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Boat

Report: Ship crash near Shanghai leaves 14 sailors missing


Washington Times
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:03 UTC
shanghai ship crash
Fourteen sailors were missing Friday after two ships collided in the Yellow Sea east of Shanghai, Chinese authorities reported.

Three other crew members were rescued from the water after Thursday's pre-dawn collision between a vessel carrying 3,000 tons of gasoline and another loaded with gravel, according to the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration.

The collision occurred outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, a busy shipping lane.
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TV

American Samoa 'hostage situation' & Rhode Island 'calamari ninja': Twitter loses it over DNC's virtual roll call


RT
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:00 UTC
somoa rode island roll call DNC
© DNC
As the Democratic Party moved to nominate Joe Biden, viewers watching at home were somewhat distracted, infatuated with Rhode Island's calamari-wielding "ninja" and a bizarre "hostage-taking" scene in American Samoa.

The party's national convention pushed into its second night on Tuesday, seeing Biden officially elevated as the Democrats' 2020 presidential candidate alongside running mate Kamala Harris. During the roll call vote prior to the nomination, however, spectators couldn't help but notice that delegates in American Samoa, a US territory, were flanked by a pair of uniformed soldiers, giving the appearance that they had been taken captive.

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Stormtrooper

Melbourne: Authorities to use surveillance drones to catch people not wearing masks

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:22 UTC
police drone
© PHOTOPQR/L'EST REPUBLICAIN/MAXPPP
Authorities in Melbourne, Australia will use high-tech surveillance drones to catch people outside not wearing masks as well as to scan for vehicles that are in violation of curfew by being more than 5km from home.

"High powered drones will be used to find people not wearing masks and cars too far from home," according to a 7News Melbourne news report.
The drones will also be used to ensure skate parks and playgrounds remain empty.

The surveillance devices can be flown up to a distance of 7km and produce images so clear they can "read a vehicle's number plate from 500 meters away."

Privacy advocates are concerned that there is no sunset clause on the use of such technology and the drones could continue to be used to spy on citizens after the pandemic ends.

7News Melbourne spoke to two residents who said they weren't worried because they were behaving and had "nothing to hide."

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: The case for masks, school closings, & social isolation just collapsed!

Michael Thau
RedState
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:00 UTC
jogging facemask
© AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

-Theodore Dalrymple
The Annals of Internal Medicine just published a comprehensive new study on how contagious the COVID-19 virus is. And I'm sorry to report that the case for a number of popular new practices that seem to have filled some spiritual need a lot of Americans have for self-abasement just completely collapsed.

The list of practices no longer having any conceivable rationale includes:
  • Closing down schools.
  • Closing down gyms, barber shops, or any other businesses.
  • Limiting the number of patrons allowed in restaurants or other businesses at one time.
  • Mass testing for the COVID-19 virus.
  • Putting healthy people in quarantine.
  • Keeping a distance of 3, 6, or some other arbitrary number of feet away from healthy individuals.
  • Healthy individuals with no criminal intent wearing masks when it's not Halloween.
Likewise for any other humiliating rituals state and local officials plan on forcibly enacting to keep you safe from the scourge of COVID-19 that their own sense of self-worth precludes participating in.

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Eye 2

'Directed by Epstein's ghost!?' Netflix film about '11yo twerking & exploring her femininity' bashed for 'promoting child porn'


RT
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:33 UTC
Cuties
© YouTube / Netflix / Official Trailer / Cuties
A Netflix film set to debut next month has drawn major public backlash and a petition to see it cancelled, with critics insisting the mature-rated movie - centered on an 11-year-old wannabe dancer - sexualizes children.

Scheduled for release on the platform in September, the French film 'Cuties' bills itself as a coming-of-age drama that hits on modern social issues, following protagonist Amy, a pre-teen girl from a conservative family who joins a school dancing troupe.


Comment: The sickness of Western culture and "liberal" values becomes more and more evident with each passing day.

A "coming of age" story? With 11 years old dancers?! The producers of the film aren't fooling anybody. Well maybe some.

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Bad Guys

Home-grown dictator: LA mayor cuts power to TikTok star Bryce Hall's home after massive parties

Vincent Barone
New York Post
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:13 UTC
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© TMZ compositeBryce Hall (L) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (R)
The lights are going out on one of TikTok's brightest stars.

