Last summer, I wrote about gangsters and protection rackets. They’re selling us safety with a “public-private partnership” — a revolving door, whereby industry and their “regulators” in government can coordinate their sales campaign. And in case we’re not so interested in buying, they can demonstrate for us just how bad the consequences might be. That’s called “gain of function”.
If government and their pharmaceutical contractors are behaving like gangsters, I’d rather know that than not know it.
And I have to ask: is the price for obtaining this knowledge that if a stranger offers to buy me a drink, I had better make sure he’s not a con man, planning to broadcast my drunken confession to fifty million gawkers?
As of yesterday, we know that the regulatory agencies and the industries that they are in bed with are playing the same game, loosing pandemics on the world for power and profit. Or maybe we knew that already.
The world of trust and safety and welcoming communities in which I grew up is falling apart, self-destructing, blowing up with each new headline. When do we start building the more beautiful world that we all want to live in?
For some of us, it’s not too soon to begin building a world in which corporations don’t create plagues from which they can rescue us with their poisons. A world in which you can trust a stranger who offers you a kindness, that he is not planning to betray you. A world in which people don’t go out to drown their sorrows and unload their vestigial conscience to strangers that they meet in a bar.
The lesson of the day is not just about corporations hell-bent on profits; it’s not just about executives who have no moral compass. It’s also about the loneliness of people so desperate for connection that they are looking for love in a barroom.
The bars and hook-ups are a symbol of our cultural poverty, no less than the arms race between corporations in different aspects of the death trade, and the news services that expose them with honeypots and sting operations.
I’m not equating the greater crime with the lesser. I don’t want to say that the ends never justify the means. But I can still cringe as I empathize with Jordan Walker’s humiliation. His broken career is collateral damage.
Fifty years before Project Veritas, I was a proud teenager, attending a college under a banner of VERITAS, and aspiring to live up to the lofty standards of that institution. I was outraged that my government was murdering children in Vietnam and lying about Red dominoes, and I was naive enough to think that occupying University Hall might change that. I took courses from physicists who had participated in the Manhattan Project a generation earlier. I learned Realpolitik from Dr Strangelove himself, in his last semester as an academic.
Only decades later did I become cynical about VERITAS. Which of the brilliant professors in Harvard’s Physics Department would would stand up and tell their students (let alone a press conference) that the official version 9/11 defies laws of elementary physics; that burning buildings don’t fall symmetrically straight down into their footprints without some delicate explosive engineering, prepared long in advance? The VERITAS of 9/11 was introduced to America by a Brigham Young physicist who paid with his career and a radical philosophy professor from Santa Barbara.
With all the radical presence on the Harvard campus of 1968, there was no one to tell the truth about the son of Harvard who had been murdered in Dallas just five years earlier. For all their careful erudition, no one seemed to question whether a bullet from behind could cause the President’s head to recoil backwards, toward the direction from which the bullet came.
The academic and journalistic institutions on which I formerly relied for VERITAS have been bought off or scared into submission. Truth cannot be outsourced. It’s now your job and mine.
There are greater betrayals and there are lesser betrayals. I’m done with betrayals, ready to start creating a culture founded in caring and trust. I’m dreaming that that culture can thrive even now, though it is embedded within a larger, violent culture of tit-for-tat'; that the gentle culture will thrive not because it is protected fiercely but because values like honesty and kindness invite reciprocation.
There’s no denying that we’re in the midst of an information war. In the end, the truth always wins. Speed the day.
from James Lyons-Weiler: Google has scrubbed most web references to Jordan Trishton Walker. We can guess that he is no longer an employee of Pfizer.
from Citizens for Legitimate Government, our allies in the info war, this morning
Feds adapting AI used to silence ISIS to combat American dissent on vaccines, elections --The federal government, working hand-in-hand with universities, private companies and Big Tech, is funneling millions in taxpayer m-ney to fund an AI censorship program to be used on American citizens. | 26 Jan 2023 | The government's campaign to fight "misinformation" has expanded to adapt military-grade artificial intelligence once used to silence the Islamic State (ISIS) to quickly identify and censor American dissent on issues like vaccine safety and election integrity, according to grant documents and cyber experts.
As the day wears on, I am more inclined to think that the Veritas revelations are not particularly helpful, and are obtained at the cost of a violence to trust and goodwill. For people whose eyes are open, there are already egregious crimes laid at Pfizer's feet:
-- They cheated in clinical trials for their vaccine, according to Brook Jackson https://www.iambrookjackson.com/
-- Their vaccine was approved despite the fact that, according to their own FDA submission, more people died in the vaccine group than in the placebo group.
-- There was a flood of new VAERS reports associated with distribution of the mRNA vaccines
So, are there people out there whose minds will be swayed by the video of Jordan Walker who were not already convinced by facts that were already in the public domain? Or are the tens of millions of viewers just hungry for red meat?
So we don't have to use sting operations, what we need is a website for whistleblowers, a secure portal where people who know about data that is being hidden from the public by government or industry. can post the data anonymously. This is a "Wikileaks for science". I call it Sikileaks, and there is an empty shell website at sikileaks.org. If you know anyone who has about $500K to seed this operation, s/he can make it a reality.