Date: January 28, 2021
I don’t know how these things get off kilter…maybe I made an executive decision in the past, that I just don’t remember…
…But WordPress is telling me OLF’s birthday is today!…So, I’ll post this today.
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January 28, 2021
Thanks to Kamil Beylant!
“Through Chris Hansen’s recent controversies, one person has stuck by his side. A user with an Anonymous profile pic, engaging in doxxing, harassment and more. It’s time to hold both accountable for their actions. Thanks to @Ay Star? for helping with this video. Botometer study: COMMENT from SUBMITTER: YouTube account holders! The YouTube this week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLQ2QkLZuA) showed celebrity human-hunter Chris Hansen, an old associate of Twitter Trust and Safety poobah Allison Shea (‘Del Harvey’), collaborating with an Anonymous member, Anonymous Gene, to wage all-out bottom-dirt-level cyberharassment war against Hansen’s critics. Mysterious support from within Twitter Support was connected to these harassment attack. I realized that I’d seen something similar in 2013. Bernie Najarian wrote an article called “Hive Child: a boy for Anonymous and Allison Shea” about the recruitment of teenagers to cybercrime lifestyles on Twitter, and how Twitter Support had made it impossible to report the Anonymous members who openly carried out those crimes. Najarian wrote: “Why is it so difficult, then, to anonymously report illegal cybercrime gang activity on Twitter? “Very simple. The website’s security department is run by a veteran cybervigilante who may have a major soft spot for others of her kind. “@delbius, Twitter’s Director of Trust and Safety, is Allison Shea, who came to renown as one of the predator-trappers on NBC’s ‘To Catch a Predator’. She used the pseudonym “Del Harvey” and worked full time as secretary for Xavier von Erck’s organization Perverted Justice.” This link between cybercrime, cybervigilantes, Twitter Support, members of the Anonymous movement, and Chris Hansen, was all clearly visible in 2013. I’d appreciate if anyone was in a position to comment the link to this article on the page for John Swan’s YouTube. Let him know it shows evidence for a Hansen-Delbius-Anonymous-cybercrime overlap going back to 2013. https://ourlovefrontier.wordpress.com/hive-child-a-boy-for-anonymous-and-allison-shea/“
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Date: January 27, 2021
“‘Freeze peach!’ That has long been the mocking, infantile cry of the middle-class left whenever anyone complains about clampdowns on freedom of speech. There is no ‘free-speech crisis’, radicals insist. No Platforming right-wingers on university campuses is not censorship – it’s just students freely choosing not to associate with people who have horrible views. And alt-right types being turfed off Twitter and Facebook is not censorship, either – that’s just private companies enforcing their terms and conditions. (Who knew lefties were so supportive of private property rights?) Will these censorship deniers change their tune now that the left itself is coming under censorious attack? Amazingly, probably not. But perhaps there will be a smidgen of self-reflection. Some of the left-wing architects and cheerleaders of contemporary censorship, including Britain’s Socialist Workers Party, which has backed the No Platform policy for decades, are now being No Platformed themselves. ‘This is a disgrace!’, they cry, which would be funny if censorship were not so serious. These people helped to build the infrastructure of modern censorship, with its determination to crush ‘hate speech’ and ‘offensive’ views, and now they’re shocked to find themselves falling victim to it? Have they not read any history books at all? … They’re right. This was a unilateral act of ideological censorship carried out by the capitalist elites of Silicon Valley against a perfectly legal party based in the UK. It demonstrated the terrifying power of the Big Tech oligarchy, which clearly has no respect whatsoever for borders, territory or democratically made national laws and feels that it can reach into any nation state it chooses and switch off the oxygen of publicity to any party, group or individual it disapproves of. … But there is something spectacularly hollow about the SWP’s complaints. The SWP has played a key role in promoting No Platform policies on campus, which essentially blacklist certain groups and individuals from speaking to students… … What’s more, the ideological justifications that the SWP and other leftists have put forward for these acts of censorship – the idea that ‘hateful’ speech must be suppressed, the idea that offensive ideas are wounding, the nasty patrician notion that minority groups need to be protected from difficult discussion by the authorities – have helped to shape the broader, off-campus culture of censorship. Modern ‘hate speech’ laws and police interference in discussions about genderfluidity and other difficult topics, as well as Silicon Valley’s embrace of ever-tighter restrictions on ‘hate speech’ and its No Platforming of right-wing presidents or feminists who say ‘he’ when referring to someone who has a penis – all of this has been influenced by the modern left’s cultivation of a new form of therapeutic, paternalistic censorship that is designed to protect allegedly vulnerable individuals from the hurtful ideologies of right-wingers, critics of Islam, ‘transphobes’, etc etc.” |
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Date: January 27, 2021
“Multi-award winning journalist Samira Ahmed chairs an expert panel, including Humanists UK Chief Executive and author of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom Andrew Copson, Dr Nazila Ghanea, and Professor Tariq Modood, hearing from a panel of experts about secularism around the world and the challenges it faces. The speakers evaluate the different forms and varieties of secularism around the world; from the US to France, from Norway to India. They discussed the effects Joe Biden’s presidency might have on freedom of religion or belief around the world over the next four years, and challenges in nations of particular concern, such as China’s human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: ‘Three years on from the publication of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, the world seems a more challenging place. The continued rise of intolerant states should give us all pause for thought about where we’re heading. It is only by fostering a global sense of equality and freedom – of religion, belief, to live our lives as we wish without impinging on the rights of others – that we can create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.’ ‘Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom’, since republished as ‘Secularism: A Very Short Introduction’, is available in all good bookstores.” |
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January 27, 2021
Thanks to feinmann!
