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'Militant-style group' still occupies George Floyd autonomous zone in Minneapolis

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A "militant-style group" laid claim to the blocks surrounding a makeshift memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis, refusing to budge from their self-proclaimed autonomous zone unless the city meets their list of 24 demands and preventing police officers and press from entering.

The group's demands include "recall the county prosecutor, fire the head of the state's criminal investigative agency, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on programs to create jobs, combat racism and support affordable housing," but after law enforcement officers faced "protests, resistance, [and] opposition" from inside the autonomous region, the city plans to tear down the barriers and reopen the streets after the trial for Derek Chauvin, the officer charged in Floyd's death, in August at the earliest. Jury selection for the trial began this week.

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Newspaper

'It's all pretty amusing': Tucker Carlson fires back at New York Times over Taylor Lorenz dust up

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Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson fired back at The New York Times on Thursday night's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" after the media outlet criticized him for his Tuesday reference to reporter Taylor Lorenz.

Carlson criticized Lorenz for a tweet in which she claimed online harassment caused deep "trauma" and "destroyed" her life. "You'd think Taylor Lorenz would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that she's had, but no she's not," he said in the Tuesday segment.

Reacting Wednesday to Carlson's criticism of Lorentz, The New York Times released a statement calling the Fox News host's comments a "calculated and cruel tactic."

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Arrow Down

The lockdowns weren't worth it

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An empty street amid Covid-19 restrictions in São Paulo, March 6.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that his state is ending its mask mandate and business capacity limits. While Democrats and many public-health officials denounced the move, ample data now exist to demonstrate that the benefits of stringent measures aren't worth the costs.

This wasn't always the case. A year ago I publicly advocated lockdowns because they seemed prudent given how little was known at the time about the virus and its effects. But locking society down has become the default option of governments all over the world, regardless of cost.

More than a year after the pandemic began, vaccination is under way in both Europe and the U.S. Yet stringent restrictions are still in place on both sides of the Atlantic. Germany, Ireland and the U.K. are still in lockdown, while France is two months into a 6 p.m. curfew that the French government says will last for at least four more weeks. In many U.S. states, in-person schooling is still rare.

This time last year we had no idea how difficult it would be to control the virus. Given how fast it had been spreading, people made the reasonable assumption that most of the population would be infected in a few weeks unless we somehow reduced transmission. Projections by the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team in London projected that more than two million Americans could die in a few months. A lockdown would cut transmission, and while it couldn't prevent all infections, it would keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. It would "flatten the curve."

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Black woman slams Ohio school board for critical race theory indoctrination of students

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"You convince yourselves that blacks are oppressed and that it is your job to stop that oppression. How have you not looked at the results to realize that what you did was immoral and had the opposite effect?"


A black woman spoke up at a School Board meeting in Beachwood, Ohio, to take issue with the board's use of critical race and gender theory to divide families, pit students against their parents, and create a racist environment where none had existed before.

"If a lot more of the residents knew of the mess you've made of this school system via the curriculum as policy you would all probably lose your position in the district," she said.

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Bad Guys

British MP says men should have a 6pm curfew to make women feel safer on streets after Sarah Everard murder

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Baroness Jenny Jones, British Green Party member, said a curfew for men would help keep women safer
Green Party member Jenny Jones said she was responding to police suggesting that women not go out alone at night

All men should abide by a 6pm curfew to make women feel safer on the streets after the tragic death of Sarah Everard, a Green Party peer has suggested.

Baroness Jones, who sits in the House of Lords, said in a debate on domestic violence that it could help cut down cases of discrimination too.

It comes after human remains were found last night in the case of Sarah Everard, who went missing after leaving a friends' house in Clapham last week.

Heart - Black

Feminism as Social Pathology

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Comment: This comprehensive article is likely one of the most insightful takes on feminism that we've seen and published here.


As we move into the third decade of the twenty-first century, we can undoubtedly claim, taking into account all the important elements of social life, that women have achieved equal status with men. Moreover, in some cases, women can justifiably be considered more privileged.

According to research by Sonia Starr, men usually serve 63% more severe sentences than women who have committed the same offense. [1][2] An analysis from the United States found that the workplace death risk is ten times higher for men than for women. [3] According to a 1994 report by Andrew Knestaut, at that time an employee for the Office of Safety, Health and Working Conditions, "women are less likely to be killed at work because they hold far fewer jobs in the most dangerous occupational groups".[4]

The statistics used by the author are related to the United States, but since feminism as a pathological process is most observable within the United States and other Western countries, the presented figures are useful as an indicator of influence the feminist notions have on shaping reactions of society and its institutions.

