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Twitter restores account of financial market website Zero Hedge

Reuters
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:37 UTC

Twitter Inc said it had restored the account of financial market website Zero Hedge on its platform on Friday after concluding that suspending it was an error.

In February Twitter banned Zero Hedge after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the coronavirus outbreak.

"We made an error in our enforcement action in this case. Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account," Twitter said in a statement. It gave no further detail and did not say what additional context it had received.

'You'll have a great time': IDF detain RT's Redfish stringer while covering rally against Jordan Valley annexation in West Bank

RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:33 UTC

Israeli military detained a stringer working for RT's Redfish project as he was filming a Palestinian protest against the annexation of the Jordan Valley and released him only after taking his camera's memory card.

It was the last shooting day for a small Redfish crew working on a documentary about Israel's plans to annex some parts of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. Producer Ahmad Al-Bazz and a cameramen stringer, Ameen Nayfeh, set out to the small village of Zubaidat to cover a small protest staged by locals opposing the annexation.

At first, it seemed that it was going to be a regular filming day. "When we arrived the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] were surrounding the village. We managed to enter and nobody stopped us," Al-Bazz told RT. The soldiers took the journalists' IDs and press cards but quickly returned the documents.

Irony overload: Will Autonomous Zone 'warlord' be canceled after old homophobic tweets surface?

Sister Toldjah
Red State
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:24 UTC

As we've previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to "cancel" anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the "warlord" of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit, based on various web archive websites (language warning):

Comment: Meanwhile, CHAZ is devolving at light-speed into the very dystopia their sheeple were trying to abolish:

A video surfaced online purportedly showing a machete-wielding man scaring people inside the 'autonomous' CHAZ enclave set up by activists in the middle of Seattle, Washington. Police have warned of lawlessness in the area.

The short clip that has been circulating on social media shows a man in dark clothes holding what appears to be a machete while strolling near tents set up on a sports field. At one point, the man starts waving his weapon as several bystanders seem to become concerned about his behavior.

Merriam-Webster redefining 'racism' to fit BLM narrative turns the dictionary into an instrument of Orwellian thought control

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC

A dictionary publisher is redefining "racism" and related words after a black college grad complained the existing definition didn't fit her experience. But sacrificing shared understanding to performative virtue helps no one.

Publisher Merriam-Webster has proudly waded into the culture wars, bending the knee to 22-year-old Drake University grad Kennedy Mitchum with a pledge not merely to redefine "racism" to reflect systemic oppression, but to "revise the entries of other words that are related to racism or have racial connotations."

Promising the newly-updated dictionary would be rolled out "in the coming months," editor Alex Chambers apologized for the "harm and offense we have caused in failing to address the issue sooner."

'Mostly peaceful riots'? Mainstream media has given up any shred of objectivity over BLM violence. How thick do they think we are?

Guy Birchall
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:20 UTC

Media outlets in the US and UK have been conducting mental gymnastics worthy of Cirque du Soleil to portray rioters as virtuous, non-violent freedom fighters even as they film them starting fires and ripping down statues.

You may have noticed the word "peaceful" being bandied about on your TV screens and appearing in headlines all over the internet a lot recently. "Peaceful" is an interesting adjective, because in most cases if something is peaceful, it is self-evident. For example, you'd only have to look at a photograph of a yoga retreat or a calm lake on a warm summer's day and your brain would instantly think, "peaceful". Likewise, with its opposite "violent"; normally if something is violent it is perfectly obvious: baying mobs, cage fighting, Quentin Tarantino movies - they're violent and you don't need to be told they are.

Which is why it is rather interesting that "peaceful" has crept into the headlines of countless stories about the recent protests following the tragic death of George Floyd. Virtually every news outlet, from CNN to MSNBC to the BBC and Sky News, even the Daily Mail, have insisted that all the demonstrations in his name have been mainly placid, well-mannered affairs. They seem to have forgotten, however, that the cameras are rolling.

Lockdown catastrophe points up the need for resilient local food supply systems

Colin Todhunter
Off Guardian
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:06 UTC

There is no doubt that, contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence.

It's a sector which demands the entrenchment of capitalist agriculture via deregulation and the corporate control of seeds, land, fertilisers, water, pesticides, food processing and retail - domination of the entire chain from seed to plate.

