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A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America (2021) [ebook]
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| Size | Seeds | Peers | Completed |
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| 6.6 MiB | 1 | 0 | 240 |
What really happened behind the scenes at the Trump White House during the COVID pandemic? When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation.
Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered. Did the Trump team really bungle the response to the pandemic? Were the right decisions made about travel restrictions, lockdowns, and mask mandates? Are Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx competent medical experts or timeserving bureaucrats? Did half a million people really die unnecessarily because of Trump’s incompetence?
So far no trusted figure has emerged who can tell the story straight—until now. In this unfiltered insider account, Dr. Scott Atlas brings us directly into the White House, describes the key players in the crisis, and assigns credit and blame where it is deserved. The book includes shocking evaluations of the Task Force members’ limited knowledge and grasp of the science of COVID and details heated discussions with Task Force members, including all of the most controversial episodes that dominated headlines for weeks.
Dr. Atlas tells the truth about the science and documents the media’s relentless campaign to suffocate it, which included canceled interviews, journalists’ off-camera hostility in White House briefings, and intentional distortion of facts. He also provides an inside account of the delays and timelines involving vaccines and other treatments, evaluates the impact of the lockdowns on American public health, and indicts the relentless war on truth waged by Big Business and Big Tech.
No other book contains these revelations. Millions of people who trust Dr. Atlas will want to read this dramatic account of what really went on behind the scenes in the White House during the greatest public health crisis of the 21st century.
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Thanks!
I noticed there is an .m4b audiobook version of this available as well. I usually prefer .mp3 copies, but the inAudible program can convert .m4b to .mp3 from what I remember...
Possible for you to upload it, good sir?
The punters might golf clap! ;-}
UPDATE: Doh! You uploaded it before I wrote this reply. Golf clap! 👏
Upload
Yes I randomly decided to convert it and upload it after my comment here. https://concen.org/node/43027
I guess .m4b files are for iPhones and iPods and can remember where you left off when playing it. But is otherwise just one gigantic audio file, as opposed to chapterized split .mp3 files. I should share a link to inAudible somewhere on the ConCen forum sometime. It's a great program... but is usually hidden on private trackers on their tutorial forums.
filename length problem
Like others, I appreciate this upload, but I'd like to mention that I'm unable to download it due to a limitation on Linux systems with respect to filename lengths. Transmission was unable to deal with the .torrent file due to the length of its name. :(
Fortunately, I was able to pick up the e-book from another source.
Update: Hmm. It seems that the problem isn't simply with the length of whatever files are part of the torrent, it has to do with the length of the .torrent file itself, at least under Transmission and other bittorrent clients under Linux. Before discovering that I could pick up a copy of the e-book from the other source I mentioned, I tried using a different client (WebTorrent). Though it took a very long time for the download to start (about a half hour), it did finally start up and complete, with no problems.
In any case, I think it's still best to try to keep the length of the .torrent file rather shorter, since some LInux clients do have problems with longer ones.
Thanks!
Filename
I also had a problem with the filename and folder name when I made an mp3 audiobook of this title - not a problem with this particular torrent and ebook. But the title of the book is so long that it caused an error in the program I was using to make an audiobook. I manually changed the folder and filename and then it worked okay...
TheCorsair00 wrote:
It's hard to find good programmers because it's hard to program well. I'm far from perfect at programming, but I'm smart enough not to impose artificial limits on string lengths which cause my programs to fail to handle file names. If the OS can handle it, then the program must, or it's a failure.
filename length workaround?
Hmm. Well, though I don't know that TheCorsair00 is suggesting that a similar fix might be possible in the case of having problems downloading torrents with long names, I thought I'd ask if anyone has any suggestions for a workaround anyway. I think that there's no easy fix, since the torrent name is embedded in the .torrent file itself. Here's how that file starts in this case:
As we can see, in the line that begins with "0000240," where the torrent name starts, the full name of the torrent comes from the .torrent file, so simply changing the name of that file would make no difference; I think it would be necessary to be able to edit the .torrent file itself, which is likely not a simple matter.
