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Best of the Web: How LGBT nonprofits and their billionaire patrons are reshaping the world

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Transgender ideology is being pushed on us by corporate interests through their philanthropic arms.

In an August 2018 New Yorker article, Elizabeth Kolbert asks, "Are today's donor classes solving problems or creating new ones?" Kolbert describes a form of charity that aims to not just help people but to improve them. This "improvement" aligns with the giver's particular vision of what constitutes improvement, of course. And the people who need to be improved are treated as children — for whom the donor, naturally, gets to decide what is best.

Kolbert describes how this form of giving becomes exploitation. We might add: not just exploitation, but elite-driven, highly self-interested social engineering. We see these characteristics on brilliant display in the philanthropy behind the modern LGBT movement.

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Arrow Up

Russian finance ministry plans to seize unexplained bank funds & transfer them to pension pot

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It's not quite Robin Hood, but it's close. Russia's Ministry of Finance is planning to transfer the confiscated suspicious savings of Russian citizens to the country's pension fund, according to newly proposed amendments.

So, if you can't prove where your money came from, it's going to the old folks.

As things stand, illegally held assets can be seized by the state. If the proposed new amendments pass through parliament, any money taken because the owner can't prove the source of the moolah will be sent to the Russian Pension Fund (PFR), which is responsible for payments to pensioners and other forms of social security.

Comment: This is a program that would likely be popular with a significant majority of citizens in the West, too: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France


USA

United Nations official suggests Trump administration is violating "protesters'" rights

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This is what we have been warning about.

For over a month, the United Nations has been carrying out a 'human rights investigation' against the United States. First, they were investigating the US over "systemic racism." They ordered the United States to crack down on police officers, otherwise the UN would mount an intervention. Yes, this is really what the UN Human Rights Council said last month...

When they learned that only 9 unarmed black people were shot by police last year, and of them, only two were not in the process of attacking a police officer or bystander, the UN shifted their strategy. They realized that they cannot launch a blue-helmet intervention on such a flimsy basis.

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Bizarro Earth

Iran fires missile at mock US aircraft carrier during Strait of Hormuz war games

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Amid Iran-US tensions, Tehran's troops have practiced overpowering an aircraft carrier - using a mock-up in lieu of the real thing - during a massive exercise. The fake warship was attacked from the air and circled by speedboats.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched the final leg of The Great Prophet joint exercise on Tuesday, deploying troops from several of its branches. The drill was held in the southern province of Hormozgan as well as the western part of the Strait of Hormuz.

One of the highlights of the exercise was the assault on a mock aircraft carrier, made to resemble the Nimitz-class ships of the US Navy, complete with models of warplanes parked on its deck. Iranian paramilitary forces fired a missile from an attack helicopter and rappelled a commando unit onto the ship, while speed boats were circling around it, footage of the drill released to Iranian media shows.

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Bad Guys

SOTT Focus: COVID Advances New World Order — The Empire of Billionaires

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The COVID-19 pandemic is being used to facilitate the efforts of a select few to create a one-world government with power concentrated in the hands of an elitist group of billionaires.

In March 2020, the United Nations New World Order (UNNWO) announced their annual International Day of Happiness global campaign, along with a call for solidarity and unity in the global fight against COVID-19.1 The campaign theme, according to UNNWO, was:2
... a call on all 7.8 billion members of the global human family, and all 206 nations and territories of planet earth, to unite in solidarity, and steadfast resolve, in fighting back against the COVID 19 Coronavirus ...

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Biohazard

Best of the Web: Eco-genocide, genetically engineered mosquito armies and subduing populations

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The enemies of life are breeding their own agents of ecological destruction aided and abetted by an incompetent EPA and a rubber-stamp government in Florida, which just gave unanimous approval for the release of hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes by a company with deep ties to Bill Gates, the US military, and Big Ag.

In a move sure to stun future generations — should we survive long enough to have any — seven Florida government agencies, including those charged with protecting its health, agriculture and environment, made a complete mockery of the trust afforded to them by the people of the state to oversee these vital matters and may have just pulled the trigger on a catastrophic environmental collapse.

