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Stormtrooper

Spain calls in its army 'to fight COVID-19 resurgence' (really, to suppress growing resistance)


Euronews
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:06 UTC
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© AFPPeople queue to be tested for coronavirus in Guernica
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Tuesday he was making the army available to help regions fight a new explosion of coronavirus cases.

"The Spanish government will provide the regions with the strength of the armed forces to carry out the tracing" of cases, he said during a televised address, specifying that 2,000 soldiers would be deployed for this purpose.

Sanchez said the evolution of the pandemic in Spain is "worrying" but stressed it is still far from its height in mid-March.
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Star of David

Avoiding the P-word: How Palestine is being deleted

David Kattenburg
Mondoweiss
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:29 UTC
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© David KattenbergGraffitti near Qalandia checkpoint
The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' (a deceptive term, some say) is largely a war of words. Pitched battles have been fought over nouns, adjectives — even definite articles.

Last week, under pressure from a group that polices the Canadian media on behalf of the 'Jewish state', CBC Radio host Duncan McCue issued an on-air apology for using the word "Palestine" in an interview on the Public Broadcaster's flagship current affairs show, The Current. Like a real-life Winston Smith, a CBC digital editor swiftly excised the offending toponym from the online version of McCue's CBC interview and dispatched it down the memory hole.

Had Mr. McCue uttered the word "Palestine" in the course of an interview with a Palestinian politician or commentator, his objectivity may well have been faulted. In fact, his guest on the August 18 edition of CBC's The Current was the graphic novelist Joe Sacco, creator of a work called Palestine.
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Black Magic

On the rise of self-imposed racial segregation: Universities now offering black-only dormitories

Frank Furedi
RT
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:41 UTC
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Martin Luther King would be appalled

When students return to university next week, many will need to prepare for living and eating only with people of the same color. Whatever happened to the dream of a desegregated country?

Racial segregation is a really bad idea. So it is not surprising that advocates of identity politics are demanding that black-only dormitories should be established on American campuses.

The Washington Square News, the undergraduate students' paper of New York University (NYU), recently reported that the university was willing to "help implement residential communities open solely to 'Black identifying students with Black Residents Assistants.'" NYU aims to establish such a segregated residential floor by autumn 2021.

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Corona

KFC drops 'Finger Lickin' Good' slogan during coronavirus pandemic

Zachary Halaschak
Washington Examiner
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC
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© KFC
KFC's chicken is "finger lickin' good," but it will no longer be using the slogan given the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kentucky-based fast-food restaurant chain announced the change on Monday in a playful news release where KFC declared itself the "winner of the award for the most inappropriate slogan for 2020."

"Think we can all agree, this year has been like no other and, right now, our slogan doesn't feel quite right," the company said. "So, for that reason, we'll be pressing pause on using it in our advertising, for a little while."

The change in advertising will affect its more than 20,000 stores worldwide, but KFC stressed that the slogan will return "when the time is right."

In the United States, there have been roughly 5.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 177,000 related deaths.

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Briefcase

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly encouraged Trump to crack down on TikTok, and now it's planning to sue

Kathryn Krawczyk
Yahoo! News
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:25 UTC
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TikTok announced in a Monday blog post that it will sue the Trump administration.

President Trump has repeatedly tossed around the idea of a ban on the Chinese-owned video app, and earlier in August, ordered American companies to stop doing business with TikTok's parent company ByteDance. The order "strips the rights" of TikTok users "without any evidence to justify such an extreme action," TikTok said in its blog post, adding that it "strongly disagree[s] with the administration's position that TikTok is a national security threat. So it will file a lawsuit against the administration, arguing the order violates TikTok's due process rights.
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NPC

NYU student group demands Black-only student housing on campus

Evie Fordham
Fox News
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:32 UTC
New York University
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New York University officials signaled they are open to a student group's demands to create Black residence floors on campus next year, but the petition is already receiving backlash for proposing students segregate themselves.

"[Residential] Life staff have reached out to the authors of the petition to discuss how we might move forward with their goals," an NYU spokesperson told Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper. "Given the COVID-related challenges to the student housing system for 2020-2021, these conversations would be aiming towards 2021-2022."

A "themed engagement floor" for Black students is being pushed by a group called Black Violets NYU. "Marginalized groups" like queer students and international students already have access to such floors, Black Violets told Fox News in a statement.

Comment: It's amazing how the new "progressive" line is exactly the same as that of racist American Jim Crow laws of a century ago. How is this considered progress exactly?

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Rainbow

Berlin Film Festival to make acting prizes 'gender neutral'


Breitbart
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC
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The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year.

Berlinale organizers said Monday the performance awards will be defined in a gender-neutral way at next year's festival, for which a physical event is planned.

The festival awards a Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears, which until this year included best actor and best actress honors. Organizers said those prizes will be replaced with a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.

