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UK gov admits lockdowns aren't working but is mulling HARSHER measures and new lockdowns in northern England anyway


RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:03 UTC
London lockdown
© Reuters / Toby MelvilleFILE PHOTO: People walk towards an empty socially distanced arranged outdoor seating area in London, Britain, September 11, 2020.
The UK government wants to be "more consistent" on localized restrictions amid the rise in coronavirus cases in the north of England, admitting that the current measures so far have not been sufficiently effective.

With 14,162 people across the UK diagnosed with Covid-19 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to order new coronavirus curbs within days on pubs in northern England. The measures could include closing them altogether in Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, after a surge in cases.


Comment: Similar and strangely particular measures - locking down places serving alcohol (in addition to poorer areas) - have been rolled out in Paris, Ireland, Brussels, Madrid and Scotland. Rarely do we see such orchestrated, irrational and immediate action from so many countries that it begs the question, just where are these orders coming from? Because it's not coming from the scientific community.


Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is considering different options because the virus is rising, "in terms of the number of cases, quite significantly" in the north west, the north east and in a number of other cities such as Nottingham.

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Che Guevara

The origins of Cultural Marxism: How the disciples of an obscure Italian linguist subverted America

Sam Jacobs
Ammo.com
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:25 UTC
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Antonio Gramsci
You may have heard the terms "Cultural Marxism," "Critical Theory" or "Frankfurt School" bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there's a good chance that you don't know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from and what it has planned for America - and the world.

The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of.

Whereas Classical Marxism located what has been called "the revolutionary subject" (the people who will overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism) within the broad working class, primarily in what is now the First World, Gramscism takes a very different approach. This approach underpins most of the social unrest that is gripping America and the West today. In a sense, we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution.
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Three-year investigation closes: Cambridge Analytica did not misuse data in EU referendum, says watchdog

Jim Waterson
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:34 UTC
Cambridge Analytica
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The data watchdog has closed its investigation into Cambridge Analytica, concluding that the controversial data company did not directly misuse data to influence the Brexit referendum.

Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, said her team also found no evidence Cambridge Analytica aided Russian intervention in the UK political process. However, she warned that the company's data protection practices were lax "with little thought for effective security measures" and its activities raised broader concerns about the influence of technology in politics.

Cambridge Analytica had repeatedly claimed in its marketing material to have "5,000+ data points per individual on 230 million adult Americans", suggesting it had incredible power to micro-target individuals with suggestive political messaging using a giant psychographic database.

However, the investigation concluded that "based on what we found it appears that this may have been an exaggeration" and much of the company's activities followed "well recognised processes using commonly available technology".
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UK court hears children cannot consent to puberty blockers

Alexandra Topping
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:21 UTC
Keira Bell
© David Levene/The GuardianKeira Bell, outside the Royal Courts of Justice where she is bringing a case against Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
The argument that children can give informed consent to the prescription of puberty blockers is a "fairy tale", the high court has been told.

Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before "detransitioning" in her early 20s, and the mother of a 16-year-old girl with autism who is waiting for treatment are bringing a case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust, which runs the UK's only gender identity development service (GIDS) for children.

On Wednesday, lawyers for the pair, who want puberty blockers prescribed only after a court order, argued that children who had not yet gone through puberty were not able to properly understand the "lifelong medical, psychological and emotional implications" of taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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Traits like 'objectivity' and 'perfectionism' signs of RACISM and white supremacy, elementary school kids taught


RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:17 UTC
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© Screenshot from Twitter / @ConceptualJames
A screenshot of a lesson apparently taught to elementary school kids claiming characteristics like "perfectionism" and "objectivity" can signify racism has sparked outcry, with many ridiculing the concept as being racist itself.

The presentation slide, shared on Twitter by author James Lindsay on Wednesday, showed a list of 15 traits by which the young students could identify "white supremacy culture." It appeared to be a rough summary of the 2001 'Dismantling Racism Workbook' by authors Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones.

Lindsay claimed the lesson was being taught to kids at the Belvedere Elementary School in Virginia - and the name of the teacher appearing on the slide also matches the name of a teacher at that school.