The unanimous approval to allow the deployment starting this summer of over 1.2 billion genetically modified mosquitoes in Key Haven, Monroe County, Florida over a period of two years could very well decimate a substantial part of Florida's natural flora and fauna, taking dozens of endangered species to the brink of extinction and irrevocably changing the habitat of the thousands of local birds, plants, amphibians and insects that make up Florida's ecology.

Network

That's rich: Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests

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Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary, including highly personal details, for their investigations into the company's data and marketplace, the U.S. social media group said on Monday.

Facebook has been under EU competition enforcers' scrutiny since last year, with one investigation focused on its trove of data and the other on its online marketplace launched in 2016 and used by 800 million Facebook users in 70 countries to buy and sell items.

The company has since then provided 315,000 documents equivalent to 1.7 million pages to the Commission.

"The exceptionally broad nature of the Commission's requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the Commission's investigations, including highly sensitive personal information such as employees' medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees," Facebook associate general counsel Tim Lamb said in a statement.

"We think such requests should be reviewed by the EU Courts."

The Commission said it would defend its case in court.

Comment: Privacy violations: okay when Facebook does it, not when others do it to Facebook.


Bullseye

Where's the outrage over Britain providing training on 'how to be a better despot' for some of the world's dodgiest regimes?

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New evidence shows that the UK is hosting intelligence training for some of the world's most oppressive regimes, which have been involved in numerous atrocities. Why is it not being held to account for this?

The news that Britain is once again knee-deep in some seriously sordid affairs is disappointing, but hardly a surprise. In today's increasingly globalized world, it's nigh-on impossible to remain free from any connection to questionable regimes.

But the Queen's government has sunk even further, as it's reportedly been actively reaching out to despots, dictators and democracy deniers, according to documents obtained by Declassified UK.

It's been sending out a glossy sales brochure to entice the world's rogues to sign up and learn how to abuse their power more efficiently.

NPC

The man who wasn't there: Biden campaign declines Fox interview, one week after Chris Wallace's Trump sitdown

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During his interview with Chris Wallace last week, President Trump questioned whether the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, could handle the barrage of questioning that Wallace posed to Trump.

The answer to that question - at least for now - we may never know.

Wallace on Sunday informed viewers that the Biden campaign told Fox News he was "not available" for an interview.

"In our interview last week with President Trump, he questioned whether his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, could handle a similar encounter," Wallace said. "This week, we asked the Biden campaign for an interview and they said the former vice president was not available."

He added, "We'll keep asking every week."

The Trump campaign has hit Biden for months for abstaining from holding rallies and news conferences while continuing to do interviews amid the coronavirus pandemic. While Biden recently has returned to the stump, Trump and his allies continued to mock the former vice president for "hiding" in his home in Delaware.

Biden's reticence to do public events, however, has done little to hurt his candidacy as the latest polls had Biden comfortably ahead of Trump both nationally and in key battleground states.

Chess

Russia sends official letters of protest after embassies of US, UK & Canada fly LGBT pride flags in Moscow

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Russia's foreign ministry has sent notices of protest to the Moscow embassies of the United States, Britain, and Canada, after the three buildings flew rainbow flags in June, recognized in some countries as LGBT Pride Month.

Embassy staff of the three nations violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, as well as Russian law, according to Vasily Piskarev, who heads Russia's commission investigating foreign interference. The commission noted that the LGBT pride flags appeared "during the voting period on amendments to the Russian Constitution, which enshrined provisions on the protection and preservation of traditional family values."

In late June, the US Embassy in Moscow hung the rainbow flag from a window, alongside the country's famous Stars and Stripes, with the embassy's Instagram page announcing that "LGBTI rights are human rights. Human rights are universal. Pride Month is designed to emphasize that everyone deserves to live a life free of hate, prejudice, and persecution."

In some countries, LGBT Pride Month occurs in June, on the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, when members of New York's gay community fought back against local police who regularly raided the city's gay bars.

The Americans were followed in turn by the Brits, and then the Canadians.

In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the rainbow flag "shows something about the people who work there."