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RT film-maker Krasovsky calls on Russian media regulator to take action over YouTube censorship, wants US tech giant investigated

Anton Krasovsky
RT
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:46 UTC
Anton Krasovsky
© RT
Anton Krasovsky
Journalist Anton Krasovsky says his documentary 'Epidemic' is being shadowbanned by YouTube. Failing to coax any sort of solution out of the platform, he is now turning to the head of Roscomnadzor, the Russian media regulator.

Dear Mr. (Andrey) Lipov,

A year ago, I couldn't even imagine that I would be writing this letter with my own hand. Back then, I would not have believed that it could be true. I'd have assumed it was all just propaganda targeting a 'free' Western company. Unfortunately, after spending the past year trying to work out different issues with YouTube Russia, I am forced to appeal to you as the ultimate authority, in our state. Hence, I am asking for your arbitration in this matter.

Right now, you are our only hope. Without your help, Russian YouTube users will not be able to see our product - in fact, it won't even appear on their radar.

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Facebook global planning lead reveals need for government intervention: 'This company needs to be broken up'


Project Veritas
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
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Project Veritas released a new undercover video today in which Benny Thomas, Facebook's Global Planning Lead, revealed that Facebook has too much power and that government action is not only warranted but necessary to limit the damage the Big Tech giant does to society.

KING ZUCK: Facebook Global Planning Lead Reveals Need for Government Intervention: 'The Single Biggest Thing is this Company Needs to be Broken Up'...'No King in the History of the World has been the Ruler of Two Billion People, but Mark Zuckerberg is'

Thomas expressed his desire to see Big Tech companies held to account and laid out a vision for how to accomplish that goal.

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Low bar for 'triumph of democracy'? Australian PM under fire after bragging women protesters weren't shot


RT
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:01 UTC
australia womens march
© Reuters / Jaimi Joy
Protesters rally outside Town Hall as part of the Women's March 4 Justice rally in Sydney, Australia on March 15, 2021.
Australia's PM has come under a storm of criticism after he praised the country's "vibrant liberal democracy" and gave himself a pat on the back for not meeting women rights protests "with bullets."

The new jolt rocked Australia's scandal-ridden political landscape on Monday, after PM Scott Morrison spoke on the massive women's rights protests. Over the weekend, thousands of women across the country joined the 'March 4 Justice' protests against sexual assault, triggered by multiple sex scandals in the country's government.

Morrison praised the protests and the government's handling of them, telling Parliament that not shooting at the women marchers has clearly shown that Australia is a "vibrant liberal democracy."

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The curious case of Geert Vanden Bossche

Rosemary Frei
rosemaryfrei.ca
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:16 UTC
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On March 6, an open letter by Geert Vanden Bossche, PhD, DVM, and a video interview of him by Phillip McMillan, MD, from a company called Vejon Health, were posted online.

On the surface, Vanden Bossche appears to perhaps be addressing credible concerns about Covid.

He's saying that the current crop of Covid vaccines will cause the novel coronavirus to mutate into a "super-infectious virus." And therefore he's calling for an immediate halt of the use of the current vaccines.

If humans are "committed to perpetuating our species, we have no choice but to eradicate these highly infectious viral variants" via "large vaccination campaigns," Vanden Bossche claims at the conclusion of his open letter. However, he continues, in contrast to the currently used Covid vaccines, these new vaccines must focus on stimulation of mass production of the component of the immune system known as natural killer cells, he asserts.

But Vanden Bossche bases his views on unproven hypotheses. This is similar to, and builds on, high-profile modeling-paper authors who use theoretical frameworks to inflame fears about the supposed dangerousness of the new variants.

Comment: It does beg the question, why the need to push yet another vaccine? And where was Vanden Bossche 3 months ago when the vaccination campaigns started? Surely he would have had the same concerns then, so why now?

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UN Women: COVID-19 is 'most discriminatory crisis' for women

Edith M. Lederer
The Washington Times
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:09 UTC
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
© AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women
The head of UN Women called the COVID-19 pandemic "the most discriminatory crisis" that women and girls have ever experienced on Monday, pointing to women losing jobs far more often than men, a "shadow pandemic" of domestic violence, and 47 million more women being pushed into living on less than $1.90 a day this year.

Emerging from the pandemic, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said the world also faces more orphans and child-headed homes, an increase in child marriage, 59 percent of women reporting having to spend more time on domestic work since the pandemic began, and a digital gender gap leaving many women unprepared for the future.

She spoke at the opening of the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women whose theme this year is on women's participation and decision-making in public life and combatting violence against women and girls.

Comment: It's quite limiting in the least to look at the damage done from the 'COVID-19 pandemic' through the lens of 'global gender inequality'. First and foremost, it is the mass shutdowns that have reorganized society in a way that weakens social relationships and community connections. This has been the policy from leaders who are both men and women alike. Gender is not the issue here. It was completely predictable that the world would see a great rise in crisis in the form of everything from domestic violence to addiction to poverty to suicide. That's the short list of problems that face people of every sort who have these restrictions forced upon them.

