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Best of the Web: The Silence of the lambs: Why are the churches still shut?

Rob Slane
theblogmire.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:22 UTC
closed church
This piece is written exclusively with Christians in mind. Atheists and those of other religions are of course welcome to peek in through the window, and in fact part of me suspects that many who do, though disagreeing with the theology, will perhaps see the points being made more clearly than many of our national church leaders.

Never before in the history of the church have so many churches been shut for this long. Never before in the history of the church have God's people failed to meet together in such great numbers for so long. Never before in 2,000 years of church history has the Lord's Supper been suspended for so long for so many.

After weeks of this startling situation, we have started to hear a few murmurings from one or two prominent church leaders. However, most of it is so insipid that it bears the same sort of resemblance to John and Peter's declaration to the Sanhedrin in Acts 5 — "We must obey God rather than men" — as Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock's arbitrary and irrational rules bear to the Declaration of Independence.

Comment: The churches don't or won't say anything because if they do, they would have to actually call out this infernal situation for what it is: a cult of worship to The Darkness...

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China's Covid-19 statistics are accurate, while lockdown makes little difference - Nobel laureate biophysicist Levitt tells RT


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:38 UTC
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© Reuters / Carl Recine
Challenging the widespread belief that the worldwide anti-coronavirus lockdown has helped in slowing down the disease spread, Stanford Professor Michael Levitt believes that it's actually made very little difference.

Speaking to RT's Going Underground, Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist Levitt said that there was no reason to doubt China's official coronavirus figures, since its statistics are corresponding with the dynamics observed elsewhere.

"What happened in China outside of Hubei is exactly the same dynamics of the curve as what happened in New Zealand," Levitt stated. "If China is forging statistics, they must have a time machine. And if they have the time machine, they would've beaten us in any competition anyway."
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Little Maoists: Tearing down of British slave trader statue prompts wave of suggestions for further destruction


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
Winston Churchill in Parliament Square BLM protests
© REUTERS/Dylan MartinezA demonstrator in front of graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square during a Black Lives Matter protest in London on Sunday.
After protesters in the city of Bristol dramatically tore down a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston on Sunday, a wave of suggestions for whose effigy should be destroyed next has been unleashed.

Colston made the bulk of his vast fortune with the Royal African Company (RAC). The company had a monopoly on the West African slave trade and it branded its RAC initials on the slaves' chests. His statue was sent to a watery grave when demonstrators threw it into Bristol Harbor on Sunday.

The striking scenes have prompted a raft of suggestions for further demolitions, as some in Britain have suggested that the country should attempt to come to terms with its blood-drenched history. Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell and imperialist Cecil Rhodes have led the nominations, while Margaret Thatcher, prime minister from 1979 to 1990, also drew some fire.

Comment: Tearing down old monuments only removes the symbols of who we were and from whence we've come, and is done at the peril of all involved.

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Reckless Twitter hashtag or serious future policy? US cops give RT their views on 'defund the police' campaign


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
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Calls to strip law enforcement of funds should remain on social media and don't reflect reality, a police union president told RT. A former NYPD commander countered that some funds could be reallocated and restored if needed.

Nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cops last month have spawned a growing movement to defund police departments. The radical idea has already been embraced by Minneapolis City Council, which has assembled a veto-proof majority to replace traditional law enforcement with a "community-led system." The proposal, which proponents admit will take time to fully implement, has sparked fierce debate about how to ensure public safety in America's cities while rooting out discrimination and corruption.

Stripping the police of funding would have serious consequences, and those who support the idea on social media are likely not the ones who will be most affected by such extreme measures, Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, told RT.
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Evil Rays

China to build 600,000 5G bases in 2020 despite COVID-19 impact


CGTN
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:08 UTC
5g cities
China is expected to build more than 600,000 5G base stations by the end of the year, covering cities above the prefecture level in the country, said an official with the country's industry and information technology ministry on Saturday.

The basic telecommunications companies in China have built more than 250,000 5G base stations and with over 36 million 5G users, said Lu Chuncong, deputy director of the Information and Communications Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), at the first anniversary of the 5G licensing online summit

As of May, shipment of 5G mobile phones in China hit 59.85 million units. The shipment is expected to exceed 180 million by the end of the year, said Lu.
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Red Pill

Best of the Web: The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:00 UTC
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It seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it.

They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn. They lied about Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued. They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns and the White House response. And now they're lying about the riots.

In recent days we've heard a steady drumbeat of lies, distortions, and disingenuousness from the mainstream media about almost every aspect of the unrest now gripping American cities. The deceit is almost too pervasive and amorphous to describe, but I'm going to try anyway.

