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Hypocrisy much? Twitter condemns Nigeria, says access to open internet is 'essential human right'

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:52 UTC
Jack Dorsey Nigeria
© Post Millennial
Big Tech social media company Twitter has released a statement on Saturday expressing how "deeply concerned" the platform is by Twitter being blocked in Nigeria, failing to mention that the site first banned the country's president and that the subsequent blocking was retaliatory.

"We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society. We will work to restore access for all those in Nigeria who rely on Twitter to communicate and connect with the world. #KeepitOn," tweeted Twitter Public Policy's account.

Of course, it's widely known by now that Twitter isn't new to the game of banning standing heads of state. Twitter banned former President Donald Trump before he stepped down in January from office. Fellow social media giant Facebook followed suit with the ban and decided it would take effect for the next two years.

Republican congressional candidate Lavern Spicer replied pointedly:

"I am deeply concerned by the suspending of President Donald Trump on Twitter. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society, even if you disagree with their politics."

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Attention

UN: Famine is imminent in Ethiopia's warring Tigray region, hundreds of thousands may die

Edith Lederer
Yahoo
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 08:01 UTC
Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File
FILE - In this Saturday, May 8, 2021, file photo, a woman chases a chicken as others sit and wait to receive foodstuffs such as wheat, yellow split peas and vegetable oil at a food distribution operated by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday, June 4, 2021, that famine is imminent in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region and the country's north and there is a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die.
Famine is imminent in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region and in the country's north, the U.N. humanitarian chief said, warning there's a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die.

Mark Lowcock said the economy has been destroyed along with businesses, crops and farms and there are no banking or telecommunications services.

"We are hearing of starvation-related deaths already," he said in a statement Friday.

"People need to wake up," Lowcock said. "The international community needs to really step up, including through the provision of money."

Comment: See also:

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Light Saber

Anti-vaccine protesters, dressed up as Marvel superheroes, camp out in front of Disneyland in California

Julie Tremaine and Joshua Bote
SF Gate
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:08 UTC
Disneyland protesters
© Julie Tremaine/SFGate
One protester, dressed up as Iron Man, protests by the Disneyland entrance.
At least a dozen people dressed up as assorted Marvel superheroes are posted outside of Disneyland to protest what they believe to be a supposed lack of information surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine.

The protest is sprawled out on Harbor Blvd. in Anaheim early Friday morning, near a line of thousands of Disneyland attendees waiting to enter the park on the pedestrian entrance to the park. With posters designed to look like comic books, with the pun "Marvel at the Facts," the protesters claim that the safety measures were flouted in the lead-up to its approval in the United States.

One sign reads, "Rushed COVID-19 vaccines bypassed critical safety steps," while another claims that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved the vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have repeatedly repudiated any claims that the approval process for the vaccine was rushed, noting that vaccines "were evaluated in tens of thousands of participants in clinical trials" and met multiple "rigorous scientific standards" in order to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA.
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Red Flag

86-year-old Florida sugar mill worker fatally shoots boss after firing


Associated Press
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 20:48 UTC
Felix Cabrera
© Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office via AP
Felix Cabrera
An 86-year-old sugar mill worker with 31 years on the job fatally shot his boss after he was refused another year at the mill, authorities said Saturday.

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office said in a news release that Felix Cabrera was jailed without bail on a first-degree murder charge following the Friday morning shooting at the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative in Belle Glade.

Jail records did not list an attorney for Cabrera. The victim's name was not released by the sheriff's department. He was a 67-year-old man from nearby Martin County.

Authorities say Cabrera sought to work one additional year for financial reasons but was turned down. That's when he allegedly pulled out a handgun and shot the boss several times, killing him.

The cooperative is comprised of 44 different sugar cane farms that operate on about 70,000 acres (28,327 hectares) in the Everglades Agricultural Area near Lake Okeechobee.
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North Carolina police department stops responding to certain non-emergency crimes amid 'staffing crisis'

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 20:33 UTC
Asheville police car
© City of Asheville/APD
North Carolina's Asheville Police Department (APD) has ordered its officers not to respond to certain types of crimes so that the agency can adequately answer more serious calls for help amid a "staffing crisis."

APD will no longer respond in-person to 911 calls involving certain incidents where suspect information is not available; harassing phone calls that don't include threats to life, unless they are related to stalking or domestic violence; identity theft and other scams, and trespassing reports that don't involve pressing charges, among other incidents, the department said in a Wednesday announcement.

A full list of the calls to which officers will no longer respond can be found in the department's Facebook post.

APD's staffing numbers have decreased by 84 officers since the start of 2020, the department said. According to the Police Executive Research Forum, APD boasted 238 sworn officers as of 2019.