The mayor of Los Angeles has shut the power to Bryce Hall's Hollywood Hills rental home after officials said the TikTok influencer repeatedly held massive parties in violation of the city's coronavirus regulations, the New York Times first reported.

"Despite several warnings, this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills, hosting large gatherings in flagrant violation of our public health orders," LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement Wednesday.

"The City has now disconnected utilities at this home to stop these parties that endanger our community."

Comment: Hall and his parties are doing more for herd immunity to this nothingburger virus than all of mayor's bleating about 'saving lives'. This is not the first time Garcetti has flexed his totalitarian muscle, either:

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Sheriff

'We believe in law enforcement': Texas governor pledges to financially punish cities that attempt to defund the police


RT
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:23 UTC
Defund sign
© Reuters/Carlo Allegri
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott has issued a stark warning to left-leaning cities in the Lone Star State, saying he will withdraw funding from municipalities that try to defund law enforcement agencies.

The Republican politician sent the unambiguous message after Austin's city council slashed its police budget by $150 million last week. "Texas will defund cities that try to defund their police. We support law enforcement in Texas," Abbott tweeted late on Wednesday.

Discussing the issue on Fox News, Governor Abbott accused liberal precincts of "caving to socialism," and argued that the violence that's erupted in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, and "cities across the country" in recent months offers proof that defunding the police is a dangerous move.
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Syringe

Mexico interested in getting Russian COVID-19 vaccine


Sputnik
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:02 UTC
Russian vaccine
© Press Service of the Ministry of Health of the Russian FederationRussian COVID-19 vaccine
Mexico is interested in getting the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V as soon as possible, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday after his meeting with Russian Ambassador Viktor Koronelli.

"I thank the Russian Ambassador Viktor Koronelli for his visit to the Foreign Ministry. We talked about the Sputnik V vaccine. I expressed our interest in conducting the third phase [of clinical trials] in order to get this vaccine in Mexico as soon as possible," Ebrard said on Twitter.

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Snowflake Cold

Government insider claims DoD is prepping for loss of infrastructure due to climate change, podcast


Intellihub
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
a wave
© Angie Jane Gray/FlickrWave
"It just seems really weird... infrastructure... extreme weather which could delay components for weapons systems or supplies?"

A Department of the Interior employee named Becca called into The Shepard Ambellas Show on Monday where she said that the Department of Defense sent out a bulletin which states that the department is preparing for and is expecting to sustain damage to infrastructure due to coming climate change scenarios.

The department insider revealed that DoD internal has designated climate change as a threat to its operations and infrastructure and warned that something may be fast approaching.

"This I thought was really interesting - it came from DoD internal - it says that the DoD has designated climate change as a threat to operations and installations - so its buildings - and it's partly due to quote-unquote 'its damaging effects on infrastructure' but here's the thing 'which could delay critical supplies or IT services," she explained. "... we are not just talking power lines and such but buildings which I thought was strange."
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Handcuffs

Michigan college puts students on campus arrest with mandatory Covid-19 tracking app, while staff get to leave


RT
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:29 UTC
students
© Reuters/Mike SegarCollege students
Michigan's Albion College is requiring incoming students to install a tracking app on their phones that warns the school if they leave campus. The 'Covid bubble' plan lets teachers come and go as they please, however.

The draconian rules, which mandate that students remain within the Albion campus' 4.5-mile perimeter throughout the entire 14-week semester, are part of Albion's plans to create a 'Covid bubble' protecting its entire student body, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday.

While Albion claimed students are being restricted to campus in order "to reduce the risk of transmission between the campus or community populations," the school's 'Covid bubble' has one gaping flaw: faculty and administrators can come and go as they please.

Attempting to explain the disparity, the school pointed out it lacks the ability to house all faculty and staff on campus and insisted they would take "extra precautions to limit their exposure on and off campus" and undergo frequent testing. That's cold comfort to students who might gladly give up their on-campus berth for a little freedom of movement.

The rules require students to submit to a three-day quarantine upon moving in and agree to be tested for the coronavirus at various intervals - test results which can then be shared with state, local, or "any other governmental entity as may be required by law," according to Albion's policy. However, the school insisted state and county officials weren't collecting information from the app... yet.

Comment: It's first about the money and second about control - two fine and lofty reasons to install mental and physical coercion via tech-enabled totalitarianism.

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