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'Joe Biden is Joe Biden': Democratic establishment clashes with progressives over lockstep defense on Tara Reade allegations


RT
Fri, 01 May 2020 17:12 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
© REUTERS/Tom BrennerHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (shown in this April 23, 2020 file photo) defended the Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "boys will be boys"-type defense of 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden has half the internet raging at the party's "hypocrisy," while the other half demand the heads of the candidate's critics.

Pelosi delivered a tart rebuke on Thursday to a reporter's query about how the party was (mis)handling former Senate staffer Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against Biden.

Comment: More from RT: Trump says Biden should respond to Tara Reade sexual assault claims
Weighing in on sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, US President Donald Trump said he knows all about being falsely accused and urged his Democrat rival to address them publicly, as mainstream media mostly kept silent.

Biden, who locked down the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this month, has been accused of sexual assault on his Senate staffer Tara Reade back in 1993. While both Biden and most mainstream media outlets have been happy to ignore the allegations, additional revelations bolstering Reade's case in recent days have made that difficult.

Asked about the claims during a White House event on Thursday, Trump urged Biden to respond to Reade.

"I think he should respond, it could be false accusations," he told reporters. "I know all about false accusations. I've been falsely charged numerous times, and there is such a thing."
But I don't know, I can't speak for Biden, I can only say that I think he should respond, I think he should answer them.
The president then brought up Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation in 2018 was almost derailed by claims of sexual assault eagerly embraced by Democrats and the media, in marked contrast to their silence when Biden is concerned.

"He was falsely charged. What happened with him is an absolute disgrace to our country," Trump said, referring to Kavanaugh. "This is a fine man. I saw a man suffering so unfairly."

Reade - a Democrat herself - has come forward with a more detailed and corroborated claim than Kavanaugh's accuser Christine Blasey-Ford, but while Democrats back then insisted the Supreme Court nominee was guilty until proven innocent and all women should always be believed, they suddenly remembered due process when it came to Biden.

Earlier in the day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) addressed the allegations by saying "Joe Biden is Joe Biden" and calling Barack Obama's vice-president the "personification of hope and optimism and authenticity for our country — a person of great values."

Meanwhile, MSNBC host Chris Hayes was treated like a heretic and faced a torrent of abuse and calls for his firing, for merely mentioning the allegations on his show.

In saying Biden ought to respond to the charges, Trump may have been aware that his rival has already scheduled an appearance with a friendly outlet to do just that. He will be interviewed on Friday morning on NBC, by 'Morning Joe' Scarborough and his wife Mika, both outspoken Trump foes.


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'Our NHS, hallowed be thy name' - Brits need to see health service for bloated bureaucracy it is and reform it now

Guy Birchall
RT
Fri, 01 May 2020 16:07 UTC
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© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
The evidence shows that other countries' healthcare systems have been vastly more effective in the fight against Covid-19, but our fawning, misplaced adulation for the NHS blinds the press and politicians to all its many faults.

Britain has a state religion, a government-run faith that is infallible, adored, praised and to be worshiped by all. Blasphemers against this national creed are decried in public, shunned, cast out and chastised by the press and politicians; they are monstered on social media by self-appointed inquisitors. Its clergy are venerated as heroes on a holy crusade to protect the nation, funded by a tithe whisked out of every paycheck issued in the UK. But this god is not Allah, Yahweh, or Jesus, it is "our NHS," hallowed be thy name.
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Stop

The Unz Review suddenly banned by Facebook

Ron Unz
The Unz Review
Fri, 01 May 2020 15:44 UTC
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My morning newspapers had recently mentioned Facebook's plans to crack down on misinformation related to our ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, and probably like most other readers I just nodded my head. After all, many Americans might die if cranks or pranksters began promoting highly dubious cures to the deadly disease, perhaps even suggesting that people should inject themselves with Lysol to ward off an infection.

However, those bland public statements took on an entirely different meaning yesterday afternoon when I discovered that all material from The Unz Review had suddenly been banned for alleged violations of "community standards" and our own Facebook page eliminated.