These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive social, environmental and health costs picked up by taxpayers. As if to pour oil on the fire, the food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns may serve to further strengthen the prevailing system.

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Shrill, hyper-liberal bullies dumb down every debate, and even yesterday's liberals now look like heretics

Damian Wilson
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:14 UTC

Progessive thinkers of the recent past are starting to appear reactionary, as the emergent radical "liberals" use university campuses and social media to intolerantly shout down any dissent.

If we park Covid-19 for a moment, we will be able to identify another spreading virus that is just as damaging to us all and likely to have equally long-lasting consequences.

The shrill voices of those oh-so-liberal that they are now illiberal will attempt to drown out any dissent at the plinths and pedestals of historical statues and monuments. This is the new hyper-liberalism, and it's spreading rapidly.

If you disagree you are wrong. And if you continue to disagree then they will shout and shout and shout until you agree with them. In action, it might manifest itself in the decapitation of a bronze statue of some historic entrepreneur who profited from the once-fashionable business of slave trade. Or it might be the bullying of an avowed feminist who refuses to espouse the most radical ideas of the 'trans community'.

Meghan & Harry shift focus to BLM. Now, does anyone still believe the elite-backed movement challenges the establishment?

Joanna Williams
RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:09 UTC

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are perfect brand ambassadors for Black Lives Matter, which poses as a radical threat to the status quo, but, in reality, is one of the most elite-backed movements ever.

We recover from coronavirus to emerge blinking into the midst of protests, riots and statues tumbling. Police kneel before activists, JK Rowling has been cancelled, Gone With The Wind has been removed from HBO Max, comedy favourites have been pulled from Netflix. The world is where we left it before lockdown, but nothing is quite the same.

With such rapid social change, it's a relief when some things come as no surprise. News that the LA-based formerly royal duo, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are "shifting their focus" and will be putting their energy into supporting the Black Lives Matter movement is so predictable it's positively reassuring.

And the anti-racism Oscar goes to... the Hollywood celebrities producing this contrived, virtue-signaling video

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:00 UTC

In response to America's racial unrest over George Floyd's murder, Hollywood actors once again feel the need to flex their me-first moralism with a nauseating, self-serving performance.

Unfortunately for us, Hollywood never lets a good crisis go to waste.

First there was the coronavirus pandemic.

Hollywood bravely responded to that calamity with Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, and a cavalcade of her clueless celebrity friends putting out a video of themselves "singing" John Lennon's saccharine anthem 'Imagine'.

The world responded by collectively throwing up in its mouth.

Most Americans think 'All Lives Matter' is a positive message. Yet why are we being told it's as good as a hate crime?

RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:55 UTC

Despite pushback from activists against the phrase "all lives matter" amidst George Floyd protests, a poll suggests the majority of people are not offended by the words and only a small, vocal minority are behind the outrage.

If you have spent even a little time looking through social media posts or reading media headlines in recent weeks, it's likely become obvious that "all lives matter" is one of many triggering phrases that has been pointed to by Black Lives Matter activists as simply not culturally acceptable to say.

According to a new poll, however, the majority of people appear to see the words as positive.

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Twitter restores account of financial market website Zero Hedge

'You'll have a great time': IDF detain RT's Redfish stringer while covering rally against Jordan Valley annexation in West Bank

Irony overload: Will Autonomous Zone 'warlord' be canceled after old homophobic tweets surface?

Merriam-Webster redefining 'racism' to fit BLM narrative turns the dictionary into an instrument of Orwellian thought control

'Mostly peaceful riots'? Mainstream media has given up any shred of objectivity over BLM violence. How thick do they think we are?

Lockdown catastrophe points up the need for resilient local food supply systems

Shrill, hyper-liberal bullies dumb down every debate, and even yesterday's liberals now look like heretics

Meghan & Harry shift focus to BLM. Now, does anyone still believe the elite-backed movement challenges the establishment?

And the anti-racism Oscar goes to... the Hollywood celebrities producing this contrived, virtue-signaling video

Most Americans think 'All Lives Matter' is a positive message. Yet why are we being told it's as good as a hate crime?

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