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Oxford's calls for MORAL quarantine isn't only an attempt to undermine free speech, it's DEGRADATION of academic teaching & learning

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:52 UTC
Oxford graduates
© Reuters / Hannah McKayGraduates outside the Sheldonian Theatre after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University, in Oxford, Britain, July 15, 2017
For Oxford University Student Union the current lockdown is not enough. They have voted to impose a quarantine to protect themselves from the threat of "ableist, classist and misogynistic reading lists."

The new student policy statement, 'Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working-class and Women Students from Hatred In University Contexts' aims to shut down discussion on anything that any of the 'aforementioned groups' deem prejudicial.

Supporters of the policy explicitly reject the idea that freedom of speech is an essential feature of academic life. This policy document - passed by the Oxford SU and then mercifully rejected by Oxford University - explicitly states that arguments based on "free speech policy are inapplicable" when students are "required by the University to listen to the speech in question."

Comment: Here we see how giving life to 'trigger warnings' has allowed this warped structure to grow and consume the minds of its advocates as well as the institutions that provide support. This is the nature of pathological corruption: it seeks never-ending power and control. Maoist China gave similar support to its 'oppressed students', and the outcome was a devastating blow to the soul of Chinese culture. The West is set on this same course.

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Control Panel

Russophobic Czech official claims Russia is waging 'HYBRID WAR' on Europe by protesting removal of Soviet liberator statue


RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 08:49 UTC
worker covers the statue of Ivan Konev
© REUTERS/David W CernyFILE PHOTO: A worker covers the statue of Ivan Konev after removal from its pedestal in Prague
A Prague official responsible for removing a statue of Marshal Konev urged Brussels to protect the EU against Moscow's "interference" and "hybrid war," playing the time-tested 'Russia scare' card that never fails to be effective.

Proving that a strong offense sometimes makes the best defense, head of Prague's District 6 Ondrej Kolar wrote an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, according to Czech media.

He complained that the tearing down of a monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose troops put an end to the six-year Nazi occupation of the Czech capital back in 1945, had "provoked a completely inappropriate reaction from Russia." Russian diplomats and other officials, Kolar offered, "are calling on Czech citizens to physically liquidate those who have their [fingerprints] on removing the statue."

Moscow, which officially condemned the surprising act carried out by Prague authorities, is therefore meddling in the affairs of Prague and the Czech Republic as a whole, Kolar's letter alleged.

Russia is also waging a "hybrid war" against the EU, he continued, as the letter took a turn and began to resemble a Cold War propaganda leaflet.

Comment: Like so many other mind viruses we're seeing today Russophobia, and all the associated behaviors and policies "inspired" by it, appear to be one of the most dangerous - as it attempts to re-write history:

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Sheeple

Authoritarians: Democrats and millennials admit they are way more likely than Republicans to snitch on neighbors for violating lockdown orders

Chris Field
The Blaze
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:42 UTC
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Suppose you saw your neighbor with 15-20 people at his home in clear violation of your state's lockdown orders? Would you report him or leave him be?

Pollsters recently posed this exact question to Americans and found that more than a third of all of us would snitch on our neighbor. Within that, a strong plurality of Democrats said they would call the cops, while a minority of Republicans said the same. The poll also found that liberals and younger Americans were far more likely to report their neighbors than conservatives and older Americans.

What were the numbers?

A poll from JustTheNews.com conducted by Scott Rasmussen asked adults this question: "Suppose that, in violation of stay-at-home rules, your neighbor had 15-20 people at their home. Would you report them to the police?"
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Bad Guys

Woman says Biden commented on her breasts and her age when she was only 14-years-old — SIX people back up her claim

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 03 May 2020 16:38 UTC
biden sexual assault
Another woman has come forward with allegations about Joe Biden's inappropriate behavior — claiming that he commented on her age and her breasts when she was only 14-years-old.

Speaking to Law & Crime, Eva Murry, 26, claims that she was sexually harassed by Biden at First State Gridiron Dinner & Show in 2008, a swanky political roast for Delaware press and politicians similar to the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Murry is the niece of former Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who was running for senate against Biden at the time and had occasionally went to political events for school credit. She was in Middle School at the time.
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Bullseye

Banning the conspiracist David Icke is WRONG & actually strengthens his case that we're sleepwalking towards dictatorship

Neil Clark
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:33 UTC
David Icke
© Wikimedia CommonsDavid Icke
The banning of the former TV presenter from Facebook and YouTube is an assault on free speech and free expression which needs to be forcefully resisted, whatever your views are on Icke's theories on world governance.

I'm old enough to remember when David Icke was a television sports presenter. For the past thirty-five years or so he's been putting his ideas out on how he thinks the world operates - and it's fair to say he has caused plenty of controversy. Some people laughed at him, some agreed with him, some were indifferent. No one campaigned for him to be banned.

Recently though, that's changed. Icke has been accused of "preaching hate" and of peddling "unsubstantiated conspiracy theories." And now he's charged with promoting "toxic" and "dangerous misinformation" about Covid-19.

