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Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:48 UTC
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An Ohio school has been dragged for 'allowing' a teacher to use right-wing platform PragerU in class, yet equally fact-deficient propaganda from the left gets a pass. Schools should play fair - or better, stop indoctrinating kids.

After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter's history teacher's apparently unconscionable assignment of PragerU videos as extra credit, HuffPost "discovered" a much scarier truth: the conservative video outlet is invading America's classrooms. In the process, they've laid bare a cherished hypocrisy at the heart of what the US educational system has become.

Reading HuffPost's overwrought description of the travails of the student and her mother earlier this week, one would think the teacher in question had dragged her 10th grade history class to a Ku Klux Klan rally and forced them to pen essays about what white supremacy meant to them in order to secure a passing grade. The reality was more pedestrian - the assignment (optional, for extra credit only) merely asked students to "watch PragerU videos and then answer questions about how the videos challenged [their] beliefs." Nowhere were they expected to adopt the videos' claims as fact, or even agree with them.
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Attention

Proud Boys leader one of four stabbed after he was 'jumped' by BLM in DC

Lee Brown
New York Post
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC
proud boys stabbed
The leader of the far-right Proud Boys has said he was one of four people stabbed after being "jumped by Black Lives Matter" early Wednesday in Washington, DC.

Enrique Tarrio told the Gateway Pundit that he was slashed in the stomach, while "multiple other members" were injured, including a man stabbed in the neck and a woman with them stabbed in the back.

The group said they were heading home after watching the election at a DC bar when they were jumped and knifed just blocks from the White House.

Livestreamed video caught part of the scuffle — with one man walking back to the videographer and saying, "I'm bleeding."
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Bulb

Radio host crushes leading UK epidemiologist's credibility over (unknown) cost of 2nd lockdown


Zerohedge
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:45 UTC
Maajid Nawaz
In the most thorough demolition of an 'expert' epidemiologist who unabashedly advised the UK government of the desperate need for a second lockdown to "suppress" the virus, Independent SAGE member Professor Gabriel Scally was completely unable to respond when LBC's Maajid Nawaz cornered him on how severely a lockdown would cost the nation.

As LBC's Seán Hickey reports, Maajid asked whether the member of the Independent SAGE considers "the potential cost and deaths from having a lockdown and weigh them up."

Professor Scally insisted that "you can't have a response to this virus that doesn't take into account the economic factors, social factors and the psychological factors" and his department would definitely take these factors into consideration.

He reiterated the over-used mantra that the bottom line is that "we have to stop the virus - we have to stop it spreading," and a second national lockdown is the best way to do so.

Comment: The answer to all reasonable and thoughtful questions that use a little critical thinking concerning lockdown:

"Oh, don't be silly, you are really now being stupid..."

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Bad Guys

The US presidential showdown hits 'pause': Now Trump's greatest foe is no longer Joe Biden, but raging media bias

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:48 UTC
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© Getty Images / Tasos KatopodisU.S. President Donald Trump talks to the media outside the White House on October 21, 2020
It has never been more obvious that Donald Trump, who said he may go to the Supreme Court to resolve the 2020 election standoff, needs an impartial voice in the media to balance the political scales.

Riddle me this: How does a US presidential candidate win an election without proper support from the mainstream media? Conventional wisdom says it is virtually impossible. Yet only because Donald Trump is no conventional candidate does he actually stand a chance of snatching victory from the jaws of media-scripted 'defeat' in the 2020 election.

Despite weeks of speculation that gave Trump virtually zero chance of defeating his seldom-seen Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, the seemingly miraculous has come to pass. Not only did Trump defy all expectations, there is a very good chance he will emerge victorious. That leads to the first question regarding the media and its complicated relationship with the US leader: how were their predictions so far off the mark, again?
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Propaganda

The Grey Lady spreads election disinformation about declaring the winner on election day

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:27 UTC
new york times nyt election fake news tweet biden trump
© The Post Millennial
The New York Times spread election disinformation on Twitter as they proclaimed that the news media are the ones who are meant to declare the winner of the hotly contested US presidential election.

The New York Times spread election disinformation on Twitter on Tuesday evening, as they proclaimed that the news media are the ones who are meant to declare the winner of the hotly contested US presidential election.

