Society's Child

Once the statues are all dethroned, should we tear down the BBC, the Mail & the Guardian with their Nazi & slavery links?

Chris Sweeney
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC

The Black Lives Matter protests have sparked a look-back at important people's histories, but the newspapers and media who report on all of this have the same skeletons in their closets.

Britain is divided by its legacy, best displayed right now by Sir Winston Churchill. To some he's the hero who masterminded the war effort and to others, he's an example of abhorrent racism for his belief in using poison gas to kill "uncivilised tribes" and also for his role in the Bengal famine that saw three million die.

Churchill is just the latest in what has become statue-gate, kicked off by Edward Colston's effigy being thrown in a river. These are inanimate objects and by definition only relate to one person, whose life and times are there to be judged.

It's not so simple to analyse the media.

Comment: Propaganda would be a better word to use.

Britain has the biggest newspaper market in the world, where the press have long wielded much power and been afforded respect by the population. However, their own past certainly raises a few unpalatable truths.

Comment: As the propaganda arm of the governments, these fake news outlets have incited violence, fomented wars based on abhorrently dishonest reporting. Maybe they should be dethroned and tossed in the rubbish bin.

See also: Fake News: The weapon of choice for a handful of countries

Leftist cognitive dissonance: Self-styled CHAZ leader filmed handing out AR-15s to followers

RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:08 UTC

© Reuters / Goran Tomasevic
Protesters hang around an entrance of the Seattle Police Department East Precinct at the self-proclaimed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle, Washington.

Raz Simone, the so-called warlord of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone carved out of Seattle by activists, has been filmed handing out assault rifles to minors. That's a state felony, if only there were anyone to enforce the law.

Video that surfaced on Monday - from Simone's own June 10 Facebook livestream, apparently - shows him handing out assault rifles that look like the ubiquitous AR-15 semi-automatic, including to individuals who look far younger than 21.

Washington state law, which came into effect last year, makes it a gross misdemeanor to transfer an assault rifle to anyone under 21, with any subsequent offenses considered felonies.

Moreover, under the law, persons between the ages of 18 and 21 are only able to possess a semiautomatic assault rifle or pistol in their place of residence or business, on real property under their control or when moving houses or traveling "to and from" allowed storage locations, as well as in the case of selling to those over 21.

Comment: Meanwhile, in Seattle proper, the City Council has made the use of tear gas, pepper spray, and chokeholds on peaceful protesters illegal.

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GitHub gives in to the woke mob, will replace the term 'master' with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Catalin Cimpanu
ZDNet
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:17 UTC

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

The code-hosting portal is just the latest in a long line of tech companies and open source projects that have expressed support for removing terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community.

This includes dropping terms like "master" and "slave" for alternatives like "main/default/primary" and "secondary;" but also terms like "blacklist" and "whitelist" for "allow list" and "deny/exclude list."

The concern is that continued use of these racially-loaded terms could prolong racial stereotypes.

"Such terminology not only reflects racist culture, but also serves to reinforce, legitimize, and perpetuate it," wrote academics in a 2018 journal.

Comment: When it comes to the woke progressives, no longer can words have multiple meanings. If a word can be read as politically incorrect in a single context, all the other contexts are irrelevant. That is the logic of the thought police.

Bizarro world: Southern California gym to reopen with pods for clients to exercise inside

Jennifer McGraw
KRON 4
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:01 UTC

When a Redondo Beach gym reopens to clients Monday, it will look very different.

Those walking into Inspire South Bay Fitness on Artesia Boulevard will be told to sanitize their hands, have their temperature taken, asked to sign a waiver and then assigned into a pod, each with its own dumbbells and other equipment inside.

The pods took three days to build using shower curtains and pipes — a lower-cost alternative to installing plexiglass dividers, the gym's owner Peet Sapsin said.

Gyms and fitness centers have been shuttered for months as the state grappled with the spread of the coronavirus.

Big Brother is Watching! Facial recognition camera system named 'Orwell' to be installed in all 43,000 schools in Russia for 'safety purposes'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:57 UTC

All Russian schools will soon be equipped with face-recognition cameras, with the stated aim of protecting the safety of children by tracking a child's comings and goings in school, as well as by identifying visitors.

According to reports by Russian business daily Vedomosti, Rostec's National Center for Informatization (NCI) will be equipping educational centers with video surveillance systems for inside their buildings, as well as cameras to protect their perimeters.

The video-recording equipment will be hooked up to a platform called 'Orwell,' a surveillance system with the ability to perform face recognition, provided by Russian company NtechLab.

