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RT sends request to UN over rape allegations


RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:03 UTC
Pramila Patten
© Global Look Press / Li MuziUN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten.
A UN official, Pramila Patten, earlier admitted having no solid evidence to justify her claim on Russia's alleged "rape strategy."

RT has reached out to the UN special representative on sexual violence, Pramila Patten, to request a correction - or retraction - of a statement in which she accused the Russian Armed Forces of employing a deliberate "rape strategy" as part of the military campaign in Ukraine.

Patten made the claim in October, in an interview with the AFP, only to admit she did not have any solid evidence to substantiate it a month later.

Comment: See also: Russia responds to UN official's rape claims

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Iranian businesses shutter shops as color revolution protests continue

Jon Gambrell
Yahoo
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:54 UTC
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© AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)ASSOCIATED PRESSPeople walk in front of closed shops of Tehran's Grand Bazaar as anti-riot police controls the protest scene, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Many shops at Grand Bazaar in Iran's capital city were closed Tuesday amid strike calls following the September death of a woman who was arrested by the country's morality police.
Iranian shops in Tehran's historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the country closed their doors Tuesday amid protests gripping the nation, as two prominent soccer stars also announced they would not be attending the upcoming World Cup over the demonstrations.


Comment: The protests are indeed disruptive, but the demonstrations in support of the government are attended by many more people. One is reminded of the BLM protests that had little public support but were incredibly disruptive, violent, and caused billions of dollars in damage. It's notable, too, that the police mostly allowed those protests to go ahead, in contrast to the concurrent lockdown protests where the police cracked down rather brutally.


The shop closures came amid calls for a three-day national strike to mark earlier protests in 2019 against Iran's theocracy that ended in a violent crackdown by authorities. However, this round of demonstrations after the September death of a 22-year-old woman earlier detained by the country's morality police have continued despite activists recording at least 344 deaths and 15,820 arrests so far.

The protests have seen prominent former players Ali Daei and Javad Nekounam both say they've declined a FIFA invitation to attend the World Cup in Qatar, where Iran will play.


Comment: Footballers aren't commonly known for their comprehensive understanding of political issues.


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The official narrative: Katie Hobbs beats Kari Lake to be Arizona's next governor

Barnini Chakraborty
Washington Examiner
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:57 UTC
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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, whose office handled the infamous 2020 presidential election, beat Republican political newcomer Kari Lake on Monday night to become Arizona's next governor.

The race was called by multiple news outlets, including the Associated Press, on Monday, nearly a week after Election Day and following the release of some results from Maricopa County, the state's most populous county that includes Phoenix.

"Democracy is worth the wait. Thank you, Arizona. I am so honored and so proud to be your next Governor," Hobbs said in a tweet after the race was called.

Lake, who described herself to the Washington Examiner as "Donald Trump with softer edges," tried to paint Hobbs as an out-of-touch, absentee elected official, while Hobbs worked to convince voters that Lake lacked the basic knowledge it took to run for office and embraced dangerous far-right ideas.

Lake did not concede the race Monday evening, instead tweeting: "Arizonans know BS when they see it."

Comment: Many besides Lake aren't buying it.







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Canada: Western premiers finally pushing back against Trudeau's devastating agenda

Rex Murphy
National Post
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:59 UTC
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© Greg Southam; Michelle Berg/PostmediaAlberta Premier Danielle Smith, left, and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
It is so good, finally, to see a real resistance to the green agenda

It is not only Alberta Premier Danielle Smith who is taking a strikingly aggressive attitude towards the Trudeau government's persistent hostility to the oil and gas industry — Scott Moe of Saskatchewan has also stepped into the ring. Both are plainly, without apology, saying "no" to net-zero, carbon taxes and hymns to windmills.

The carbon-tax zealots in Ottawa are not accustomed to strong push-back, even from those western provinces most injured by federal policy. Indeed, when the NDP were in power in Alberta, the premier had a cosy relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This was the period when, for a while, the line out of Ottawa was: governments can grant permits, but only communities can grant permission.

Apart from evacuating all substance and meaning from what a "permit" actually is, and apart from also being one of those Trudeau platitudes we're all are so tired of, this was a position meant to signal to protesters, NGOs and the incessant green doom-mongers that they should keep up their efforts to stall, halt and interfere in every conceivable way with every new or ongoing oil and gas project.
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Twitter advertisers should support free speech, not the woke mob

Mike Davis
Newsweek
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:33 UTC
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Leftist activist groups recently signed an open letter calling for Twitter's major advertisers to pull down their ads from the social media website unless the activists' demands were met. This attempt to shake down new Twitter CEO Elon Musk and his team is the latest shameless ploy by the Left to shut down opinions with which they disagree.

Musk's commitment to free speech on Twitter is not only admirable, but necessary. For far too long, leftist ideology has dominated the social media landscape. Conservatives are regularly censored, while liberals and repressive foreign regimes can spew hate and falsehoods without any fear of repercussions.

The 40 organizations that signed the letter simply do not speak for the majority of Americans, or for the consumers of the businesses to which the letter was sent. They include Free Press, which has previously led boycotts of conservative media, the left-wing Center for American Progress, and Media Matters. These groups are beholden to their radical leftist donor base.

