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After several images of USPS trucks being loaded up with street-side mailboxes in Portland and nearby Eugene went viral, Postal Service spokesman David Rupert told local media his agency was merely replacing old, vandalized post boxes with "newer, more secure models."
Insisting "every location that had a collection box will keep a collection box," Rupert consoled nervous locals that the only boxes vanishing for good were those redundant receptacles positioned next to other boxes.
Mitchell announced his ban in a post on Parler on Friday, laying his Twitter handle to rest after accumulating more than 600,000 followers. Earning regular retweets from President Donald Trump, the account was a source of controversy, at times backing 'QAnon' conspiracy theories and voicing skepticism toward Covid-19, among other things.
"Twitter just suspended me for opposing masks. Who knows if I'll ever be back," Mitchell wrote, adding sarcastically "I'm sure their decision wasn't political at all."
Comment: See also:
- Twitter censors Joe Rogan podcast with renowned gender expert Dr. Debra Soh
- Twitter blocks BitChute video service without explanation, flags all posts as 'potentially harmful'
- Twitter labels RT and Sputnik - but not BBC, NPR, VOA - as it launches blitz on state media staff and government officials
- Blackmail: Twitter bans Trump campaign until it deletes tweet with COVID-19 'misinformation'
- Doctors are not always right. But Twitter, Facebook & Google are pure evil for shutting down alternative voices on Covid
- Twitter permanently bans former KKK leader David Duke
- If you can be banned from Twitter for questioning transgenderism, why are accounts advocating pedophilia still on the site?
- Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials
- Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference
Frontline doctors from across the US held a "White Coat Summit" on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.
The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today.
Comment: See also:
- America's Frontline Doctors silenced by social media: Website removed after viral video censored
- Viral video of doctors countering Covid-19 narrative becomes victim of coordinated deletion
- Doctors are not always right. But Twitter, Facebook & Google are pure evil for shutting down alternative voices on Covid
- Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials
- Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference
- COVID-19 Hoax Pandemic: Doctors on Front-line in California Explain Why Lockdowns Are Unnecessary: "Millions of Cases, Tiny Number of Deaths"
The cartoon by artist Johannes Leak was published in Rupert Murdoch's The Australian newspaper earlier this week, in an apparent attempt to deride the US Democratic party for perceived tokenism and racially motivated pandering, according to the paper's editor-in-chief, Christopher Dore.
The controversial cartoon depicts a smiling Biden announcing that it's time to "heal a nation divided by racism" before beckoning Harris to the podium while he goes "for a lie-down." Needless to say, the backlash was swift and immediate online from the woke sectors of the Twitter commentariat.
The latest example comes to us from the Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, who told its employees that effective August 1, they would have to wear a mask - even for teleconferences.
Preston Cole of the DNR said in an e-mail to employees: "Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing platform — by non-DNR staff. Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others."
Gov. Tony Evers had put a mask order in place effective August 1 that mandates masks are to be worn whenever a person is in an enclosed space other than a private residence.
'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicistThe article's author is Parker Crutchfield, an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University, and his argument can be broken down into four key points:
- Wearing masks and social distancing are good for public health
- People who refuse to follow these rules are "defectors" who need to be "morally enhanced"
- This moral enhancement can be achieved with medication to make people more "empathetic" and "co-operative"
- This medication should be compulsory and/or administered secretly via the water supply.
Comment: Here's the offending article. It's so over-the-top, we even wondered if it's trolling...
Professor of Bioethics: 'Induce compliance from Covid-19 defectors by subjecting them to moral enhancement via water supply
The revelations follow commentary by Crime and Corruption Commission chairman Alan MacSporran at the conclusion of the corruption investigation into a school principal appointment involving former deputy premier Jackie Trad.
Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath told Parliament the bill came at a "critical time" as Queensland headed to the polls in October, and would prevent media from publicising corruption complaints within the caretaker period.
The LNP has previously pushed to ban the practice of publicising referrals to the corruption watchdog.
The laws will mean media such as print, digital, radio and television will be banned from publicising any corruption complaint during the caretaker period.
Comment: Politically-motivated censorship is alive and well in Queensland, Australia
Thirty-five percent of respondents said they would not take the vaccine, 60 percent said they would and 5 percent said they were unsure.
