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Best of the Web: Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar 'in solidarity with Black Lives Matter'

Alex Frank
The College Fix
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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Also pledges to decolonize the writing center.

The English Department at Rutgers University recently announced a list of "anti-racist" directives and initiatives for the upcoming fall and spring semesters, including an effort to deemphasize traditional grammar rules.

The initiatives were spelled out by Rebecca Walkowitz, the English Department chair at Rutgers University, and sent to faculty, staff and students in an email, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

Walkowitz sent the email on "Juneteenth," which celebrates the commemoration of emancipation from slavery in the United States.

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Best of the Web: Men's Rights attorney and advocate Marc Angelucci slain by hitman disguised as delivery driver

Corrine Barraclough
Spectator Australia
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:39 UTC
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On the Saturday before last, July 11, just before 4 pm, my dear and wonderful friend Marc Angelucci was at his home in Glenwood Drive, Cedar Pines Park, California with friends.

There was a knock at the door.

One of his friends' answered, but the delivery man said he had a package that Angelucci needed to sign for.

Marc went to the door.

Shots were fired.

A car sped away.

His friends called for help.

Paramedics arrived.

Angelucci was pronounced dead at the scene.

On a Saturday afternoon, at his own front door, formidable lawyer Marc Angelucci, 52, was murdered.

Comment: The above article was published on Monday, July 20th. Just a few hours earlier, on Sunday July 19th, a hitman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver shot dead the son of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Angelucci was assassinated a week earlier on July 11th. (Note one difference between the two: in Angelucci's case, the hitman specifically requested that he come to the door to sign for a package; in Salas' case, the hitman did not appear to request Esther Salas herself.)

Now the media is linking the two deaths - which obviously are linked, given the shared modus operandi - but with the somewhat spurious suggestion - based on leaks from "anonymous law enforcement officials" - that their suspect in the Salas home attack was "men's rights attorney and activist" Roy Den Hollander, that he "held a grudge" against Salas, and now, despite shared interests as "men's rights attorneys", that he also "held a grudge" against Angelucci (according to "a friend of the family").

The Atlantic has in the meantime published a synopsis of "thousands of pages written by Hollander, and uploaded in bulk to the Internet Archive." The outlet provides no links to this content, and no screenshots, so we have to trust them that this "manifesto" is indeed out there somewhere. A search of the username Atlantic provided ("Roy17den") on "the Internet Archive", by which Atlantic presumably means this site, yields no such "thousands of pages of documents.")

Granting The Atlantic the benefit of doubt by assuming that the content is indeed written by Hollander, then he did seem like a "man on a mission" to "show Feminazis what's what." More than that, some of the quotes selected by Atlantic suggests a highly unstable individual - so unstable that he claims to have "contacted my buddies at the GRU" in order to "get those Clinton emails for Trump in 2016."

If an attorney-at-law involved in some fairly high-level cases in the USA were seeking to attract the FBI's attention, the CIA's attention, the NSA's attention, and the Mueller Investigation's attention, that is precisely what he would write and publish online. And yet it never landed him in hot water. Clearly then, anything that is claimed to have been written or said by Hollander - who is now dead remember, and thus cannot contest it - must be treated as suspect.

So what are we, for now, looking at?

Three dead bodies - one the son of a judge, the other two attorneys - all ostensibly connected by men's rights issues. Look deeper though and the judge in question was 4 days into investigating Jeffrey Epstein's banking with Deutsche Bank, while the now-dead suspect in both killings has a history with a US-Israeli-linked private intelligence firm.

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Best of the Web: Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Largest floods in Chinese history wipe out the country's food & grain supply


Adapt 2030
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:27 UTC
The Kwanyin temple built on a rocky island in the middle of the Yangtze River is seen flooded as the water level surge along Ezhou in central China's Hubei province
© Chinatopix Via APThe Kwanyin temple built on a rocky island in the middle of the Yangtze River is seen flooded as the water level surge along Ezhou in central China's Hubei province on Sunday, July 19, 2020.
The largest floods in the last 400 years are beginning to overwhelm China's central cities and surrounding grain growing and agriculture zones. At present 100+ million people will need to evacuate. With the unfathomable losses of food production, China will need to go on a buying spree unlike the world has ever seen for food imports. This will start with rice from Asia and move to every continent. The images in the video will give you an idea of the situation, and the precarious events our world will witness. Gold, silver, cryptocurrency, how will China pay for it all?

