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Teen sues NC high school after being suspended for using (completely accurate) term 'illegal aliens'

Megan Palin
New York Post
Fri, 10 May 2024 21:22 UTC

A 16-year-old North Carolina student has sued his high school for suspending him after he used the term "illegal aliens" in a question about an assignment.

Christian McGhee, who received a three-day suspension for using the phrase last month at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, has accused the school of violating his First Amendment rights in the lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday.

"Aside from the obvious fact that his words had nothing to do with race, his speech was protected under the First Amendment: he asked his teacher a question that was factual and nonthreatening, and officials could not have reasonably forecast that his question would cause substantial School disruption," the suit said.

Massive 100k-strong Trump beach rally in deep-blue NJ draws stark contrast to Biden's beach weekend: 'Biden could never'

Emma Colton
Fox News
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:38 UTC

Critics of President Biden are lambasting his beach vacation in Delaware while contrasting the Mother's Day weekend getaway to former President Trump's massive rally in the historically blue state of New Jersey on Saturday.

"Supporters camped out overnight at the beach for a Trump rally that starts at 5PM today in Wildwood. Joe Biden can't fill up a broom closet without staff, media, and angry protesters (sic)," one X user under the name "Bad Hombre" posted Saturday.

Trump held a beachside rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday evening as at least 80,000, and up to 100,000 supporters, joined the 45th president in the historically deep-blue state. Simultaneously, 24 miles across Deleware Bay, Biden arrived at his home in Rehoboth Beach for Mother's Day.

San Francisco slammed for $5M a year program to give free alcohol to the homeless: 'This isn't working'

Angela Barbuti
NY Post
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:23 UTC

A program that offers free booze to the homeless alcoholics that roam San Francisco caught flak this week when a tech CEO questioned the logic of feeding the addictions of the city's street dwellers.

Adam Nathan, founder and CEO of the small business AI marketing tool Blaze and the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco Metro Advisory Board, posted a thread on X slamming the program after watching a string of unhoused drunks line up for their shots, stating it "just doesn't feel right."

"Did you know San Francisco spends $2 million a year on a "Managed Alcohol Program?" It provides free Alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are mostly homeless," Nathan wrote on the social media site.

SOTT Focus: Let Them Eat Cake - The 2024 Met Gala

Elaine Wilson
Sott.net
Mon, 13 May 2024 12:14 UTC

You could be forgiven for thinking that the theme of this year's Met Gala event (purportedly the world's most prestigious fashion show) in Manhattan was "Fashion from the Capitol of Panem," with celebrities on the red carpet looking like they had stepped straight out of The Hunger Games. This year's display of wealth was livestreamed across many social media platforms, TikTok included, and I took some time to watch some of the show and see the outfits.

The theme of 2024 was 'The Garden of Time', which is inspired by the J.G. Ballard short story of the same name. For those interested the story is about a 15-minute read and can be found here.

Interestingly, the story is about a rich couple living in a lavish mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens with crystal flowers growing inside. When one of these flowers is picked, it turns back time for a period. A huge angry mob is seen advancing over the horizon running towards the villa, and in the evening the man picks a flower to turn back time and have the army retreat back, buying them a day or two. The number of flowers dwindles and the army gets closer and closer, until the last day when the couple spends their time cleaning and securing their material possessions. When there are no flowers left, the mob breaches the walls of the villa and time catches up on them. The villa is transported into an abandoned state, ruined and ravaged by time, and the couple are turned to stone, immortalized as statues beneath the balcony.

Germany 'considers conscripting all 18-year-olds', leaked military docs reveal

Natasha Anderson
Daily Mail
Mon, 13 May 2024 11:46 UTC

Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz (pictured May 8) said on Saturday that Ukrainians with a residence permit and work in Germany can stay even as Ukraine seeks to recruit nationals living abroad to serve in the war against Russia

Germany could bring back conscription for all 18-year-olds amid fears of an all-out NATO war with Russia, leaked military plans reveal.

Military planners are discussing three potential plans, two of which involve a compulsory military year for all men once they turn 18.

It is understood that officials are in the final stages of discussions with German defence minister Boris Pistorius expected to go public with official plans next month, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

Mr Pistorius, during a trip to Washington last week, said he was 'convinced' that Germany 'needs a form of military conscription'.

Comment: Germany seems to have forgotten 'never again' and is instead enthusiastically reviving old, bad, habits:

Fire completely destroys one of Poland's largest shopping malls

Reuters
Mon, 13 May 2024 11:33 UTC

A massive fire that broke out on Saturday night in a shopping centre in Warsaw almost completely destroyed the place, authorities said. Nobody was hurt during the fire.

The Marywilska 44 with almost 1,400 commercial units - including many kiosks - was among the biggest shopping centres in Warsaw. It was owned and managed by Mirbud (MRB.WA)

"Almost 100% of it was burned. The fire is being extinguished and this will take many hours, perhaps several hours," Mariusz Feltynowski, commander-in-chief of the State Fire Service told a news conference on Sunday.

He added that almost 200 firefighters were taking part in extinguishing the fire.

Comment: Footage:

What with the number of fires and explosions in recent years, there's good reason to conclude that some are intended to sabotage state operations, some are to disrupt energy and food supply chains, however there have also been other fires, similar to the above, and one wonders whether, what with economies rapidly deteriorating, if they're not basic arson, perhaps they could be insurance claims?

