Notable: Members of the UK's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods; Use of fear to control behaviour in #COVID19 crisis was ‘totalitarian’, they admit. 🧵[1/n] archive.fo/7azQ8
"SPI-B [Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour] warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from #COVID19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”." [2/n]
"Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. …all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”" [3/n]
"Dimon’s statements disavowing responsibility show that #WallStreet firms will continue to funnel US money into Chinese companies regardless of the risks, collecting their fees with glee…"
[2/3] "Gensler’s response, in which he promised to push for more disclosure from Chinese companies, shows that the #SEC still doesn’t understand that #XiJinping has no intention of allowing that to happen.
The #CCP’s recent actions show clearly that the risks of investing…"
[3/3] "…in Chinese companies that have no real accountability & transparency are growing quickly—and steps to protect US capital markets must be hastened… #WallStreet firms & regulators who ignore this now are failing in their responsibility to protect the American people."
At Stop the 2022 #GenocideGames rally in front of the US Capitol. It's asking the question: Are we really going to host/attend an @Olympics in the #CCP's #China when we know full well #Genocide (if not several) is taking place?
Representatives of ethnic and religious groups persecuted by the #CCP at the Stop the 2022 #GenocideGames rally. Captive Nations’ @Se_HoonKim speaking in the background.
Blind Chinese activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng @iguangcheng reflects on his memories when he was in prison during the 2008 Beijing @Olympics, which many argued were a #GenocideGames in themselves (See: ):
"My question is: can we allow this to happen again?"
📰Essential reading for those tracking "fake news" (which I can't hashtag for some reason)
There is so much in this @ggreenwald piece worthy of quoting that I don't know quite where to start, but here goes. Best just read the whole thing end-to-end. 🧵1/n greenwald.substack.com/p/corporate-ne…
"Every journalist, even the most honest and careful, will get things wrong sometimes, and trustworthy journalists issue prompt corrections when they do. That behavior should be *trust-building*. But when media outlets continue to use the same reckless and deceitful tactics…" 2/n
"—such as claiming to have “independently confirmed” one another's false stories when they have merely served as stenographers for the same anonymous security state agents while "confirming” nothing—that strongly suggests a complete indifference to the truth &, even more so…"3/n
Clarification: The #CrimesAgainstHumanity perpetrated by the #CCP against these groups are ALL a long time in the making. My comment about #Tibet above is that we as "enlightened" societies knew full well back in 1998 the horrors that the #CCP is capable of & still opened...
I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.
Many have heard, "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being," but...
2/ what does that actually mean? Only into the 4th chapter, "The Bluecaps," of the Abridged edition (which, incidentally, should be required reading on its own), I'm being blown away, again, about how important this powerful meditation on what humans are capable of, & how/why...
3/ I'll use this thread to post some passages that really grab my attention (& this will take a while, certainly). In case you're wondering this is exactly what I'm listening to, the authorized Abridgment by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. harpercollins.com/products/the-g…