They wrote that "The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media. The broadcast networks and cable news outlets have vowed to be prudent. Here's how it will work."

This is just not true at all. Yet Twitter did not flag or removed this obvious election disinformation, nor block The New York Times for posting it. The Times came to their senses, seemingly, and deleted it themselves, but the article's claims remain the same.

Comment: Brett Redmayne-Titley, writing at the Unz Review, suddenly looks very prescient:

Trump's (64 Day) post-election endgame - or, can a criminal be inaugurated president?

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NPC

Election night sees BLM protests erupt across US, Oregon calls in National Guard


RT
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:07 UTC
Election BLM
© REUTERS/Brendan McDermidA protester holds a placard during a march on Election Day in New York City, New York, U.S. November 3, 2020
Troublemakers have been arrested across the US, from Washington DC to Seattle, as anti-racism demonstrators pushed the limits of largely peaceful protest on election night.

Thousands of people took to the streets of cities including Washington DC, Seattle, Portland, and New York after America voted on Tuesday. The demonstrations centered on the racial equality movement, but they have varied in scope and focus.

More than 1,000 people gathered in front of the White House, protesting against Donald Trump's presidency and campaigning for racial equality, while smaller protests took place elsewhere in the country.

Comment: As we've seen from near enough the beginning of the partly manufactured and coopted BLM protests, there's no room for reason and a worrying number are intent on violence, ultimately destroying the very communities they claim to be representing. And we can expect for those involved to resort to ever more extreme actions in the coming days and weeks following the inevitable Trump win:

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Info

Censorship's slope is always slippery & the Internet Archive's embrace of biased 'fact-checking' proves it

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:19 UTC
graffiti censorship
© Pixabay / dimitrisvetsikas1969
The Internet Archive has begun slapping "fact-checks" on archived pages, supposedly to provide "context" they're missing. But readers don't need their thoughts babysat, and it's a small step to deleting the page altogether.

The nonprofit, which operates the Wayback Machine - an archive of old web pages spanning decades - announced last week that it would begin adding "fact-checks" and "convenient links to contextual information" to certain archived pages, unsettling internet freedom activists and researchers who rely upon the 40-petabyte mega-archive to do their work.

Comment: See also:

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Megaphone

Poland delays implementing abortion ruling amid nationwide protests

Monika Scislowska
Independent.ie
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:53 UTC
abortion poland
© AP Photo/Czarek SokolowskiWomen’s rights and man activists with posters of the Women’s Strike action protest against recent tightening of Poland’s restrictive abortion law in front of the parliament building as inside, guards had to be used to shield right-wing ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski from angry opposition lawmakers, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Massive nationwide protests have been held ever since a top court ruled Thursday that abortions due to fetal congenital defects are unconstitutional. Slogan reads ‘Women’s Strike’.
Poland's right-wing government is delaying the publication and implementation of a high court ruling that tightens the abortion law, which has triggered almost two weeks of nationwide protests.

A government official said leaders are taking time to debate the contested ruling and find a solution.

"There is a discussion going on, and it would be good to take some time for dialogue and for finding a new position in this situation that is difficult and stirs high emotions," said Michal Dworczyk, the head of prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki's office.

Comment: See also: Pro-choice abortion supporters hold biggest-ever protest against Polish government

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Magic Wand

Kanye West concedes presidential race — but already has sights on 2024

Ben Feuerherd
New York Post
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:20 UTC
kanye west
© AP Photo/Michael Wyke
Kanye West threw in the towel on his presidential run in the 2020 election and hinted at another long-shot bid four years from now — though he didn't get many votes this time.

West made the concession in a tweet after appearing on the ballot in 12 states in the presidential election between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.

"WELP," West said in the tweet. "KANYE 2024."

Comment: See also:

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Red Flag

Philadelphia stops counting mail-in ballots for the night

Laura Italiano
New York Post
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:38 UTC
philadelphia
Philadelphia has stopped counting mail-in ballots for the night — a move that could skew Tuesday night's preliminary results in Pennsylvania toward President Trump.

Only about 76,000 of the city's mail-in ballots have been tallied so far out of some 350,000 received, noted Holly Otterbein, who is covering the race in Pennsylvania for Politico.

"And remember, Biden supporters are disproportionately voting by mail," she tweeted.

Comment: See also:

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