NPR CEO Katherine Maher hiding from Congress

Eli Lake
The Free Press
Wed, 08 May 2024 18:20 UTC

Rather than answer questions in person about bias at the network, Katherine Maher submitted written remarks that sound 'like a pledge drive.'

Where the heck is Katherine Maher?

The NPR CEO has not made a single public appearance since April 9, when The Free Press published a bombshell exposé by Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran at the network, alleging ideological bias at the institution.

Even today, when Maher was summoned by Congress to give testimony about whether NPR's news reporting was "fair and objective," she was a no-show.

Her excuse? The night before the hearing, she announced she could not attend because of. . . a previously scheduled board meeting.

Instead, Maher submitted written testimony drafted in the prose style of brand management consultants. According to Maher, NPR is "bringing trusted, reliable, independent news and information of the highest editorial standards" to tens of millions of listeners.

Comment: Given NPR's lunatic swing to the lefti-est of the Left, Maher is the personification of that stance:

Paradise of lies: How the West manipulates Africa through neocolonial media

Veronica Usacheva
RT
Sun, 12 May 2024 12:36 UTC

The battle for Africa's independence cannot be won until Africa has complete and undeniable control over its media, writes Rosalynde Ainslie in her book 'The Press in Africa' from the 1960s, one of the first books about the media in Africa.

Already in those times, it was clear that whoever controls the media controls a lot more than just the distribution of information. The media is a powerful weapon - it shapes public opinion, forms a specific worldview, and helps people identify their place in the world. For newly independent African countries, all this was very important.

Comment: Many of the points brought up also apply to the situation for many people living in Western countries, including those that were colonial powers in Africa. To argue this point, below are a few search terms and examples of articles on SOTT.net though the numbers of articles will probably be outdated in some cases.

Agents of chaos
Search: "Agents of chaos"
The meaning becmes more rich when one looks at the use in the results where the term appears in the text.
Title: 2 articles
Summary: 1 article
Text: 15 articles
Comment: 8 articles
Examples:
5th-gen warfare terms and tactics where there is:

Controlled opposition, disruptors and chaos agents. Historically, these tactics involve a protest movement that is actually being led by government agents. Nearly all governments in history have employed this technique to trick and subdue their adversaries. However, in 5th-Gen warfare, controlled opposition often may come in the form of disruptors and chaos agents. Either "real" people or bots that generate outrageous claims that delegitimize a movement (examples currently may (or may not be); "snake venom in the water" or "everyone is going to die who took the vaccine within two years". Another tactic is placing agents of chaos whose job is to basically disrupt organizations and events. This may also come in the form of "reporters" who assert fake or highly exaggerated news stories, and who most likely are funded by the opposition. "Undermine the order from the shadows " is the tactic here.

3) The article may leave the impression that Africa is mainly a consumer of content produced elsewhere, but this is not entirely true. Africa, or at least some of its countries, have very well developed film industries, see the Wiki for Cinema in Africa. The largest industry is Cinema in Nigeria, known as Nollywood. Many movies are available on YouTube, and it does not take much watching to identify a few differences.

Best of the Web: Medicine shortages in England 'beyond critical', patients at immediate risk of harm and even death, pharmacists warn

Denis Campbell
The Guardian
Thu, 09 May 2024 16:26 UTC

Drug shortages in England are now at such critical levels that patients are at risk of immediate harm and even death, pharmacists have warned.

The situation is so serious that pharmacists increasingly have to issue "owings" to patients - telling someone that only part of their prescription can be dispensed and asking them to come back for the rest of it later, once the pharmacist has sourced the remainder.

Hundreds of different drugs have become hard or impossible to obtain, according to Community Pharmacy England (CPE), which published the report. Widespread and often long-lasting shortages posed "immediate risks to patient health and wellbeing" and caused distress, it said.

Comment: It seems that the lockdowns exacerbated what was clearly a burgeoning issue, and, since then, the shortages have mostly worsened, and will continue to do so because little is being done to remedy it.

It's probably no coincidence that many of the same countries suffering these shortages are also seeing a surge in crime and rapidly crumbling economies - that hasn't, however, stopped them mobilising their governments and their raiding the taxpayer to give tens of billions of euros and dollars to Ukraine and Israel for warmongering and genocide.

It's rather telling that these same organisations were eager and able to mobilise their forces to roll out an experimental covid injection, but they're apparently unable to do the same for proven medications that people need to live. And this at a time when the health of a significant proportion of the population is compromised, and there are threats of food shortages:

Multiple plane mishaps revive scrutiny on Boeing

RT
Fri, 10 May 2024 21:38 UTC

One Boeing-made plane has crashed and three more have suffered technical problems this week, bringing renewed focus on the US aerospace giant's production woes.

A United Airlines 737-800 series passenger jet had to make an emergency landing about 40 minutes after takeoff on Friday. Flight UA166 from Fukuoka, Japan to Guam had reported a "problem with flaps."

In the early hours of Thursday, an Air Senegal 737-38J skidded off the runway during takeoff from the Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) in Dakar, Senegal. There were 73 passengers and six crew on board the flight to Bamako, Mali. Eleven were injured in the incident, four of them seriously.

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