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Best of the Web: Portland protesters barricade streets and declare new 'autonomous zone' outside mayor's residence


RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:00 UTC

Comment: You've been introduced to 'C.H.A.Z.' in Seattle. Now meet 'G.A.Z.'...


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© REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
Anarchists, protesters and activists have taken to the streets of Portland once again, this time establishing an "autonomous zone" outside the mayor's home, after their demands were not met at a city hall meeting.

Portland City Council voted to cut $15 million from the Portland Police Bureau budget, eliminating some 107 full-time positions, though mostly via vacancies and retirements, according to local media reports.

However, the protesters - who'd gathered in their thousands across the city for the 20th consecutive night in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, calling for racial justice and police reform - were not appeased by the budget cuts. In response, they established at least one new self-rule area in the city - the Glisan Autonomous Zone, outside Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's home.
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Flashback Best of the Web: What is the Zika virus epidemic covering up? Big Pharma vaccines, GM-mosquitoes, and frankenfood

Jagannath Chatterjee
Greenmedinfo.com
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:21 UTC
Zika
Correlation does not mean causation. Is the Zika virus being used as a scapegoat for Pharma's dangerous adverse effects?

The world of modern medicine has since its inception been one of controversies, scandals and cover ups. Each such episode has bettered the other and is done with a finesse that appears clearly criminal in intent. The Zika virus episode is one of the best examples of this and hides a very cruel agenda behind it.

On February 1st 2016, the WHO declared the Zika virus epidemic a global public health emergency. This was even before it formally sat for a Skype meeting on February 2nd. What caused this urgency? The Zika virus, WHO claimed, had caused an epidemic of microcephaly in Brazilian children around 4000 of who had been affected since October 2015. Microcephaly is a condition where children are born with a small size of the skull and sometimes with under developed brains.

Comment: For information on the 'Zika scaremongering epidemic' and the role Big Pharma and Big Ag play in this ongoing health controversy listen to recent episode of the Health and Wellness show.

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Best of the Web: Multiple scientists: Coronavirus was altered in a lab to better attach to humans

Ben Swann
Truth in Media
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:32 UTC
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Exclusive information. Multiple highly regarded scientists who have studied C0R0NAVlRUS say that the virus has been manipulated in labs to better attach to human cells.

Turns out, research on that very thing was conducted here in the United States until the research was banned in 2013. In 2014, the research appears to have resumed through funding to several labs in China through payments to Eco Health Alliance.

We break down the timeline.

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Best of the Web: The myth of white privilege

Moses Dube
Spiked
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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British capitalism was built on the ruthless exploitation of wage slaves, not black slaves.

One of the main arguments of the Black Lives Matter movement is that the legacy of slavery continues to inform 'white privilege' and structural racism today. It is an argument that is both historically illiterate and wilfully disingenuous.

The truth is that there is no relationship between slavery and white privilege. Slavery benefitted the emerging capitalist class of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries and no one else. Contrary to the BLM narrative, the history of slavery - and its relationship to the emergence of modern capitalist society - provides powerful grounds for overcoming racism, not perpetuating it.
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Best of the Web: Gaslighting the population: Two-metre rule reduced for pubs in Ireland 'IF customers leave after 90 minutes'

Kevin Doyle
independent.ie
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:30 UTC
Restaurant
© Mark CondrenRestaurant Association of Ireland chief Adrian Cummins said halving the physical distancing rule would be a "game changer" for the industry.
Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to reduce social distancing to one metre if they limit patrons to just 90 minutes inside their premises, the Irish Independent can reveal.

Fáilte Ireland has said today they are pushing for this to be increased to at least two hours.


Comment: One shouldn't indulge the madness.


The organisation has indicated that guidelines for hospitality venues to be issued ahead of the next phase of reopening Ireland on June 29 will include a reduced physical distancing threshold "in certain circumstances".

Tara Kerry, registrar and accommodation development manager with Fáilte Ireland, said told RTÉ Radio One today: "That is in the document and it is one of the things that we are seeking clarity on because we don't know what 90 minutes has been founded on so we are advocating that that goes to two hour at the minimum.

Comment: It doesn't make sense because it's based on lies, see: Everything You Think You Know About Coronavirus...

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Best of the Web: UCD professor Dolores Cahill fired from EU committee for speaking truth about Covid-19

Aoife Gallagher
The Irish Times
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:00 UTC
Prof Dolores Cahill
© Nick Bradshaw/The Irish TimesProf Dolores Cahill claimed people who recover from Covid-19 are ‘immune for life’ after 10 days.
Dolores Cahill promised to 'debunk' pandemic in interview with alt-right activist

A University College Dublin (UCD) professor, who chairs the Eurosceptic Irish Freedom Party, has been asked to resign from a leading European Union scientific committee over online claims she made about the Covid-19 pandemic.

In an hour-long interview with a popular alt-right activist on May 10th, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, Prof Dolores Cahill promised to "debunk the narrative" of the pandemic.

Comment: It sounds like UCD is the only institution in Ireland with any balls. The rest of them are feckless yes-men scared of someone with a different opinion, cancelling their peers for wrong-speak.

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Best of the Web: The 'Miracle of Salisbury': Script by the Guardian, directed by BBC

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 01:03 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alex McNaughton
It turns out that the BBC really does believe that God is an Englishman. When the simple impossibility of the official story on the Skripals finally overwhelmed the dramatists, they resorted to Divine Intervention for an explanation - as propagandists have done for millennia.

