Posted on 10/17/2021 4:58:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A brave employee calls out his own organization and other mass media.
Ole Skambraks is very brave mid-level employee of German public broadcaster ARD, an organization with an annual budget of $8 billion and multiple television and radio services. He writes that he can no longer remain silent about the lopsided coverage of issues related to COVID-19 and its countermeasures, and has published what amounts to a cry from the heart at a website called Multipolar Magazin, available in German, English and French. I take it for granted that ARD does not approve of his essay, and use of their logo here is only for informational purposes to an American audience that may not understand its size and prestige in Germany.
The situation in Germany and most other countries in Europe is similar to that in the United States, with only one viewpoint allowed, even though it changes over time. Mass media act as enforcers of the orthodoxy.
What follows are excerpts from the English Language version of the article. I urge readers to read the entire thing but will provide excerpts.
Skambraks writes from an idealistic posture, calling on his organization to live up to its ideals as a public broadcaster.
From the beginning, I felt that public service broadcasting should fill precisely this space: promote dialogue between advocates of measures and critics, between people who are afraid of the virus and people who are afraid of losing their basic rights, between vaccination supporters and vaccination sceptics. For the past year and a half, however, the space for discussion has narrowed considerably.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” ~ George Orwell
A review of how deaths from coronavirus are counted in England has reduced the UK death toll by more than 5,000, to 41,329, the government has announced.
The recalculation is based on a new definition of who has died from Covid.
Previously, people in England who died at any point following a positive test, regardless of cause, were counted in the figures.
But there will now be a cut-off of 28 days, providing a more accurate picture of the epidemic.
This brings England’s measure in line with the other UK nations.
Note: “regardless of cause”.
We are not stupid. At least the UK admits their corrupt data.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Anywhere on the planet.
He missed a prime opportunity to call out the fake racism outrage.
You can't call something the China virus because that's deemed racist, but you sure as hell can call something the Indian variant!
In his entire posting article, it can be read at (published at North Hessen Journal), https://nordhessen-journal.de/covid-ard-redakteur-schreibt-offenen-brief-zur-corona-berichterstattung/
It has been reposted around various sites around Germany, and drawn discussion. There are 13 key questions that he asks....which no one from public news media has been able to answer.
I would add, in the past four weeks...it’s shocked a few people in the country that the national authority which has published ‘trusted numbers’ for well over a year....now admits that the vaccination numbers they have...are wrong. Vaccination-wise, they suggest now it’s closer to 84-percent of the population vaccinated...but they can’t say it with absoluteness.
Scientists and experts who were respected and esteemed before Covid, who were given space in public discourse, are suddenly labelled cranks, tinfoil hat wearers or Covidiots.
Hydroxychloroquine is a drug known for decades and used routinely against malaria and rheumatic disorders.
Last year, the drug was suddenly deemed dangerous. The statement by then-President Donald Trump that hydroxychloroquine would be a “game changer” did the rest to discredit the medication.
The political reasoning no longer allowed a scientific debate on HCQ.
The scariest thing about the censorship and the cancel culture is that is worldwide.
We are all in this together—the tyrants are trying to turn everyone into slaves.
From the outset, the message given in public discourse was that vaccination was the only way out.
The WHO even went so far as to change the definition of “herd immunity”, implying that it can only be achieved by vaccination and no longer by previous infection, as was previously the case.
Repression of contrary views, anathema to real science is now firmly established.
In the United States, it is already being discussed whether criticising science should be labelled a hate crime. The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a grant of 13.5 million dollars to censor misinformation in the health field.
The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations drafted and financed the WHO guidelines for digital vaccine passes. These passes are now being rolled out everywhere. Only with these passes will public life be possible – whether you want to take the tram, have a coffee or get medical treatment.
An example from France shows that this digital pass will stay even after the pandemic ends. MP Emanuelle Ménard demanded the following addition to the legal text: The digital vaccine pass shall end when the virus spread no longer presents a level of danger which justifies its use. Her proposed amendment was rejected.
Thus we are but a small step away from global population control or even a surveillance state via projects such as ID2020.
Could you source that? Would be useful info in other discussions.
Orwell is turning out to be a pretty smart guy.
Not the statement from the government agency, but this might suffice?
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53722711
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
/SB
Another one here from UK Gov blog, August 2020 (sic!)
digital passes don’t work if someone doesn’t have a cellphone.
Hence, manditory vaccines for ALL gubmint employees (Alberta, Calgary, etc.). Of course, exemptions for religious reasons exist. 
How many exemptions so far in Alberta and Calgary? ZERO!
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