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A Canadian research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising'


Yahoo! News
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
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The results of a B.C. research project that gave thousands of dollars to homeless people are in and, according to one researcher, could challenge stereotypes about people "living on the margins."

The New Leaf project is a joint study started in 2018 by Foundations for Social Change, a Vancouver-based charitable organization, and the University of British Columbia. After giving homeless Lower Mainland residents cash payments of $7,500, researchers checked on them over a year to see how they were faring.

All 115 participants, ranging in age between 19 and 64, had been homeless for at least six months and were not struggling with serious substance use or mental health issues. Of those, 50 people were chosen at random to be given the cash, while the others formed a control group that did not receive any money.

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Progress: DC Antifa ringleader Jason Charter charged with assaulting OANN's Jack Posobiec

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
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© AMY OSBORNE/AFP/Getty Images
One of the most well-known members of the violent 'antifa' movement in Washington D.C., Jason Charter, was charged with assaulting One America News Network reporter Jack Posobiec earlier this year, adding to other criminal charges against Charter.

Charter has openly declared his support for antifa, the violent far-left movement that has been denounced as domestic terrorists by senior members of the Trump Administration. Charter's Twitter profile recently declared "#IAmAntifa."

The far-left extremist is accused of confronting and assaulting Posobiec on June 26, amid a spate of violent unrest by Antifa and other agitators. The incident was caught on camera by Matthew Perdie of Breitbart News.

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BREAKING: DC Antifa 'Ringleader' Arrested
October 3, 2020

Jason Charter, a DC Antifa activist who was previously charged with being a "ringleader" in the attempt to destroy the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square near the White House in June has been arrested again by DC Park Police.

A source who was at the scene tells the Gateway Pundit that he "cried his eyes out" following the arrest, while waiting for a wagon to transport him to booking.


Antifa and Black Lives Matter militants were protesting a rally organized by Brandon Straka of the Walk Away Movement, which celebrates people leaving the Democrat Party to support President Donald Trump.

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Charter was arrested by the FBI and U.S. Park Police in July as part of a joint task force for his role in the destruction of the statues.

"Members of MPD, FBI and USPP have reviewed online open source videos," the FBI's summary of facts states, including "videos from MPD body-worn camera footage, and footage recorded by the Secret Service" in order to "identify the individuals who attempted to remove the Jackson Statue from its base and damage it, including the cannons at the statue's base."

The documents also state that on June 20, Charter "is seen ... standing over the toppled Pike Statue, pouring an unknown liquid onto the statue," the FBI states. "He is then observed waving others away from the statue, and squatting down behind the statue where his hands are not visible. Seconds later, the statue catches fire. Charter is seen standing over the flames as it burns."

Charter has previously made headlines for assaulting One America News reporter Jack Posobiec.



Charter was also allegedly involved in the destruction of the Albert Pike Historical Statue in DC in June and made headlines for assaulting One America News reporter Jack Posobiec.


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'Absurd virtue signalling': World Economic Forum panned for crazy claim that black people are excluded from the outdoors


RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:14 UTC
black girls hike group
© Instagram/ BGH_UKThe Black Girls Hike group has 150 members.
The World Economic Forum is facing an avalanche of ridicule after making the extraordinary claim that people of colour are excluded from enjoying the great outdoors.

It sounds like a parody of a liberal crusade but it's actually real. The Swiss-based NGO is so concerned about people being excluded from *checks notes* the countryside, that it's touting the efforts of a woman who started a hiking club.

In an article on its website, the WEF informs readers that Rhiane Fatinikun founded Black Girls Hike because hiking is a "white-dominated activity" and she wanted to encourage black women to "explore the UK countryside in the safety of sisterhood."

Comment: The idea that black people, or any other ethnicity, is somehow being prevented from enjoying the outdoors is patently absurd. All anyone has to do is walk out their front door.

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Ontario death count includes people who didn't die of COVID-19, but exactly how many is unknown

Anthony Furey
Toronto Sun
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:51 UTC
Doug Ford
© Nathan Denette /THE CANADIAN PRESSOntario Premier Doug Ford holds a press conference with his medical team regarding new restrictions at Queen's Park during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Friday, October 2, 2020.
The daily pandemic death counts in Ontario include people who have tested positive for COVID-19 but have not necessarily died from the virus.

The exact number of people who fit into this category is unknown by the government and not even being counted.

The Sun was able to confirm this information after speaking with three of the hardest hit public health units in Ontario — Toronto, Ottawa and Peel Region.

"The mortality data sent to the Ministry and reported in (Ottawa Public Health) dashboard/reports represents the number of Ottawa residents with confirmed COVID-19 who have passed away," an Ottawa Public Health spokesperson explained via email. "It does not indicate if COVID-19 was the cause of death, and we can't make that inference."

According to local health units, this reporting process is required by the province.

Comment: The seasonal flu is also more severe in those with pre-existing conditions but no one cared to count those numbers back then. See also:

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I've gone from pro-lockdown to NO lockdown. Here's why people must take over from inept governments and learn to live with Covid

Andrew Dickens
RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:57 UTC
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© Getty Images / Danny Lawson / PA ImagesA poster at an anti-lockdown protest in Old Market Square, Nottingham, after a range of new restrictions to combat the rise in coronavirus cases came into place in England
I supported the first national lockdown but a second one would be a mistake of titanic proportions. Here's how we can wrestle control from governments and learn to live with Covid.

Sometimes, if you want a job done well, you have to do it yourself. Sadly, many jobs that need doing well are occupied by people whose gift for doing them isn't just non-existent, it's a black hole that sucks in and destroys any crumbs of talent that happen to be floating in the vicinity.

