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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
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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
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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
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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.

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Bizarro Earth

UK welfare claims surge 1.8 milllion - six times pre-lockdown levels


Reuters
Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00 UTC
UK job centre
File photo: UK's Job Centre Plus
The British government received 1.8 million claims for welfare payments between March 16 and the end of April via its 'Universal Credit' benefits system, work and pensions minister Therese Coffey said on Monday.

Universal Credit benefits are paid to people in work as well as those who have lost their jobs.

Coffey said that overall, the volume of welfare claims had been six times bigger than pre-coronavirus during that period, and that in one particular week the increase had been tenfold.

Comment: The numbers will likely soar even higher once the lockdown is 'eased' and people who were 'furloughed' are forced to finally face the reality that their job no longer exists because the economy, dealt the final death blow by the lockdown, can no longer support it. Those who begged the government for the lockdown, believing the media hysteria over a pandemic that never was, are likely to be quite disgruntled, indeed.

The UK's benefit system has been exposed by endless scandals in the last decade for failing to deliver what it is funded by the taxpayer to do, all the while, aided by shady MPs, it deflected blame on to the people who depend on it. In the past much of the British public were quick to scorn those who found themselves on welfare however with those numbers rising the true nature of the system will be revealed to a great many more and they will begin to see the true nature of what is a callous and corrupt system. Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Wolf

The hole-digging theory of political conflict: How #BelieveAllWomen backfired

Konstantin Kisin
Quillette
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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In Russia we have a saying: "Don't dig a hole for another because you'll be the one that falls in it."

I have been very fond of this proverb since childhood when my parents shipped me off for my summer holidays to stay with my Ukrainian grandparents on their farm. There, over a period of three long months, I became friends with a local boy who introduced me to a game that all the kids in our village played.

The objective was simple: to dig a hole, conceal it with leaves, branches, and other debris and then guide your chosen target into it — typically a girl you fancied or, better still, a competitor for her attentions. Whoever said chivalry is dead has never been deliberately walked into a hole by the boy of her dreams.
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Pistol

Coronavirus researcher nearing 'very significant findings' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Victor Morton
The Washington Times
Mon, 04 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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Liu was at his home in Ross Township (pictured) on Saturday afternoon when a man walked through an unlocked door and shot him multiple times in the head, neck and torso
A researcher who was reportedly nearing some "very significant findings" in his work on the coronavirus was found killed at his Pittsburgh-area home, a local TV station reported.

Bing Liu, 37, was fatally shot in his head, neck and torso over the weekend in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, in what police are calling a murder-suicide, according to CBS Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA.

A second man, who police say knew Mr. Liu but did not identify, was found nearby in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Ross Township detectives do not believe there is a suspect loose, KDKA reported.


Comment: Very fishy. One wonders if Liu was on the verge of beating Bill Gates to the punch. Or maybe his work exposed the man-made modifications in SARS-CoV-2...

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Mr. Potato

Pro-lockdown extremists in denial about why we did it in the first place

Rich Lowry
New York Post
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:09 UTC
michigan protesters
© EPAArmed protestors, upset with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer extending her stay at home order through April, joined in "Operation Gridlock" near the state capitol in Lansing last month.
We will be in a fight against the novel coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal.

The lockdowns of much of the country were undertaken "to flatten the curve" and largely to prevent the hospital system from being overrun. It was a near-run thing in New York and New Jersey, but the dykes held, thanks to the incredible sacrifices of front-line health workers.

Now, the rhetoric around the shutdowns has shifted, and not very subtly — flattening the curve and saving the hospitals are "out," and not allowing any additional cases to emerge is "in."

Comment: In other words, 'flattening the curve' has been accomplished so the authorities are switching to a new narrative to justify keeping people locked in their homes for the foreseeable future. The lockdown was never about preventing deaths, it was about exerting authoritarian control over the population. The justifications will change whenever the old narrative has become obsolete.

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