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Danish paper refuses to print political ad campaign with Mohammed caricatures over safety concerns


RT
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:31 UTC
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© REUTERS/Scanpix/Martin Sylvest Andersen/Eric Gaillard
A Danish daily credited with starting a debate over criticism of Islam has said it will not print cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as part of a political advertizing campaign, due to alleged safety concerns.

Jacob Nybroe, editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, said his newspaper will not participate in an ad campaign launched by a Danish political party, the New Right, which will feature caricatures of the founder of Islam as a way to "show support for the victims of Islamic violence" and make it clear that Denmark won't "bend when we are threatened with violence, murder, and terror."

The adverts, run in collaboration with the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, will include cartoons used by French schoolteacher Samuel Paty in a lesson about freedom of speech. A radicalized Chechen refugee beheaded Paty earlier this month in retaliation for the lesson.

Comment: TheLocal.dk reports:
The anti-immigration party holds four out of the 179 seats in the Danish parliament. On its website, the party launched a fundraiser to "publish advertisements with the drawings of Charlie Hebdo in Danish newspapers."

In Danish media circles the initiative was greeted with mixed responses. Poul Madsen, editor of tabloid Extrabladet said they would only decide on the advertisements when they saw them and "not before."
Vermund
© Philip Davali/Ritzau ScanpixPernille Vermund from the New Right party at a charity event last year.
"We condemn Muslim terrorism and 100 percent support France, the murdered and freedom of speech but always with careful regard to our employees and those especially vulnerable,"Madsen posted on Twitter.

Vermund said she was "not at all certain it will be possible" to publish the drawings. "But as a politician my obligation is that the development of society goes towards more freedom of speech not less," she said.

Cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed were published by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005, leading to widespread protests and anger among many Muslim communities, to whom depictions of the prophet are forbidden.

The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, like other European newspapers, then republished them in 2006 in defence of freedom of speech. In 2015, the newspaper was the target of a jihadist attack that killed 12 people, among them journalists and cartoonists.
It's notable that, just as France was preparing the enforce another unwanted lockdown on the country, multiple terror attacks suddenly occurred.

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USA

Too Little Too Late: Ex-Green Party candidate Jill Stein wins right to expose possible flaws in Wisconsin voting machines after 4 years battle


RT
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
US Voting Machine
© Reuters / Brian Snyder
Former Green Party candidate Jill Stein has won a grueling four-year legal battle to inspect the software running Wisconsin's voting machines and publish what her team finds - but too late to run the analysis before 2020's vote.

The Stein 2016 Recount Campaign finally crushed an attempted gag order by machine mega-manufacturer Election Systems & Software, they announced on Friday, winning the right to inspect the source code of the machines used in Wisconsin and release her team's conclusions about the accuracy and reliability of the software to the public.

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Heart - Black

Cov-idiocracy: Covid-19 restrictions enact sinister form of child abuse that may destroy entire generation

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Covid vaccine to children
© Reuters / Aly Song
Draconian Covid-19 control measures are depriving children of the social contact they need to develop mentally and physically into functional adults. Even so, we are told these restrictions protect the vulnerable.

Experts have acknowledged that young children returning to in-person classes after a semester or more of lockdowns and isolation will be playing academic catch-up. However, the literature on education's "New Normal" is noticeably light on the psychological ramifications, especially for the group most severely impacted by these measures: very young children and infants whom the Covid-19 response may have barred from reaching critical developmental milestones. Are these kids to be sacrificed on the altar of the Great Reset?

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People 2

Pro-choice abortion supporters hold biggest-ever protest against Polish government

Christian Davies
The Guardian
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:15 UTC
Poland abortion
© Kacper Pempel/ReutersDemonstrators in Warsaw protesting against the near total ban on abortions in Poland.
About one hundred thousand protesters took to the streets of the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Friday, in the largest demonstration of popular anger directed against Poland's ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) since it assumed office in 2015.

Protests have been held across the country since Poland's constitutional tribunal declared earlier this month that abortions in instances where a foetus is diagnosed with a serious and irreversible birth defect were unconstitutional. Such procedures constitute about 96% of legal abortions in Poland, which already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.

