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  The “Deprogramming” Begins: Public Defender Representing January 6th Defendants “Re-Educates” Them 3 comments July 3, 2021 Current Events     Featured Posts     Politics by Daisy Luther Remember the potential re-education of Trump supporters that everyone said was a conspiracy theory? Welp, it turns out (as I said  in this article  where I “blew someone’s comment on social media out of proportion,”) it’s a fact.  So far on a small scale. But having Americans re-educated politically in any way smacks of communism.  Particularly  problematic is that it’s been done on the taxpayer’s dime. Defendants in the Jan. 6th Capitol case are being deprogrammed by their own lawyer. A public defender named H. Heather Shaner, we’re assured by Ryan J. Reilly of the Huffington Post, has no option but to defend the January 6 “attackers” because “who can’t afford their own attorneys, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and as laid out in the Criminal Justice Act.” But she’s also taking the opportunit

  Stumbling Toward Reality James Howard Kunstler Dr. Anthony Fauci, who answers to the title “The Science” in certain circles, said this week that there are going to be two Americas, the vaxed and the unvaxed. Earth to Dr. Fauci: we are already two Americas: the reality-onboard and the reality-optional. One reality is that vaccines developed at “warp speed” appear to have gnarly side-effects that can outweigh the risk of the disease they’re engineered to protect against. Another reality is that the Delta variant of SARS-Covid-19 is more contagious, but also weaker, less likely to result in hospitalization among the unvaxed. Yet another reality is that the Delta variant also infects the fully-vaccinated. Oh, what to do? Consider not allowing yourself to be jerked around by US health officials who have trouble keeping their story straight, for instance, Dr. Anthony Fauci (a.k.a. The Science) who, records show, apparently assisted the bio-warfare division of China’s People’s Liberation Ar

  A Case of "Intellectual Capture?" On YouTube's Demonetization of Bret Weinstein YouTube's use of government guidelines to regulate speech raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture Matt Taibbi Just under three years ago,  Infowars  anchor Alex Jones was  tossed off  Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify, marking the unofficial launch of the “content moderation” era. The censorship envelope has since widened dramatically via a series of high-profile incidents: Facebook and Twitter  suppressing  the Hunter Biden laptop story, Donald  Trump’s social media suspension , Apple and Amazon’s  kneecapping  of Parler, the  removal of real raw footage  from the January 6th riots, and others. This week’s decision by YouTube to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein belongs on that list, and has a case to be to be put at or near the top, representing a different and perhaps more unnerving speech conundrum than those other episodes. Profiled in t

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