“The best news about the mRNA shots from BioNTech and Moderna is that the same technique could also defeat many other diseases. … The most promising Covid vaccines use nucleic acids called messenger RNA, or mRNA. One vaccine comes from the German firm BioNTech SE and its U.S. partner Pfizer Inc. The other is from the U.S. company Moderna Inc. (its original spelling was ModeRNA, its ticker is MRNA). Another is on the way from CureVac NV, also based in Germany. Ordinary vaccines tend to be inactivated or weakened viruses which, when injected into the body, stimulate an immune response that can later protect against the live pathogen. But the process of making such vaccines requires various chemicals and cell cultures. This takes time and provides opportunities for contamination. mRNA vaccines don’t have these problems. They instruct the body itself to make the offending proteins — in this case, the ones that wrap around the viral RNA of SARS-CoV-2. The immune system then homes in on these antigens, practicing for the day when the same proteins show up with the coronavirus attached. Therein lies mRNA’s bigger promise: It can tell our cells to make whatever protein we want. That includes the antigens of many other diseases besides Covid-19.”
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January 27, 2021
Thanks to Flashraid99!
“Pedophiles brain is not different to non pedophiles brains Abstract: Thus far, four studies have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to test for differences in brainstructure between paedophilic (i.e. sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children) and teleiophilic (i.e.sexually attracted to adults) men, revealing divergent results. To re-examine this issue, we acquired highresolution structural T1-weighted and diffusion MRI scans of the brain in 24 paedophilic and 32 tele-iophilic men. We performed voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of the T1-weighted images and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) of the diffusion tensor imaging data to search for grey and white matterdifferences between groups. In contrast to previous studies, less than half of the individuals in ourpaedophilic group had a record of sexual offences against children, as subjects were partially recruitedfrom two outpatient facilities of a child sexual abuse prevention project for self-acknowledged paedo-philes. After adjustment for multiple comparisons and controlling for important confounding factors, wedid notfind any significant grey or white matter differences between the paedophilic and teleiophilicsubjects. Together with the inconsistencies in the literature, these results argue against consistentstructural differences at the macroanatomical scale between paedophiles and teleiophiles.” This is important research.
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January 27, 2021
01) LINK
Thanks to feinmann!
“When teacher Will Knowland was sacked by Eton for refusing to take down a lecture from his YouTube account, his departure sparked furious debate. The provocative lecture, ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’, argued that the idea of a repressive patriarchy throughout history is a myth, that men have had it harder than women, and that traditional gender roles are not social constructions but due to innate biological differences.
To its critics, the video was deemed offensive and sexist for espousing such a retrograde view of masculinity. But to Knowland and his supporters, whether the content was offensive or not was secondary to the video’s broader purpose: that these ideas, however provocative they may be, are fair game for discussion and debate.
That this incident occurred at the world’s most prestigious school — home to over 20 British Prime Ministers (including the current one) and princes William and Harry — only served to give the controversy more attention.”
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January 27, 2021
01) Remembering Barbara Hewson
Thanks to feinmann!
“A rare person in authority who took on the dominant narrative, calling out Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into allegations of abuse by Jimmy Saville and others, as a ‘persecution of old men’. She also called for a lowering of the age of sexual consent, and called for an end to complainant anonymity in rape cases. “It started a witch-hunt against her that resulted in her demonisation and isolation.”
Here is a 2013 Channel4 interview with her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DR6EEl0H64 discussing and questioning her views.”
If I’m not mistaken, Barbara blocked me on twitter…after [I think] mutual following for quite a long time, and even a smidgen of interaction.
I followed a wide range of people and communities…and from what I was able to gather, my retweeting of an anti-circumcision video set her off.
I didn’t bother pursuing a rescinding of that block…if she wanted to be like that, so be it…but I did get left feeling rather snubbed.
From what I’m told, she had a tendency for doing this sort of thing while drunk.
She was an important critic of the witch hunt on males…and I’m sorry she died.
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Date: January 27, 2021
01) LINK
“Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the bipartisan back and forth over the COVID relief bill.”
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Date: January 27, 2021
01) LINK
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for expulsion for Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley for encouraging the Capitol Hill attack.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tells CNN’s Chris Cuomo that she thinks “a very considerable amount, a lot of members” of the House “still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress,” as US Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was stopped from bringing a concealed gun onto the House floor.
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