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'Health passports' to enter music venues are being trialled in the UK

Patrick Hinton
Mixmag
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:08 UTC
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Music venues in the UK are set to trial a 'health passport' system, as the live music sector plans towards safely reopening.

The health passport has been designed by the You Check app, which originally launched in mid-2019 as a ticket/ID system as a means to circumvent touts, as well as help link promoters directly to their audiences.

Since the pandemic halted music events, You Check has adapted its notification system to help with track and track by linking attendees and integrating test results. Now it can be used to alert event attendees to possible infections, direct them to testing facilities with PHE approved kits, and keep track of the outcomes on the app.

The trial events are being organised by the Music Venue Trust and are approved by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

London's 100 Club and Bristol's Exchange are the venues planned to host initial test events in March, with 25 per cent capacity and two sets of tests with the same people, before testing branches out to more venues across the UK.

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Attention

Andy Ngo's editor fired by major publisher over conservative views: report

Noah David Alter
The Post Millenial
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:56 UTC
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Hachette Book Group, a large publisher based in New York City, has fired their editorial director after publishing a new book by The Post Millennial journalist Andy Ngo, The New York Times reports.


The editorial director, Kate Hartson, was fired by Hatchet after publishing the book Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Ngo. The book details the Antifa's organizational efforts and patterns of violence, most notably in Portland and Seattle.

Hartson, who has a history of supporting Republicans, says that while she was given other reasons for her firing, the real reason was because of her politics. Hachette has said that they would be prohibiting "false narratives" from being published by them.

The firing also comes a month after 10 Hachette employees signed a petition calling upon major publishers to ban the publishing of books written by former Trump administration officials.

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Cow Skull

Best of the Web: Greenwald: The journalistic tattletale and censorship industry suffers several well-deserved blows

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen
The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.

A new and rapidly growing journalistic "beat" has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.

I've written before about one particularly toxic strain of this authoritarian "reporting." Teams of journalists at three of the most influential corporate media outlets — CNN's "media reporters" (Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy), NBC's "disinformation space unit" (Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny), and the tech reporters of The New York Times (Mike Isaac, Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel) — devote the bulk of their "journalism" to searching for online spaces where they believe speech and conduct rules are being violated, flagging them, and then pleading that punitive action be taken (banning, censorship, content regulation, after-school detention). These hall-monitor reporters are a major factor explaining why tech monopolies, which (for reasons of self-interest and ideology) never wanted the responsibility to censor, now do so with abandon and seemingly arbitrary blunt force: they are shamed by the world's loudest media companies when they do not.

Comment: And scorn them we do - and will - to the very best of our ability. They should be called out every time they spew their pathological (and sometimes very damaging) nonsense - because they create nothing - and seek to tear down everyone and everything that doesn't fall into their very narrow and skewed parameters of acceptable thought and behavior.

But this won't last forever. These things never do. And these empowered pathologicals will no doubt be learning this the very hard way. If at all.

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Airplane

Delta CEO calls negative COVID test requirement for domestic flights 'horrible idea'

Brianna Kraemer
Just the News
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:07 UTC
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
The CEO of Delta Air Lines says the federal government's potential plan to require domestic passengers to have a negative COVID-19 test before travel is a 'horrible idea."

CEO Ed Bastian made the comment Tuesday to CNN, arguing that such testing could take "10% of testing resources" away from sick people.

He said domestic travel in the air transportation system is "the safest form of transportation and that the testing would be a "logistical nightmare."

"Incidents of spread aboard any of our planes is absolutely minimal," Ed Bastian said.

Comment: It is a horrible idea, but why listen to an industry leader when you have a failed mayor calling the shots? He's gay afterall, so he will obviously do what's right.

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NPC

As breastfeeding becomes chestfeeding to appease trans tyrants, women are erased from childbirth & we lurch ever closer to lunacy

Damian Wilson
RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:58 UTC
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Amid a global health crisis, muddle-headed morons in Britain's hallowed NHS have waded into the transgender debate, decimating the medical language of clear common sense for laugh-out-loud ambiguity on the maternity ward.

Those who emerged from the womb as biological women have been given another sharp slap in the face, as a lone National Health Service trust in England has decided to ditch gender badges like "mother" and "breastmilk" in case they offend the one per cent of the adult British population that identifies as transgender.

The giddy geniuses at the hospital trust in right-on Brighton, West Sussex, will no longer speak of the "maternity department" - it will be "perinatal services". And a new policy document suggests that any discussion of breastmilk would be best referred to as "human milk", "chest milk" or "milk from the feeding mother or parent", all in the act of "chestfeeding", of course.