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Best of the Web: Vote Democrat... and Watch America Burn

Mike Whitney
The Unz Reader
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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"...This is the most dangerous time in the history of man. The seriousness of this plot cannot be underestimated. It is not due to any threat of conventional war or nuclear decimation, it is based on the fact that this is a psychological war waged by psychopaths against all mankind, and it is being advanced by a small group of monsters that have taken control of the minds of the masses through long-term indoctrination and policies meant to breed dependency." Gary Barnett
Which political party supported the protests, riots and looting that spread to over 400 cities across the country? Which party supported the toppling of historical monuments and statues across the country? Which party's elected officials think that the government does not have the right to defend federal property from vandals, rioters and thugs in Portland? Which party allowed a vicious mob to seize control of an area in central Seattle and declare its own sovereign nation? Which party looked on approvingly while the country descended into a "society-wide upheaval that included.. mass riots — the magnitude of which have not been seen in the U.S. since at least the 1960s." (Michael Tracy)

Which party's governors imposed lockdowns that pushed the economy into freefall destroying millions of jobs and businesses? Which party's governors issued edicts mandating the wearing of masks without a vote by the representatives of the people? Which party's leaders conducted a 3 year-long coup claiming the President of the United States was a Russian agent? Which party launched impeachment proceedings based on spurious claims that were neither serious nor verifiable? Which party has stubbornly refused to accept the 2016 presidential election results and has done everything in its power to deepen political antagonisms and polarization? Which party worked with members of the elite media and the intelligence community to infiltrate the Trump campaign with confidential informants, electronic surveillance, and other illicit skulduggery aimed at sabotaging the election and derailing Trump's political agenda?

Which party is using a public health emergency to perpetuate a state of hysteria aimed at exerting greater control over the population? Which party is deliberately prolonging the Covid restrictions in order to destroy what's left of the eviscerated US economy? Which party has shown time and again that it does not serve the interests of the people but the cadres of elite globalists that now have the Constitutional Republic in their crosshairs and plan to erase our history, our icons, our traditions, our culture, our identity and even our most heartfelt ideals in order to establish a new order governed by technocrats, financiers and plutocrats? Which party is not a party at all but a fifth column determined to subvert the elected government and divide the country into warring factions?

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Best of the Web: 'Russia Report': Once-mighty British intelligence has been reduced to regurgitating sensationalist Buzzfeed stories

Paul Robinson
RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:49 UTC
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© Getty Images / Richard Baker / In PicturesCopies of the London Evening Standard newspaper lead with a headline about government ministers' controversial decision to hold back until after the current general election on 12th November 2019, in the City of London, England
The 'Russia Report' gives us an insight into the dearth of genuine expertise available to British officials on Russia. It also introduces a new style of investigation: Seeking evidence to support predetermined judgements

On Tuesday, the British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a 50-page report detailing its views on the danger Russia poses to British security. "The security threat posed by Russia," the report says, "appears fundamentally nihilistic... It is clear that Russia poses a significant threat to the UK on a number of fronts - from espionage to interference in democratic processes, and to serious crime."

The report further argues that the British intelligence community "took their eyes off the ball" and the government "badly underestimated the Russian threat." In particular, the government and its intelligence agencies failed to investigate claims that the Russian state had interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The government, however, has rejected the committee's demand that such an investigation now take place.

Comment: This phenomenon is not isolated to the UK. The US intelligence community - 17 agencies we were told! - initially supported the Russian collusion narrative, and we know what happened there. At the same time, and on the whole, it seems that the UK's anti-Russia narratives come quite close in their level of deceptiveness to the US!

A small sampling:

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Best of the Web: 8 WEEKS later, body found in Minneapolis pawnshop that was torched in race riots

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMax It Pawn was burned down during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
A charred body was found in the wreckage of a Minneapolis pawnshop this week — nearly two months after the building was burned down in the protests that followed George Floyd's police-custody death.

Investigators were acting on a tip when they found the man's body in the rubble of Max It Pawn on East Lake Street in south Minneapolis, police spokesman John Elder told the Star Tribune.

"The body appears to have suffered thermal injury and we do have somebody charged with setting fire to that place," Elder told the paper.

Comment: 8 weeks later. That's how bad the situation is/was. Whole portions of US cities are just being written off.

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Best of the Web: Twitter to suspend 150,000 accounts tweeting QAnon 'conspiracy theory' that Trump is 'under attack from Deep State'


newshub.co.nz
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:13 UTC
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Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims 'deep-state' traitors are plotting against US President Donald Trump.


Comment: Because clearly only lunatics would ever even countenance such a premise.


Twitter, which announced the change on its Twitter Safety page, said it would not serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in trends and recommendations, and would block URLs associated with the group from being shared on the platform.

