an 'exodus' from Big Tech | Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has announced that he will no longer be posting content on YouTube, branding the Google-owned platform as the "worst censors" among a host of "Big Tech gatekeepers" that "silenced" opposing views. | Penning his thoughts in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on Monday, Paul noted that the move would be part of a bigger "exodus" from the "new town square" of "Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram" over rampant censorship and an "almost religious a…

Staff (2022-01-04). Rand Paul quits YouTube over 'despicable' censorship. rt.com Citing the platform's rampant censorship practices, the lawmaker said he was leaving YouTube as part of an 'exodus' from Big Tech | Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has announced that he will no longer be posting content on YouTube, branding the Google-owned platform as the "worst censors" among a host of "Big Tech gatekeepers" that "silenced" opposing views. | Penning his thoughts in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on Monday, Paul noted that the move would be part of a bigger "exodus" from the "new town square" of "Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram" over rampant censorship and an "almost religious a…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2022-01-04). Despotism Is the New Normal. dissidentvoice.org Despotism has become our new normal. Digital tyranny, surveillance. Intolerance, cancel culture, censorship. Lockdowns, mandates, government overreach. Supply chain shortages, inflation. Police brutality, home invasions, martial law. The loss of bodily integrity, privacy, autonomy. These acts of tyranny by an authoritarian government have long since ceased to alarm or unnerve us. We have become desensitized …

WSWS (2022-01-04). K-12 schools forced open across the US amid Omicron surge. wsws.org The entire political establishment, the corporate media and the unions are forcing millions of children back into schools this week, threatening to vastly accelerate the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ann Brown (2022-01-04). Fact Check: The Original Star-Bangled Banner National Anthem Was Rejected For Being Too Racist. moguldom.com The Star-Spangled Banner was written in 1814 but did not become the national anthem of the U.S. until 1931 when President Herbert Hoover made it so. It took 117 years. Did racist lyrics cause the holdup and its rejection as the national anthem? After witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of …

Ann Brown (2022-01-04). Fact Check: The Original Star-Bangled Banner National Anthem Was Rejected For Being Too Racist. moguldom.com The Star-Spangled Banner was written in 1814 but did not become the national anthem of the U.S. until 1931 when President Herbert Hoover made it so. It took 117 years. Did racist lyrics cause the holdup and its rejection as the national anthem? After witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of …

_____ (2022-01-04). Preparing for War, NATO Keeps the Propaganda Going. strategic-culture.org The US-NATO military alliance is preparing for war, and the western media are playing its game. | In straight reporting of news, the UK's Guardian newspaper is one of the very few in the western media that maintains balance and objectivity. Its century-old This made it surprisi…

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2022-01-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-04). K-12 schools forced open across the US amid Omicron surge. wsws.org The entire political establishment, the corporate media and the unions are forcing millions of children back into schools this week, threatening to vastly accelerate the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ann Brown (2022-01-03). Fact Check: Black Panther Party's Elaine Brown Groomed By A US Government Informant. moguldom.com It is an established fact that the U.S. government infiltrated civil rights organizations in the 1960s and groomed members of these organizations to turn them into informants. One group that was heavily targeted was the Black Panther Party. Some claim that former Black Panther Chairwoman Elaine Brown was being groomed as a government agent. In …

Staff (2022-01-03). Harry Potter actor casts confusion among fanbase. rt.com An Instagram post by David Thewlis has Potterheads scratching their heads over whether it was a troll-job or contained hidden meanings | Fans of the Harry Potter films were left puzzled after actor David Thewlis shared an Instagram post that purported to explain his absence at a recent high-profile cast reunion, but raised questions about whether he was 'trolling'. | While most of the main players from the movie franchise reunited for the 'Return to Hogwarts' 20th anniversary special event on Saturday, several notable faces, including creator and author J.K. Rowling and Thewlis, were conspicuous by their absen…

Staff (2022-01-03). Scientists explain HIV 'immunity' phenomenon. rt.com US researchers have come closer to answering the question why some people are able to control HIV levels without antiretroviral therapy | A group of American scientists has come closer to solving the mystery of so-called 'elite controllers' (ECs) — a rare group of people who are able to keep low levels of HIV without antiretroviral drugs. | Researchers from the National Institutes of Health compared "chromosomal integration sites and escape mutations" of 58 'elite controllers' and 42 individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) "to understand the role of immune pressure." | The tests showed that elite con…

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