Women are far more privileged than men when it comes to acquiring custody of children during divorce litigation. According to statistics from American sources, within the United States, in as many as ninety percent of cases, it is the woman who acquires the right of custody over children. Moreover, in regarding the consequences of a divorce, women are likewise far more privileged than men.

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6 months away from election, opinion poll reveals support for Russia's ruling party slipping lowest figure since 2013

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Counting of ballots at the polling station №63 in Arkhangelsk after the voting of voters in the election of the governor of the region.
Backing for Russia's ruling party has fallen again, with an opinion poll revealing that the number prepared to vote for the pro-Kremlin United Russia has dropped to the lowest level since 2013, with an election due this fall.

The poll, conducted by registered foreign agent the Levada Center, revealed that 42 percent of those decided would vote for the pro-Vladimir Putin faction, chaired by former President Dmitry Medvedev. Due to Russia's electoral system this figure would likely still guarantee a majority of seats. However, the new estimates reflect a considerable drop in support since December 2017, when the figure was 58 percent.

Behind the ruling party came the far-right LDPR (19%) and the Communists (15%). While these parties have seen slight growth in popularity, no opposition faction has managed to take advantage of United Russia's dip.

Stormtrooper

'Send in The Army': Turkeys Voting For Christmas

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The Covid Pandemic has hit the UK and Ireland hardest (though not because of the coronavirus)
When the prescient George Orwell wrote, "People will, in fact, have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it" back in 1949, I don't believe that a war-weary population anywhere in the world, captivated by their recently threatened democracy and infatuated with freedom, could have imagined his words would one day carry weight. Fast forward to 2021 and the only criticism we can give to his prediction is that it was an understatement.

Perhaps though, Orwell was not so much a great prophet as he was someone who had looked at recent history in Germany and envisioned that the events would repeat themselves elsewhere in the years to come. It was only 16 years before he wrote those famous words that the Reichstag was burned down. What ensued was a plea from the masses for the eradication of liberties. The German people, with their irrational fear of a Communist takeover, begged the Nazi Party to remove their freedom of speech, restrict their freedom of movement and delete their freedom of the press. Adolf Hitler, naturally, granted them their wishes. Now replace the words 'irrational fear of a Communist takeover' with 'irrational fear of a virus' and we see that, in reality, little has changed.

Many today are not just enjoying the removal of their liberties, but they are begging for more. They are addicted to their new-found servitude. A recent survey conducted in the UK showed that when people were asked if they would miss lockdown measures, should they be terminated, more than half stated that they would miss some or many aspects of them.

Cult

Lunatic new DCCC exec says every cop precinct should be 'burned to the ground' if police ever killed her

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Erica Joy Baker, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee technology officer
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) new chief technology officer, Erica Joy Baker, has tweeted anti-police rhetoric and even called on police precincts to be burnt to the ground if she were to be killed by an officer.

In past tweets discovered by the Daily Caller, Baker shared her stance on defunding the police, compared police officers to "giant pieces of sh*t" and called for her followers to burn every cop precinct to the ground, shut down the highways and throw tear gas back at the police officers if the cops kill her.

"If the cops kill me, the only way to 'sully' my legacy is to *not* be out in the streets. if the cops kill me, burn every cop precinct to the ground. if the cops kill me, shut down the highways and throw the teargas back at em when they try you. gtfo with that 'sully' shit," one of Baker's tweets from Sept. 24, 2020 reads.

Comment: Baker appears to be aware of the optics of her statements, why else delete them? Of all the tweets linked, only the last is still available on her feed. Is she an outlier, or part of the new face of the Democrat machine?


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What's the science for why vaccinated Americans shouldn't travel? Fauci can't find an answer

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Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday couldn't explain the science behind refraining from telling Americans who've received the coronavirus vaccine that they could safely travel again.

In an appearance on CNN's New Day, Fauci attempted to explain to host John Berman why the CDC hasn't said it's safe to travel and what "direction" they are heading in in terms of those types of recommendations.

"We know from the Biden administration that they say it will make its decisions based on science. What's the science behind not saying it's safe for people who have been vaccinated, received two doses, to travel?" Berman began.