Last Week Today Episode 168 Show Notes for Monday, September 30th, 2024
Cdn. Public Health Agency Proud of It’s Persuasion Tactics During Covid, Censorship & More Censorship, Big Tech Giants Want Nuclear Power Plants, Former CDC Head Embraces Trump & Bitcoin.
Canada’s Public Health Agency Proud of it’s Persuasion Tactics During Covid.
Rebel News is reporting that the Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) new Behavioural Science Office (BeSciO) has released its “first report” on the persuasion tactics it’s been using to insure compliance with public health edicts and regulations over the last few years.
As outlined in the September 27th, 2024 Rebel News post, “Public Health Agency of Canada releases first report on psychological manipulation of citizens,” the report raises ethical concerns over transparency in how taxpayer money is used to influence public behavior.
According to the report:
behavioural science (BeSci) as a multidisciplinary field that studies human behaviour and decision-making by integrating psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences. It emphasizes the importance of understanding psychological, sociocultural, and systemic factors that influence decision-making, enabling practitioners to create effective solutions that impact behaviour-based outcomes.
As outlined in the Rebel News post, BeSciO has:
…joined forces with the Office of the Chief Public Health Officer, the World Health Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Behavioural Insights Team, to name only a few.”
As such, it’s important for the public to be prepared for the “crazy ideas” coming down the pike, as stated by WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus during a strategic roundtable on behavioural science for better health in 2022.
Essentially, the government of Canada has been manipulating citizens, using technologies and methodologies favored by propagandists at the UN and the World Health Organization (WHO) to implement public policy favorable to those organizations, using Canadian taxpayer dollars.
The Rebel report suggests that most of those involved in the initial BeSciO report were not credited for their contribution to the report and that the Canadian government “employs behavioural scientists in various, less transparent roles beyond public health.”
The August 30th, 2024 BeSciO report, “The Public Health Agency of Canada's Behavioural Science Office (BeSciO): The First Two Years – April 2021 to March 2023,” is available on the Canadian government’s website.
Except for the Rebel report, there hasn’t been any legacy media coverage on this topic.
A quick Google search indicates similar public health units in Australia (The Behavioral Insights Unit of the Victoria government) and various universities.
Where once we told governments what to do, now governments tell us what to do.
Also in the News this Week
Censorship, Censorship Everywhere.
Online news services are reporting that European Union (EU) censorship initiatives limited millions of citizen posts during the recent EU elections and likely influenced the outcomes in key jurisdictions.
The September 28th, 2024 Reclaim the Net post, “Newly Released Documents Reveal Big Tech Limited Millions of Posts During EU Elections,” discusses big tech activities from Meta, TikTok, Google and the European Commission official described as being intended to “protect the integrity of elections.”
The Reclaim the Net post follows on the the heals of other publications, including the September 26th, 2024 Free Speech Union post, “Big Tech faces scrutiny for censoring content in European Elections,” and the September 24th, 2024 Brussels Signal post, “Big tech deboosted millions of posts during EU elections.”
Of course, this isn’t the only recent series censorship initiatives seemingly being rollout using plans formulated using plans originally discussed by UN and WEF representatives.
They include, but are not limited to:
The Australian Combating Misinformation Bill.
Telegram Will Now Share Users’ IP Addresses and Phone Numbers With Governments in Response to Legal Requests. This was done after the French government arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, holding him in prison until he complied.
More Censorship is coming to YouTube, at least according to this September 24th, 2024 Sonar21 - Larry C. Johnson - Counter Currents on Bitchute post, “More Censorship at YouTube: Why Now?”
Even the US based National Review, one of the legacy media’s premier free speech publications, is noting Special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry’s recent comments in its September 29th, 2024 post, “John Kerry Says the First Amendment Is Getting in the Way of Online Censorship.” Kerry doesn’t seem to think that’s censorship is a bad thing.
In Canada, the situation is no better. Recent instances include:
The September 30th, 2024 Global News post, ”Salad bar extremism’ has come to Canada, intelligence report says,” seems to think that the latest terrorists are fuelled by a “mix” of difficult to discern views rather than a coherent ideology. But don’t worry, the government will define the right mix before arresting the criminals.
A recent Ontario Privacy Commission ruling has rejected the public release of a list of “300 far-right groups,” being watched by government.
The list was funded by a $400K Liberal government grant through the Federal government’s Public Safety Canada department and compiled by Ontario Tech University “anti-hate” researcher Dr. Barbara Perry, who doesn’t want to give it up.
As outlined in the September 27th, 2024 True North post, “Ruling bars public release of “300 far-right groups” list funded by Liberal gov,” Perry’s work, has gained significant attention in mainstream media and has been cited while crafting legislation. Perry once promised to release the list, but seems to have changed her mind.
The proposed new crime of residential school “denialism” as outlined the September 26th, 2024 National Post story, “NDP MP tables bill seeking to criminalize residential school 'denialism.”
