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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?

Comment: See also:

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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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Black Magic

Halliburton embraces the Woke gospel

Rod Dreher
The American Conservative
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC
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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
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© 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
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© 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.

Comment: For insight into what's really going on, see: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Che Guevara

The origins of Cultural Marxism: How the disciples of an obscure Italian linguist subverted America

Sam Jacobs
Ammo.com
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:25 UTC
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Antonio Gramsci
You may have heard the terms "Cultural Marxism," "Critical Theory" or "Frankfurt School" bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there's a good chance that you don't know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from and what it has planned for America - and the world.

The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of.

Whereas Classical Marxism located what has been called "the revolutionary subject" (the people who will overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism) within the broad working class, primarily in what is now the First World, Gramscism takes a very different approach. This approach underpins most of the social unrest that is gripping America and the West today. In a sense, we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution.
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Three-year investigation closes: Cambridge Analytica did not misuse data in EU referendum, says watchdog

Jim Waterson
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:34 UTC
Cambridge Analytica
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The data watchdog has closed its investigation into Cambridge Analytica, concluding that the controversial data company did not directly misuse data to influence the Brexit referendum.

Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, said her team also found no evidence Cambridge Analytica aided Russian intervention in the UK political process. However, she warned that the company's data protection practices were lax "with little thought for effective security measures" and its activities raised broader concerns about the influence of technology in politics.

Cambridge Analytica had repeatedly claimed in its marketing material to have "5,000+ data points per individual on 230 million adult Americans", suggesting it had incredible power to micro-target individuals with suggestive political messaging using a giant psychographic database.

However, the investigation concluded that "based on what we found it appears that this may have been an exaggeration" and much of the company's activities followed "well recognised processes using commonly available technology".
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UK court hears children cannot consent to puberty blockers

Alexandra Topping
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:21 UTC
Keira Bell
© David Levene/The GuardianKeira Bell, outside the Royal Courts of Justice where she is bringing a case against Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
The argument that children can give informed consent to the prescription of puberty blockers is a "fairy tale", the high court has been told.

Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before "detransitioning" in her early 20s, and the mother of a 16-year-old girl with autism who is waiting for treatment are bringing a case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust, which runs the UK's only gender identity development service (GIDS) for children.

On Wednesday, lawyers for the pair, who want puberty blockers prescribed only after a court order, argued that children who had not yet gone through puberty were not able to properly understand the "lifelong medical, psychological and emotional implications" of taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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