On Wednesday, pro-choice activists called a "women's strike" that attracted over 400,000 people to protests in over 400 towns and cities across the central European nation.

Comment: Meanwhile in New York activists have been pushing for abortions to be legally performed under any and all circumstances:
Starting with the signing of New York State's "Reproductive Health Act", many states are now moving towards ensuring that abortion is legal under all conditions, to the full term of pregnancy, even to the point where perfectly viable, birthed babies may be killed after delivery if the mother so desires.
See also: Poland's national women's strike sees mass walkouts in opposition to near-total abortion ban

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Padlock

Macron orders France under de facto house arrest following Germany with new lockdown orders


Planet Free Will
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:14 UTC
Macron
© REUTERS/Ints KalninsFrench President Emmanuel Macron
Both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced fresh lockdowns of their citizens on Wednesday.

France will head into the new lockdown starting Friday under which citizens can only leave home to go to work, to go to school, for a medical appointment, to give assistance to loved ones, for essential shopping or for physical exercise, as DW reports.

The latest restrictions also include (courtesy of DW):
  • Travel between regions is banned
  • Bars, restaurants and nonessential businesses will be closed
  • Work must be done remotely wherever possible
  • Universities and higher education will mostly be taught online
  • International borders will be largely closed
What will be allowed:
  • Schools will remain open
  • Essential businesses will remain open
  • Most public services will remain open
  • Factories, farms and construction sites can continue work
  • EU borders will remain open
  • French citizens can return from overseas
  • Retirement homes can accept visits
  • Funerals are still possible

Comment: As a result of the measures, protests broke out Paris:





...and in other cities, including Toulouse:


...as well as gridlock in Paris as people tried to leave before the confinement rules kicked in:




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Eye 1

Masks are a distraction from the pandemic reality

Joseph A. Ladapo
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:17 UTC
Viruses inevitably spread, and authorities have oversold face coverings as a preventive measure.

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© Charles Krupa/Associated PressA man wearing a protective mask rushes to catch his bus in Boston, June 24.
A hallmark of Covid-19 pandemic policy has been the failure of political leaders and health officials to anticipate the unintended consequences of their actions. This tendency has haunted many decisions, from lockdowns that triggered enormous unemployment and increased alcohol and drug abuse, to school closures that are widening educational disparities between rich and poor families. Mask mandates may also have unintended consequences that outweigh the benefits.

First, consider how the debate has evolved and the underlying scientific evidence. Several randomized trials of community or household masking have been completed. Most have shown that wearing a mask has little or no effect on respiratory virus transmission, according to a review published earlier this year in Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's journal. In March, when Anthony Fauci said, "wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better" but "it's not providing the perfect protection that people think it is," his statement reflected scientific consensus, and was consistent with the World Health Organization's guidance.

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Light Saber

Do not wear a mask and do not get a shot: Never comply!

Gary D. Barnett
lewrockwell.com
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 06:27 UTC
Obey


"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism."

~ Angelina Grimke: Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). "On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters", p.97, Penguin
This country that at one time was populated with mostly intelligent, hard working, self-responsible, and tough individuals, has become a country filled with idiots, weaklings, and fools. I do not say this lightly, nor am I attempting to berate all, but most of those that populate America today were taught to become weak and ignorant, to become divided and hateful, to ignore tradition, to disrespect truth and honesty, to throw aside family, to become robotic drones, and self-aggrandizing socialists. While this result was planned by the ruling segment of society, and implemented over a long period of time, it was nonetheless voluntarily accepted by the masses. Due to the current attitudes evident today, the acceptance of all-consuming immorality, war, torture, theft, redistribution of private wealth, and disregard for fellow men and property, are apparent, and there is widespread and pitiful sensitivity among the herd that borders on lunacy.

Because of these things, we are now in a situation that is so dire that it could lead to the end of all civilized behavior, and the resulting norm would be nothing less than global totalitarianism based on a technocratic system controlled by the very few. This should not be taken lightly, because we are very close to losing all independence in favor of tracking and confinement, where individual life and family are replaced by a collective insanity. Acceptance of this new order would signal the end of civilization as we have known it, and a fundamental end to love, beauty, and joy that are the basis of the spirit of life.
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Yellow Vest

Hundreds protest against harsher lockdown restrictions in Barcelona

Graham Keeley
Yahoo
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
Barcelona lockdown
Protest against the closure of bars and gyms, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Barcelona
Protesters who deny the existence of COVID-19 and object to restrictions to curb the pandemic's spread clashed with police in Barcelona on Friday.