In essence, the worldwide erosion of free speech continues.
It even seems popular in some quarters, at least as outlined in the September 20th, 2024 Reason post, “Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil's Censorship in Open Letter.”
Most of these initiatives seems to start in places like the WEF and the UN, as noted in the September 23rd, 2024 Reclaim the Net post, “UN Pushes for Global Control with New Pact: Digital IDs, Censorship, and Surveillance at the Core.”
Big Tech Giants Want Their Own Nuclear Power Plants
Big tech giants looking to develop artificial intelligence are repurposing large commercial grade nuclear reactors to provide the massive power generation capacity needed to store and search the world’s online transactions, plus grow the database needed to support current online AI models.
As outlined in the September 30th, 2024 Axios post, “Nuclear power's AI renaissance,” the data centers needed for the proposed AI revolution:
…have an insatiable thirst for energy. Major stakeholders — in Washington, Silicon Valley and beyond — see nuclear energy as one of the answers.
The post references a number of potential opportunities including:
The US Energy Department’s $1.5 billion loan to stake the revival of the Holtec Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan. It'd be the first American nuclear plant to be restarted.
Tech giant Microsoft unveiling a $1.6 billion deal to restart a dormant reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 2028.
OpenAI’s recent pitch to the White House to build multiple 5 gigawatt data centers — each requiring the equivalent output of five nuclear plants — across the U.S.
The Bill Gates-led TerraPower program, which has begun the preliminary phases of building a sodium-cooled fast reactor in Wyoming.
In Canada:
Ontario is beginning public hearings on building its first new nuclear reactor in a generation.
B.C.’s Conservative Party wants the province to reconsider its nuclear energy ban.
So Canadians are at least attempting to jump on the bandwagon. But not everyone is convinced the financial soundness of the potential renaissance of nuclear power.
Ed Dowd, a Founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, a global macro alternative investment firm who first systematically the large number of people “dying suddenly” in his 2022 book, “"Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022” calls the plans to build infrastructure for AI, a “bubble.”
According to September 19th, 2024 post on his Facebook page:
The infrastructure build for AI is the bubble. The AI 2.0 companies that can actually figure out a way to monetize it are the investments years from now. Might as well light a match to this fund. The infrastructure build like the telecom infrastructure during the dotcom boom will be oversupplied and pricing will collapse.
Others have different ideas and, as outlined in the September 27th, 2024 Glenn Beck on YouTube post, “Elites want nuclear power for THEM, but NOT for you?!,” a few even believe the nuclear power will be reserved for the elites, but not us.
Damn “conspiracy theorists.”
Former CDC Head Embraces Trump
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, plus admitted to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he "got everything right."
RFK Jr. explained how he was appalled to find out that Redfield, who he was extremely critical of, was endorsing Trump.
The September 24th, 2024 Newsweek editorial “Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America's Children Healthy Again. It's a Good One | Opinion,” is another example of the slow thaw of feelings towards Trump from the legacy media.
Even CNN is trying a more moderate tack with its September 30th, 2024 post, “2024 campaign: Trump-Harris briefed on Helene’s aftermath as VP candidates prepare to debate.”
Are American media outlets beginning to rediscover nuance? Here’s hoping.
Trump and Bitcoin,
Republican candidate Donald Trump is known to have embraced bitcoin
As outlined in the September 30th, 2024 New York post story, “Donald and Eric Trump reveal their plan for an American (financial) revolution — with a crypto launch,” Trump is investing money into crypto.
But, as noted in the September 30th, 2024 Insider post, “Crypto bros could swing the 2024 election,” both democratic and republican fundraisers are hoping to harness the crypto billionaires to their cause.
Here’s a piece Freedom Forum found through Fox News. It’s a piece we call “Trump using Bitcoin.”
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RE: Cdn. Public Health Agency Proud of It’s Persuasion Tactics During Covid,
On Monday, September 23, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide recall on remdesivir, which goes by the brand name Veklury. https://www.thehealthy.com/healthcare/drugs-medicine/news-remdesivir-recall-september-2024/
November 26, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) is conditionally recommending that remdesivir not be used in patients with COVID-19, regardless of how severe the disease is. The WHO released its recommendation and guidelines on November 20, 2020. Health Canada reviewed the WHO considerations and recommendations and chose not to make any immediate changes to the status of remdesivir in Canada at that time.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/remdesivir-update.html
An extended family member in Canada age 67 was rushed to hospital by ambulance due to lack of oxygen in 2022. Diagnosed with pneumonia he was treated with remdesivir against family strict instructions ‘not’ to administer remdesivir. He entered hospital on a Thursday and by Sunday was dead.
Trump-RFK-Musk-Thiel unholy alliance trickery https://artofliberty.substack.com/p/derrick-broze-the-trump-rfk-musk
When individuals accept that individually and collectively we get what we tolerate, the blame game ends and doors to new opportunities open that otherwise remain closed.