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London NHS Nightingale hospital will shut next week - limited demand, no new Covid-19 cases

Denis Campbell and Rowena Mason
The Guadian
Mon, 04 May 2020 18:06 UTC

The showpiece Nightingale hospital in London will shut next week after treating a small number of patients but will be kept "in hibernation" in case a second wave of Covid-19 infections emerges.

No further patients will be admitted to the facility, which was created amid much acclaim in just 10 days, and the 12 patients being treated there at the moment are being transferred to other London hospitals.

The Nightingale, built in the ExCel conference centre in the Docklands area of London, has proved surplus to requirements in the fight against coronavirus because established hospitals in the capital coped much better with the influx of critically ill patients after hugely expanding their intensive care units.

It will close on 15 May. Doctors, nurses and other staff working there were told the news on Monday morning. They will return to their usual hospitals during this week and next.

Originally planned to have 4,000 beds, the Nightingale has treated just 54 patients since it was opened by Prince Charles on 3 April and received its first patient on 7 April. It has not admitted a new patient for a week as London hospitals have had spare capacity in their own intensive care units.

Comment: Oops? Looks like those model projections weren't so accurate after all, no?

Israel settler accused of murdering Palestinian mother returns to his settlement

Middle East Monitor
Mon, 04 May 2020 17:35 UTC

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47-year-old Aisha Muhammad Talal Al-Rabi was killed after illegal Israeli settlers attacked her and her husband with stones in the West Bank

An Israeli settler who stoned a Palestinian mother to death has been allowed to return to the occupied West Bank settlement where he lives.

Forty-seven-year-old mother of eight, Aisha Al-Rabi, was killed in 2018 after being hit on the side of her head by a rock which was hurled by Jewish settlers through the windshield of the car in which she was travelling.

The rock-throwing attack by the 16-year-old Jewish Israeli, who cannot be named due to a court-imposed gag order, and four others took place at Za'atara Junction, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, as Aisha and her husband Yaqoub Al-Rabi were driving past an illegal settlement, causing Al-Rabi to lose control of their car.

Oxford's calls for MORAL quarantine isn't only an attempt to undermine free speech, it's DEGRADATION of academic teaching & learning

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:52 UTC

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Graduates outside the Sheldonian Theatre after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University, in Oxford, Britain, July 15, 2017

For Oxford University Student Union the current lockdown is not enough. They have voted to impose a quarantine to protect themselves from the threat of "ableist, classist and misogynistic reading lists."

The new student policy statement, 'Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working-class and Women Students from Hatred In University Contexts' aims to shut down discussion on anything that any of the 'aforementioned groups' deem prejudicial.

Supporters of the policy explicitly reject the idea that freedom of speech is an essential feature of academic life. This policy document - passed by the Oxford SU and then mercifully rejected by Oxford University - explicitly states that arguments based on "free speech policy are inapplicable" when students are "required by the University to listen to the speech in question."

Comment: Here we see how giving life to 'trigger warnings' has allowed this warped structure to grow and consume the minds of its advocates as well as the institutions that provide support. This is the nature of pathological corruption: it seeks never-ending power and control. Maoist China gave similar support to its 'oppressed students', and the outcome was a devastating blow to the soul of Chinese culture. The West is set on this same course.

Russophobic Czech official claims Russia is waging 'HYBRID WAR' on Europe by protesting removal of Soviet liberator statue

RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 08:49 UTC

A Prague official responsible for removing a statue of Marshal Konev urged Brussels to protect the EU against Moscow's "interference" and "hybrid war," playing the time-tested 'Russia scare' card that never fails to be effective.

Proving that a strong offense sometimes makes the best defense, head of Prague's District 6 Ondrej Kolar wrote an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, according to Czech media.

He complained that the tearing down of a monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose troops put an end to the six-year Nazi occupation of the Czech capital back in 1945, had "provoked a completely inappropriate reaction from Russia." Russian diplomats and other officials, Kolar offered, "are calling on Czech citizens to physically liquidate those who have their [fingerprints] on removing the statue."

Moscow, which officially condemned the surprising act carried out by Prague authorities, is therefore meddling in the affairs of Prague and the Czech Republic as a whole, Kolar's letter alleged.

Russia is also waging a "hybrid war" against the EU, he continued, as the letter took a turn and began to resemble a Cold War propaganda leaflet.

Comment: Like so many other mind viruses we're seeing today Russophobia, and all the associated behaviors and policies "inspired" by it, appear to be one of the most dangerous - as it attempts to re-write history:

Authoritarians: Democrats and millennials admit they are way more likely than Republicans to snitch on neighbors for violating lockdown orders

Chris Field
The Blaze
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:42 UTC

Suppose you saw your neighbor with 15-20 people at his home in clear violation of your state's lockdown orders? Would you report him or leave him be?

Pollsters recently posed this exact question to Americans and found that more than a third of all of us would snitch on our neighbor. Within that, a strong plurality of Democrats said they would call the cops, while a minority of Republicans said the same. The poll also found that liberals and younger Americans were far more likely to report their neighbors than conservatives and older Americans.

What were the numbers?

A poll from JustTheNews.com conducted by Scott Rasmussen asked adults this question: "Suppose that, in violation of stay-at-home rules, your neighbor had 15-20 people at their home. Would you report them to the police?"

