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Trudeau government pulls funding for human trafficking victims because of Covid?

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Nine agencies across Canada that provide services for trafficked and exploited women and girls have been told there is no more money to support their programs.
Canadian women's organizations working to support women and girls who have been sexually exploited by men say that Justin Trudeau's liberal government will not renew federal funding. Programs will close as a result.

This clearly signals that the prime minister — a self-identifying feminist — considers female victims of male violence and exploitation unworthy of help. He is content to throw these hidden victims to the wolves.

Comment: With all the money being spent during the lockdown, which has seen millions in Canada alone out of work and forced to stay at home, it was inevitable that social programs of all kinds would eventually be cut and that rates of child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, murder, anxiety, depression and suicide rates would all skyrocket as a result. And this might only be the beginning. See also:


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Outcry after students' exam results downgraded by algorithm in England

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© Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockPeople take part in a demonstration outside the Department of Education over the government's handling of exam results.
Two million GCSE grades recommended by teachers are to be downgraded next week, with disadvantaged pupils even worse hit than those affected by the A-levels debacle, according to analysis from leading researchers.

Thousands of headteachers have called for urgent action to avoid "serious injustices" that could blight the life chances of their pupils, after exams were cancelled because of coronavirus and the results consequently being decided by an algorithm that has been condemned as unfair.

Experts at the FFT Education Datalab research unit told the Guardian they expected the proportion of grades assessed by teachers likely to be forced down by Ofqual's statistical mechanism to be 35-40%. As revealed by the Guardian last week, 39% of teacher-assessed A-levels were downgraded on Thursday.

Comment: This is a damning indictment on the lockdown and the state of the education system in the UK: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Public schools: Where creativity, freedom and critical thinking go to die


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Paul Craig Roberts: Flight from New York

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New York City is in serious trouble. Indeed, all diverse US cities are in trouble, especially those ruled by Democrats. The combination of coronavirus and unchecked rioting and looting have undermined their economies.

Working at home has taught businesses that they do not need to accumulate employees in office complexes. Working at home saves money for businesses and employees. With profits and raises harder to come by, dispensing with office complexes and commutes is cost effective.

High income people who no longer need to work in office complexes do not need expensive Manhattan brownstones and apartments. They can escape to Mystic Connecticut — or somewhere else.

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US Postal Service struggles to explain DISAPPEARING mailboxes as Trump declares war on mail-in voting

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The US Postal Service has given conflicting reasons why mailboxes are being removed from Portland, as a vicious partisan tug-of-war over mail-in voting comes to a head, with President Trump vowing to block funding to the agency.

After several images of USPS trucks being loaded up with street-side mailboxes in Portland and nearby Eugene went viral, Postal Service spokesman David Rupert told local media his agency was merely replacing old, vandalized post boxes with "newer, more secure models."

Insisting "every location that had a collection box will keep a collection box," Rupert consoled nervous locals that the only boxes vanishing for good were those redundant receptacles positioned next to other boxes.

Comment: Could it be making something out of nothing, a simple replacement of old mailboxes? Or is there something super-dodgy going on here?


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Trump supporter Bill Mitchell, with over half a million followers, permanently booted from Twitter for 'opposing masks'

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Conservative pundit Bill Mitchell has been kicked off Twitter, saying his opposition to face masks first earned him a suspension, which became permanent after he unwittingly violated the rules by tweeting from a second account.

Mitchell announced his ban in a post on Parler on Friday, laying his Twitter handle to rest after accumulating more than 600,000 followers. Earning regular retweets from President Donald Trump, the account was a source of controversy, at times backing 'QAnon' conspiracy theories and voicing skepticism toward Covid-19, among other things.

"Twitter just suspended me for opposing masks. Who knows if I'll ever be back," Mitchell wrote, adding sarcastically "I'm sure their decision wasn't political at all."

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Best of the Web: 640 European doctors gather to discuss the overreaction to COVID-19 and how it's damaging society

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On July 27, 2020, a group of frontline doctors in the US held a gathering in Washington D.C. where they expressed their concerns with COVID from a frontline doctor point of view. We reported:

Frontline doctors from across the US held a "White Coat Summit" on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.

The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today.

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Australian paper invokes wrath of woke Twitter by quoting Biden's own words in 'racist' cartoon about him and Harris

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The Australian is under fire for publishing an allegedly racist cartoon that depicts US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden referring to his running mate Kamala Harris as "this little brown girl."

The cartoon by artist Johannes Leak was published in Rupert Murdoch's The Australian newspaper earlier this week, in an apparent attempt to deride the US Democratic party for perceived tokenism and racially motivated pandering, according to the paper's editor-in-chief, Christopher Dore.


The controversial cartoon depicts a smiling Biden announcing that it's time to "heal a nation divided by racism" before beckoning Harris to the podium while he goes "for a lie-down." Needless to say, the backlash was swift and immediate online from the woke sectors of the Twitter commentariat.

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Peak Idiocracy: Wisconsin government agency mandates facemask use for virtual zoom meetings

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Despite the deluge of data that continues to come in indicating that the coronavirus may not be the death sentence that the mainstream media has made it out to be, the sharp overreaction from those who can't help but be scared half to death from the virus continues unabated.

The latest example comes to us from the Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, who told its employees that effective August 1, they would have to wear a mask - even for teleconferences.

Preston Cole of the DNR said in an e-mail to employees: "Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing platform — by non-DNR staff. Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others."

Gov. Tony Evers had put a mask order in place effective August 1 that mandates masks are to be worn whenever a person is in an enclosed space other than a private residence.

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SOTT Focus: The New Normal: 'Covert Moral Enhancement' for 'Coronavirus Defectors'

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Four days ago the Conversation - an "independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community" - published an article headlined:
'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
The article's author is Parker Crutchfield, an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University, and his argument can be broken down into four key points:
  1. Wearing masks and social distancing are good for public health
  2. People who refuse to follow these rules are "defectors" who need to be "morally enhanced"
  3. This moral enhancement can be achieved with medication to make people more "empathetic" and "co-operative"
  4. This medication should be compulsory and/or administered secretly via the water supply.

Comment: Here's the offending article. It's so over-the-top, we even wondered if it's trolling...

Professor of Bioethics: 'Induce compliance from Covid-19 defectors by subjecting them to moral enhancement via water supply


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Complaints to state's corruption watchdog to be kept secret before elections in Queensland, Australia

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Corruption complaints made about Queensland politicians and candidates will be kept under wraps in the lead-up to elections as part of new laws introduced to State Parliament, with fines of more than $6000 or up to six months imprisonment.

The revelations follow commentary by Crime and Corruption Commission chairman Alan MacSporran at the conclusion of the corruption investigation into a school principal appointment involving former deputy premier Jackie Trad.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath told Parliament the bill came at a "critical time" as Queensland headed to the polls in October, and would prevent media from publicising corruption complaints within the caretaker period.

The LNP has previously pushed to ban the practice of publicising referrals to the corruption watchdog.

The laws will mean media such as print, digital, radio and television will be banned from publicising any corruption complaint during the caretaker period.

Comment: Politically-motivated censorship is alive and well in Queensland, Australia