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Eva Bartlett: Media is FINALLY covering immense crimes against indigenous peoples in Canada that were known about DECADES ago. So why now?

Eva Bartlett
RT
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:14 UTC
children's shoes memorial Kamloops
© REUTERS/Dennis Owen
Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.
The reprehensible issue of what many deem "mass murder" of indigenous children in Canada's Catholic school system has been in global headlines in recent weeks. But this should have been in the headlines decades ago.

The nearly 1,000 bodies of indigenous children in mass graves were recently found by ground-penetrating radar, said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) and the Cowessess First Nation.

A reported 150,000 indigenous children were abducted and imprisoned in the Catholic schools, where they were tortured with the intent of erasing their culture and language, as were also sexually abused, had needles driven through their tongues for speaking their own language, were sterilized, among many other horrific practices.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Deadly blast at Romania's largest oil refinery, explosion at Bangkok chemical plant 3 days later


Deutsche Welle
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:48 UTC
Petromidia

The blaze was eventually 'stabilized', officials said
A powerful blast at Romania′s biggest oil refinery on Friday has killed one person and left at least four other workers injured.

Around 50 firefighters were deployed to the scene after the explosion rocked the Navodari Petromidia refinery on the Black Sea coast.

The refinery's operations "have been stopped as a security measure," said the Kazakh KazMunayGas (KMG) group that owns the oil processing site.

Comment: Also this week two other major explosions occurred: Other fires and blasts in the news recently:

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Book

Michael Knowles wrote the top-selling nonfiction book in the US, now mysteriously absent from NYT's list

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Wire
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Michael Knowles and book
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Author Michael Knowles and book "Speechless"
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless, sold nearly 18,000 copies in the week ending June 26, making it the top-selling nonfiction work in the country — far ahead of the second- and third-place books by Bill O'Reilly and Malcolm Gladwell, at nearly 13,000 and just over 9,000, respectively.

That's according to Publisher's Weekly, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry's most comprehensive count of book sales.

But you wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times. The Times' prestigious "bestseller list" does not include Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds at all in its list of the top 15 books for the same week.

Instead, it lists books like On Juneteenth, which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles' book. At #13, it lists Somebody's Daughter, a "memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration" that does not appear anywhere in Publisher's Weekly's list of the top 25 nonfiction books.

The Times lists O'Reilly's book, Killing the Mob, in first place.

Comment: The New York Times is a self-appointed gatekeeper. Loyal readership believes whatever it is told.

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Calendar

World largest ever trial of four-day working week 'an overwhelming success'

Jack Peat
The London Economic
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 08:07 UTC
workers
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Researchers have heralded the "overwhelming success" of the world's largest-ever trial of a four-day working week in Iceland, saying it should now be tested in the UK.

More than 1 per cent of Iceland's working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.

Joint analysis by think tanks in Iceland and the UK found that the trials, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and involved more than 2,500 people, boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes.

"Progressive change is possible"

Icelandic trade union federations, which collectively negotiate wages and conditions for most Icelandic employees, have already begun to negotiate reduced working hours as a result.

The researchers estimate that as a result of new agreements struck in 2019-2021 after the trials ended, 86 per cent of Iceland's entire working population now either have reduced hours or flexibility within their contracts to reduce hours.
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Star of David

Israel looks to renew law that keeps out Palestinian spouses

Joseph Krauss
Yahoo News
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:17 UTC
Israeli Arab women protest
© AP/Tsafrir Abayov
Israeli Arab women protest renewal of discriminatory law.
Israel's parliament is set to vote Monday on whether to renew a temporary law first enacted in 2003 that bars Arab citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Critics, including many left-wing and Arab lawmakers, say it's a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israel's Arab minority, while supporters say it's needed for security purposes and to preserve Israel's Jewish character.

The law creates an array of difficulties for Palestinian families that span the war-drawn and largely invisible frontiers separating Israel from east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, territories it seized in the 1967 war that the Palestinians want for a future state.

"You want your security, it's no problem, you can check each case by itself," said Taiseer Khatib. His wife of more than 15 years, from the West Bank city of Jenin, must regularly apply for permits to live with him and their three children in Israel.

"There's no need for this collective punishment just because you are Palestinian," he said.

Israel's dominant right-wing parties strongly support the law, and it has been renewed every year since being enacted. But Israel's new government includes opponents of the measure, and the right-wing opposition led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — aiming to embarrass the government — has warned it won't provide the votes needed to renew the law.
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Heart - Black

Russian Orthodox Church: Refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 is a 'sin', anti-vaxxers must spend their life repenting

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:50 UTC
Metropolitan Hilarion
© Sputnik/Sergey Pyatakov
Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their lives. That's according to the Russian Orthodox Church, whose spokesman said rejecting a jab is selfish.

