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D&D Orcs get woke proofreading: Censors standing on George Floyd's death are after a fantasy game

Micah Curtis
RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:56 UTC
dungeons and dragons
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How many of those who support censorship in the name of Black Lives Matter have even played Dungeons & Dragons? Why are companies like D&D creator Wizards of the Coast caving in to the hurt feelings of the woke?

Some people like to say we're living in a "Clown World" where not much really makes sense. Given the current political climate and the effect it's having on the arts, I'm starting to agree. The recently renewed push to declare certain fantasy tropes like Orcs or Drow to be racist and offensive, is a case in point. The incessant drone, that we can't have certain ideas or words in the arts "in the year 2020," is often parodied as "in the current year," given that tv host John Oliver seems to state this every year as if it's going to matter.

Wizards of the Coast, the creators of D&D, has now stated that they are going to bring in "sensitivity readers" to check their work to see if it's offensive. So let's get this straight: A company is going to bring in the constantly offended to check and see if its own work is offensive? What could go wrong?

For the end product, it's like hiring Jack Kevorkian to monitor a loved-one in a coma, or like hiring Josef Mengele as your surgeon. It's likely going to end with someone or something dead, in this case your entire role-playing game franchise, or at least the last vestiges of fun it used to bring.

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Facebook using 'fact-checkers' to censor dissent (based on accurate information) on Covid19


OffGuardian
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:39 UTC
speech censors
Facebook has flagged our article "It's all bullshit": 3 links sinking the Covid narrative" as 'false information', based on nothing but a single 'fact check' website, which does not even claim the information is 'false', but merely quibbles over terminologies to justify claiming the information is 'misleading.'

This is what you see today if you try to access that article on Facebook:

facebook censor
And if you click on the 'see why' button you get taken here, to the website of Health Feedback, an "independent fact-checker".

Of course, they're not independent - they're actually funded by Facebook. They are also funded by the "Credibility Coalition", an NGO focused on "common standards for information credibility".

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Che Guevara

Cultural Revolution: Summer of Love in CHAZ


Paul Joseph Watson
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 06:59 UTC
seattle police CHAZ
In the Communist utopia of CHAZ, things are going entirely as expected!

Video montage of what the Seattle mayor is describing as the 'Summer of Love' in the 'Capitol Hill autonomous Zone' (C.H.A.Z.)

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Che Guevara

What kind of 'popular revolution' is it when the political and corporate elite are onboard?

The Saker
The Unz Review
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Jaime Diamond and JP Morgan Chase

Jaime Diamond and JP Morgan Chase
I have to say that I am amazed that so many folks on the Left seem to think that the current riots in the US are a spontaneous rebellion against police violence, systemic racism, and history of persecution and exploitation of Blacks and Indians, etc. As for the violence, looting and riots - they are either excused as a result of some kind of righteous wrath or blamed on "infiltrators". In my previous article I tried to show how the Democrats and the US media instrumentalized these riots and to use them against Trump's bid for reelection. I accompanied the article with a carefully staged photo-op of US Democrats "taking a knee" in solidarity (as if the leaders of the Democratic Party gave a hoot about Blacks or poor US Americans!).

What I did not mention was how the US (and even trans-national) corporate world backed these riots to the hilt. Here are just a few examples of this:

YouTube:

you tube revolution

Comment: See: America: A Color Revolution™ of its very own

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Is the 'second wave' another Coronavirus hoax?

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
covid is a lie
Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the "medical community" told us we must throw out the "stay-at-home" orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The Covid-19 virus will not bother people who are protesting this injustice, they said. The virus only attacks people leaving their homes to protest the stay-at-home orders.

Now, after thousands of businesses - many of them black-owned - have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests. Suddenly last week they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a "second wave" of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to "open up" their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives.

Texas, Florida, and California were singled out to scare the rest of the country into thinking that if you dare leave your homes you will catch coronavirus and die. There was a "spike" in coronavirus "cases" they claimed. Funny, just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that "spike" in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders.

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Propaganda alert: New COVID-19 restrictions will be needed for anti-vaxxers

Raff Ciccone
The Age
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:54 UTC
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate being developed by scientists at Imperial College London.

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate being developed by scientists at Imperial College London.
As if the bushfires weren't bad enough, we've since had the world economy shut down, millions infected with COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands dead. This pandemic feels like we're in the middle of a real-life Hollywood blockbuster.

Like all good movies, this one will leave us fundamentally changed well after it's ended. Our world will look and feel very different once the show is over. But not for the better.

Thankfully, the possibility of a vaccine for this virus is looking more plausible. Unfortunately, like a diabolical plot twist, the day the vaccine arrives, so too will the inevitable chorus of those who object to being vaccinated. But unlike hapless movie heroes, we can be prepared for this.

