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    Trust in News Media Continues to Plummet -
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    Welcome back to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

    Story #1: State Attorneys General Urge U.S. to Let Other Firms Make Gilead COVID-19 Drug
    https://bit.ly/3a0IJR5


    Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims
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    AstraZeneca To Be Exempt From Coronavirus Vaccine Liability Claims In Most Countries
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    Fort Detrick, Gilead & the 9/11 Anthrax Attacks: All Roads Lead to Dark Winter
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    Story #2: Patreon’s Ban of Comic Owen Benjamin Could Cost Them $20 Million
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    PDF: Patreon’s Injunction Against Owen Benjamin Backers Denied
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    Story’ #3: “Sobering” Report Shows Hardening Attitudes Against Media
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    PDF: “PERCEIVED ACCURACY AND BIAS IN THE NEWS MEDIA - A GALLUP/KNIGHT FOUNDATION SURVEY”
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    Ariana Pekary: Why I’m Leaving MSNBC - “This Cancer Stokes National Division”
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    WHO Issues Sobering Warning, Saying There May Never Be a Coronavirus Vaccine That Works Properly
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    Nicholas Sandmann Settles $250M Lawsuit with Washington Post
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    Neo-Nazis, Others Hold Massive Berlin Protest Against Virus Restrictions
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    For those who like to listen ...

    Radio is not a job; it's a way of life.
    You can't really ever leave it.
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    Robin Williams’ ‘rambling’ Joe Biden bit resurfaces 11 years later

    "Who needs comedy when you have politics?

    In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, a 2009 HBO clip of late comedian and actor Robin Williams talking about then-Vice President Joe Biden has resurfaced online, quickly going viral on Twitter.

    In the 30-second video, Williams, who would have turned 69 last month, doesn’t mince words.

    “There’s always ramblin’ Joe Biden,” said Williams in a stand-up routine. “Joe says s - - t that even people with [Tourette syndrome] go, ‘No.’ ”

    The resurfaced bit began circulating this week, and it came just days before Biden — the presumptive Democratic nominee — gave a disastrous interview with black and Hispanic journalists. During it, Biden said, “Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes.”

    Biden has long been known for his verbal blunders, and he addressed this most recent gaffe on Thursday night.

    In a tweet, Biden said, “In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all.”

    “Throughout my career I’ve witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community,” he went on. “It’s this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place.”

    In the 2009 routine, Williams pushed the matter further.

    “Joe is like your uncle who’s on a new drug and hasn’t got the dosage right,” he joked. “I’m proud to work with Barack America — ‘He’s not a superhero, you idiot — come here!’ ”

    Williams, who died in 2014, was known for his support of the Democratic Party."

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    Who wields the power online?

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    China is far ahead of the field when it comes to digitization. In 2013, Germany’s Chancellor called the Internet "uncharted territory." What does it mean for the economy when platforms become increasingly powerful and data more valuable?

    Thomas Derksen was once a savings bank employee in Cologne. Now, he is an Internet star in China, where he advertises German products and millions follow him online. His life there is very different to his life in Germany. Payments, pensions and bills - he only needs his mobile phone to organize his daily life. He says, "Digitization is a real revolution. And I don't think you can choose whether you want it or not, you have to go along with it."

    German online fashion retailer Zalando wants to catch up and become a platform as well. This documentary looks behind the scenes at the rapidly growing digital company. It explains how Zalando is using customer data to improve its fashion range. But how can you monitor the power of online platforms? The Chinese government has long been experimenting with facial recognition and social scoring systems. A visiting German business delegation discovers that new developments back home have long been old hat in cities like Shanghai and Hangzhou. The Chinese government is pushing ahead with digitization at high speed. As the camera follows the delegation into the interior of the powerful Alibaba platform, one German marvels at the unbelievable openness to new technology. In China, digitization means a lucrative future and a piece of global domination all rolled into one.

    Meanwhile, Dorothee Bär, Germany’s Minister for Digitization, talks to the filmmakers in an exclusive interview and talks about her work and her plans for taking Germany into the "Digital Age."
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    Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar


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    By analyzing and managing quantitative data ...


    Astrologers Were the Quants
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    Coincidence and correlation in the stars, from the founding of Baghdad to the New York Yankees to COVID-19 ... Read more


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    Marc Defant - Where Are All the Aliens?

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    Marc Defant discusses the apparent lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the wider galaxy, and the entire observable universe.

    The Fermi Paradox states the situation as follows: There are billions of stars in the Milky Way similar to the Sun. With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets. Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the sun. If the Earth is typical, some may have developed intelligent life long ago. Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step humans are investigating now. Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years. And since many of the stars similar to the Sun are billions of years older, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations, or at least their probes. However, there is no convincing evidence that this has happened. So the question is: Where are all the aliens?
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    Trini Lopez, singer and actor in
    ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ dead of
    COVID-19 at 83



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    "Trini Lopez, a singer and guitarist who gained fame for his versions of “Lemon Tree” and “If I Had a Hammer” in the 1960s and took his talents to Hollywood, died Tuesday. He was 83.

    Filmmaker P. David Ebersole, who just finished shooting a documentary on Lopez with Todd Hughes, confirmed that Lopez died from complications of COVID-19 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California.

    Mentored by Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra, Lopez became an international star while performing in English and Spanish. Unlike Mexican American singers such as Ritchie Valens, Lopez rejected advice to change his name and openly embraced his Mexican American heritage despite warnings it would hurt his career.

    “I insisted on keeping my name Lopez,” he told The Dallas Morning News in 2017. “I’m proud to be a Lopez. I’m proud to be a Mexicano.”

    Sinatra signed Lopez to his Reprise Records label after seeing him perform at a West Hollywood nightclub. They became friends and were spotted together regularly in social circles in Las Vegas and Palm Springs, California.

    Lopez also appeared in the film classic “The Dirty Dozen” and the comedy “The Phynx.”

    Born Trinidad Lopez III to immigrants from Guanajuato, Mexico, Lopez grew up in Dallas’ poor Little Mexico neighborhood. The family’s dire economic situation forced Lopez to drop out of high school and work.

    His life changed after his father bought him a $12 black Gibson acoustic guitar from a pawn shop. His father taught him how to play the instrument, which led the young Lopez to perform at Dallas nightclubs that didn’t allow Mexican American patrons.

    Buddy Holly saw Lopez at a small nightclub in Wichita Falls, Texas, and introduced him to Norman Petty, his record producer in Clovis, New Mexico. Holly died in a plane crash six months later, and Lopez briefly replaced him as lead singer of The Crickets.

    Lopez moved to Southern California and got a regular gig at P.J.’s Night Club in West Hollywood. Sinatra saw him perform and offered him a contract with his new record label, Reprise, where Lopez got his first major hit with “If I Had A Hammer.” It went to No. 1 in nearly 40 countries.

    He later helped develop a string of original Gibson Trini Lopez signature guitars from 1964 to 1971.

    Ebersole and Hughes recently finished shooting a documentary on Lopez called “My Name is Lopez.”

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    1349 What Happened To WWE MISS ELIZABETH & DANIEL BOONE?
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