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THE BIRTH OF THE FAKE NEWS

The event was the First Imperial Press Conference, 1909 in Shepherd’s Bush, Crystal City, London.

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Ok @JoeNBC, let's talk college free speech & #CancelCulture, a thread:

1. @OleMiss fired Garrett Felber, a celebrated anti-racism history scholar who spoke up on UM leaders' relationships with 'powerful, racist donors' & ties to mass incarceration.

Read: https://t.co/0eDlpsUPq6

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

3. Faculty fear it's an effort to fire the ombudsman.

"People would be terrified of speaking up because people who speak up get hammered at this university. There is no place to go except the Ombuds office."

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

4. UM's EORC, which enforces Title IX, is leading the effort to unmask the #UMEmails whistleblowers on "hostile work environment" allegations after they exposed a web of racism and sexism on campus.

Campus free speech & cancel culture (cont.):

5. When someone at UM journalism school leaked an audio recording that could've revealed a wealthy donor was behind racist emails and photos, a "witch hunt" ensued to find the "treacherous"

Alright, folks. You may have seen that the FDA was in a fight with distilleries last week.

Let's unpack what happened, why it happened, and why it's now resulting in some extremely unusual behavior by HHS.

Thread below. Follow if you're interested.

If you're like most people, you might have stumbled across a few news items in this past week talking about how the big-bad-FDA was deciding to screw over distilleries with a $14,060 fee.

It should be noted that the only reason distilleries were being charged this fee was because they had been permitted by the FDA to make hand sanitizer.

It basically sounded like "no good deed goes unpunished by the government." Reddit's

The problem is that this is a wildly incomplete picture of what happened and why it happened.

So let's look at what did happen, and you can decide for yourself where the blame lies.

Let's start with some regulatory background here.

Hand sanitizer is regulated as an over-the-counter (OTC) product. Under that regulatory approach, entities which adhere to an FDA "monograph" may market an OTC drug without obtaining explicit FDA approval.

When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectively for they are the friends of anyone engaged in a struggle to save the planet from rampant kleptocracy and the excesses of Billionaire media control.
This thread draws on their 2009 work "Newspeak in the 21st Century"

In it they have created a list of Key issues that should have been debated by Politicians, Academics and the media, concerning Climate change issues. All three groups have not only failed to debate it, but have actively tried to blot them out of the discussion. List as follows:-

1 A capitalist system that places Corporate Shareholder Profits above ALL else, represents an inherently biocidal, indeed psychopathic logic. How does this corporate immorality dodge any discussion that is relevant to the industrial destruction of global life-support systems?

2 Corporations have consistently worked to deliver short-term profits over human and animal welfare. Look how they fought links between smoking/cancer; junk food/obesity; fossil fuel use/climate change; factory farming/animal suffering, high salt/Sugar diets and illness.

3 A relentless corporate lobbying campaign of elected governments to introduce, shape and strengthen policies to promote and protect unelected private power.
Still largely unchallenged by the corporate media a decade after this book was published