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Vegan wins Oxford Union debate arguing that eating meat is racist and sexist


RT
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:28 UTC
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© Getty Images / Roman Larin / EyeEmThe suggestion by a feminist vegan that meat consumption is misogynistic and xenophobic is as risible as it sounds
Undaunted by its push to vilify the so-called "gender binary" of male and female and introduce new hierarchical structures to reset the status quo, the progressive left remains on the move to problematize everything. Its latest target? Meat.

In November, the Oxford Union held a debate about meat consumption called "This House Would Move Beyond Meat," presented by vegan feminist Carol J. Adams, and the farcical proceedings went viral in February after clips surfaced on social media. Adams, the writer of 'The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory' and 'The Pornography of Meat', regurgitated the decades-old argument that meat consumption is not only problematic in the sense that it exploits animals for the purposes of basic sustenance (as often repeated by vegans in general), but also that meat consumption has gendered and racialized components.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Dissecting the Vegetarian Myth - Interview with Lierre Keith

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Masking children is more harmful than COVID itself

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat
Fox News
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:00 UTC
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This past weekend, the Super Bowl enlightened us not just because the Bengals tragically lost in the last minute of the big game, but because we saw a false pretense, a façade of virtuous character among our leaders and lawmakers insisting we mask up.

But yet they don't conform to their own social and moral standards. Leaders lead by setting an example for others. But when that doesn't happen, we lose trust, respect, and credibility - while simultaneously forcing children to cover their faces all day long in school, which at this point is harmful to our kids.

Is it really that bad? Yes. At this time, masking children is more harmful than COVID itself for most children, the lowest risk group who have a near-zero mortality rate from coronavirus - 0.24% to be exact.

When children cover their faces, they cover their personalities, their expressions. Facial expressions are the most vital and valuable aspect of human to human communication and interaction - the way a child conveys his thoughts, emotions, ideas, intentions. Their face indicates physical or psychological distress and that's not to mention nonverbal communication expressing fear, anger sadness, or pain, all of which impacts social engagement, growth, personality, confidence, and behavior. It makes me wonder whether alterations or deprivation of these necessities at an early age will be responsible for mental illness later in life.
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Democrats overwhelmingly approve of Trudeau's crackdown on freedom protestors, freezing of bank accounts: Poll

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:50 UTC
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A recent poll has revealed that a majority of American Democrats approve of the Canadian Prime Minister's crackdown on the freedom protestors in Ottawa after he invoked the Emergencies Act early last week.

In a poll conducted by the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action obtained by The Daily Wire, it revealed that 55 percent of likely general election voters overall disapprove of Trudeau's handling of the protestors in Ottawa and beyond.

35 percent overall approved of Trudeau's crackdown, while 10 percent said they were unaware of what's happening to the US' northern neighbor.

Looking at Democrat likely voters alone, 65 percent said they favored Trudeau's crackdown on the protestors, and 17 percent said they disapproved.

Republicans, on the other hand, more strongly disproved of Trudeau's heavy-handed tactics, with 87 percent saying the disapprove and just 8 percent approving.

Comment: No investigation, no trial, no nothing except for being suspected of participating and your money will be frozen. That the democrats are okay with this is not all that surprising but be sure that the "temporary" measures are usually just a stepping stone for 'permanent'. The Daily Wire reports:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not quite ready to loosen his grip on the emergency powers his government invoked to shut down the recent trucker protests that brought Ottawa to a standstill.

Trudeau said in a public statement that even though the protests had been disbanded and the truckers had been either arrested and detained or sent home — some with their financial accounts frozen as well — the state of emergency was not yet over.

"As I said, the Emergencies Act is not something to undertake lightly, and it's something that needs to be momentary, temporary, and proportional. That's why every single day, I am receiving briefings and we are reflecting on how much longer the Emergencies Act needs to be in place," Trudeau explained. "We don't want to keep it in place a single day longer than necessary."

"But even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over," Trudeau continued. "There continue to be real concerns about the coming days, but we will continue to evaluate every single day whether or not it is time and we are able to lift this state of emergency."