1martian wrote:
The only (and easiest, and safest) way is to use well written programs. Poorly written ones are not just inconvenient, they are also security risks.
Correct. Torrent files are binary encoded. The infohash, used to identify the torrent, is calculated using the filenames of the contents. Changing a filename changes the infohash, therefore changing the torrent completely.
Editing parts of the torrent file manually that are used to calculate the infohash breaks the torrent file. A well written client would notice a broken torrent file and refuse to load it. Transmission might not.
FYI, Fedora Linux is my main OS. I use rtorrent with the web interface rutorrent for my seeders, qBittorrent and Tixati for various workstation tasks, along with mktorrent with some home spun scripts for the rest.
ConCen wrote:
Thanks for sharing further technical details about torrents. It is a fascinating topic, but hard to find helpful explanations online.
Also, nice to learn about your torrent-client setup. cheers
I use rutorrent, but it corrupts a lot of torrents quite frequently. weird, wild stuff
1martian wrote:
The length of this file name is well within Linux's maximum.
Transmission is unable to deal with plenty. It doesn't conform to the bittorrent standard.
I don't want to seem callous, but I'm not going to limit myself because of buggy software. May I suggest you use software that conforms to Linux and bittorrent specifications?
ConCen wrote:
Yeah, I know, and I discerned from the fact that I was able (with some difficulty) to download the content of the torrent using another client. I think I've also experienced this problem using other Linux-based clients, like qBittorrent. I'll do a test using that client after I re-assemble my main computer (I'm replacing the mobo - long story). I'll report back to those who have contributed to this thread when I have what seems to be any interesting and/or useful info, since I don't expect folks to monitor comments to this torrent. (Is there any way to be informed when new responses are posted to a thread? I tend to think not.)
1martian wrote:
Please do post an update. I also use Transmission on my Mac (mostly because it just "works" without crazy installs or subscription required), but I recently had issues sharing torrents for filename-related issues which other torrent clients did not face.
About updates: you're right, there is no way to automate feed updates, but I and some others read all comments here regardless :)
PS - y'all get the
PS - y'all get the Shakespeare reference in the title, right?
Willy the shake
Yeah - from Romeo and Juliet, but I think the actual words are a pox on your house!
Speaking of Shakespeare, several years ago, I came across a number of video interviews with Petter Amundsen, who is an organist in Norway with an interest in cryptographic writing. Petter makes what looks like a plausible case for the much-debated contention that "William Shakespeare" is not the author of the plays and sonnets attributed to him, and that there are a number of messages encoded into the "First Folio" editions of various of the plays. To get a taste of his thinking and speaking, take a listen to the two-part interview series done with Petter for Forum Borealis. Perhaps, after I'm able to get stuff off of a failed disk drive I can post other videos, including one documentary featuring Petter's work that was aired on TV in Norway.
It may take a few months before I'm able to recover and upload the videos I mentioned, but there's likely a lot that can be found online about the subject for the interested researcher to discover. Beware, though, since this rabbit hole is a very deep one!
Thanks for those references!
Thanks for those references! I will explore them all :)
Why do you think? So far as I know it is "plague" in the original, but has morphed in to "pox" in modern times:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/421709/why-has-the-plague-on...
There are many references to the word "plague" throughout his plays:
[edit: I posted the wrong link to plague references below. Here is the correct one:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-shakespeare-actu...
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/a-plague-both-your-houses/
This thought-piece tries, unsuccessfully in my opinion, to argue that Shakespeare's plays were born out of the plagues of the early 1600s:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/24/shakespeares-great-escape-...
However, it is VERY clear that the social-distancing of the "great" Bubonic plague of the 1660s gave Newton the time to formulate his ideas: he retreated to the countryside as part of then-physical distancing to wait out the plague.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/12/during-pandemic-isaac-...
As a result, we may conjecture that the plague impacted our history by allowing a Newton to come on to the world stage: there has (arguably) never been a more influential mathematician and scientist than Isaac Newton. So much so, in fact, it took an "Einstein" to depose his ideas!