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To Kill A Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn books banned from Minnesota school syllabuses

George Simpson
Express.co.uk
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:53 UTC

Two classic American novels have been banned from syllabuses at schools in Minnesota, USA. The reason being a concern that racial slurs used in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, could make pupils feel "humiliated or marginalised". According to The Telegraph, The Duluth school district, which includes over 20 schools, is removing the books from the curriculum for ninth and 11th grade English classes.

Comment: Grades can also make kids feel humiliated and marginalized, maybe schools should ban those too.

However, copies of Lee and Twain's classics will remain in the school libraries.

While Duluth district's curriculum director Michael Cary has said To Kill A Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn will be replaced by books that "teach the same lessons" without using racial slurs.

The American Library Association have listed the two novels as among the most banned books from 2001-2009, mainly due to the offensive language used by some characters.

Comment: Banning these books, among others, is contributing to raising a generation of snowflakes who can't function in the real world because they've been sheltered from everything harsh and real about life.

Florida: Mannequin in police uniform mock-lynched on I-95 overpass

Robert Gearty
New York Post
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:10 UTC

Florida authorities are seeking the individuals who used an interstate overpass to stage a mock lynching with a mannequin in a police uniform and pig mask, according to reports. Deputies pulled down the mannequin Saturday morning after responding to the overpass on I-95 in Jacksonville for a possible suicide.

They found "KKK" scrawled on it, KHQ-TV reported. The mannequin also had NYPD patches. The mock lynching of a law enforcement officer was "extremely disturbing," Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said on Facebook.

"Both the tactics and props used were a deliberate attempt to exasperate an anti-police sentiment and drive a divide in our community. This incident was carried out by people wanting to undermine our dedicated efforts to keep our city safe."

Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted that he wouldn't let "an appalling and disturbing act like this derail our progress."

Comment: Someone's macabre idea of a joke, or a targeted message?

Seattle: Police say crowd blocked access to shooting victims in CHAZ, councilwoman blames Trump

RT
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:09 UTC

The Seattle police revealed violent crowds in the activist-run zone prevented access to the victims, one of whom died, as they probe the shooting inside the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

Officers responded to an early Saturday morning to a report of shots fired inside Cal Anderson Park, which resides in CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest), previously known as CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone).

"Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims," a police statement from that night reads. Cops left the scene after they were informed that the victims had been taken to Harborview Medical Center, where one died and the other remains with life-threatening injuries.

Comment: In a political ploy, Lib councilwoman Sawant, a resident and official of Seattle, condemns Trump for the shooting attack in her state, her city, her purview and responsibility. There is obviously more going on than an activation of civil disconnect.

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Kadena Air Base: 45 treated for chlorine gas, smoke exposure from fire at hazardous materials site

Matthew M. Burke, Aya Ichihashi
Stars and Stripes
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Approximately 45 people were "affected by smoke and/or chlorine gas" after a fire tore through a hazardous materials facility Monday at the home of the 18th Wing on Okinawa.

The blaze, which began around 8:40 a.m. at a building south of Kadena's airfield in the central part of the base, was extinguished at approximately 2 p.m., according to statements and Facebook posts from the 18th Wing. Thick plumes of smoke smothered areas near the fire and closed off roads as firefighters worked to get it under control.

Authorities evacuated an area 500 feet upwind and 2,000 feet downwind of the site.

Later, the wing announced that the fire had released chlorine gas particles, prompting medical authorities to encourage anyone who experienced breathing or vision problems to seek treatment.

"Those individuals experiencing eye irritation, runny nose, or throat irritation should report to the Kadena Medical Group," a statement said. "Those with shortness of breath or coughing should call 098-934-5911 or proceed directly to the [U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa] Emergency Department."
Japanese citizens were instructed to seek medical care at the nearest off-base medical facility.

Another destabilizing, reactionary idea: Let's defund our universities!

Jeff Minick
Intellectual Takeout
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

We hear much these days about defunding the police force, about cutting budgets or taking chunks of the public money allotted to our men and women in blue and giving it to social workers and inner-city projects.

Here's a better idea. Let's defund our colleges and universities. Let's cut their funding to the bone.

I don't mean in all academic departments, of course. American universities still lead the world in scientific research. We still produce fine mathematicians and excellent engineers, though not enough of the latter. Our colleges and universities still graduate skilled nurses and doctors, business professionals, and computer scientists.

But many other departments, particularly in the humanities, yearly churn out political radicals, graduates wishing to transform the laws, politics, and economy of the United States. They leave their ivory towers with degrees in gender studies, political science, history, and literature, thoroughly indoctrinated in such concepts as Marxism, socialism, and deconstructionist thought. Some of them join our government and our corporations. Taught to despise traditional American values - the family is evil, the culture abhorrent, the country racist and sexist, its history one of oppression and bloodshed - these young people act as a virus in the body politic.

Comment: Permanent Covid-19 lockdown is even cheaper: No campuses, classrooms, dorms, sports, social gatherings, grad ceremonies...

