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Timely advice on beating the #Woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

Glenn H. Reynolds
New York Post
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:31 UTC

Americans hate woke culture, as I noted in these pages not too long ago. Black, white, Republican and Democrat, a large majority of Americans oppose it. Even people like former President Barack Obama, Bill Maher and ultra-liberal comedienne Sarah Silverman hate it (Maher calls it "Stalinist").

But it keeps going. Why is that? And what can you do about it — especially if you or someone you are close to comes under attack? In short, it keeps going because it's easy and fun — and you have to make it less so.

Lesson one: Don't panic — and don't give in. Ian Prior, of Loudoun County, Va., publishes The Daily Malarkey, an Internet humor site that goes after what he calls the "Chardonnay Antifa." As he recently recounted to Fox News, after he published an op-ed attacking political correctness, he found himself on the sharp end of woke attacks led by a group of teachers, administrators and woke citizens.

According to news reports, the Loudoun Stalinists put together a list of people opposing their policies and planned to "hack" them, "expose" them and "infiltrate" them. Did Prior chicken out?

Bloomberg Op-Ed: 'We Must Start Planning for a Permanent Pandemic'

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC

"Endless cycle" of restrictions will remain.

Bloomberg has published an article by Andreas Kluth which argues that new variants of COVID-19 mean the pandemic will be "permanent" and that there will be an "endless cycle" of restrictions.

Kluth says that the idea the world will at some point go "back to normal" is "almost certainly wrong" and that SARS-CoV-2 will become "our permanent enemy, like the flu but worse."

The author cites "the ongoing emergence of new variants that behave almost like new viruses" which means that "we may never achieve herd immunity" because current vaccines are "powerless against the coming mutations."

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Hawaii's open-carry ban is lawful, federal appeals court rules

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:46 UTC

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The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hawaii's limits on carrying guns in public.

A panel of federal appeals court judges on Wednesday ruled in favor of Hawaii's strict limits on openly carrying firearms.

The ruling by the 11-judge panel on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is a legal blow to Hawaii resident George Young, who is suing the state over his inability to get a license to carry a loaded gun in public for self-defense, the Associated Press reported.

Young had argued that his Second Amendment rights are being violated by the state's rejection to his license applications.

Comment: More from Law & Crime:

A federal court denied a challenge to Hawaii's prohibition on the open carry of firearms in a lengthy and scholarly opinion released Wednesday — finding that Hawaiian law and practice both predate and supersede a broad application of the Second Amendment.

"Hawai'i law began limiting public carriage of dangerous weapons, including firearms, more than 150 years ago — nearly fifty years before it became a U.S. territory and more than a century before it became a state," the opinion explains in language foreshadowing the method of inquiry and eventual ruling in favor of anti-gun regulation.

Sitting en banc, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 7-4 against George Young, who was twice denied an open carry permit in 2011. The massive, 215-page opinion was authored by George W. Bush-appointed Circuit Judge Jay Bybee. Two dissents were authored by a collection of judges appointed by former presidents Ronald Reagan, Bush, and Donald Trump.

The court spends nearly 50 pages discussing the time-honored regulation of weapons under the law. This section starts in Middle Age England and ends in the Post-Reconstruction United States.

The thorough (and admittedly non-exhaustive) historical inquiry, necessarily long and time-consuming, begins by invoking "a series of orders to local sheriffs that prohibited 'going armed' without the king's permission" which were promulgated by "King Edward I and his successor, King Edward II." The final laws cited in this section are two explicit prohibitions on the public carrying of firearms which were upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1876 and 1882.

The dissent by Reagan-appointed Senior Circuit Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain bemoaned the court's grand historical survey — finding the reliance on those regulations "extreme and bizarre." He went on to argue that the court's use of those prohibitions "represents a gross misapplication of the textual and historical inquiries" demanded by the landmark Supreme Court case of D.C. v. Heller, which established the constitutional right of an individual to own a gun for self defense — sans militia membership — way back in 2008.

Mayor of Charlottesville tweets bizarre message about city 'raping' its residents

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

The mayor of Charlottesville released a tweet on Wednesday claiming her town was equivalent to a "cum stained sheet." Mayor Nikuyah Walker of Charlottesville, Virginia, tweeted an image that read:

"Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly it is. It rapes you, comforts you in its cum stained sheet and tells you to keep its secrets."

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Teacher suspended after showing 'cartoons of Mohammed' in class sparks protest from parents - UK

Ben Hill
The Sun
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:41 UTC

A TEACHER has been suspended from a school after he allegedly showed cartoons of Mohammed to his class, sparking a protest from parents.

Messages on social media urged people to gather outside Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, after a teacher was said to have shown the cartoons to pupils.

Around 50 parents gathered at the school this morning, causing the day to be delayed for an hour.

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Lauren Chen: Racial segregation is mainstream again...being pushed-for by PROGRESSIVES

Lauren Chen
RT
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:38 UTC

The woke believe that people of color should stick to their own to be safe from 'white supremacy' - but no matter the reasoning behind it, this is nothing but racist segregation.

In a recent interview, American actress Olivia Munn revealed that she believes white men directing "Black stories, Asian stories, Latinx stories" is tantamount to "systemic whitewashing."

In regard to HBO's new documentary on Tiger Woods, Munn lamented that the coverage was so negative because "it was told through the eyes of two men who do not know what it is like to live life in a Black man's skin, or see the world through the eyes of an Asian man's eyes."

