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Best of the Web: Empty Coffins, Empty Hospitals: Brazilian MPs Expose Biggest Covid-19 Hoax Known To Date

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FRN brings the following major revelation:

Members of the Brazilian parliament decided to confirm suspicions and break into a hospital that claimed to have 5,000 infected & 200 deaths from COVID-19, and found that the hospital had grossly over-represented the cases and its claims. There was in fact not a single person, they report, and the hospital was entirely empty and was obviously still under construction.

Acting on a tip that something was going wrong at this hospital, five members of the Brazil parliament went to hospitals under encouragement by president Bolsonaro to break in & check to see the number of patients there.

Take 2

Say what? UK Sky Cinema adds trigger warning for 2019 Aladdin remake for 'outdated attitudes'

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Sky Cinema in Britain has placed disclaimers alongside its descriptions of several popular motion pictures, claiming that some "attitudes" in those films may be outdated. But one of its 'trigger-warned' movies is only a year old.

Sky's movie service informed its viewers that 2019's 'Aladdin' contains "outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence today."

Sky's "trigger warning" has drawn a predictable backlash online.


People were perplexed that a remake from only last year is now being called "outdated."

"Wait til they catch up with 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'! Banned by the end of the week!" Mansfield MP Ben Bradley tweeted.

Viewers claimed that absolutely no one has been offended by 2019's Aladdin.

Comment: And when totalitarianism came, it was welcomed with open arms. The few dissenters were quickly taken care of - taken to a place where they would no longer be able to offend anyone. And since all of history was soon deemed offensive, soon there was no history. No art. No humanity.




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FBI used a Philly protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze

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As demonstrators shouted, fires burned outside City Hall, and Philadelphia convulsed with outrage over the death of George Floyd, television news helicopters captured footage of a masked woman with a peace sign tattoo and wearing a light blue T-shirt setting a police SUV ablaze.

More than two weeks after that climactic May 30 moment, federal authorities say they've identified the arsonist as 33-year-old Philadelphia massage therapist Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal by following the intricate trail of bread crumbs she left through her social media history and online shopping patterns over the years.

The path took agents from Instagram, where amateur photographers also captured shots of the masked arsonist, to an Etsy shop that sold the distinctive T-shirt the woman was wearing in the video. It led investigators to her LinkedIn page, to her profile on the fashion website Poshmark, and eventually to her doorstep in Germantown.

Their pursuit, described in court filings this week, sheds light on the extent to which the FBI and Justice Department have used news footage, online histories, and social media footprints to track down and identify demonstrators believed to be responsible for acts of violence or property destruction.

Comment: Those on the left who are going around cities committing arson, theft, and other anti-social acts would do well to keep in mind the abilities of law enforcement to use their extensive surveillance and investigative capabilities to track them down.


Snakes in Suits

Thought control: 'Independent' Facebook fact-checker exposed as partisan smear factory packed with CNN alumni

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Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories is a biased outfit bristling with ex-CNN staffers that presents itself as neutral, despite most of its employees having donated to the Democratic Party, a conservative outlet has revealed.

The National Pulse (TNP), whose story about supposed financial links between Black Lives Matter, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and fundraiser ActBlue was flagged as "partly false" by Lead Stories on Facebook, did some digging on Wednesday to find out who was behind the smear, after their efforts to contest the label were apparently stonewalled.

What they discovered was an organization staffed almost entirely by Democratic donors, half of whom had worked for CNN in the past. A quarter of the employees were recurring Democratic donors, TNP revealed, suggesting an egregious conflict of interest, given the story they'd flagged at the conservative outlet was about contributions to a Democratic presidential campaign.

Lead Stories founder Perry Sanders has donated over $10,000 to Democratic political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's presidential runs, TNP showed, providing copious links to back up the laundry list of partisan affiliations it had stumbled across. Several other writers had Democratic contributions on their records too. One, Gita Smith, was listed in 99 separate small-dollar donations to various Democratic candidates, as well as some contributions directly to ActBlue and the activism group Indivisible.

Attention

Alleged 'nooses' in Oakland park were actually exercise aids, man says

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© KGO/CNNVictor Sengbe said he put the ropes in the trees as exercise equipment.
Oakland's mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.

Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wedesday that a hate crime investigation was under way after a social media post identified a noose at the city's popular Lake Merritt. Police said they searched the area on Tuesday and found five ropes attached to trees.

The Police Department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.

They have been removed by city officials.

Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.

"Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create," Sengbe said.

"It's unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to have a good time got misinterpreted into something so heinous," he told the station.

Comment: All this over some exercise equipment and a makeshift swing. What a bunch of virtue signalling a**hats.