Trudeau's government invoked the Emergencies Act after truckers, protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates and quarantine requirements, formed a convoy blockading much of Ottawa and border crossings for several weeks.

Under that state of emergency, Canadian officials arrested and detained protesters, froze financial accounts belonging to those involved, and even threatened to take physical custody of pets that were left uncared for if their owners were detained.

Critics called Trudeau's response to the truckers an overreach, with some even comparing him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Some, referencing Trudeau's history of blackface, caused #BlackfaceHitler to trend on Twitter over the weekend.





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The truckers have changed Canada forever

Rupa Subramanya
Spiked
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:28 UTC
canada trucker protest
On Monday 14 February, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sent an unlikely Valentine's gift to his citizens, invoking rarely used emergency powers, which came into effect the next day. This was in response to the 'Freedom Convoy' of thousands of truckers and protesters who have gathered in the nation's capital, Ottawa. Trudeau claimed that the protests were not peaceful, implying that the crisis could not be solved by normal policing under existing statutes. The reality is that, during more than two weeks of protests, Ottawa's protesters are guilty of little more than municipal traffic and noise infractions. There has been no violence. Nevertheless, two of the protest leaders, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, have been detained by police under the emergency powers.

The threshold for invoking emergency powers in Canada is supposed to be high. Indeed, similar powers have only been used in the two world wars and, controversially, in 1970, when then prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, used emergency powers to suppress a separatist movement in Quebec. His son's use of emergency powers, in the context of a peaceful protest, has been criticised by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which has argued that the necessary threshold has not been met to justify invoking these draconian powers. It should also be noted that Trudeau and his government have consistently refused to meet and even to listen to the protesters' grievances, despite the protesters themselves being willing to engage in dialogue.

Strangely, the most problematic element of the protest - a trucker blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan, over which 25 per cent of US-Canada trade travels - was peacefully resolved the weekend before Trudeau's proclamation, by the provincial police. Meanwhile, on the same day that Trudeau declared his emergency, another blockade - on the border between Alberta and the US state of Montana - ended peacefully and without the use of force. The police and the protesters ended up hugging each other after the issue was resolved.

Comment: One can hope for change but it's unlikely he'll be going anywhere. The Great Reset must go on and he's their guy.

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Arrow Up

Trump's new TRUTH Social platform skyrockets to #1 spot in Apple's App Store

Nick Monroe
The Post Millennial
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:03 UTC
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© UnknownFormer US President Donald Trump • Truth Social
The official Presidents' Day release of President Donald Trump's new TRUTH Social saw tens of thousands of people flock to join the pro-free speech platform.

While the demand exists for people to use it, the Trump-branded platform itself is working through a massive waitlist of social media users hoping to join. Many have attempted to sign up for TRUTH Social through this past weekend.

The management over at Gab.com wished good luck to their competitor as TRUTH Social dealt with the initial wave of publicity and attention.


But as reported by Bloomberg, Error 1020 by Cloudflare acts as a damper on the userbase's enthusiasm to get people to hop on board.
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Arrow Up

Fifty years after Nixon's visit, US businesses urge 'continued cooperation' with China


Global Times
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:49 UTC
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© cnsphotoA view of Yantian port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province on February 16, 2022.
Businesses reject 'decoupling' on 50th anniversary of Nixon's China visit

Five decades after then US President Richard Nixon made an ice-breaking visit to China in 1972 that helped start bilateral diplomatic engagement, US business leaders in China voiced hope for continued commercial communication between China and the US and rejected a decoupling between the two economies.

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Nixon's historic visit to China, during which the two countries issued a document known as the Shanghai Communiqué, which became the political foundation for the normalization of China-US relations.

Eric Zheng, President of AmCham Shanghai, told the Global Times on Monday:
"We as a US business chamber still hope that China and the US continue to maintain at least economic and trade interactions amid relatively complex global geopolitics... we don't want the so-called decoupling.