The suspension, which will be rolled out this week, is expected to impact about 150,000 accounts globally, Twitter said.

Comment: Bashing/banning QAnon is to go after low-hanging fruit. What people miss is WHY it has proven such a draw: barmy on most issues, it nevertheless alludes to something that is fundamentally true; psychopaths, conspiracies and diabolical schemes abound in high places.

Because essentially everything the media reports is false or superficial, anyone genuinely interested in 'seeing beyond the lies' to something approximating 'the truth' must necessarily engage in speculative 'depth thinking'. Often their pattern recognition is off, but sometimes it's real close. Dangerously close, as far as the 'perception managers' are concerned.

So the system of course responds by setting up psy-ops like QAnon, precisely to attract those Seers and to derail them into false hope. By banning them, they of course only 'confirm' that 'Q' is correct, and that its believers must continue to 'trust the plan', i.e. trust that Big Brother really loves them.

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Best of the Web: Arkansas National Guard begins relocating 'positive Covid-19 cases' to 'quarantine isolation facility'

Vanessa Paige
msn.com
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
Via thv11.com


Comment: This was quietly reported in local US media last week. Together with the story about the Arkansas couple who were raided by S.W.A.T. and placed in ankle monitors and enforced house arrest, there appear to be 'trial attempts' afoot to see how far they can go with physically putting people into camps...


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And this is being done by a REPUBLICAN-controlled state...
Arkansas National Guard medics are gearing up to help staff a quarantine isolation facility.

Thursday, the Arkansas Department of Health shared more info about its run and its purpose.

"We signed up to do this job and it's just everything that we've wanted to do," Arkansas National Guard Private First-Class Bailey Hile said.

Starting next week, 14 Arkansas National Guardsman will be assisting with the only quarantine isolation facility in the state.

"We have come in basically to assist the staff that is already there. We are providing patient care, we are providing meals to patients," Hile said.

They'll help with everything from supplying clothing and doing laundry to providing three meals a day and monitoring patients' health.

Comment: Years ago - decades, even - many Americans braced themselves for 'FEMA camps' and 'black helicopters' sent by a faceless N.W.O. under the pretext of 'disaster management'. This was of course held up as an example of 'paranoid conspiracy theory'...

Well, a phony pandemic (insofar as it's not a mortal threat to the general population) later, 'camps' are indeed in the works.

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Best of the Web: Engdahl: Is America's 'second wave' of coronavirus a political hoax?

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC
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For several weeks, just as most states across the United States began to reopen, following three months of lockdown to "flatten the curve", several states including Texas and Florida began reporting record new numbers who tested positive for the coronavirus. At least that is what the world is being told. More careful investigation suggests what is unfolding as a huge manipulation of coronavirus tests that includes collusion by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the same CDC who badly bungled initial rollout of the virus tests in March by distributing tests that were found to contain traces of the virus and other serious defects. The present scandal bears the earmarks of more than mismanagement. It looks like political collusion to influence the November election and far more.

It seems that today something is very, very rotten in the State of Texas. The same for Florida, California, Arizona and many other states who just after reopening, now have again imposed lockdown and the foolish and ineffective mask-wearing and social distancing. Yet if we look at the actual data for deaths attributed to the coronavirus, since around the middle of April, the daily deaths designated of COVID-19, whether "with" or "of", has steadily dropped to a level some 90% below the peak.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Ultimate Insanity of the Covid Lockdown - Interview with Sott.net Editor Joe Quinn

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Best of the Web: UK expects 1.3 million lockdown-related job losses as furlough scheme ends

Claire McNeil
The Guardian
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:00 UTC
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© Simon Walker/HM TreasuryRishi Sunak was criticised for not wearing a face masks during a publicity trip to Wagamamas.
As news rolls in each day of a fresh round of job losses, fatalism seems to have set in. Forecasts suggest that as many as 1.3m jobs could be lost as the government's furlough scheme ends; and unemployment could hit a terrible new high of 4 million people by the end of the year. However, all sides of the political debate seem to have conceded that the flagship job retention scheme will have to end soon for most businesses.

But if we look abroad at countries like Germany, France and Switzerland, mass unemployment and job destruction on such a scale is not seen as a price worth paying in a recession. Instead, state-subsidised "short-time working" schemes kick in across the economy, so that firms cut fewer jobs and employ more people, even if some are on shorter hours. This means that workers can hold on to their job on reduced hours, and companies avoid the costly process of firing and re-hiring. This is in stark contrast to the UK's all-or-nothing job shedding.

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