Comment: Rather than they simply 'deny the existence of the pandemic' - although there is truth to that statement - it would appear that the majority of people who are protesting are against the lockdown measures because they can see that they're unjustified and that they're destroying peoples livelihoods.


About 50 demonstrators threw bricks and fireworks at police and set fire to rubbish containers in the centre of Spain's second largest city, police said.

Police repelled the protesters with their batons but did not charge, a spokesman for the Mossos d'Escuadra, the Catalan regional police, said.

Comment: Elsewhere in Spain there were more protests this evening, :



Protests against the tyrannical measures have been increasing throughout Europe:





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Bullseye

The Intercept abandoned its truth-seeking mission — and lost its best journalist in the process

Zaid Jilani
Quillette
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:02 UTC
glen greenwald
© Marcos Oliveira/Agência SenadoJournalist Glenn Greenwald
Journalist Glenn Greenwald shocked his global readership on Thursday, when he abruptly announced his resignation from the Intercept, the six-year-old site that became famous after publishing documents released by Edward Snowden. The incident that sparked Greenwald's departure was the Intercept's refusal to publish in whole an article he'd written criticizing much of the US media for failing to seriously cover allegations by a former business associate of Hunter Biden — son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden — that the Biden family had used its name to profit from business deals in foreign countries where the United States has important foreign-policy interests.

Since his early days at the Intercept, which Greenwald co-founded in 2014 with left-wing journalist Jeremy Scahill and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, he operated under an agreement stipulating that his columns would be published without the requirement that they be edited by colleagues. In a lengthy statement posted to his new Substack page, Greenwald argues that politically motivated Intercept editors violated this agreement in regard to his latest article, by "refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression." In his post, Greenwald situated this disagreement within the context of a Trump-era newsroom culture — and a broader trend within established journalistic circles — that excludes political dissent.

Comment: Intercept funder Pierre Omidyar is a rather ominous character:

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Mr. Potato

Zero self-awareness: CNN's Don Lemon likens Trump supporters to drug addicts, says he's been forced to dump friends who back the president


RT
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:52 UTC
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© Reuters / Eduardo MunozCNN's Don Lemon is shown arriving at a television show premiere last year in New York.
CNN host Don Lemon said supporters of President Donald Trump are like drug "addicts" who must "hit rock bottom" before they can "live in reality" and be set free from misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and other issues.


Comment: Lemon is describing himself. But even rock bottom might not do it for him and the people like him. They may very well go to the grave believing Covid was as bad as they all insisted it was. It isn't, and it never was.


Lemon, apparently closing the door on the idea of politically divided Americans being able to live in harmony in the Covid era, claimed he has had to dump many of his friends for supporting Trump and clinging to false beliefs. "I think they have to hit rock bottom like an addict, right? And they have to want to get help," Lemon said Thursday night on his show.


Comment: Lemon obviously doesn't want to get help. He doesn't even know that he needs it.


"They have to want to know the truth," he continued. "They have to want to live in reality. They have to want to be responsible not only for other people's lives but for their lives."


Comment: This is hilarious coming from Lemon, one of the dumbest men in media.


The Louisiana native said that having lived in several "red states," he has developed friendships with many conservatives. But after clashing with those friends on pandemic-related issues, he said, "I can't do it anymore."

"They are so nonsensical when it comes to this issue," Lemon said. "They have every single talking point that they hear on state TV and that they hear from this president," he added, ironically suggesting that mainstream news in the US is predominantly pro-Trump. "They repeat it, and they are blinded by it.


Comment: State TV? It is idiots like Lemon parroting pseudo-scientific nonsense with no critical thinking. They're the ones repeating talking points and giving people the impression Covid has been orders of magnitude more deadly than it actually has been. They're the ones who make no sense. Get a grip, Don.

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