Woman says Biden commented on her breasts and her age when she was only 14-years-old — SIX people back up her claim

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 03 May 2020 16:38 UTC

Another woman has come forward with allegations about Joe Biden's inappropriate behavior — claiming that he commented on her age and her breasts when she was only 14-years-old.

Speaking to Law & Crime, Eva Murry, 26, claims that she was sexually harassed by Biden at First State Gridiron Dinner & Show in 2008, a swanky political roast for Delaware press and politicians similar to the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Murry is the niece of former Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who was running for senate against Biden at the time and had occasionally went to political events for school credit. She was in Middle School at the time.

Banning the conspiracist David Icke is WRONG & actually strengthens his case that we're sleepwalking towards dictatorship

Neil Clark
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:33 UTC

The banning of the former TV presenter from Facebook and YouTube is an assault on free speech and free expression which needs to be forcefully resisted, whatever your views are on Icke's theories on world governance.

I'm old enough to remember when David Icke was a television sports presenter. For the past thirty-five years or so he's been putting his ideas out on how he thinks the world operates - and it's fair to say he has caused plenty of controversy. Some people laughed at him, some agreed with him, some were indifferent. No one campaigned for him to be banned.

Recently though, that's changed. Icke has been accused of "preaching hate" and of peddling "unsubstantiated conspiracy theories." And now he's charged with promoting "toxic" and "dangerous misinformation" about Covid-19.

Writing in the Observer on April 25, Nick Cohen berated social media platforms for not banning Icke.

North Korean defectors apologize for Kim Jong-un death rumors - but will Western media ever develop healthy skepticism?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:27 UTC

Defectors from North Korea have apologized for spreading fake news about leader Kim Jong-un's death. Will a Western media that believes their every word now finally start fact-checking their wild claims about the country?

Two defectors serving in South Korea's parliament issued public apologies on Monday after insisting the North Korean ruler was dead or close to it. The apologies came on the heels of heavy rebukes from the South's ruling Democratic Party, as well as calls for the defectors to be punished for spreading false rumors.

Over the course of Kim's three-week absence from public duties, the Western media rumor mill churned thinly sourced 'news' from a South Korean clickbait outlet about alleged heart surgery into shock headlines carrying some variant of "Kim is dead, and war is imminent!" The leader rained on the media's parade, though, by showing his face on state TV on Saturday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a fertilizer plant. While the defectors who helped fuel the frenzy have publicly displayed some contrition, the Western outlets that amplified their claims have done nothing of the sort. Indeed, some have even tried to double down, claiming a "mysterious" mark on Kim's wrist is proof he was hospitalized.

Former Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko received $5.5 MILLION in compensation from US resident for 'repressions'

RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 16:25 UTC

Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has stunned the public and media by saying in her income declaration that she got $5.5 million from a "US resident" as compensation for Ukrainian government "repressions."

A financial disclosure statement filed in late April by Tymoshenko, who now serves as an MP in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, says she received a whopping 148 million hryvnias ($5.5 million) as part of a pre-trial settlement in a case filed over her persecution at the hands of the Ukrainian authorities back in 2011-2014.

Yet, Tymoshenko's declaration doesn't disclose anything about the lawsuit, besides the name of an American law firm, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, as the source of the tranche. The legal company's website mentions nothing about any cases related to the former Ukrainian prime minister.

To save the children,' Harvard Magazine calls for the abolition of the family

Tom Lindsay
Forbes
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:08 UTC

After he left the presidency of Harvard University, Derek Bok offered this anatomy of the soul of American higher education today: "Universities are like riverboat gamblers and exiled royalty: their desires are never satisfied."

But Harvard Magazine has now upped the ante, going far beyond an insatiable desire for mere money. The May-June 2020 edition of the magazine calls for the abolition of the family. Not in those words exactly, of course, given the bad odor the phrase has acquired: "the abolition of the family" is "arguably the most infamous demand of The Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Engels. But totalitarianism by any other name still destroys the family, and this appears to be the intention of the article.

Written by Erin O'Donnell, and appearing on the Harvard-linked website of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, the article, titled, "The Risks of Homeschooling," announces, with great alarm, that "a rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home. Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter schools, and larger than the number currently in parochial schools."

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Society's Child

London NHS Nightingale hospital will shut next week - limited demand, no new Covid-19 cases

Israel settler accused of murdering Palestinian mother returns to his settlement

Oxford's calls for MORAL quarantine isn't only an attempt to undermine free speech, it's DEGRADATION of academic teaching & learning

Russophobic Czech official claims Russia is waging 'HYBRID WAR' on Europe by protesting removal of Soviet liberator statue

Authoritarians: Democrats and millennials admit they are way more likely than Republicans to snitch on neighbors for violating lockdown orders

Woman says Biden commented on her breasts and her age when she was only 14-years-old — SIX people back up her claim

Banning the conspiracist David Icke is WRONG & actually strengthens his case that we're sleepwalking towards dictatorship

North Korean defectors apologize for Kim Jong-un death rumors - but will Western media ever develop healthy skepticism?

Former Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko received $5.5 MILLION in compensation from US resident for 'repressions'

To save the children,' Harvard Magazine calls for the abolition of the family

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