Comment: They've been talking about not having separate categories for best actor and actress for years, long before the rise of wokeness. While it seems an egalitarian move, the problem is that they will be going from having two actors awarded for their performance down to one. The complaint from actresses in days gone by is that they would end up winning no awards for outstanding performances because there are more opportunities for award-winning roles offered to men. In the age of political correctness, however, we may see the roles reversed, with actors always missing out on deserved awards due to the presence of external genitalia rather than being outshined on the screen.

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Fire

Portland police declare riot after fire set at precinct

Edmund DeMarche
Fox News
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:33 UTC
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Portland police declared a riot at the city's North Precinct after officers reported that protesters threw rocks, bottles and shined lasers in their direction.

A fire burned an awning at the city's north precinct late Sunday, news outlets reported. The tear gas was deployed after the fire had been set, according to news outlets. Protesters had marched to the precinct from a park, chanting several things including "Jacob Blake," who Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers identified as the man shot by a police officer in Kenosha on Sunday.


Comment: See: Police in Wisconsin shoot Black man in back multiple times, sparking protests


"Criminal Activity has continued," the department said on Twitter. "This event is now a RIOT. All persons must leave to the SOUTH. Failure to adhere to this direction may subject you to citation, arrest, and/or crowd control agents including, but not limited to, tear gas and impact weapons."

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NPC

Is 'cis white male' a slur? William Shatner thinks so, triggering rage of woke Twitterati who used the term against him


RT
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC
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After setting off his woke critics with a tweet deemed 'transphobic,' 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner turned the tables and accused the Twitter activists of using the term "cis white male" as a slur to suppress his voice.

Shatner has dedicated what appears to be a good portion of his weekend to pushing back against what he slammed as the "hubris of youth" after liberal critics took aim at him following an alleged case of "misgendering." They also took serious issue with the 89-year-old actor's suggestion that some people use "cis white male" in a derogatory manner to shut down dialogue with people they disagree with.

Shatner's original sin, in the eyes of Twitter's PC-police, was committed when he was live-tweeting an episode of 'The Unexplained' — a series which he hosts — last weekend. At one point, Shatner tweeted a quote straight from the show regarding the late jazz musician Billy Tipton. When paramedics found Tipton dead in 1989, they discovered the musician was "a woman who had been living as a man for decades."

Comment: Way to stay true to Captain Kirk, Bill! It seems Shatner has actually been taking on the woke mob for awhile now.

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Display

QAnon 'largely a US domestic phenomenon' despite attempts to revive Russia-gate

Joseph Menn
Reuters
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:27 UTC
QAnon
© REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File PhotoFILE PHOTO: A person wears a t-shirt with the anagram WWG1WGA, the QAnon slogan, while participating in a "save the children" march and rally in New York City, New York, U.S. August 12, 2020.
Russian government-supported organizations are playing a small but increasing role amplifying conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon, raising concerns of interference in the November U.S. election.

Academics who study QAnon said there were no signs Russia had a hand in the early days of the movement, which launched in 2017 with anonymous web postings amplified by YouTube videos.

But as QAnon gained adherents and took on new topics - with President Donald Trump as the constant hero waging a misunderstood battle - social media accounts tied to a key Kremlin ally joined in.

Comment: Comment: RT reports that Russia-gate peddlers are attempting to conflate criticism of Biden with being a 'Kremlin agent':
US citizens may "unwittingly" become Russian agents and spread "disinformation" about Joe Biden, Senator Mark Warner has warned, urging the intelligence community to be more vocal and tell the public what to do.

According to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, one should be particularly vigilant about the Russian trolls, lurking around the social media feeds, as Kremlin is allegedly once again seeking to prop up President Donald Trump and help him secure re-election in November.

Speaking to NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the Senator warned that if one is not careful enough, he can accidentally become a Russian "agent" partaking in the alleged smear campaign against Biden.


'Anyone who disagrees with me is a Russian-agent'...


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"My fear is there may be Americans that are unwittingly promoting that Russian disinformation campaign, and I think they need to be briefed so they don't become, frankly, agents in effect of this disinformation campaign."

"It's incumbent on the intelligence community to lay out more of the facts of what we know about that disinformation campaign," he said.

The Russiagate saga has been marred with controversies throughout the whole presidential term of Donald Trump, and after years of taxpayer-funded probes, failed to prove the thing it was originally designed to investigate - the Trump-Russia collusion. Severe lack of facts, however, did not interfere with the drive to frequently roll out new sanctions against Russia, as well as to produce more baseless accusations.

The latest batch of them arrived earlier in August, when the Senate Intelligence Committee released its fifth and final report on Russia's supposed interference. In the 1000-page report, word "likely" appeared nearly 140 times, while "almost certainly" - 21 times. In nearly every case, those words were used to make assumptions in place of actual evidence. Senator Warner has urged Americans to read the lengthy report for themselves.


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