There's just a 'one in a million' chance of contracting COVID-19, says expert

Shane O'Brien
IrishCentral
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Professor Sam McConkey of the Royal College of Surgeons said that people in certain counties could now feel safe to hug elderly loved ones once again.

The risk of contracting the coronavirus from the community in Ireland is now at about "one in a million", according to a specialist in infectious diseases.

Professor Sam McConkey, head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons, said that people in certain counties could now feel safe to hug elderly loved ones once again.

McConkey was speaking to Brendan O'Connor on RTÉ Radio One on Saturday and said that most new daily cases are known contacts of other cases and that the chances of unexpectedly contracting the virus while out and about are exceptionally rare.

"The number of unexpected cases of Covid-19 or of SARS 2 virus is around a one in a million level in Ireland and many of the numbers that we're seeing each day in Ireland are known contacts of other cases, so they're not unexpected."

The majority of new cases are house or work contacts, according to McConkey, and most newly-diagnosed cases have already been in self-isolation.

Body of woman believed found in North Plains 6 months after disappearance

Celina Tebor
Oregon Live
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:15 UTC

About six months after Allyson Watterson was reported missing, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said it believes the 20-year-old's body had been found Saturday afternoon near North Plains.

The sheriff's office said a property owner in an unincorporated area near North Plains, where Watterson was originally reporting missing, discovered the remains while clearing brush. Based on the location of the remains and evidence found at the scene, detectives suspect the remains are Watterson's.

The area in which the remains were found is sprawling farm land with large pieces of property. The body was found several hundred yards off the main road, and the sheriff's office said they're planning on bringing the county Department of Land Use and Transportation to the scene to help with clearing some of the landscape.

Controversial 'Network' terror case concludes as St Petersburg court hands down prison sentences to final two suspects

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:08 UTC

A court in Saint Petersburg has given Viktor Filinkov and Yuly Boyarshinov, both accused of being part of a terrorist organization in the 'Network' case, seven and five and a half years behind bars respectively.

The trial found that Kazakhstani national Filinkov, 25, and Russian citizen Boyarshinov, 28, had been members of the 'Set' (Russian for 'Network') anarchist terrorism community since 2016. Filinkov pleaded not guilty and Boyarshinov confessed. In 2017 and 2018, several alleged members of the group were arrested in Penza and Saint Petersburg, including these two men.

Prosecutors alleged that the pair, together with other members of the community, took part in the discussion of terrorist activities, conducted weapons training, and trained in techniques for the capture of buildings.

Berlin vows to prosecute leftist pundit who called for police to be sent to TRASH DUMP as Stuttgart erupts into rioting

RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:43 UTC

An op-ed by a left-wing German columnist in which she called for the abolition of the "trash" police ahead of the Stuttgart riots drew the ire of the interior minister, who pledged to hold her responsible for the incendiary piece.

Horst Seehofer told Bild newspaper that "as interior minister," he will register "a criminal complaint against the columnist because of the unspeakable article in taz about the police."

Seehofer, a heavyweight from the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, stated that "a lack of inhibition in
language" leads to "lack of inhibition in deeds, and to excesses of violence, just as we saw in Stuttgart."

Comment: Reports from the Stuttgart:

Descendants of woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima oppose move to rebrand

Jackie Salo
New York Post
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:40 UTC

The family of a Texas woman who once portrayed Aunt Jemima has called on the breakfast brand to reconsider its decision to scrap the ubiquitous portrait from its products.

Vera Harris said the family takes pride in Quaker Oats scouting her second cousin Lillian Richard to become a brand representative in 1925, news station KLTV reported.

"She was considered a hero in [her hometown of] Hawkins, and we are proud of that. We do not want that history erased," Harris said.

Comment: More from KTLA:

Harris said her family feels that activism has gone too far.

"I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything. because good or bad, it is our history. Removing that wipes away a part of me. A part of each of us. We are proud of our cousin," Harris said.

Lillian Richard died in 1956 after working 23 years for the Quaker Oats company.

Harris said she and the Richards family are also against the renaming of military bases because many of their relatives are veterans.

So the virtue-signalling mob is attempting to erase the legacy a black woman and her family were proud of. Way to be an "ally" . . . .

Let's go, Brandon! Fucking asswipe, worthless, POS. Fraud! Argh! 😤

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Society's Child

To Kill A Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn books banned from Minnesota school syllabuses

Florida: Mannequin in police uniform mock-lynched on I-95 overpass

Seattle: Police say crowd blocked access to shooting victims in CHAZ, councilwoman blames Trump

Kadena Air Base: 45 treated for chlorine gas, smoke exposure from fire at hazardous materials site

Another destabilizing, reactionary idea: Let's defund our universities!

There's just a 'one in a million' chance of contracting COVID-19, says expert

Body of woman believed found in North Plains 6 months after disappearance

Controversial 'Network' terror case concludes as St Petersburg court hands down prison sentences to final two suspects

Berlin vows to prosecute leftist pundit who called for police to be sent to TRASH DUMP as Stuttgart erupts into rioting

Descendants of woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima oppose move to rebrand

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