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NY Times has double standards & serves the woke mob? Bari Weiss' shocking resignation letter only states the obvious

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:25 UTC
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Resigning from the New York Times, writer Bari Weiss lamented the degradation of language in service of ideology. Yet for three years, she was all too happy to be the paper's token centrist and demonize anyone to her right.

In the resignation letter she made public on Tuesday, Weiss calls out the US paper of record for being more committed to the political narrative than the truth. Any piece that "does not explicitly promote progressive causes" gets published "only after every line is carefully massaged, negotiated and caveated," she writes. Language itself is "degraded in service to an ever-shifting laundry list of right causes," while some of her colleagues nod along, hoping that would protect them.

The letter was quickly praised by some on the right. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called it "eloquent, profound, incisive — and true," while the president's son Donald Trump Jr. said it exposes the paper's tendency to attack "anyone who breaks from the far-left narrative."

Comment: Further reading on Ms. Weiss, as she slides into irrelavency:

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Bad Guys

Twitter gives thumbs down to replacing toppled UK slave trader statue with figure of BLM protester - UPDATE: Bristol City Council takes it down


RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:11 UTC
BLM statue replace slave trader UK Jenn Reid
© Twitter / @BenBirchallUK
Activists in Bristol, UK have installed a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester where a monument to 17th century slave trader Edward Colston stood before it was destroyed last month. The action drew a mixed response online.

The black resin and steel figure was erected in Bristol by a small team led by artist Marc Quinn at around 5am local time, the Guardian reported. It is said they worked as quickly as possible fearing that officials could arrive to stop them.

The sculpture is a re-creation of a photo of Black Live Matter protester Jen Reid standing on an empty pedestal with her fist raised shortly after the statue of Colston was toppled last month.

Comment: Bristol City Council was not impressed with the DIY memorial, who had it removed:
A black resin and steel statue, erected secretly in the dark of night where the figure of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston once stood in Bristol, has been removed by the city council after just one day.

Despite the artist claiming it would be "extremely difficult to move," council contractors removed the Reid statue at roughly 5:20am local time on Thursday morning.

The removal of the over 100-year-old statue of the wealthy merchant, politician, and slave owner Colston came amid a groundswell of anti-racism protests across the world in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police.

However, the replacement statue itself caused controversy and generated heated debate online, with many Bristolians praising the gesture, but others decrying how disrespectful it was.



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Megaphone

Captured Syrian Militant details how US Instructors supervised their weapons training


Sputnik News
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Syrian militant, Abdullah al-Mishuat
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The militant group got apprehended by Syrian government forces after running into a minefield while on a mission.

A new video showing the questioning of a Syrian militant who was recently captured by Syrian government forces in the vicinity of Palmyra, in western Syria, shows him revealing that their firearms training was supervised by American instructors.

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Star of David

Illegal squatters pitch tent, fence off lands in northern Jordan Valley


The Palestine Information Center
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:57 UTC
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© Palestinian Information CenerIsraeli illegal settlers set up another outpost on Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Tuesday erected a tent and fenced swaths of land in the east of Ein al-Hilweh area in the northern Jordan Valley.

Local official Mahdi Daraghmeh said that settlers had deployed several tents and fenced dozens of dunums of land in the areas of Biyoudh and Umm Kharrouba in the east of Ein al-Hilweh area during the last two days.

Thousands of dunums of land had already been appropriated by Jewish settlers in different areas of the northern Jordan Valley.
israel control west bank jordan valley
Israel control over the West Bank as of 2014. It has only tightened since then

Comment: The Zionists are already plotting the next round of land theft:
The Israeli occupation authority (IAO) on Wednesday morning carried out land surveying in al-Hamma area in the northern Jordan Valley.

Local official Omar Faqha said that the IOA started in the morning to map carry out surveying and mapping in al-Hamma, with no known reason.

It was not the first time the IOA carried out such activity in the region, but it happened on a large scale this time.

The Jordan Valley makes up 30 percent of the occupied West Bank and constitutes half of its agricultural land.

According to B'Tselem, the valley is home to 65,000 Palestinians and 11,000 illegal Israeli settlers.


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Sheriff

Maryland Police's new Toy: A look at an 'Electronic Lasso' Police are using to take down suspects

Mark Segraves
NBC Washington
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
In Maryland, the Landover Hills Police Department recently ordered the weapon for every officer
Bolarap
Police in the D.C. area and around the world are testing a new kind of electronic lasso designed to take down a suspect without hurting them.

It's called a BolaWrap and looks a little like something Wonder Woman or Spider-Man might have dreamed up. A handheld device that looks like a Taser shoots cord as far as 25 feet that wraps around a suspect's legs.