Those with college degrees are 19 points more likely to take a vaccine than those without, 72 percent to 53 percent. Democrats were also more likely to be willing to take the vaccine than Republicans, 71 percent to 48 percent.
The poll noted that in 2009 only 51 percent said they would take a vaccine for H1N1, though that disease was less deadly and had a narrower impact on daily life.
Comment: The difference in "deadliness" between H1N1 and Covid-19 are close to negligible.
Comment: And clear across the world one out of every two Russian physicians state that they will not take the new Coronavirus vaccine being rolled out in their country:
Despite official claims that the world's first coronavirus vaccine is completely safe, 52 percent of Russian doctors who responded to an online survey indicated that they're not ready to take Sputnik V.So Russia has its share of Covid-19 hysteria-believers too (as well as skeptics). But imagine what the Russia-haters would say if the great country to the east followed the lead of Sweden?!
That has led to a sharp rebuke from the head of the team that developed the solution. Alexander Gintsburg, of the Gamaleya Institute, explained to the TASS news agency that doctors who refuse the vaccination must understand the consequences. According to Gintsburg, if medical professionals reject the vaccine, the only way for them to get antibodies is to "get severely sick, because the mild form does not give long-term protection."
"Catching a severe form of Covid-19 is likely to have consequences for the rest of one's life and, in a certain number of cases, as doctors know, death," Gintsburg added. "Therefore, there's a choice: refuse to be vaccinated and follow this path, or get the vaccine. "
Of the more than three thousand participants in the survey ... only 24.5 percent said they'd agree to vaccination, with many worried at the pace of development and the lack of data proving its efficacy. Meanwhile, 48 percent of respondents were wary that the vaccine had been created in such a short time, with only 20 percent saying they'd recommend the vaccination to patients, colleagues, and acquaintances. Of those surveyed, 66 percent said there was insufficient data on its effectiveness.
The survey, which received 3,040 responses, was conducted via a service for the medical profession called 'Doctor's Guide'. The service is a phone app that offers calculators, recommends reference books, and provides medical news and other helpful resources for healthcare professionals. The app is completely free and, according to its creators, is used by more than 400,000 doctors.
On August 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country had registered the world's first Covid-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V. Due to be available to the general public from January 2021, it will first be administered to medical workers and teachers who voluntarily choose to take it. Sputnik V's rapid development has been criticized by some Western countries and medical experts, who believe that production has been rushed and that the vaccine has not yet been proven safe. However, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has called such criticism "groundless."
The vaccine was produced by Moscow's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, which tested its safety and efficacy in conjunction with the country's Ministry of Defense.
Gintsburg also noted that Sputnik V went through all the necessary procedures to prove its effectiveness and safety, and that information about the vaccine will soon be published for all to read.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, answers a question during a briefing at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, August 5, 2020.
North Carolina overcounted its tally of completed coronavirus tests by 200,000 since the start of the pandemic, state officials announced Wednesday, blaming most of the error on a processing lab. The error doesn't affect key measures such as the percentage of positive test results, they said.
Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Human Services, pinned the brunt of the blame on LabCorp Diagnostics for providing North Carolina with two different daily testing count numbers when the clinical lab network submitted the data electronically and manually.
"The positive cases are reported electronically," Cohen said in an interview. "Those continue to be accurate. The number that we are correcting today is just the total cumulative lab tests."
Nine-year-old Caleb Cowan was looking wistfully through the gates of Tollbrae Primary School in Airdrie. A few minutes earlier, he had watched his younger brother walk through the gates alone, but Caleb has to wait until Thursday to meet his friends, some of whom he hasn't seen for almost five months.
Scotland's schools are bringing back different year groups each day this week - ready for full-time schooling for everyone next Monday.
"I've been enjoying playing Nintendo Wii Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games," Caleb says when asked for the best thing about almost five months of school. He knows he will have to keep socially distanced from teachers and staff in school, but not from his classmates.
"If I run into my best friend I'll give him the biggest hug ever," he said.
Comment: Parents talk about school and student social experience returning to normal - is this it?















Comment: Could it be making something out of nothing, a simple replacement of old mailboxes? Or is there something super-dodgy going on here?