California Universities Now Destroying Books After Digitization

Farenheit 451, 1984 or Brave New World, take your pick. It is ironic but not surprising to learn that the educational institutions in California, the global capital of crazy, whose denizens like to proclaim it is the most liberal and progressive state in the Union, is the place where book burning in the free world has begun. Now let me say at this juncture there is nothing intrinsically wrong with burning books if they are damaged or surplus to requirements but when the book burning is an effort to destroy a document of record that once commited to print cannot be changed, the initiative takes on a more sinister aspect. Anybody who has even a competent amateur's understanding of how the internet's storage and retrieval systems work will understand that digital media is not a suitable means of ensuring a definitive and unalterable record of information exists.

A few years ago Californian  universities were caught removing and even destroying library books after digitizing them, a process critics warn leads to 1984-style censorship in which only “corrected” copies of books remain. UC Berkeley in particular was found to have removed 135,000 books from its school library, claiming that by digitizing the books, library space can be reused for meeting rooms and “nap pods.”  

Putting aside the fact that libraries have existed since the Middle Ages as vaults of knowledge safe from tampering; in comparison, the way universities are disappearing books after digitizing them allows anyone with a “politically correct” agenda a way to alter books during digitization – including important texts on history, science and humanities – without anyone ever knowing. Academics and supporters of the political left (where the virtual book - burning mentality seems to reside,) may protest that the people who run universities would never do such a thing, but stories like this give the lie to such self - righteous bollocks:


An Iowa State University instructor has issued a warning to students that if they express opinion that isn’t in line with support for Black Lives Matter protesters, or if they hold pro-life opinions they could be dismissed from the institution.
“No arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc.”

The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) raised a red flag over the warning on a syllabus by Chloe Clark, in which she wrote “Any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, sorophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, body shaming, etc.) in class are grounds for dismissal from the classroom.” CONTINUE READING >>>
Clark added “The same goes for any papers/projects. You cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic human rights as you do (i.e. no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc.)”
The Daily Caller notes that the YAF was alerted to the warning through its Campus Bias Tip Line.
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Exposing the bigotry and hypocrisy of the left in such stories makes no difference however, these people are so full of their own virtue they see what they are doing as righting history's wrongs rather than suppressing free speech and other inalienable human rights.

The removal of 60% of the physical collection at the science library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, for instance, caused an uproar after it was reported that many of the books removed had been destroyed, a story reported the Christian Science Monitor revealed. “A campus spokesman said that nothing had been lost from the scholarly record, since duplicates were retained in other libraries or available online.”

“Given the short timeframe and seeming lack of consultation of the faculty, however, many critics expressed doubts that this was actually the case.” 

This, of course, draws parallels to the novel 1984, in which the protagonist, Winston, works at the Ministry of Truth altering books and important texts while sequentially destroying the original sources to hide the evidence of tampering. In reality, it’s certainly plausible that SJW student-workers digitizing books at a university could “correct for history” by altering or downright removing passages from books that don’t conform to their world view.

Remember, these are the same activists who demand restrictions on free speech if it “offends others” and demand the removal of historical war memorials if they trigger “micro-aggressions” – and college campuses are now breeding grounds for this ideology.

“Suppose they do scan or digitize entire libraries. What then? Will it not be far, far easier for systems of authority to control or manipulate access to historical information?” Asked attorney Quintus Curtius.

“How can we be sure that the University of California will not one day decide to prevent access to all works written before 1950 as being ‘offensive’ or not in tune with political correctness?” “When it comes to our precious cultural heritage, we cannot place our faith in the same institutions that have been betraying that same heritage for the past 40 years.”

On a similar note, Google’s Vint Cerf warned we are heading into a “digital dark age” because digitalized documents will eventually be lost or lack compatibility with new formats. The latter is already more-or-less the case with eBooks which suffer problems converting between different formatting standards.

“Old formats of documents that we’ve created or presentations may not be readable by the latest version of the software because backwards compatibility is not always guaranteed,” said Cerf.

“And so what can happen over time is that even if we accumulate vast archives of digital content, we may not actually know what it is.” 

The far left, in the USA and Europe are embarked on a very dangerous project, one that can only end in blood or fascism. If they had any sense they would take a long hard look at who is bank rolling this project and they will understand that neither option is a good outcome for the working classes and the poor, the very people leftie virtue signallers claim they are fighting for.

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Latest COVID Scam development a step too far?

Anyone who reads our news sites and blogs (ant there are plenty of tem, listed at the foot of the page,
will know by now we at Greenteeth Digital Publishing and The Daily Stirrer think the COVID 19 Coromavirus pandemic is a hoax, a scam, a move by the corporate, financial and political elites to establish a global government that will not in any way be democratic.

The latest plan for total control over the minutiae of citizens lives announced by the UK government might just be the tipping point beyong which we ordinary punters will take up our pitchforks and cudgels and say "No more. We will not surrender our freedoms to a bunch od testicularly deficient pen pushers."

What is this plan, other than a load of elitist bollocks? you might well ask.

Latest COVID Pandemic Scam development a step too far?