"We hope that the two sides could figure out a more positive mechanism to resolve their trade and commercial disputes...instead of by increasing tariffs, which actually bring harm to both countries."
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Tulsi Gabbard to speak at CPAC

Max Greenwood
The Hill
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:06 UTC
Tulsi Cpac
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/CPAC/KJNTulsi Gabbard
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week, the chair of the group that organizes the gathering announced on Monday.

Gabbard, who once sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, will address the annual conference's Ronald Reagan Dinner on Saturday night. Conservative media personality Glenn Beck is set to give the keynote address during the dinner.

Gabbard's scheduled appearance at CPAC, a gathering of conservative activists and elected officials, is unusual for a Democrat, though it won't be the first time she's rankled her own party.

The former Hawaii congresswoman has repeatedly criticized members of her own party, most recently President Biden, whom she accused earlier this month of unnecessarily escalating tensions with Moscow amid a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

CPAC is set to begin on Thursday in Orlando, Fla. Among the other speakers scheduled to address the conference are former President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, all three of whom are seen as potential contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Comment: See also:

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Vader

Entire population of Hong Kong will be forced to take 3 covid tests in March


NBC News
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 19:48 UTC
Medical workers
© Anthony Kwan / Getty ImagesMedical workers in Hong Kong direct residents at a makeshift Covid-19 testing station on Feb. 18

Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for Covid-19 in March, the city's leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant.

The population will be tested three times in March, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said. She said testing capacity will be increased to 1 million a day or more.

"Since we have a population of some 7 million people, testing will take about seven days," she said.
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Do you want Klaus Schwab's world?

Colleen Huber, NMD
The Defeat of Covid
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:10 UTC
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The time for a final decision is arriving quickly.

Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have groomed certain politicians such as brand new de facto dictator Justin Trudeau[1] and notorious bank account freezer Chrystia Freeland[2] of Canada, as well as 2-year experienced dictator Jacinda Ardern[3] of New Zealand and outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel,[4] among others, to help create a dictatorship world.[5] This would have seemed a not so credible claim until what happened earlier in Australia and New Zealand and in Germany, and what just now happened quickly in Canada, accelerating over recent days. Canada was a partial democracy, and suddenly now seems to have become a full-on dictatorship, as had previously happened to Australia and New Zealand, as well as Germany and Austria.

This important analysis by political commentator Naomi Wolf of Trudeau's coup, a hemisphere-shattering event,[6] is strikingly different than most other analyses of new COVID era tyranny that I've read, because it takes a long forward view of what is likely to happen next, based on what has just happened in Canada, as Canadians and the world are blindsided by the fully exposed power grab of this sudden coup. Wolf reminds us of the tragic histories of democracies that fell to dictatorship and the order of events that have become a pattern. Next up, in a worst case scenario, either Parliament arrests Trudeau, or Trudeau arrests opposing members of Parliament, if history is any guide. In other countries the war between liberty and tyranny is ongoing, but has now arrived at fulminant and decisive events in at least the above five countries.
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Dominoes

Switzerland at risk of EU blacklist after Credit Suisse leak

Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg
The Guardian
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:42 UTC
switzerland
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The fallout from a huge leak of Credit Suisse banking data threatened to damage Switzerland's entire financial sector on Monday after the European parliament's main political grouping raised the prospect of adding the country to a money-laundering blacklist.

The European People's party (EPP), the largest political grouping of the European parliament, called for the EU to review its relationship with Switzerland and consider whether it should be added to its list of countries associated with a high risk of financial crime.

Experts said that such a move would be a disaster for Switzerland's financial sector, which would face the kind of enhanced due diligence applied to transactions linked to rogue nations including Iran, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea.

"When Swiss banks fail to apply international anti-money-laundering standards properly, Switzerland itself becomes a high-risk jurisdiction," said Markus Ferber, the coordinator on economic affairs for the EPP, which represents Europe's centre-right political parties.

"When the list of high-risk third countries in the area of money laundering is up for revision the next time, the European Commission needs to consider adding Switzerland to that list."
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