Gear

Flashback Best of the Web: The activist Left and the racism treadmill

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The prevailing view among progressives today is that America hasn't made much progress on racism. While no one would argue that abolishing slavery and dissolving Jim Crow weren't good first steps, the progressive attitude toward such reforms is nicely summarized by Malcolm X's famous quip, "You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress." Aside from outlawing formalized bigotry, many progressives believe that things haven't improved all that much. Racist attitudes towards blacks, if only in the form of implicit bias, are thought to be widespread; black men are still liable to be arrested in a Starbucks for no good reason; plus we have a president who has found it difficult to denounce neo-Nazis. If racism still looms large in our social and political lives, then, as one left-wing commentator put it, "progress is debatable."

But the data take a clear side in that debate. In his controversial bestseller Enlightenment Now, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker notes a steep decline in racism. At the turn of the 20th century, lynchings occurred at a rate of three per week. Now, racially-motivated killings of blacks occur at a rate of zero to one per year.1 What's more, racist attitudes that were once commonplace have now become fringe. A Gallup poll found that only 4 percent of Americans approved of marriages between blacks and whites in 1958. By 2013, that number had climbed to 87 percent, prompting pollsters to call it "one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup history."

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Atlanta Police deny there is a walkout while protesters stage sleep-in

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Atlanta Police said there was no walkout, but dozens of officers were off the job Wednesday night thanks to a rash of sick calls. The sick-out came hours after charges were filed against ex officer Garrett Rolfe and Officer Devin Brosnan in the Rayshard Brooks' case.

The buzz of patrol officers staging walkouts and refusing to answer calls from Precincts 3,5,6 and others began circulating social Wednesday evening. CBS46 confirmed the walkout through sources at 8:30 p.m.

APD attempted to quiet the noise of a walkout by tweeting:


Comment: Despite APD claims, numerous reports and Tweets suggest otherwise:




Bullseye

Abolishing the police because they've failed rape victims leaves vulnerable women without any protection

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US police have failed to protect rape victims, but singling them out allows the corrupt system, which enables that failure, to continue its abuses by other means - and leaves vulnerable women without any protection at all.

Making the argument for feminists to climb on board the police-abolition bandwagon, the Guardian's Moira Donegan reasons cops are not only incompetent when it comes to handling rape cases - they're part of the problem. She holds up the high rate of domestic abuse in police households and cites several notorious examples of cops raping women in their custody, declaring the protector has become the predator and insisting the only solution is to end the institution once and for all.

The question of who will arrest and prosecute rapists if the police are abolished is pushed aside - even though it's asked in the title of her article - and the reader is left with the impression that police are actually responsible for more violence against women than, well, rapists. Listening to her argument, however, could put women in real danger.

'Cops are terrible at solving rape, therefore we should get rid of them' is the kind of cringeworthy hot take that's suddenly everywhere as cries to "defund the police" begin to drown out the "Black lives matter" chants that initially defined the George Floyd protests. But like the "defund the police" movement itself, scapegoating cops for the justice system's abysmal treatment of sexual assault victims is a dangerous oversimplification.

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Black Lives Matter protest of 80 people in tiny Ohio town where just 13 black residents live is overrun by 700 white counterprotesters armed with weapons

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Police break up a fist fight between a protester and counter protester Monday. A Black Lives Matter protest of around 80 people in a tiny Ohio town home to just 13 black residents was overrun by 700 white counterprotesters armed with rifles, handguns and baseball bats.
A Black Lives Matter protest of around 80 people in a tiny Ohio town which is home to just 13 black residents was overrun by 700 white counterprotesters armed with rifles, handguns and baseball bats at the weekend.

Heavily armed white men and women from motorcycle gangs and 'back the blue' groups flocked to the small town of Bethel on Sunday shouting 'Blue lives matter!' and 'All lives matter!'

They faced off with the small group of village residents who had been demonstrating peacefully calling for an end to systemic racism and police brutality across America.

Comment: It's been said many times before, but the backlash against the social justice agenda is likely going to be brutal. Expect more of this in the future.

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SOTT Focus: Do Covid-19 Statistics Represent 'Excess Deaths' or State-sponsored 'Homicide'?

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Throughout the course of the COVID Operation, we have seen that COVID "attribution" data has been unreliable and manipulated. World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) changed Cause of Death guidelines. Financial incentives are part of the manipulated equation, unvalidated tests are used, "presumptive COVID "cases" count as "COVID cases", distinctions between death WITH COVID-19 and deaths BY/FROM COVID-19 are not being made. Importantly, comorbidities such as age, cardiovascular health etc. are largely negated as the spotlight burns on COVID-19. All of these biases corrupt the data.

Rigorous epidemiological studies, on the other hand, rely exclusively on "All Cause" mortality data. (1) Using "All Cause" data, Dr. Denis Rancourt demonstrates in "All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response" that "the total number of winter-burden all-cause 'excess' deaths for the season ending in 2020 (area above the summer baseline) is not statistically larger than for past years, and it remains to be seen how low the summer 2020 trough will be."

Comment: Professor Rancourt makes a compelling case, and the news backs him up.