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To save the children,' Harvard Magazine calls for the abolition of the family

Tom Lindsay
Forbes
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:08 UTC
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After he left the presidency of Harvard University, Derek Bok offered this anatomy of the soul of American higher education today: "Universities are like riverboat gamblers and exiled royalty: their desires are never satisfied."

But Harvard Magazine has now upped the ante, going far beyond an insatiable desire for mere money. The May-June 2020 edition of the magazine calls for the abolition of the family. Not in those words exactly, of course, given the bad odor the phrase has acquired: "the abolition of the family" is "arguably the most infamous demand of The Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Engels. But totalitarianism by any other name still destroys the family, and this appears to be the intention of the article.

Written by Erin O'Donnell, and appearing on the Harvard-linked website of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, the article, titled, "The Risks of Homeschooling," announces, with great alarm, that "a rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home. Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter schools, and larger than the number currently in parochial schools."
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Bizarro Earth

Police draw guns, tackle Alberta woman in stormtrooper costume with Star Wars blaster

Barrett Wilson
The Post Millennial
Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55 UTC
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A Star Wars themed restaurant was the setting of a bizarre and violent scene on May 4 as police arrived with guns drawn on a woman who was serving food in a stormtrooper costume.
A Star Wars themed restaurant was the setting of a bizarre and violent scene on May 4 as police arrived with guns drawn on a waitress who was serving food in a stormtrooper costume.

The waitress at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina in Lethbridge was participating in May the Fourth celebrations and serving customers in the parking lot and dancing for her patrons. He costume featured a replica Star Wars blaster.

Moments later, she was tackled by police after they surrounded her with guns drawn.

"Apparently a couple of people had called 911 and said that there was somebody with a gun on 13 Street North," Brad Whalen, the restaurant's owner, told CTV. "A number of police officers had shown up to our business with guns drawn on our employee."

Comment: Geezus! Seems Canada isn't immune to police insanity. This woman very likely 'didn't comply with police directions' because she didn't understand how they were directing them toward her! The owner is right: these police officers didn't act with a lick of sense.

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Bad Guys

Syrian air defenses repel alleged Israeli strike on Aleppo Research Center


Sputnik
Tue, 05 May 2020 20:07 UTC
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© AP Photo / SANA
An aerial missile attack over the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was reportedly prevented by the Syrian Arab Army's air defenses, according to state media on Monday.

Unconfirmed reports suggest the attempted attack was launched by Israeli forces targeting a research center located in the al-Safira Defense complex near Aleppo.

Video footage posted to social media reportedly shows the air defense system responding to the May 4 event.

A map published by Aurora Intel shows the reported "area of interest" following the reporting of three significant explosions heard in Aleppo.

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Bizarro Earth

UK welfare claims surge 1.8 milllion - six times pre-lockdown levels


Reuters
Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00 UTC
UK job centre
File photo: UK's Job Centre Plus
The British government received 1.8 million claims for welfare payments between March 16 and the end of April via its 'Universal Credit' benefits system, work and pensions minister Therese Coffey said on Monday.

Universal Credit benefits are paid to people in work as well as those who have lost their jobs.

Coffey said that overall, the volume of welfare claims had been six times bigger than pre-coronavirus during that period, and that in one particular week the increase had been tenfold.

Comment: The numbers will likely soar even higher once the lockdown is 'eased' and people who were 'furloughed' are forced to finally face the reality that their job no longer exists because the economy, dealt the final death blow by the lockdown, can no longer support it. Those who begged the government for the lockdown, believing the media hysteria over a pandemic that never was, are likely to be quite disgruntled, indeed.

The UK's benefit system has been exposed by endless scandals in the last decade for failing to deliver what it is funded by the taxpayer to do, all the while, aided by shady MPs, it deflected blame on to the people who depend on it. In the past much of the British public were quick to scorn those who found themselves on welfare however with those numbers rising the true nature of the system will be revealed to a great many more and they will begin to see the true nature of what is a callous and corrupt system. Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Wolf

The hole-digging theory of political conflict: How #BelieveAllWomen backfired

Konstantin Kisin
Quillette
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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In Russia we have a saying: "Don't dig a hole for another because you'll be the one that falls in it."

I have been very fond of this proverb since childhood when my parents shipped me off for my summer holidays to stay with my Ukrainian grandparents on their farm. There, over a period of three long months, I became friends with a local boy who introduced me to a game that all the kids in our village played.