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New York: Democrat Attorney who halted Hochul's quarantine camp regulation - Teach the Constitution

Jan Jekielek and Masooma Haq
The Epoch Times
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox in New York on Nov. 5, 2022.
© Justin Chiu/The Epoch TimesAttorney Bobbie Anne Cox in New York on Nov. 5, 2022.
In what she has called a David versus Goliath battle, New York real estate lawyer Bobbie Anne Cox sued New York Gov. Kathleen Hochul for issuing directives mandating quarantine for people exposed to or infected with highly contagious diseases such as COVID-19. The directives, dubbed "quarantine camp regulations," have been compared to laws that relocated people of Japanese descent during World War II without due process. Cox won the lawsuit on the grounds that Hochul's regulation was unconstitutional.

In a recent interview on Epoch TV's American Thought Leaders, Cox told host Jan Jekielek that it's crucial that Americans learn about the Constitution so that they can prevent similar acts by state and federal governments.

"The constitution is not perfect, but it's brilliant," Cox said.

Schools should require learning about the U.S. Constitution, "from the little kids all the way up through high school into college."

"The constitution was written to keep the government in check," she said. "The constitution wasn't written to keep the people in check."

Our founding fathers came to this continent fleeing tyranny, according to Cox.

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Physicist gets slammed for promoting sex spectrum pseudoscience

Christina Buttons
The Daily Wire
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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A prominent theoretical physicist faced severe backlash after sharing a widely-debunked representation of biological sex as a "spectrum."

Sean M. Carroll, who specializes in quantum mechanics and teaches philosophy at John Hopkins University, tweeted on Sunday his dissension with an evolutionary biologist's statement of biological sex being "real, immutable, and binary." Caroll, invoking "actual science," as he called it, shared an infographic from the 2017 Scientific American article, "Visualizing Sex as a Spectrum." The deluge of critical responses to his ill-fated tweet caused Carroll to turn off comments.

"'Actual science' done by biologists shows 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones," said renowned evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne in response. "There is no third sex. Disorders of sex development are not new sexes, and biological sex is binary. Let's not conflate sex, gender & developmental anomalies."

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The UK government lost £37 billion to fraud during the pandemic

Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Daily Sceptic
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:00 UTC
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On April 8th 2020, we questioned whether Covid restrictions were too late to stop the bug and just in time to wreck the economy. Nostra culpa. We had not reckoned on repeated lockdowns, the patchwork of restrictions and what must be the cleverest bunch of crooks on earth. What follows is a sad tale of taxpayer rip-off based on all the evidence we could find - the ending leaves a bitter taste.

Once the World Health Organisation declared the pandemic on March 11th 2020, governments worldwide focused on measures to sustain their economies. In this article, we focus on the measures taken by the U.K. Government since March 2020, some of which are still active, and we examine the evidence of fraud. Part of our efforts is to understand the effects of human interventions during the pandemic.

Fraud is a criminal activity with the evident intent of stealing funds from the public purse by subterfuge. Fraud is different from waste resulting from poor accountancy or incompetence because the motive is different. As with all public measures, the sums invested and those stolen are estimates. We tried hard to keep the tallies of fraud and wastage separate. We may not have succeeded entirely, partly because the two are difficult to distinguish and because fraud can only be ascertained at the end of a legal process, which is still ongoing in some cases. The restrictions imposed by the pandemic hampered financial oversight, investigation and legal proceedings. For example, interviews under caution could not take place remotely.

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The aftermath and after that

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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"Normally it would be considered a tell when one political party loses its mind any time someone suggests we should have basic election security procedures common in every other civilized country." — MartyrMade on Twitter

Let's get something straight: the Woked-up Jacobin Party of Chaos is not really worried about "mis-and-disinformation" — it's just afraid of information. Only a tyrannical regime would work so hard and complain so loudly about opposing ideas entering the public arena as to brand them inadmissible. Apparently, that formula also applies to election results, an elemental kind of information that'll determine whether or not censorship continues to be the order-of-the-day.

The stalling of election results also allows for wholesale correction of results that don't come in as desired. At a certain threshold, the Marc Elias Lawfare-sponsored ballot-harvesting machinery kicks in and, voila, ten thousand or so mail-in ballots appear courtesy of, say, the Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, and ... problem solved! The correct candidates win! My guess is that this happened in other select districts all over the USA. Will it be detected and looked into? Probably not. That would be election denial, a newly-taboo toxic reservoir of "disinformation."
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Get Woke, Go Broke: Disney to lay off employees after billions in operating losses

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:54 UTC
The company that once defined family entertainment is going from media giant to epic failure, suffering over $1.4 billion in streaming losses and a stock drop of around 39% for the year. And, it would appear that these financial declines are inevitably leading to employee layoffs.
Woke Disney
© Zerohedge
Disney has put a freeze on hiring, it is limited employee travel and is also reviewing workers for efficiency with plans to introduce cuts as a means to make the company "more nimble." CEO Bob Chapek noted in a leaked memo to senior staff:
As we work through this evaluation process, we will look at every avenue of operations and labor to find savings, and we do anticipate some staff reductions as part of this review.

...I am fully aware this will be a difficult process for many of you and your teams. We are going to have to make tough and uncomfortable decisions.
Chapek mentions in the same memo the problem of "macroeconomic factors" out of Disney's control. He does not, however, mention his habit of bending the knee and groveling to woke activists, attempting to sabotage Florida's anti-grooming legislation for public schools, or the company's steady supply of content that pushes far-left narratives.
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