Over the weekend we were told, for example, that the looting and violence was being instigated not by left-wing anarchists and antifa groups but by the media's favorite villains: white supremacists. CNN, whose Atlanta offices were vandalized Friday, went on and on — without a shred of evidence to back it up — about how white supremacists might be infiltrating the protests and stirring up trouble. The New York Times, in a report that even quoted a senior police official in New York City saying outside anarchist groups were coordinating mayhem before the protests began, nevertheless veered into a long aside about how far-right "accelerationists" were hoping the unrest would bring about a long-sought second civil war.
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Woke world revives Maoist struggle sessions, complete with mandatory self-abasement, after Floyd death

Michael Rectenwald
RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:49 UTC
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© Twitter / Natalie Hee @NatalieHee / @FOX26Houston
In response to the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin and accomplices, woke culture has intensified cringy prostration and humiliation rituals that can be traced to the Maoist Cultural Revolution.

In social media and physical encounters across the US and beyond, the Black Lives Matter movement, left-leaning political groups, and mainstream organizations have engaged in soft forms of struggle sessions and forced self-criticism routines, eerily resembling those the Red Guards oversaw at Mao's behest during the Communist Chinese Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976.

During the Maoist Cultural Revolution, in struggle sessions, the guilty party - accused of selfishness, ignorance, and the embrace of bourgeois ideology - was pilloried with verbal and sometimes physical assaults by her comrades - until she broke down and confessed her characterological and ideological flaws. 'Autocritique' or self-criticism often began with voluntary submission of the guilty party, who subjected herself to a brutal verbal self-inspection and denigration before the jury of her comrades. Autocritique and struggle sessions could lead to imprisonment or death as the comrade was often found to be insufficiently pure. Today, they lead to diminished social standing, public humiliation, and the loss of jobs.

Comment: From Cary, North Carolina, yesterday:





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Red Pill

Transparency and change in the US under Democrats? 'Don't be fooled,' says UN torture expert


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:53 UTC
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© Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage
The notion that the Democratic Party would be better than Republicans at delivering transparency and accountability is flawed, because US government impunity is "systemic," UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has said.

With the November presidential election looming and protests raging across the US following the police killing of George Floyd, many on the Left are insisting that change will only come if people "vote Democrat" and "vote blue no matter who."

Yet, Democrats taking the wheel in January 2021 would not necessarily bring any significant change in terms of transparency and accountability, Melzer implied. "Do not be fooled," he wrote in a tweet blasting the party on Sunday, adding that US government "secrecy and impunity is systemic."
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Blue Pill

George Floyd rallies are awakening against racism & repression marking 1st post-pandemic push for change - Maduro


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:45 UTC
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Americans aren't just rallying over the gruesome death of Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of police, they are rising up against racial injustice, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said.

The "awakening of the American people" is directed against "a whole system of racism and structural repression, which does not cease [to exist]," Maduro wrote on Twitter.


Comment: Maduro seems to be buying into the leftist ideological stance that the Western "system" is inherently racist. While there are certainly class issues in the system, the idea of "systemic racism" is phantasm, a tool used by ideologues to initiate their desire to change the system to their benefit. See:


The protests also mark the first push for change since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, he noted.
It is the first post-pandemic political expression of the great changes towards which humanity is heading.
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Better Earth

'I haven't changed my mind': Swedish science chief remains confident country is building immunity

Richard Orange, UK
The Telegraph
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 15:38 UTC
Anders Tegnell
© Peter Kadhammar/AftonbladetState epidemiologist Anders Tegnell enjoying a beer while working on his laptop at an outdoor restaurant in Stockholm
Days after he appeared to admit to flaws in Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, the country's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has doubled down in an interview with the The Telegraph, saying he is confident Swedes are building immunity and warning his Nordic neighbours that is too early to claim success.

"It's part of the work," Tegnell said of the heavy coverage Sweden's strategy, and as a result its high death toll, has received in the international media. "That's the course we have decided to take in Sweden. And I'm quite happy to tell people about it."

Tegnell faced a cascade of headlines on Wednesday after an interview on Swedish radio in which he said that, in hindsight, the best strategy might have been "something between what Sweden has done and what the rest of the world has done."

He backtracked later that day, saying that he was not suggesting that Sweden should have closed schools, bars, restaurants, or workplaces, or indeed imposed any of the restrictive lockdown measures imposed elsewhere in Europe.

"That interview was unfortunately very wrongly put together and very wrongly advertised," he said. "What I said ... was that after this, we're going to do a lot of evaluation, and of course, there are going to be things we did in Sweden that we think we did right, and there are things in other countries that are also going to be proven right."

The qualities which have transformed Tegnell from an unknown civil servant into one of the stars of the global pandemic - a gift for communication, calm good humour, and impressive sang-froid - have never been put to the test as they have over the past fortnight.

Comment: See also:

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