The objective was simple: to dig a hole, conceal it with leaves, branches, and other debris and then guide your chosen target into it — typically a girl you fancied or, better still, a competitor for her attentions. Whoever said chivalry is dead has never been deliberately walked into a hole by the boy of her dreams.
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Coronavirus researcher nearing 'very significant findings' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Victor Morton
The Washington Times
Mon, 04 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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Liu was at his home in Ross Township (pictured) on Saturday afternoon when a man walked through an unlocked door and shot him multiple times in the head, neck and torso
A researcher who was reportedly nearing some "very significant findings" in his work on the coronavirus was found killed at his Pittsburgh-area home, a local TV station reported.

Bing Liu, 37, was fatally shot in his head, neck and torso over the weekend in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, in what police are calling a murder-suicide, according to CBS Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA.

A second man, who police say knew Mr. Liu but did not identify, was found nearby in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Ross Township detectives do not believe there is a suspect loose, KDKA reported.


Comment: Very fishy. One wonders if Liu was on the verge of beating Bill Gates to the punch. Or maybe his work exposed the man-made modifications in SARS-CoV-2...

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Mr. Potato

Pro-lockdown extremists in denial about why we did it in the first place

Rich Lowry
New York Post
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:09 UTC
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© EPAArmed protestors, upset with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer extending her stay at home order through April, joined in "Operation Gridlock" near the state capitol in Lansing last month.
We will be in a fight against the novel coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal.

The lockdowns of much of the country were undertaken "to flatten the curve" and largely to prevent the hospital system from being overrun. It was a near-run thing in New York and New Jersey, but the dykes held, thanks to the incredible sacrifices of front-line health workers.

Now, the rhetoric around the shutdowns has shifted, and not very subtly — flattening the curve and saving the hospitals are "out," and not allowing any additional cases to emerge is "in."

Comment: In other words, 'flattening the curve' has been accomplished so the authorities are switching to a new narrative to justify keeping people locked in their homes for the foreseeable future. The lockdown was never about preventing deaths, it was about exerting authoritarian control over the population. The justifications will change whenever the old narrative has become obsolete.

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Heart

Still human: Amazon engineer quits; 'snapped' when company fired workers calling for coronavirus protections

Annie Palmer
CNBC
Tue, 05 May 2020 01:44 UTC
Amazon packing workers
© Alan Berner / The Seattle TimesAmazon workers stand at their stations in a Kent warehouse, which employs 2,500 people who handle goods coming in and out. Computer screens are ubiquitous, giving workers information about their tasks and running updates on their rate per hour.
Tim Bray, a senior Amazon software engineer, has resigned from his role at the company after five years, citing "dismay" over Amazon's decision to fire outspoken critics of its labor practices.

In a fiery blog post, titled "Bye, Amazon," Bray, a vice president at Amazon Web Services (AWS), said his last day at the company was Friday. Bray said he "snapped" after Amazon fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, two former user experience designers who criticized Amazon's climate stance and, most recently, its treatment of warehouse workers amid the coronavirus. Amazon has said it fired Costa and Cunningham for "repeatedly violating internal policies."

"I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about employees frightened of Covid-19," Bray wrote in the blog post, adding that "remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned."

Bray did not respond to a request for comment. Amazon declined to comment on Bray's resignation.

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Quenelle

Mishandling of Black Death 640 years ago led to the Peasants' Revolt - it's time we modern-day peasants rebelled over Covid-19

Dr. Lisa McKenzie
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 23:32 UTC
Bank of England
© Getty images / Dan KitwoodFILE PHOTO: People walk past The Bank of England in London, England
The coronavirus is killing poor people at twice the rate of better-off people, and exposing the appalling inequalities and injustice of our broken system. We need a new revolt, to bring about real change.

"Things cannot go well in England, nor ever will, until all goods are held in common, and until there will be neither serfs nor gentlemen, and we shall be equal" said the Priest John Ball, during his speech before marching into London with Watt Tyler during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the first great popular rebellion in UK history.

Nearly 650 years later, the Office for National Statistics has released data which show what some sociologists have been saying for generations, that class inequality in Britain is our greatest shame: the coronavirus is killing twice as many people in poor areas as in rich ones.
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Ambulance

Taliban claims responsibility for deadly attack on Afghan military site as peace deal crumbles further


RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:59 UTC
Afghan National Army soldiers
© Reuters / Omar SobhaniFILE PHOTO. Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a military training center in the Helmand Province. Amid the failing peace process, the militant movement accuses Kabul of stalling on an agreed prisoner exchange.

"Dozens of members belonging to the enemy forces have been killed and wounded in the attack," said Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a spokesman for the Taliban, referring to the Sunday bombing.

The truck bomb attack in Nahri Saraj district in the south of the country killed at least five members of the Afghan security forces, TOLO news reported citing the provincial governor's office. A security source said the blast "destroyed" the base and left as many as 18 dead.
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