In Maryland, the Landover Hills Police Department recently ordered the weapon for every officer. Police in D.C., Maryland and Virginia are looking at the devices too.
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Megaphone

132 people detained in Moscow during unauthorized protest against recently approved constitutional amendments


RT
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:45 UTC
Russia
© Reuters / Evgenia NovozheninaA law enforcement officer stands guard during a protest against amendments to Russia's Constitution in Moscow, Russia on July 15, 2020.
Moscow police detained over a hundred demonstrators who held an unapproved rally on Wednesday evening. They were protesting against constitutional changes passed in a national vote earlier this month.

Those present were particularly opposed to a new clause re-setting presidential term limits - this could potentially allow Vladimir Putin to run for president two more times and stay in the Kremlin until 2036. A similar event was also held in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.

Between 200 to 300 people gathered at Pushkin Square in central Moscow on Wednesday evening, according to estimates from Kommersant newspaper.

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Attention

Boy, 16, grows breasts after being given estrogen for behavioral disorder while in L.A. juvenile hall, suit alleges

James Queally
LA Times
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 05:00 UTC
juvenile detention los angeles
© Christina House / For The TimesJuvenile hall in Los Angeles in 2014.
A 16-year-old boy being held at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall developed enlarged breasts after he was prescribed estrogen to treat a behavioral disorder, a move that baffled doctors who said the treatment defied medical logic, according to a lawsuit filed last month.

The teen, whose identity is being withheld because of his age, was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, two days after he was arrested and housed at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June 2019, the lawsuit said. Medical records reviewed by The Times show that the teen's testosterone levels were "slightly high" when the doctor who diagnosed him prescribed daily doses of estrogen.

Estrogen regulates the development of female sexual characteristics and reproduction. Men produce the hormone at much lower levels.
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Brick Wall

NXIVM members dancing for Raniere outside federal prison

Robert Gavin
Times Union
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:05 UTC
Keith Raniere courtroom artist sketch
© Elizabeth Williams/APIn this courtroom artist's sketch, defendant Keith Raniere, center, sits with attorneys Paul DerOhannesian, left, and Marc Agnifilo during closing arguments at Brooklyn federal court, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 in New York. A federal prosecutor said Raniere used his NXIVM organization to "tap into a never-ending flow of women and money." Attorneys for the defendant say he had no criminal intent and that his sexual encounters with followers were consensual.
Former members of group say "Kay Rose" rallies are meant for cult-like group's leader.

Outside Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, a group of people dance every night to support federal inmates, including one in particular: Kay Rose.

There is, however, no inmate by that name in the Brooklyn facility — or anywhere else in the federal prison population, for that matter. But "Kay Rose" shares the initials of someone who has spent the past two years in the downstate lockup: Keith Raniere, the leader of the formerly influential and now shattered organization known as NXIVM.

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Blue Planet

Moscow's reaction to restoration of Hagia Sophia as mosque reminds us Russia is ultimately part of Western world

Paul Robinson
RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:26 UTC
Sophia Cathedral
© Reuters / Murad Sezer; AFP / Natalia KolesnikovaHagia Sophia (L); Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow
For all the talk about 'Eurasianism' and Russia's 'unique civilization' the reality is the country is fundamentally European and Christian. The response to Turkey making the Hagia Sophia a mosque again reinforces the point.

In recent years an old buzzword has gained new popularity among what Russians call 'politologists' - that class of pundits and academics who engage in public discussion on political issues. The word in question is 'civilizations', and its use reflects a growing desire to distinguish Russia from the West by claiming some essential difference between the two.

The concept of civilizations has proven particularly attractive among those of a conservative bent and allows them to make a couple of important claims. The first is that the world comprises not different countries all moving toward some common goal founded upon universally valid values and institutions, but rather unique civilizations each of which is progressing along its own separate path. The second is that Russia itself is such a civilization.

Comment: See also: Turkey's Hagia Sophia: 'like turning Saint Peter's into a mosque'

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Attention

Ellen DeGeneres questioned for Wayfair partnership amid conspiracy theory

Jeanette Settembre
Fox News
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
Ellen DeGeneres Wayfair
© Wayfair/Getty ImagesEllen Degeneres
Ellen DeGeneres has been roped into a conspiracy theory that accuses Wayfair of acting as a front for human trafficking by selling pricey cabinets named after people.

The talk show celebrity was questioned on Twitter for her Wayfair collection that allegedly included a five-figure pillow but really sells for far less. Social media users questioned the talk show host and if she had any involvement with the alleged child trafficking conspiracy theory.

"@TheEllenShow please explain why you're selling pillows on Wayfair for over 10k with missing children's names on them? Are you part of #wayfairtrafficking???" one user asked on social media.

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