This particular piece of script from Episode 2 of The Salisbury Poisonings deserves an induction in the Propaganda Hall of Fame:
Porton Down Man: I've got the reports from the Bailey house

Public Health Woman: Tell me, how many hits?

Porton Down Man: It was found in almost every room of the house. Kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms. It was even on the light switches. We found it in the family car too. But his wife and children haven't been affected. I like to think of myself as a man of science, but the only word for that is a miracle.
Well, it certainly would be a miracle that the family lived for a week in the house without touching a light switch. But miracle is not really the "only word for that". Nonsense is a good word. Bullshit is a ruder version. Lie is entirely appropriate in these circumstances.
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Best of the Web: China reimposes lockdown on Beijing, blaming 'Coronavirus resurgence'

Lily Kuo
The Guardian
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 07:07 UTC

Comment: This time around, the Chinese authorities have no excuses; like Western govts, they by now KNOW this virus is benign...


Beijing paramilitary police
© Roman Pilipey/EPAParamilitary police officers wearing protective face masks stand guard next to the closed Xinfadi market.
Authorities in Beijing have locked down residential compounds and fired officials over a new Covid-19 outbreak, as health officials warned the risk of the outbreak worsening was "very high".

On Monday, authorities announced 49 new cases, 36 of which were linked to the Xinfadi seafood supermarket in Beijing's southern Fengtai district. The wholesale market was closed on Saturday after it was identified as being at the centre of a new cluster of cases.

"The risk of the epidemic spreading is very high, so we should take resolute and decisive measures," Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the Beijing city government, said at a press briefing on Monday. On Sunday he said Beijing had entered "an extraordinary period".

As of Monday, a total of 21 residential communities, housing about 90,000 people, near Xinfadi as well as a second seafood market in Haidian district, where cases linked to Xinfadi were also confirmed, had been closed off. Residents have been ordered to quarantine at home and undergo tests for the virus.
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Best of the Web: Corbett Report: Rosemary Frei on how the high death rate in Care Homes was created on purpose

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:31 UTC
Care Home Covid
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Comment: This was first introduced by medical journalist, Rosemary Frei, writing for the OffGuardian, May 26, 2020. At the time, Rosemary Frei detailed the horrendous conditions in Care Homes in Ontario (possibly not so dissimilar to other areas around the world), along with the medical procedural and policy steps that helped to make it so. Here James Corbett conducts an excellent interview with Rosemary Frei.

Currently, as families come to grips with the loss of their loved ones from within these Care Homes, they are rightly asking 'who hath done this thing' to their very dear family members - who are also members of society, least we forget. Their questions of accountability are pouring in, including what is being discussed here by Rosemary Frei. Many others have similar stories.

The government-supported media are doubling down, deflecting these horrors back upon Care Home providers singularly, providers who were faced with near-impossible conditions thrust upon them (and obviously they bear responsibility). However, Care Home providers were mandated to follow their Health Ministry 'how to' policies that directed the outcome of this awful and unnecessary human story. This next question becomes; who wrote and demanded that these policies be followed and who (no pun intended) directed their hands in writing said policies?

In response to this carnage of the elderly and infirm, the best that a Canadian leader could come up with was: "It is deeply disturbing." Yes, most normal people would agree with the Prime Minister's statement, albeit for different reasons as they become more aware.

To date, almost all alleged Covid-19 deaths in Canada were from within Care Home facilities while hospitals remained largely empty.

Read the May 26th article by Rosemary Frei for background: Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?


Rosemary Frei has an M.Sc in molecular biology from a faculty of medicine and was a freelance medical journalist for 22 years. She is now an independent journalist in Canada. In her recent article, "Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?" she examines how all of the rules and guidelines pertaining to elderly care, death certification and treatment of bodies in Ontario have been changed during the course of this "crisis" in order to increase the numbers reported "dying of COVID." We discuss the reasons behind these changes and what they tell us about the real nature of this pandemic panic.

Comment: Note that Dr. Huyer was made responsible to report to the government back when those horrid Wettlaufer murders took place. As Rosemary Frei reminds, Huyer's report (affidavit) discussed transparency in Care Homes, including investigation responsibilities: 'death investigations'. Thereafter, and as discussed in the above interview, policies Huyer helped create for Covid washed away any transparency. Death became a non-investigation if Covid could be made the claim. Having a runny nose was a claim...

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Best of the Web: UNHRC joins pile-on against US police's 'systemic racism,' but US military makes police brutality look like amateur hour

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:49 UTC
military police
© Reuters / Brian Snyder
The UN Human Rights Council has joined the worldwide protests taking aim at racism and police brutality among US police forces. But where are these voices when the US military kills millions in the Middle East and Africa?

Burkina Faso, speaking on behalf of 54 African nations, requested an urgent debate on "racially motivated human rights violations" - specifically systemic racism and police brutality - in the US, and the UNHRC has agreed to hold the debate on Wednesday. But compared with what US military policy has wrought on the populations of the Middle East and northern Africa, police killings are a blip on the radar.

The UNHRC debate is the latest grand public statement in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, and speaks to a growing disconnect between what has become a laser-focus on US policing and awareness of the much greater harms caused by Washington's foreign policy - harms that are just as racialized, if not more so, but which mysteriously fly under the radars of activist groups.
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