Here in the UK, the job of prime minister is taken by a man who, when the going gets tough, gets going on holiday. Other jobs, such as those of health secretary, home secretary, chancellor and education secretary are taken up by fawning lackeys with all the independent thought and qualifications of a reluctant 15-year-old intern who's only there because their dad's mates with the CEO.

And yet, despite this, when Covid-19 made its intentions and capabilities known, I backed this U-turning confederacy of dunces. I thought that a 'lockdown' was the right thing to do. I know there were arguments about the efficacy of various measures, about mortality rates and transmission. I also know that those arguments have become mind-numbingly tedious and repetitive, so let's not go there. At the time, nearly all evidence and expert advice suggested that we should err on the side of caution. End of.
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Cultural Revolution: Woke totalitarians have taken over campus

John Staddon
Campus Reform
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 22:25 UTC
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Podcaster Dave Rubin has the custom of going "off the grid" for a month each summer, to gain some perspective on changes. As a scientist who has been retired from the lab for more than ten years, I feel in a similar position vis-à-vis the state of academic science. To this campus Rip-van-Winkle, things now look very different.

I didn't notice much until the current anti-racism crisis, when I found that academe, as a place for free exchange of ideas, had become almost unrecognizable. Higher education has begun a transformation along the same lines as the 1966 Maoist "Cultural Revolution" in China. Like the cultural revolution, the energized identity-politics movement presents itself as a cleansing force. Pure Maoism was being corrupted by covert capitalist sympathizers. They had to be rooted out.

In U.S. academe, the problem was similar. The "party faithful" took for granted the permanence of "White privilege" and "systemic racism" which, for many, was also their livelihood. But then, in the decades following the civil rights acts, things got better. Measurable indices of racism seemed to be improving: People of color were well represented on city councils, police forces, and state and national legislatures; Black faces were on many magazine covers and in ads for prestigious products; interracial marriages increased; Black entertainers and even opinion leaders were beloved. A Black president was elected and re-elected. A survey showed a steady decline in objective measures of racism up until 2014. What's not to like?

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French police arrest 61 pedophiles in online child pornography investigation


France 24
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:32 UTC
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© Benoit Tessier/ REUTERSFrench police have arrested 61 suspected of involvement in an online child pornography ring.
French police have arrested 61 people suspected of involvement in a vast child pornography network, including at least three people who raped children on camera, officials said Thursday.

Among the suspects are several who work in jobs that put them in contact with children, such as teachers, religious leaders and city hall officials, according to Eric Bérot, head of the French police agency overseeing the operation.
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Halliburton embraces the Woke gospel

Rod Dreher
The American Conservative
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC
dick cheney
How is Darth Cheney going to handle how far left the corporate culture of his old company has become ?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founder of The 1619 Project, fancies herself as a brave prophet who takes risks to speak truth to power:

Uh-huh. There is nothing safer to say among American power elites today than the racialist narrative hawked by Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, and the others. Shell Oil sponsored an NHJ talk in Houston, as part of a series of lectures on the black experience. I don't blame her one bit for taking Shell's money for the lecture. But please, spare us the self-serving and ridiculous, "I am making the powerful uncomfortable." She is doing exactly the opposite: she is assuaging their liberal guilt.

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Madrid court rejects lockdown because 'it harms fundamental rights and freedoms'


Euronews
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:00 UTC
madrid cafe
© APA couple have lunch outside a bar in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020
A high court in Madrid on Thursday rejected measures forced on the region by the central government, which included the partial lockdown of the Spanish capital and nine neighbouring municipalities.

The court "rejected the ratification (of the measures), because they harmed the fundamental rights and freedoms" of the 4.5 million inhabitants affected by the partial lockdown, which came into force on Friday evening, the court said in a statement.

As a result of the decision, fines cannot be handed out to citizens who break the rules.

The central government — a coalition of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos — has locked horns with the conservative-led Madrid regional government over the measures.

Comment: Let's hope Madrid is just the beginning, because these same peculiar and tyrannical orders are being enforced by a number of European governments. However, since these governments are clearly acting in an unsually coordinated manner, taking the same actions within days of each other, claiming to be fighting the virus, why is that they're not also sharing with each other the fact that the lockdowns aren't working? Unless this isn't really (only) about stopping a virus anymore? UK gov admits lockdowns aren't working but is mulling HARSHER measures and new lockdowns in northern England anyway

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UK gov admits lockdowns aren't working but is mulling HARSHER measures and new lockdowns in northern England anyway


RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:03 UTC
London lockdown
© Reuters / Toby MelvilleFILE PHOTO: People walk towards an empty socially distanced arranged outdoor seating area in London, Britain, September 11, 2020.
The UK government wants to be "more consistent" on localized restrictions amid the rise in coronavirus cases in the north of England, admitting that the current measures so far have not been sufficiently effective.

With 14,162 people across the UK diagnosed with Covid-19 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to order new coronavirus curbs within days on pubs in northern England. The measures could include closing them altogether in Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, after a surge in cases.


Comment: Similar and strangely particular measures - locking down places serving alcohol (in addition to poorer areas) - have been rolled out in Paris, Ireland, Brussels, Madrid and Scotland. Rarely do we see such orchestrated, irrational and immediate action from so many countries that it begs the question, just where are these orders coming from? Because it's not coming from the scientific community.


Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is considering different options because the virus is rising, "in terms of the number of cases, quite significantly" in the north west, the north east and in a number of other cities such as Nottingham.

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