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Apocalyptic science: How the West is destroying itself

Bruce Pardy
Financial Post
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:57 UTC
Corona capitalism
© Peter J. Thompson/National Post files
Critical Theory drives government policies and shape public attitudes: Capitalism is oppressive. Private property rights cause environmental destruction. Prosperity causes climate change.
If you live in a Western nation like Canada in the 21st century, you have more freedom, prosperity and peace than most of the rest of the world at most other times in history. Yet these countries have never been at greater risk. The threat is not pandemics, climate change or war but something more insidious.

Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in human affairs produced the scientific method and later the Industrial Revolution. Add in the rule of law, individual liberty, private property and capitalism, and you have the basic recipe that has raised most of humanity out of poverty over two centuries.

New academic doctrines are moving the world, or at least the West, from this triumph to decline. They dismiss science — real science — in favour of political agendas, in which theory trumps facts.

Few people are familiar with Critical Theory and its related doctrines, yet these ideas today drive government policies and shape public attitudes. Capitalism is oppressive. Private property rights cause environmental destruction. Prosperity causes climate change.

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Arrow Up

US smashes daily coronavirus case record as states reimpose restrictions & critics blame Trump after cheering protests for weeks


RT
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:51 UTC
coronavirus test, closed store
© Reuters / Shannon Stapleton; Reuters / Mike Blake
FILE PHOTOS.
As several states move to reintroduce containment measures, the US has again topped its one-day record for new Covid-19 cases. Tallying more than 45,000 infections, the spike could undo a falling trend in fatalities.

Friday saw the US case count jump by 45,242, according to data collected by Reuters, putting the total number of infections in the country at nearly 2.5 million.
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Stop

Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment

Molly Blackall
The Guardian
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:46 UTC
Graham Linehan
© Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
Graham Linehan said he had appealed against the suspension to Twitter.
The Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been permanently suspended from Twitter for breaching the site's rules on banned words.

Twitter said the account, which uses the handle @glinner, had been suspended after "repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation".

Linehan's account was closed after he reportedly tweeted "men aren't women tho" in response to a post by the Women's Institute wishing their transgender members a happy Pride.

Following the suspension, a post credited to Linehan's handle "Glinner" on the parenting website Mumsnet asked for support.
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Facebook bends the knee, agrees to censor Trump ads after mass advertiser boycott

Salvador Rodriguez
CNBC
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:32 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
© Erin Scott | Reuters
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said the company will change its policies to prohibit hate speech in its advertisements.

Under its new policies, Facebook will ban ads that claim people from a specific race, ethnicity, nationality, caste, gender, sexual orientation or immigration origin are a threat to the physical safety or health of anyone else, Zuckerberg said.

"I am committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to discuss important issues," Zuckerberg said. "But I also stand against hate or anything that incites violence or suppresses voting, and we're committed to removing that content too, no matter where it comes from."

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Light Sabers

Fox News anchor Greg Gutfeld rips Juan Williams when he tries to blame inner-city violence On Trump

Scott Morefield
Daily Caller
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Greg Gutfeld - Juan Williams
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tore into Juan Williams on Friday's "The Five" after his co-host tried to blame President Donald Trump for inner-city violence.

Gutfeld had just concluded a monologue slamming white antifa "laughable losers" and stating that he had more in common with "black winners than white losers."

"What ties us together is achievement and not grievance," Gutfeld said. "So white winners and black winners are on the same side, and stay away from the white losers because they are poisoning the minds of everybody. That will end racism if all the winners of every race and color joined together and laugh at the losers."

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Bizarro Earth

Assange accuser is FBI asset and convicted child molester

Oscar Grenfell
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC
FBI computer
© The Daily Beast
The Department of Justice today issued a superseding indictment against Julian Assange in the latest salvo of a decade-long campaign by the US government and its intelligence agencies to destroy the WikiLeaks founder and besmirch his reputation.

The new indictment does not contain any charges additional to those filed in May 2019. The 17 Espionage Act counts over WikiLeaks' publication of documents leaked by Chelsea Manning exposing historic war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and illegal global diplomatic intrigues remain. These represent the greatest attack on press freedom and the First Amendment of the US Constitution in decades, directly targeting the right of all journalists to publish "national security" material.

The indictment also contains one charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. It was the first US count unveiled against Assange after he was dragged by British police from Ecuador's London embassy in April 2019.
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Attention

The real reason for the 'face diapering'

Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:34 UTC
Face Mask
© Eric Peters Autos
We are told the Face Diaper mandates being imposed by the Gesundheitsfuhrers are necessary to "stop the spread" of WuFlu. In fact, they are necessary to stop the display of disagreement with the Gesundheitsfuhrers.

