Five items that give an indication of where we are and where we are going: Links 2, November 24, 2022

Jaume Duch, a spokesman for the parliament, tweeted that the legislative body’s websites were down because of denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks. Parliament teams are working to fix the problem, he said. 

The European Parliament website was back online Wednesday evening Brussels time after a few hours offline.

(After checking with a Cybersec source, the facts are a little different. The attack was a very amateur DDoS, and not :a sophisticated cyberattack” at all, and the issue is that the EUP website had very poor protection.)

3. I think at this point its a safe assumption that Elon Musk is a fair actor and is planning to right the unbearably long list of wrongs at Twitter. Although I still have a lifetime ban for an amazingly banal tweet asking a Vaxx pusher to please read Alex Berenson’s substack for factual, government issued data on vaxx efficacy, I also recognize that the larger the ship the slower the change of course when a new hand is on the wheel.

Twitter isn’t just an enormous ship. The vast bulk of the crew had been sailing her to a destination of their own choosing. In a sense, enslaving its users to power that journey. Those they agree with got amplified, those who they did not agree with faced several degrees of deceptive practices. Being banned actually didn’t bother me that much in one sense, because it meant no more wasted time thinking, responding and writing when it was clear they were artificially limiting my reach.

This is the algorithm we have all been waiting for, although some time ago, an employee did leak the interface Twitter used to do this very practice. Reinstating Trump was a powerful sign of the right intentions, and releasing his last tweets which they blocked and called for peace on January 6th, that was huge. It also means that Twitter was in the tank, not just for the Democrat party, but for a total revolution against the American system of justice. Against a truth-based reality. The legal term would be “hiding exculpatory evidence”. But this is much, MUCH bigger than that. This was a plot to foment hatred amongst factions of the American people to a degree that they would leave all their normal morals and limits behind and act to destroy America while thinking they are saving it.

The following Tweet by Elon is also a very good sign. But it isn’t a thumb on the scale. Its a leg.

4. Interesting FORBES article which they deleted but appears to still exist on the WayBack machine from February 5th 2010

Why The WHO Faked A Pandemic

The World Health Organization has suddenly gone from crying “The sky is falling!” like a cackling Chicken Little to squealing like a stuck pig. The reason: charges that the agency deliberately fomented swine flu hysteria. “The world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as a fake is wrong and irresponsible,” the agency claims on its Web site. A WHO spokesman declined to specify who or what gave this “description,” but the primary accuser is hard to ignore.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a human rights watchdog, is publicly investigating the WHO’s motives in declaring a pandemic. Indeed, the chairman of its influential health committee, epidemiologist Wolfgang Wodarg, has declared that the “false pandemic” is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century.”

Even within the agency, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology in Munster, Germany, Dr. Ulrich Kiel, has essentially labeled the pandemic a hoax. “We are witnessing a gigantic misallocation of resources [$18 billion so far] in terms of public health,” he said.

5. Airline Pilot Suffers Suspected Heart Attack During Takeoff, Later Dies

The co-pilot heard relaying to air traffic control, “We need to return. The captain is incapacitated… he’s knocked out. We’re going to need paramedics.”

The pilot of a Chicago flight bound for Columbus, Ohio, passed out suddenly after takeoff Saturday evening, prompting a co-pilot to make a return flight back to the airport.

The pilot, who was a captain in training for American Airlines subsidiary Envoy Air, later died at the hospital, according to reports.

In an audio recording of the interaction with air traffic control, the co-pilot is heard relaying, “We need to return. Captain is incapacitated… he’s knocked out. We’re going to need paramedics.”

Anyone under 5’8″ high might want to think about getting lift insoles.