The department is instead asking victims of any of the crimes listed to file a police report through the "Police to Citizen" online reporting tool. They can also call (828) 252-1110 and request that an officer respond when one becomes available, although the department warns that they might experience a "significant" response delay.
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Light Saber

Unwelcome truth? New book claims Muslim neighbourhoods in British towns are 'no-go areas' for white people


RT
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 20:00 UTC
Ed husain auther liberal islam
© Andy Hall/The Observer
Ed Husain in Brick Lane, London, 2018.
An academic who studied Muslim integration in Britain has revealed in a new book that women and children in some communities are subjected to Taliban-like rules, and non-Muslims face threats of violence.

Ed Husain, professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University, visited mosques across Britain, speaking to businesses owners, imams and locals about life in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods. He used his on-the-ground research to write a book, Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain, which is set for release next week.

The Muslim author grew up in a Bangladeshi family in London and was radicalised in his youth before renouncing extremism. According to the professor, integration issues in the UK continue to persist.

Comment: Moderate clerics are aware of the problem and are trying to solve it:

Muslim imams to form first national council for more progressive British Islam

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Black Cat 2

Scientist who helped lead charge in trashing Covid-19 lab-leak theory BACKTRACKS, points to 'disturbing information'


RT
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:40 UTC
Peter Palese virologist covid Icahn lab
© Bild/Weihbold
Does Peter Palese see which way the wind is blowing?
A microbiologist who helped quash claims that Covid-19 leaked from a lab at the start of the pandemic has said "disturbing information" that has since emerged led him to backtrack on insisting the virus started naturally.

Peter Palese, who runs a lab named in his honor at New York's Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was among 27 scientists who signed an influential statement in February 2020 blasting suggestions that Covid-19 may have leaked from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin," the lab-leak deniers said in their statement, which was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal.

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Attention

UNICEF report says pornography not always harmful to children

Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq.
C-Fam Org
Thu, 13 May 2021 19:41 UTC
UNICEF Flag
© C-Fam Org
Washington D.C. - A UN agency is again immersed in controversy for a recent report suggesting there is no conclusive evidence that children exposed to pornography are harmed.

The report published by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) addresses how government policy can be used to protect children from harmful, abusive and violent content online. Its conclusion is based on a European study of 19 EU countries that found in most countries, most children who saw pornographic images were "neither upset nor happy." In fact, the report UNICEF relies on, says 39 percent of Spanish children were happy after seeing pornography.

Porn fighters disagree with the UNICEF data. "UNICEF's report ignores the vast body of research demonstrating the harms of pornography to children. By ignoring the real harms pornography can have, UNICEF is playing roulette with children's health and safety," said Lisa Thompson, vice president and director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

Thompson's organization, which provides expert research to inform policy decisions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and children, has found that pornography can be a central driver of this abuse.

"Mainstream pornography contains horrific sexual abuse, rape, incest, racism - all of which children should not consume," continued Thompson, and "UNICEF's milquetoast assessment of the impacts hardcore pornography on children does nothing to challenge the political narrative that pornography is benign, and as a result, puts children in harm's way."
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Bad Guys

Nevada takes step toward enshrining election fraud as part of the 'normal' process


Human Events
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:22 UTC
nevada governer steve sisolak
© Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill into law Wednesday creating a permanent mail-in voting system and other reforms that will inevitably increase voter fraud.

The bill passed along party lines in the state Assembly and Senate, both controlled by Democrats.

"At a time when state legislatures across the country are attempting to roll back access to the polls, I am so proud that Nevada continues to push forward with proven strategies that make voting more accessible and secure," Sisolak said in a statement to the Epoch Times.

Sisolak also wrote on Twitter that the new law makes Nevada "the sixth state to adopt a permanent vote-by-mail system."

Comment: Either these clowns have learned nothing, or they are deliberately hamstringing any possibility of future fair elections. Mail-in voting is ripe for fraud.

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Snakes in Suits

Mueller to help teach Trump Russia probe class at UVA law school

Thomas Barrabi
Fox News
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
The Russia Investigation
© CTPost
Former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller will "share lessons" from his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and alleged ties to the Trump campaign during an upcoming course at the University of Virginia, the school announced Wednesday.

Three former senior members of Mueller's team, including former deputy special counsel Aaron Zebley, will teach the course. Mueller will lead at least one class for the course, which is called "The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel" and is slated to begin this fall, according to the school. Mueller said:
"I was fortunate to attend UVA Law School after the Marine Corps, and I'm fortunate to be returning there now. I look forward to engaging with the students this fall."
The course at the University of Virginia School of Law will be taught in person and consist of six sessions in total. The instructors will "start chronologically" from the launch of Mueller's investigation in 2017.

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