To anti-vaxxers, I have one message: our tolerance for your wilful ignorance is over. We cannot afford, morally or economically, to give any ground to those who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Let me be clear. I'm not advocating that we vaccinate people against their will. That would be wrong. We must ensure that the safety of our community is the number one priority. That means that participation in everyday life cannot put others at risk. If you do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you ought to bear the consequences of that decision.


Comment: In other words, if you don't get vaccinated with whatever Big Pharma deems as a safe Covid-19 vaccine then "you'll suffer the consequences!". And if, as we've been reading, being vaccinated will be tied to a form of digital id - which is connected to the coming digital currency - you may be left out in the cold; "Let that scare you - you bunch of people who refuse to be sheep!".


Comment: Expect a lot more of the same as those aligned with Big Pharma and some rather nasty goals ramp up the rhetoric against those who refuse to be cowed into vaccination submission.

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Anti-vaxxers, anti-mask activists target public health officials in California

Bradford Betz
Fox News
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:28 UTC
Demonstrators in San Diego, CA
© Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
Demonstrators protest during a "Freedom Rally" against Stay-At-Home Directives on April 18, 2020 in San Diego, California.
An alliance of anti-vaccine activists and those protesting California's coronavirus-related restrictions is alarming public health officials, who have expressed concern for their personal safety.

Protests have been taking place outside the homes of county health officers who issued orders requiring residents to wear protective masks to stop the spread of the virus.

Twice this week protesters livestreamed a rally outside the home of Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County's public health officer, holding signs that read, "Your neighbor thinks he has the power" and "Tyranny is not the answer," the Los Angeles Times reported.

Elsewhere in California, mask protesters have called for similar rallies outside the homes of public health officers. Such calls to action have caused some officials to resign their posts out of fear for their safety.

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Burka

Hairdressers ordered to be silent when salons reopen in two weeks to prevent virus spread


Mirror
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:04 UTC
hairdresser
© AFP via Getty Images
The National Hair and Beauty Federation has been forced to release its own advice to hairdressers with salons set to re-open in July, but is demanding the Government publish full guidance

Hairdressers have been told to quit the 'small talk' when they hopefully reopen their doors next month.

Questions such as; 'Where you going on holiday?' or 'What you up to this weekend?' are to be discouraged during hair washing.

Instead, if they get the go-ahead to reopen in early July, hairdressers are being asked to observe a 'silence rule'.

The National Hair and Beauty Federation (NHBF) has advised members to keep chat "to a minimum" to protect both staff and customers.
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Plummeting trust in UK media due to 'news' becoming 'views' - Veteran journalist Neil Clark


RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:08 UTC
BBC News
© FILE PHOTO: BBC News Chief Political Correspondent Vicki Young reports on camera outside 10 Downing Street, in London. May 2020. Glyn Kirk / AFP
FILE PHOTO: BBC News Chief Political Correspondent Vicki Young reports on camera outside 10 Downing Street, in London. May 2020.
When "dispassionate" reporting of news in the UK is getting replaced by thinly-veiled opinion pieces, it's natural that both conservatives and left-wingers trust the media less and less, RT contributor Neil Clark said.

The "core issue" of the decline of public trust in news organizations in Britain is that outlets do more editorializing when presenting news, rather than work as impartial sources of information, Clark said.

"[The line] between news and views has been blurred, basically."

In its recent report, Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that trust among people who self-identify as left-leaning had plummeted from 38 percent in January 2019 to just 15 percent a year later. Likewise, the proportion of right-leaning Brits who trust the media dropped from 46 percent in 2015 to merely 15 percent this year.

Comment: The majority of mainstream UK news outlets have been bought off, infiltrated, and everything of import is distorted by an agenda, and a significant portion of the public know it; that's why people are increasingly getting their news online and, in turn, the ruling establishment are attempting to censor those voices by claiming to be concerned about 'fake news':

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Bad Guys

Several rockets fired into Baghdad's green zone, US helicopters patrol the area


Sputnik
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:31 UTC
baghdad green zone
© Sputnik / Sergey Mamontov
The Green Zone in Baghdad, where the US embassy and the military bases of the US-led coalition are situated, has several times found itself in crossfire missile attacks in recent times.

Four 'Katyusha' rockets landed in Baghdad's Green Zone, according to Al Arabia, as sirens could be heard after the explosions from the US embassy located in the area.

Al Arabia also reported that helicopters were flying over the Green Zone, with multiple reports from social media users that the helicopters belonged to the US.

Comment: See also: Iraq-US talks will fail if they do not include withdrawal of troops - Iraqi politician

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