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Obama misleads us on NSA surveillance/ NY Times, NBC
From NBC we learn Obama is going to give Americans more “confidence” in the NSA. “I’ll be proposing some self-restraint on the NSA and initiating some reforms that can give people some more confidence.” But lack of confidence is not the problem. Setting up a straw man to knock down “is an intentional misrepresentation of an opponent’s position, often used…
Masking and Microns
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WaPo editorial on the virus origin investigation, 2/5/2021
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Do you really want to know what is the history of the Ukraine war and what is happening now?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/5778420 Former NATO official, Jaques Baud, gives it to you straight.
CDC is always shifting the data. How can you make sense of these two CDC charts that detail COVID infection rates as a function of age?
In the chart below, CDC tells us that children have a lower rate of Covid infection/recovery than adults, apart from adults 65 and older. Note that this is based on ESTIMATES. Presumably CDC concocted these estimates to maek it appear that more children “needed” the vaccines because only 35% were immune. But elsewhere, CDC estimates…