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Trump calls original Washington Post article a 'hoax' after paper issues major correction

Alex Nitzberg
Just the News
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:46 UTC
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The Washington Post has issued a correction stating that the recording of a call that President Trump had last year reveals that the outlet had previously misquoted Trump based on information that a source had supplied.

"Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's December phone call with the state's top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to 'find the fraud' or say she would be 'a national hero' if she did so," the outlet noted. "Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find 'dishonesty' there. He also told her that she had 'the most important job in the country right now.' A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump," the Post said.


Comment: Trump is right. That's why they banned him from social media. See also:

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CRT in action: Bill Burr's black wife is a 'minority sex servant'? Woke activist called out for 'worst tweet ever'


RT
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:33 UTC
Bill Burr and wife Nia Hill
© AFP / Kevin Winter
Bill Burr and wife Nia Hill
Comedian Bill Burr has angered the cancel crowd with offensive jokes. They're calling him racist, but the fact that he's married to a black woman isn't placating them. To one, it actually means he owns a "minority sex servant."

Burr hosted last weekend's Grammy Awards, and his jokes rubbed woke viewers up the wrong way. He jibed at feminists, mispronounced Latino names, and (imagine the horror) made fun of K-pop.

A torrent of outrage followed, with some commenters threatening Burr with violence and death. Amid the uproar, one Twitter user stepped in to defend Burr from the racism accusations, posting a picture of the comedian and his black wife, actress Nia Renee Hill.


Confronted with Burr's interracial marriage, the outrage mob simply moved the goalposts. Nill was called a "coon" for marrying Burr, who was called a "white supremacist" and a "slave owner." But one of the most outrageous comments came from author and failed politician Clayburn Griffin.

Comment: Critical race theory is racist. And sexist. It turns its adherents into raving nutjobs. That's what pseudo-reality will do to you.

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The Madness of Zero Covid

Christine Padgham
Think Scotland
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:12 UTC
covid mural virus
Some days Scotland is aiming for a 'Zero Covid' strategy. Some days it's aiming to 'eliminate' the virus SARS-CoV-2.

And some days, it seems we have no plan at all.

Professor Devi Sridhar, a most trusted adviser to the Scottish Government, openly muses about 'Zero Covid', qualifying what she means in various ways. Recently she wrote that when she said we should strive for 'Zero Covid', she meant 'endemic virus'. These are not the same things.

On the 10th March, Nicola Sturgeon stated in Parliament that we must 'eliminate' Covid. Someone needs to challenge her to define 'eliminate'.

The first rule of the management of any project is: determine and define your aim. When the project might destroy all the economic and social structures of your nation, establishing a clear aim seems an important place to start.

Until 2020/21, 'endemic' status of viruses has always come about with time and gathering high enough levels of community immunity through exposure.

Comment: 'Zero Covid' is official government policy in Ireland too. It's unscientific, it's destructive, and it's being sold to politicians by people with highly disturbing psychological profiles:

Irish Scientists Overseeing Covid Response: "Go After People, Not Institutions - People Hurt Faster Than Institutions"

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Cuomo staffers have stopped showing up to work as scandals mount

Sara Dorn
New York Post
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:18 UTC
Cuomo
© AP/Jacquelyn Martin
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Disillusioned staffers are abandoning embattled Gov. Cuomo, sources said.

One well-placed insider in touch with staffers in recent days, said:
"I hear that most people aren't even coming into work, and the offices at the Capitol are empty. He'll fight and fight and fight, but the staffers I've talked to are ready for him to hang up the gloves. Everyone feels like there is an inevitable conclusion — I mean at some point will Biden call on him to step down? They [staffers] just want this torture to stop."
Rebellion in the ranks deepened as Cuomo on Friday defiantly refused to step aside and blamed "cancel culture" for his downfall.

"I feel a level of rage toward this fake tough guy," seethed a second source, an ex-aide.
"The guy thinks he's the toughest, the hardest working, he's the smartest. The truth is, he's anything but. He's the weakest, he's the dumbest, and he's the most shallow of them all. He is genuinely a very small man who pretends to be big."
Charlotte Bennett
© CBS
Charlotte Bennett, one of seven to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment or misconduct.
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Vatican says Catholic Church, its priests cannot bless same-sex unions

Joseph Weber
Just the News
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:32 UTC
Pope Francis leads Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican

Pope Francis leads Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican
The Catholic Church and its priests cannot bless same-sex unions, the Vatican said Monday.

The Vatican's announcement, through its Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was an official response to the question on the blessing of same-sex unions.

"The blessing of homosexual unions cannot be considered licit," according to the statement, obtained by USA Today.

The statement also reads: "There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family."

Comment: If people don't like the Catholic Church's unsurprising position on gay union, the solution is pretty simple: find a system you prefer. The liberal perspective of forcing its ideology onto everything else is a far greater system of control than the Catholic Church. The Vatican has their own demons to contend with but that is between them and their followers.

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