Writing in the Observer on April 25, Nick Cohen berated social media platforms for not banning Icke.
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Take 2

North Korean defectors apologize for Kim Jong-un death rumors - but will Western media ever develop healthy skepticism?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:27 UTC
kim jong un
© Reuters / KCNA
Defectors from North Korea have apologized for spreading fake news about leader Kim Jong-un's death. Will a Western media that believes their every word now finally start fact-checking their wild claims about the country?

Two defectors serving in South Korea's parliament issued public apologies on Monday after insisting the North Korean ruler was dead or close to it. The apologies came on the heels of heavy rebukes from the South's ruling Democratic Party, as well as calls for the defectors to be punished for spreading false rumors.

Over the course of Kim's three-week absence from public duties, the Western media rumor mill churned thinly sourced 'news' from a South Korean clickbait outlet about alleged heart surgery into shock headlines carrying some variant of "Kim is dead, and war is imminent!" The leader rained on the media's parade, though, by showing his face on state TV on Saturday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a fertilizer plant. While the defectors who helped fuel the frenzy have publicly displayed some contrition, the Western outlets that amplified their claims have done nothing of the sort. Indeed, some have even tried to double down, claiming a "mysterious" mark on Kim's wrist is proof he was hospitalized.
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Dollars

Former Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko received $5.5 MILLION in compensation from US resident for 'repressions'


RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 16:25 UTC
Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
© Reuters / Gleb GaranichUkraine’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has stunned the public and media by saying in her income declaration that she got $5.5 million from a "US resident" as compensation for Ukrainian government "repressions."

A financial disclosure statement filed in late April by Tymoshenko, who now serves as an MP in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, says she received a whopping 148 million hryvnias ($5.5 million) as part of a pre-trial settlement in a case filed over her persecution at the hands of the Ukrainian authorities back in 2011-2014.

Yet, Tymoshenko's declaration doesn't disclose anything about the lawsuit, besides the name of an American law firm, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, as the source of the tranche. The legal company's website mentions nothing about any cases related to the former Ukrainian prime minister.
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NPC

To save the children,' Harvard Magazine calls for the abolition of the family

Tom Lindsay
Forbes
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:08 UTC
lenin
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After he left the presidency of Harvard University, Derek Bok offered this anatomy of the soul of American higher education today: "Universities are like riverboat gamblers and exiled royalty: their desires are never satisfied."

But Harvard Magazine has now upped the ante, going far beyond an insatiable desire for mere money. The May-June 2020 edition of the magazine calls for the abolition of the family. Not in those words exactly, of course, given the bad odor the phrase has acquired: "the abolition of the family" is "arguably the most infamous demand of The Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Engels. But totalitarianism by any other name still destroys the family, and this appears to be the intention of the article.

Written by Erin O'Donnell, and appearing on the Harvard-linked website of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, the article, titled, "The Risks of Homeschooling," announces, with great alarm, that "a rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home. Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter schools, and larger than the number currently in parochial schools."
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Bizarro Earth

Police draw guns, tackle Alberta woman in stormtrooper costume with Star Wars blaster

Barrett Wilson
The Post Millennial
Tue, 05 May 2020 15:55 UTC
star wars restaurant police
A Star Wars themed restaurant was the setting of a bizarre and violent scene on May 4 as police arrived with guns drawn on a woman who was serving food in a stormtrooper costume.
A Star Wars themed restaurant was the setting of a bizarre and violent scene on May 4 as police arrived with guns drawn on a waitress who was serving food in a stormtrooper costume.

The waitress at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina in Lethbridge was participating in May the Fourth celebrations and serving customers in the parking lot and dancing for her patrons. He costume featured a replica Star Wars blaster.

Moments later, she was tackled by police after they surrounded her with guns drawn.

"Apparently a couple of people had called 911 and said that there was somebody with a gun on 13 Street North," Brad Whalen, the restaurant's owner, told CTV. "A number of police officers had shown up to our business with guns drawn on our employee."

Comment: Geezus! Seems Canada isn't immune to police insanity. This woman very likely 'didn't comply with police directions' because she didn't understand how they were directing them toward her! The owner is right: these police officers didn't act with a lick of sense.

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Bad Guys

Syrian air defenses repel alleged Israeli strike on Aleppo Research Center


Sputnik
Tue, 05 May 2020 20:07 UTC
syria air strike
© AP Photo / SANA
An aerial missile attack over the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was reportedly prevented by the Syrian Arab Army's air defenses, according to state media on Monday.

Unconfirmed reports suggest the attempted attack was launched by Israeli forces targeting a research center located in the al-Safira Defense complex near Aleppo.

Video footage posted to social media reportedly shows the air defense system responding to the May 4 event.

A map published by Aurora Intel shows the reported "area of interest" following the reporting of three significant explosions heard in Aleppo.

Comment: See also:

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