Five non-US election related items to start January 7, 2021

1. The beginning of wisdom is the proper naming of things. And people who die as a result of Covid POLICIES did NOT die of Covid19.

It’s not just #coronavirus that’s killing people.

Our approach to managing the #pandemic is killing people who aren’t dying of #COVID19.

These young men may be additional #victimsofthecure https://t.co/vKEhUmyZ7i

— Mark Towhey (@towhey) January 5, 2021

2. Another gym opens up in Arthur Ontario

3. Interesting post about the root strategy of CNN, and likely CBC and BBC. I had not encountered the term, “Spetz-Propaganda” till this tweet:

To be fair I too am currently watching CNN. It’s one of the closest examples of perfect spetz-propaganda that is available at this time. It’s fascinating. Angering, unbelievable, but fascinating.

— Kate Gramsworth (@ekajate) January 7, 2021

Here is a link to that term:

GO: Combat propaganda? What’s THAT all about?

ZZ: It had many names: combat or military, or, in Russian, “spetz,” propaganda, “Special propaganda among the troops and the population of the enemy” (Code VUS 6021) was a military science, developed in the USSR and taught at elite universities, such as Moscow State University (MGU)’s Department of Journalism, and Leningrad State University (LGU, currently St. Petersburg State University)’s Department of Philology. 

GO: So propaganda and mind control really were part of the Soviet higher-education curriculum.

ZZ: Yes, but only for a few. These were, and are, elite universities. Most people did not know anything about these departments.

GO: What was the underlying theory?

ZZ: To change mass behavior, spetz propagandists—currently called “political technologists”—influenced the mass consciousness by purposefully incepting artificially engineered concepts inorganic to the population with the goal of “formation of the mass consciousness of the whole society” and “influencing global policies,” as described in military textbooks that can be found online these days. 

4. Interesting graph that may help answer the charge of a commenter the other day concerning excess deaths due to Covid

Ontario update.#COVID19Ontario #covid19Canada #COVID19

Ontario covid-19 cases, deaths, and testing. pic.twitter.com/77sS27dYwK

— Milhouse Van Houten ? (@Milhouse_Van_Ho) January 7, 2021

5. So where is the Islamic State these days? Well, here was a few of them

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Footage of tribal fighters from Sheikh Mandoul Al-Satam ambushing an IS!S pickup truck in the Haditha desert of #Iraq, killing two militants. #AtlasNewsUpdateIraq

(This is a little explicit but not gory. It looks a lot like video game capture footage actually.)