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Attention

More than half in new poll expect violence after Election Day

John Bowden
The Hill
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:05 UTC
US election voting
More than half of voters expect violence in response to the November election results, according to a new poll published Wednesday.

In the YouGov survey, about 55 percent of registered voters said they thought violence would increase in the U.S. following the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Just under 11 percent of respondents said they didn't expect a rise in violence to occur after the election, while 33 percent of voters were unsure.

The same poll also determined that 50 percent of Americans expect the country at large to disagree about which candidate wins the presidential election, while 49 percent said they expected Americans to largely accept the election results.

Just over half, 52 percent, said they expected the November elections to be held in a "fair and honest" manner, while 47 percent doubted that the process would be above-board.

Comment: If national political organizations want to do something about the rising tensions in the US, then they ought to be calling out the extreme left, media, politicians, and activist Attorney Generals who are feeding the division and fueling the existing violence. So many Americans are expecting violence because this is what people are being primed for by design. Those pulling the strings want chaos because that is how they exert control.

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Grim warning Aussies face TWO YEARS of social distancing - and no overseas trips until EVERYONE is vaccinated from COVID-19

Charlie Moore
Daily Mail
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:25 UTC
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Australians should expect social distancing measures to be in place until 2022.
The Federal Budget has some grim news for most Australians hoping the pandemic to end soon and life to return to normal.

The government is predicting Australia's population won't be vaccinated until the end of 2021 - which means overseas travel will 'remain low' until then and social distancing measures will be kept in place.

However, the federal Government expects every state border to be open by Christmas, except for Western Australia, which it believes will keep its borders closed until after its state election on March 31, 2021.

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'Woke' culture sets back progress by assuming all minorities are victims, academic warns

Craig Simpson
The Telegraph
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:00 UTC
Helen Pluckrose
Cynical Theories author Helen Pluckrose tells The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast that identity politics will damage societal progress
"Woke" campaigning will set back social progress by assuming all minorities are victims, an academic who placed fake articles in journals has warned.

Helen Pluckrose infuriated academic circles by publishing deliberately absurd papers which were nevertheless unwittingly praised by scholars steeped in a social justice worldview.

She believes that the "woke" perspective she mocked in academia has spread to corporations, politics, and everyday interactions and represents "the worst of our nature".

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Russian community run by excommunicated criminal cop-turned-monk under investigation for torture of children

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:26 UTC
Sergius
© Sputnik / Pavel LysitsinFILE PHOTO
Russian authorities have opened a child torture criminal case against the Sredneuralsk Convent, an Orthodox Christian community run by the controversial excommunicated monk Sergius. The clergyman already has a murder conviction.

According to Russia's Investigative Committee, seven children were systematically beaten and subjected to other violent acts in the monastery, near Yekaterinburg, between 2004 and 2009. The accused have not been named, and Investigators believe the acts were entirely deliberate, "based on a false understanding of the process of raising minors."

The authorities also allege that the child victims lived permanently in the religious institution due to failings of the country's systems that are meant to protect against abuse of children. Earlier this year, a witness spoke to RT about corporal punishment of minors in the convent.

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Scotland imposes more regional lockdowns, bans alcohol sales claiming it affects 'willingness to follow rules'

Katy Pagan
The Sun
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:04 UTC
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© GettyPubs in Glasgow and Central Belt must close from Friday while rest in Scotland banned from selling booze
PUBS and restaurants across Scotland have been banned from selling booze and must close at 6pm from Friday - with a 16-day shutdown in the Central Belt.

Nicola Sturgeon set out fresh lockdown restrictions during a coronavirus briefing today.

The booze clampdown will be in place from 6pm on October 9 until October 25.

In the Central Belt - Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire & Arran, Lothian and Forth Valley - pubs and restaurants must fully close due to higher infection rates.

Comment: It's rather suspect that numerous Western countries have, all of a sudden, unanimously decided to take the same nonsensical albeit tyrannical measures as each other. It's almost as if they're all being leaned on by the same entity:


It's also worth noting a peculiar and particular ban on alcohol, and tobacco, was trialed out in South Africa during the initial global lockdown.

Evidently this has nothing to do with the coronavirus and clearly there's another nefarious agenda afoot: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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