 

We've all become Covid experts over the past few months. Not, of course, world class experts loads of degress in relevant subjects and a list of qualifications and honours as long as an elephant's dick. not the kind of experts who strut confidently up to the podium at a session of the Government' scientific advisory panel Sage and make a recommendation that is so out of touchj with the reality of what has been going on in the world for the past six months it does not even rank as stupid. So when yesterday's Sunday papers yesterday gleefully the news that the government is considering a recommendation to make the over-50s shield (i.e. put themselves under house arrest) through autumn and winter in the event of a second wave. As someone who left his fifties behind two decades ago but in that 20 years has seldom had even the mildest symptoms of a cold and has to-date enjoyed robust good health in spite of ignoring ALL the government's ridiculous, scaremonhering advice, I am quite determined to continue on my chosen course. All over the country my generation, the flower power hippies of the 1960s social revolution or baby boomers as the media insist on calling us, seems to have had the same reaction to this notion – an outpouring of disgust and snorting derision. As the columnist Sarah Vine, aged 53, put it: “We are the backbone of the nation, economically and socially. We look after the elderly and the young. We pay the most taxes. Lock us up and everything grinds to a halt. Talk Radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer, 52, concurred, saying: “Since when have those of us in our 50s been at high risk? What a load of nonsense.”

Nah, everyone understood what you were saying. Some are just choosing to pretend they didn’t. It’s called “Twitter”.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) August 2, 2020

Ms Hartley Brewer is absolutely right. The most recent NHS data for coronavirus deaths in hospital shows that 53% of deaths were in people over 80 (15683 out of 29344). A further 38% of deaths were in people aged 60-80. Only 9% of deaths in hospital were in people under 60. And those deaths that took place outside of hospital will overwhelmingly be in care homes - so by definition among the very elderly. The idea of telling over-50's to lock themselves in their homes *should* be plainly nonsense. But this government is so frit that it just might be true. Since Sunday ministers in Boris Johnson's cabinet have been seeking to play down the implications of this latest unscientific nonsense from the government's scientific advisers, with Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi doing a round of interviews on morning TV and radion this morning in which he described the shielding story as “speculation” and “inaccurate”. Now that’s hardly a robust rejection of the idea of the sort that would kill the story stone dead, it isn't, for example, NO WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO PUT OVER 50s UNDER HOUSE ARREST FROM NOVEMBER TO NEXT MAY AND WILL NOT DO THAT IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, but it’s a denial of sorts. Everything that Boris & Co. are doing has been aimed at achieving one objective above all others: to keep this fake 'Corona crisis' going. COVID-19 death rates have collapsed to a level that if this were seasonal flu, no government in the past (or anyone else) would even be thinking about it - but this government still carries on with its deliberate destruction of the UK economy, and its fraudulent 'social distancing', and masks, and lockdowns rules and recommendations - desperately trying to find more ways they (and the media) can keep the fear level up. They endlessly cite totally meaningless 'Corona case' and 'Corona infections' numbers - even though they know that they do not signify any increased risk to anyone ... they order more and more testing despite the fact that the man who invented the tests being used said his testcannot and was never intended to identify specific diseases because it's all they and the media have got, to desperately try to keep the fear level up, and to prevent their Corona scam operation from collapsing. If people's fear level drops, then how can the authorities justify continuing their fraudulent masks, 'social distancing', quarantines, lockdowns, etc.? And how will they be able to force the entire population to be injected with their supposed 'vaccine' - upon which hundreds of billions in profits for Big Pharma depend - if people are no longer sufficiently scared of the Corona virus - a virus which has never had a mortality level above that of seasonal flu, but which they and the media hyped into something akin to the Plague, distributing wholly fraudulent 'Corona deaths' numbers to get people to believe that? Not only unimaginably vast profits to be made by the people who have bought their services - Big Pharma, Bill Gates & Co. - but a whole political agenda to destroy the economies of the West, and to install an Orwellian 'new normal' regime on the entire Western world depends totally on keeping their Corona scam operation going. But even the snivelling ninnies who have so far been willing to believe all the propaganda and to demand that the rest of us abandon the power to think for ourselves and believe along with the herd are starting to smell a rat. The only thing these criminals running the Corona scam operation can do to keep this totally manufactured 'crisis' going would be to release a new virus to get people cowering in fear again. But some of us are willing to ask the question The Powers That Be do not want to be asked:"Sweden is already over this crisis - and they used no lockdown, did not trash their economy, did not incur staggering levels of debt, did not use 'social distancing' or masks - Netherlands have rejected masks and full lockdown and their economy is holding up, so WHY THE HELL are you doing the exact opposite of that?" And of course Boris and his gang of fraudsters, working for Big Pharma, the wannabe Pan - Galactic evil emperror Bill Gates and the cultural Marxist advocates of globalism in the United Nations running the Corona scam worldwide, will not have any answer to that question - because this is all a scam - the biggest deception operation in history. The moment anyone starts to scrutinised the narrative, it collapses. Unfortunately we the people have figured out this is a mild disease, the hospitals are empty, Doctors are being banned from talking about HCQ (Quinine) which we have been denied by our government because it does not make enough profit for the big Pharma corporations, but which apparently is proving highly effective in poorer countries, as a cure or suppressant. Instead we have been ordered to wear muzzles in public places. These muzzles are not for suppressing the disease. They are of course for control, a means of learning how far we will tolerate being stripped of our freedoms. If they were a genuine necessity and effective the authorities would specify the type. At the moment, a paper bag will do. 

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