Speaking to TV channel Russia 24, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, explained that his parishioners regularly repent to him for not being vaccinated. They feel guilty because they passed the virus on to someone else who eventually died, he claimed.
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Squad member falsely claims black Americans aren't free in bizarre Fourth of July post

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 02:27 UTC
Cori Bush
© Getty Images
Congressperson Cori Bush
On the Fourth of July, while Americans celebrate their independence, "Squad" member and Congresswoman Cori Bush claimed on Twitter that black Americans are not free.

While yes, the original Independence Day may not have freed black slaves back in 1776, the United States of America in 2021 is a country where Americans, regardless of color, are free to live their lives as they choose.

Black Americans, like Bush, are free to serve in the government. Former President Barrack Obama served as the commander-in-chief for eight years. 57 of the 435 House Representatives are black.

Her comment fails to take into consideration that if black people in America truly were not free, why would black people around the world immigrate to the Untied States? According to the Migration Policy Institute, 10 percent of those who immigrated to the US in 2019 were black.
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Arrow Up

Petition against transgender athletes competing at the Olympics gathers over 21,000 signatures


The Independent
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC
laural hubbard transgender athlete
© Getty Images
Laurel Hubbard scoops another gold in women's weight-lifting. This is fair how?
The IOC policy specifies conditions under which those who transition from male to female are eligible to compete in the female category

A petition to stop transgender athletes from competing with biological women at the Olympic Games has garnered more than 21,000 signatures.

New Zealander Laurel Hubbard's qualification for the women's weightlifting competition at this summer's Tokyo Games has brought scrutiny on the International Olympic Committee's rules.

Hubbard transitioned eight years ago at the age of 35. She has since met all of the requirements of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) regulations for trans athletes and fair competition.

Comment: What a mealy-mouthed cop-out by Ardern. She just told half her citizens they must bow to the transgender madness.

The Daily Mail Australia conducted its own poll, which garnered a result of 96 per cent of participants - 2,418 readers - thought it was unfair that Hubbard had taken the place of another female athlete in the competition.
[T]here is still plenty of outrage in the sporting community, with everyone from professional athletes to everyday sports fans and commentators arguing she has not only taken a spot from a biologically-born woman, but has an unfair advantage in the competition because she has the physical strength of a man.

New Zealand Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs has suggested two gold medals be awarded if Hubbard wins in her division, arguing it would be unfair to pit her against female competitors.


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Pirates

Report: Over 168,000 ballots missing chain of custody documentation in Cobb County, GA

Jordan Conradson
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:20 UTC
Dr. Kandiss Taylor georgia audit ballot fraud election

Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Kandiss Taylor
Dr. Kandiss Taylor released a report yesterday identifying over 168,000 ballots in Cobb County, Georgia, missing required chain of custody documentation.

We've been reporting for months on the hundreds of thousands of ballots missing chain of custody documentation in Georgia. In April we reported on the problems with the chain of custody for 355,000 ballots

Joe Biden "won" in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.

Comment: The Gateway Pundit also provides an update on the Arizona audit:
arizona audit site state farm arena maricopa

The election audit team wraps up in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
On Thursday, The Arizona Audit evacuated the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Katie Hobbs's pink shirt observers were nowhere to be seen.

But that didn't stop Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from again just making up total nonsense about the audit.

Katie Hobbs tweeted:
"In what looked like a mad dash to clear out of the Coliseum today, observers reported that Cyber Ninjas have resorted to weighing stacks of ballots to fill out the official manifest of what is being returned to the county. Raising the question- do they even have an actual count?"
Who reported this? TGP's Jordan Conradson was the only reporter in the building today and he didn't report this because it's not true.


Senate President Karen Fann set the record straight and taught Hobbs how audits work.


Hobbs has been frantically losing it over this audit since the very beginning because she knows what is coming.

Recently she convinced the County to scrap the corrupted machines that were used in 2020 but now she's pushing lies about the ballot total because she knows it will not add up.

Hobbs certified the 2020 election for Arizona. She had a responsibility to report accurate and fraud-free results. She must be scared to see what the real results are in Maricopa County.


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Black Magic

The mission to erase British cultural values intensifies: Indoctrination is replacing education in UK schools

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:40 UTC
britain students face masks
© Oli Scarff / AFP
Pupils wearing facemasks as a precaution against the transmission of the novel coronavirus arrive to attend Moor End Academy in Huddersfield, northern England on September 11, 2020
A leading UK teaching union is demanding the decolonisation of all elements of education. This focus on turning its members into political activists will only deprive children of quality schooling and debase British culture.

Something has gone seriously wrong when the National Education Union (NEU), the largest teachers' union in England, decides that its mission is to indoctrinate school children rather than educate them.

A document produced by the 450,000-member NEU declares that there is an "urgent" need to "decolonise" every subject and every stage of the curriculum. The urgency of taking these dramatic measures is justified in light of the recent Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic.

Comment: The push is not exclusive to Britain, but appears to be a coordinated attack on those societies still holding to western Enlightenment values.

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