The undiapered aren't a threat to public health. They are a threat to the power of the Gesundheitsfuhrers, who need to create the image of general sickness in order to maintain the fiction of its reality.

Without which, their power to rule by decree - for the sake of public health - loses its puissance.

But if everyone is diapered up, it looks very scary out there. And very scared people are very easy to herd.

It is noteworthy - or should be - that Face Diapering was hardly "practiced" (the new virtue-signaling verbiage) when it was most rational to do so. Which was three months ago - when no one knew much about the WuFlu other than what the Gesundheitsfuhrers were telling them, which was that millions were going to die. Not a bad reason to put on a Face Diaper . . .

If it was so.

Of course, it wasn't - it isn't - so.
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NPC

Protesters try to silence black tour guide defending Lincoln statue in DC & chase away journalist: 'Get out of our city!'


RT
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 20:17 UTC
posobiec Lincoln Park protesters
© Reuters / Leah Millis
Protesters tell journalist Jack Posobiec to get out of the Lincoln Park in Washington, DC, US, June 26, 2020
Conservative commenter Jack Posobiec has been harassed, branded a Nazi and chased away by a crowd of protesters, who had gathered in Washington, DC, dead set to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Posobiec attended Friday's demonstration calling for the removal of the Emancipation Monument in DC, live-streaming the event to followers online. But once spotted in the crowd, the pundit was surrounded by hostile activists, who demanded he leave the protest.

Footage of the encounter shared on social media shows demonstrators getting physical with Posobiec, with one helmeted activist apparently trying to steal his cell phone as he was escorted away from Lincoln Park. At some point, he was also doused with an unknown liquid.
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Attention

Ex-Formula One chief says 'in many cases, black people are more racist than white people'; but he also praises black driver's campaign against racism


RT
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:37 UTC
Bernie Eccleston
© ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP
Bernie Eccleston
The former head of Formula One, Bernie Ecclestone, has claimed "in many cases, black people are more racist than what white people are", in a CNN interview in which he discussed the topic of racism in sports.

Eighty-nine-year-old Ecclestone, British business magnate and ex-chief of The Formula One Group, made the claim during an interview with CNN, going on to reference an incident in which six-time world champion and the sport's only black driver Lewis Hamilton was taunted by a mob of fans wearing 'blackface' makeup in Spain in 2008.

Billionaire Ecclestone praised Hamilton as "special" and as "doing a great job" in speaking out on racism, but went on to say he was "surprised" the incident in Spain even concerned the now-35-year-old.

Lewis is a little bit special," Ecclestone told CNN Sport's Amanda Davies. "First, he's very, very, very talented as a driver and he seems to be now extremely talented when's he standing up and can make speeches.

"This last campaign he's doing for black people is wonderful. He's doing a great job and it's people like that, easily recognisable, that people listen to."

Comment: Predictably, Formula One quickly moved to distance itself from Eccleston. They're following in line with many corporations who are running for cover, virtue signaling to the hilt.
Formula 1 has distanced itself from its former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone after he claimed "in many cases, black people are more racist than what white people are," during an interview with CNN about racism in sport.

The sport's governing body adopted a stance of opposition to the comments made by Ecclestone in an interview with CNN, in which he offered his thoughts on the current race debate taking place in the United States and beyond. [...]

His words were deemed objectionable by the current Formula 1 governing body, who released a statement in which they rejected Ecclestone's comments.

"At a time when unity is needed to tackle racism and inequality, we completely disagree with Bernie Ecclestone's comments that have no place in Formula 1 or society," the statement reads.

"Mr Ecclestone has played no role in Formula 1 since he left our organisation in 2017, his title chairman emeritus, being honorific, expired in January 2020."


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Eye 1

Covid-1984 creep: London police face backlash for using PATROL TOWERS to enforce social distancing


RT
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:50 UTC
coronavirus watchtowers
© Twitter / Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP
London police have reportedly installed "watchtowers" on Oxford Street to monitor adherence to two-meter social distancing rules, prompting social media users to make comparisons with "concentration camps" and "dystopian" novels.

Luke Johnson, a British entrepreneur, shared a picture of the new installations on Friday, raising eyebrows among Brits who questioned whether it was an appropriate way to spend taxpayer money. Many denounced the new street features as a "stupid waste" of resources.

Comment: The totalitarian tiptoe under guise of 'safeguarding' continues: Meanwhile the increasingly cash strapped and politicised police departments are struggling to maintain the peace when they really need to:


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