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Has the West lost Russia? 'European' identity is collapsing in the continent's largest country, with the youth leading the charge

Glenn Diesen
RT
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:53 UTC

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FILE PHOTO. Fireworks illuminate the sky over the Spasskaya Tower during the New Year celebration in Moscow, Russia.

Russians have come to realise that the 'Europe' they earnestly sought to integrate with after the Soviet collapse no longer exists. The final 'divorce' between Moscow and the rest of the continent needs to be managed carefully.

It has been common to predict that Russia's post-Soviet generation would feel a closer affinity to the West and embrace a shared identity with Europe. All the West had to do was to wait out Vladimir Putin's period in power and the gravitational pull of the European identity would result in a more compliant Russia. However, polls demonstrate that Russians are rapidly shedding the European identity of their country, with youngsters leading the trend.

A generational shift towards a less European Russia

A recent poll by the Levada Center, a research group branded a 'foreign agent' by Moscow, revealed that only 29 percent of Russians consider Russia to be a European country, which represents a drastic decline from 52 percent in 2008. A generational shift is underway, as younger Russians lead the way in dismissing the European identity of their country, with those aged 18 to 24 polling at only 23 percent.

The dubious origins of 'Long Covid' or post-Covid syndrome

Jeremy Devine
Wall Street Journal
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:36 UTC

Echoes of chronic fatigue in the effort to blame the coronavirus for a host of questionable symptoms.

"Long Covid," or post-Covid syndrome, is an emerging condition that has attracted great media attention — and now federal funding. The National Institutes of Health last month announced a $115 billion initiative to research the "prolonged health consequences" of Covid-19 infection.

The topic deserves serious study. Some patients, particularly older ones with co-morbidities, do experience symptoms that outlast a coronavirus infection. But such symptoms can also be psychologically generated or caused by a physical illness unrelated to the prior infection. Long Covid is largely an invention of vocal patient activist groups. Legitimizing it with generous funding risks worsening the symptoms the NIH is hoping to treat.

The concept of long Covid has a highly unorthodox origin: online surveys produced by Body Politic, which launched in 2018 and describes itself atop its website's homepage as "a queer feminist wellness collective merging the personal and the political." In March 2020, the group's co-founders created the Body Politic Covid-19 Support Group, and as part of their mission of "cultivating patient led research," the organization coordinated a series of online surveys on persistent symptoms. Based on the results of these, Body Politic produced the first report on long Covid in May.

Comment: So a broad spectrum of symptoms alleged to exist in even non-verified cases of individuals with Covid-19 - called 'long covid' - is being promulgated by a self-described "queer feminist wellness collective"? This would seem to be taking the cult of victimhood to a whole other level.

This is unfortunate because it may not only help justify and conflate an ideology with a hystericized illness, but it is capable of misdirecting the growing numbers of individuals who legitimately suffer from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - which has an entirely different set of causes.

A defense of the Great Barrington Declaration from its powerful critics

George Dance
Lockdown Sceptics
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya

The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD),¹ under which thousands of scientists and medical practitioners have called for a end to lockdown policies, was drawn up last October 1^st-4^th, was announced on October 5^th, and was already being denounced on October 6^th. Over the next month, the GBD and its message were virtually buried beneath an "avalanche of scathing criticism condemning it as 'very dangerous, unscientific, unethical, total nonsense, dangerously flawed, conspiratorial and grotesque'. Among the critics were prominent role-players such as World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, British chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance, and US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci".² Defenders of the lockdown consensus released a counter-manifesto, the John Snow Memorandum,³ ironically named for epidemiology's most famous dissenter from a scientific consensus.

At the time I read everything I could on the topic and made copious notes, hoping to write my own perspective on the GBD. Long before I was in a position to do that, though, the debate had moved on, and I never had an opportunity to revisit the subject.

Evanston, Illinois becomes first US city to pay reparations to black residents

Gabe Kaminsky
The Federalist
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The Evanston, Illinois City Council on Monday approved funding for reparations to be given to the city's black residents over discrimination against their ancestors.

The plan was approved 8 to 1 and will distribute $400,000 to eligible black residents. In order to qualify, residents must provide proof that they have an ancestor who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969 who was discriminated against because of city ordinances, policies, or practices. Qualifying households will receive up to $25,000 to be put toward home repairs or property down payments.

The Evanston program was first proposed by Alderman Rue Simmons, the architect of the Evanston Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program and Program Budget. Simmons noted that the city is prepared for any legal challenges that might transpire.

"[We are] ready to provide pro bono legal defense to us in the event that we should have some sort of situation in court," Simmons noted after the meeting, aware of the controversial precedent his city is setting across the country.

Mayor Steve Hagerty says families will receive the reparations this summer, with potentially more funding as the years continue.

Comment: The reparations described above seem to be a cynical and deeply manipulative attempt to maneuver left-leaning states towards more dependence upon centralized control at the federal level. Don't miss:

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Society's Child

Timely advice on beating the #Woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

Bloomberg Op-Ed: 'We Must Start Planning for a Permanent Pandemic'

Hawaii's open-carry ban is lawful, federal appeals court rules

Mayor of Charlottesville tweets bizarre message about city 'raping' its residents

Teacher suspended after showing 'cartoons of Mohammed' in class sparks protest from parents - UK

Lauren Chen: Racial segregation is mainstream again...being pushed-for by PROGRESSIVES

Has the West lost Russia? 'European' identity is collapsing in the continent's largest country, with the youth leading the charge

The dubious origins of 'Long Covid' or post-Covid syndrome

A defense of the Great Barrington Declaration from its powerful critics

Evanston, Illinois becomes first US city to pay reparations to black residents

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