While my science lessons only stretched to GCSE level, I was paying enough attention to learn that "chest milk" is only produced by one sort of human - the woman sort. Incredibly, perhaps, it's something I have never forgotten, and yet now it seems this is wrong.
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Arrow Down

Twitter's Dorsey wants to create 'decentralized' platform giving users illusion of total control over what they see


RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:32 UTC
Jack Dorsey
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has teased an ultra-customizable new platform allowing users to build the ultimate echo chamber by picking out the "ranking algorithms" that shape their feed - as Twitter's own usefulness diminishes.

Dorsey fleshed out ideas for a long-promised decentralized social network tentatively dubbed Bluesky in a phone call with investors on Tuesday, The Verge reported. He suggested that giving people the option to select ranking algorithms themselves would attract (and keep) users much better than leaving the choices up to a single company (i.e. Twitter) with heavy-handed moderating power.

Not only would allowing users to customize which algorithms are deployed on their feed "give people ultimate flexibility in terms of" what content they see, but giving users the ability to create their own cross-platform recommendation hybrids would let Twitter access "a much larger corpus of conversation" that could then be served up to other users - allowing the company to be "competitive" without having to devise such algorithms from scratch.

Comment: Of course this 'curated' content will only be what they have already selected for options. They've already cracked down on what is not permissible; in the end, they are just presenting an illusion of choice.

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Back to the 1640s: Witch-hunt against 'Covid denialists' in UK is just a continuation of previous campaigns against dissenters

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:19 UTC
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© (L) Youtube / ScreamFactoryTV; (R) Reuters / John Sibley.
The targeting of public figures who speak out against lockdowns and other Covid-orthodoxies has intensified in Britain, and there are clear connections with previous power-structure-protecting campaigns used to silence heretics.

The 1968 historical horror film 'Witchfinder General', which tells the story of 17th century witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins, who terrorised the countryside of Parliament-held eastern England during the English Civil War, is a harrowing watch. Its brilliant young director Michael Reeves, unable to sleep, died from an overdose of barbiturates (thought to be accidental) just a few months after its release.

While the film may well give you nightmares, I do recommend you watch it. Because it helps us understand better what is happening in Britain today. We have gone hurtling back at warp speed to the witch-hunt frenzy of the 1640s. Shutting our eyes to what is going on around us is simply not an option, because then things will only get worse. History tells us that the only way witch-hunts, which are inimical to free societies, end is if enough people stand up to them.

Comment: For insight into 'how we got here', see: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

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Bizarro Earth

Canada's mandatory Covid-19 hotel stays are not 'internment camps' but they are costly forced detention

Eva Bartlett
RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:31 UTC
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© REUTERS/Blair GableFILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a news conference at the arboretum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada December 11, 2020
Since at least October 2020, some Canadians have been concerned about rumours of Covid-19 "internment camps." In reality, there may be no barbed wire or gun turrets, but a number of travellers have experienced detention firsthand.

Last October, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about this. His reply didn't address the specific claim at hand, instead he spoke generally of "noise and harmful misinformation on the Internet," and bizarrely urged people to resist "people who would sow chaos within our communities and our democracy." (I shudder to think which foreign interference he imagined.)

Earlier that month, Ontario member of provincial parliament (MPP) Randy Hillier had asked the province's legislature about potential "internment camps," referring to a federal government call for expressions of interest regarding "quarantine/isolation camps throughout every province and every territory in Canada."

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Stop

Trump's Twitter ban is permanent, executive says

Mark Moore
New York Post
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:09 UTC
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Twitter said on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump will remain banned forever from the social media platform, even if he runs for office again.

"When you are removed from the platform, you are removed from the platform," Twitter's chief financial officer, Ned Segal, told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "Whether you are a commentator, you're a CFO, or you are a former or current public official."

"Remember​,​ our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence. And if anybody does that, we have to remove them from the service. And our policies don't allow people to come bac​k," he added.


Comment: Unless the people inciting violence are Democrat politicians, Antifa, or BLM rioters. Then inciting violence is just fine.


​Twitter banned Trump's account "permanently" ​on Jan. 8, two days after a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers gathered to certify the Electoral College vote for President Biden.​

Comment: And so the slow creep of totalitarianism marches on...

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Footprints

Palm Beach officials consider a bid from Trump's neighbors to evict the former president from Mar-A-Lago estate

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
Palm Beach officials are reportedly considering a petition from former President Donald Trump's neighbors looking to bar Trump from living full time at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

The former president and his immediate family — wife Melania and son Barron — reportedly chose to move to Florida following his departure from the White House in January rather than return to Trump's former full-time residence at the top of the Trump Tower in New York City. The family now lives at the former president's sprawling Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, which Trump purchased back in 1985 for $10 million.

But under terms of a 1993 agreement with local officials, Mar-a-Lago is technically no longer considered anyone's full-time residence. The contract converted the mansion and its surrounding grounds to a members-only club, and the contract's terms limit anyone from living there for more than a week at a time, and then for no more than three weeks in one calendar year, according to Insider.

Comment: Would 'they' do this to Biden?

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