I don't use Social Media much myself, but others obviously do, and blocking all our website content from access to the 1.7 billion Facebook users seems a pretty drastic step. So it's quite reasonable to wonder why, and especially why now?

Comment: It's plausible that the allegation that the US was in some way responsible for the virus was the reason for pulling all of The Unz Review's content from Facebook, but there's no way to know for sure without Facebook being honest and transparent, two traits the company is known to lack, about who thought what content was in violation of it's "community standards".

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Woke butter: Minnesota dairy farm ditches 100 y.o. Native American logo to placate SJW's

Graham Dockery
RT
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:23 UTC
Land O Lakes butter, SJW racism
Social justice types cheered when Minnesota dairy firm Land O'Lakes removed a "racist" image of a Native American girl from its packaging. But on the bizarre battlefields of the culture wars, nobody wins.

'Mia,' a Native American woman complete with feathered headdress, has graced Land O'Lakes' packaging since the 1920s. During that time she's gone through several redesigns, but the company quietly scrapped her in February, leaving a plain landscape behind. By the end of the year, Land O'Lakes' farmers and suppliers will feature on its packaging in her place.

The company gave no reason for doing away with Mia, but it's widely suspected that the move was to please the social justice crowd. Native American academic Lisa Monchalin previously called Mia an example of "sexualized depictions of Indigenous women," while North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo (D) - also a Native American - said that the image of the comely butter maiden goes "hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls ... by depicting Native women as sex objects."

Comment: Eventually corporations are going to realize that there is no way to please SJW's. Give an inch - they take a mile, and there is no respite without complete subjugation to their continual and ever-increasing hysterical demands.

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California city councils vote to challenge governor's order to close Orange County beaches


CBS LA
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:46 UTC
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Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Dana Point city councils voted Thursday to challenge Governor Gavin Newsom's orders to temporarily close all Orange County beaches beginning Friday.

Huntington Beach City Council plans to file an injunction challenging the constitutionality of the governor's order to close the beaches.

"Huntington Beach has never been one to just roll over and take these mandates from the governor," said Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates. "We're going to be fighting the order on a constitutional basis. We're fighting for the city. We're fighting for our decision makers locally who have done a good job managing this crisis. We're also fighting for the citizens of Huntington Beach."
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Cloud Precipitation

4 Amish siblings dead, 1 missing when buggy overturns in swollen creek in Bath County, Kentucky


Kentucky.com
Fri, 01 May 2020 13:39 UTC
Four siblings died and another was missing Thursday after a buggy carrying an Amish family overturned in Bath County Wednesday night.
© Nick OliverFour siblings died and another was missing Thursday after a buggy carrying an Amish family overturned in Bath County Wednesday night.
Despite hours of searching, emergency crews have not found a missing child Thursday after four siblings died when they were swept away in the current of a swollen stream in Bath County.

Five children and one adult were dumped in the water when a buggy pulled by a horse tried to cross a low-water bridge, according to Kentucky State Police. The boys and girls involved ranged in age from 1 to 12 years old, according to Bath County Coroner Andrew Owens.

The buggy carried an Amish family of five children and their mother, Bath County Judge-Executive Bobby Rogers said Thursday.

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Best of the Web: Wall Street Journal: Do lockdowns save many lives? In most places, the data say NO

T.J. Rodgers
The Wall Street Journal
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:55 UTC

Comment: To all those who really, *really* want to believe that the lockdown saved lives... it didn't.

Now even the Wall Street Journal is cottoning on to that fact.


closed theater lockdown
© Charlie Neibergall/Associated PressA theater is closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak in Winterset, Iowa, April 1.
The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths.


Comment: The lockdown wasn't just "a" factor in killing those who have gone down as "Covid-19 deaths" - it is the PRIMARY cause of unnecessary deaths in people over the past 6 weeks. Governments have, essentially, killed thousands of the most vulnerable in society while hundreds of millions of people CHEERED...


Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19? Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis.

To normalize for an unambiguous comparison of deaths between states at the midpoint of an epidemic, we counted deaths per million population for a fixed 21-day period, measured from when the death rate first hit 1 per million — e.g.,‒three deaths in Iowa or 19 in New York state. A state's "days to shutdown" was the time after a state crossed the 1 per million threshold until it ordered businesses shut down.

Comment: There seems to be an uptick in mainstream media publications taking an honest look at the effectiveness of the lockdown, and they all seem to be singing the same tune: The lockdown was a mistake and we've destroyed the economy for nothing. If this trend continues, and once the true implications of the shut-down economy begin to set in, the populace is going to be mightily pissed off with the elites who ruined them.

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Bacon

Tyson Foods helped create the meat crisis it warns against

Jen Skerritt
Bloomberg
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:29 UTC
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© Dan Brouillette/BloombergA Tyson Foods Inc. facility in Lexington, Nebraska, U.S.
John Tyson, the billionaire whose family business reigns as the largest meat processor in the U.S., took out ads in national newspapers to complain about a "breaking" food supply chain.

No one would argue that supplies aren't an issue right now. Even Donald Trump is invoking the Defense Production Act to secure meat production. But the roots of this problem go back to decades of consolidation that Tyson's own company helped lead. Tyson Foods Inc. and its top two rivals -- JBS SA and Cargill Inc. -- control today about two-thirds of America's beef, and the large bulk of it gets processed in a few dozen giant plants. Pork and chicken are similarly dominated.

While Tyson pointed out that the pandemic has affected businesses of all sizes, the producers, which also include Smithfield Foods Inc., have such a stranglehold on output that it leaves the supply chain with few remedies when even just a handful plants are down. There have been about 12 closures at U.S. slaughter plants this month because of coronavirus outbreaks among employees who are jammed together on processing lines.

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Cult

Rose McGowan compares Democrats to 'cult' amid Joe Biden sexual assault claims

Isobel Lewis
Independent
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:46 UTC
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Rose McGowan has branded the Democrats and the media a "cult" in the wake of Joe Biden's assumed nomination as the party's presidential candidate.

The actor, who was a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, shared a picture of herself crying to Twitter on Wednesday night, captioned: "I'm really sad, and I'm really tired. I normally share thoughts, but tonight it's emotion."

In the accompanying text post, McGowan wrote: "I used to be a proud Democrat. I used to be a proud American. I would have died for this damned country and its ideals," she wrote.

Comment: It seems everyone has their breaking point.

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Books

The myth that Americans were poorly educated before mass government schooling

Lawrence W. Reed
Foundation for Economic Education
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
Girl Reading Edmund Charles Tarbell
Detail of Girl Reading by Edmund Charles Tarbell
Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children's education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the "mass homeschooling" that FEE's senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago. Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from government school classrooms, maybe education will become as good as it was before the government ever got involved.

"What?" you exclaim! "Wasn't education lousy or non-existent before government mandated it, provided it, and subsidized it? That's what my government schoolteachers assured me so it must be true," you say!

The fact is, at least in early America, education was better and more widespread than most people today realize or were ever told. Sometimes it wasn't "book learning" but it was functional and built for the world most young people confronted at the time. Even without laptops and swimming pools, and on a fraction of what government schools spend today, Americans were a surprisingly learned people in our first hundred years.

I was reminded a few days ago of the amazing achievements of early American education while reading the enthralling book by bestselling author Stephen Mansfield, Lincoln's Battle With God: A President's Struggle With Faith and What It Meant for America. It traces the spiritual journey of America's 16th president — from fiery atheist to one whose last words to his wife on that tragic evening at Ford's Theater were a promise to "visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footsteps of the Savior."

In a moment, I'll cite a revealing, extended passage from Mansfield's book but first, I'd like to offer some excellent, related works that come mostly from FEE's own archives.

Comment: Now if only public education was used to actually educate rather than indoctrinate...

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