Comment: As Benjamin Franklin famously said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Elderly man's survival of COVID-19 comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page bill

Danny Westneat
Seattle Times
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:22 UTC

© Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
Health care workers applaud Michael Flor upon his release from Swedish Issaquah last month Pushing the wheelchair is Dr. Anne Lipke, Flor’s critical care doctor.

Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed "the miracle child?"

Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby.

Flor, 70, who came so close to death in the spring that a night-shift nurse held a phone to his ear while his wife and kids said their final goodbyes, is recovering nicely these days at his home in West Seattle. But he says his heart almost failed a second time when he got the bill from his health care odyssey the other day.

Comment: Also see: Undercover Nurse Exposes Neglect, Mismanagement & Corruption in Treatment of Covid-19 Patients in New York City

Russian jets intercept US strategic bombers over Baltic Sea

RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:25 UTC

US B-52H strategic bombers have again been spotted near Russian borders, forcing its Baltic Sea Fleet's Su-27 fighter jets to take to the skies and monitor their actions, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

Video released by Moscow showed all stages of the 'intercept' - from the pilot in full gear rushing towards his jet to the Su-27s gaining on the American nuclear-capable bombers and "foreign surveillance planes" above the neutral waters.

NATO aircraft have frequently been spotted close to Russian airspace above Baltic and Black Sea frontiers in recent years. The flights, which Moscow deems provocative, have intensified since 2014, when Russia reabsorbed Crimea and a military conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine.

Seven Minneapolis police officers quit after George Floyd protests due to 'lack of support from city leaders'

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:24 UTC

At least seven police officers in Minneapolis have quit and others are in the process of resigning in the wake of the protests over George Floyd's death that have morphed into a rallying cry to defund or dismantle law enforcement.

Current and former officials with the Minneapolis Police Department told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that more than half a dozen police officers are in the process of resigning, citing a lack of support from department and city leaders. However, police stressed to Fox News that only seven have been "separated" from the department since Floyd's death on May 25.

"We don't know how many plan on leaving until they leave. Seven have had their employment agreement separated. That's the bottom line," a police spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday evening.

Comment: For important information on the call to 'defund the police', check out:

NYPD says 'no criminality' after officers fall ill after drinking milkshakes at Shake Shack in Manhattan

Jessica Flores
USA TODAY
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:30 UTC

© LA Times
Shake Shack tweeted that it was "horrified" by reports of an alleged contamination in New York. The restaurant chain said it was working with police in the investigation.

The New York Police Department said "no criminality" had occurred after investigating whether three of its officers were poisoned after drinking milkshakes on Monday night at a Shake Shack restaurant in Manhattan.

The officers complained of "not feeling well" before being hospitalized and later released, the NYPD said in a statement to USA TODAY, and Shake Shack said via Twitter that it was "horrified" and working with police.

Chief Rodney Harrison, NYPD's chief of detectives, tweeted early Tuesday: "After a thorough investigation by the NYPD's Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by shake shack's employees."

Comment: It would be nice to know how the NYPD came to the conclusion that the poisoning was unintentional. It's better to think of the incident as an accident, and it may well be, but tensions are such at the moment that nothing seems out of the realm of possibility. Perhaps the cops thought it better to quash rather than pursue it.

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The modelers thought of everything except reality

American Institute for Economic Research
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 07:54 UTC

The archives of AIER dating back to 1933 show that we had no comments on the polio epidemic (1948-1951), the Asian Flu (1957-59), the Hong Kong flu (1968-69), the Avian bird flu (2006), or the Swine flu pandemic of 2009, which was a strain most like 1918 and therefore, one might suppose, would have caused panic but did not.

We had nothing to say because disease mitigation is a job for medical professionals, not economists and certainly not politicians.

The problem is that this time, the disease mitigators (some of them, the ones in power and with the ear of politicians) didn't stay out of economics. Indeed, their plans for mitigation trampled all over commerce, life, and the freedoms that are necessary to make it function. For a few months in 2020, the presumptuous model-building disease mitigators became central planners, overriding the wisdom of not only medical professionals but also economists, philosophers, political scientists, historians, and everyone else including legislatures and voters.

Our first piece on the topic ran January 27. The focus was on the quarantine power and the argument was simple: because people are not ridiculous and know how to deal with disease in consultation with medical professionals, this state power should not be deployed. At the time, people said we were being alarmist even for saying this. Nothing like this could ever happen in the U.S. because we have a Constitution and courts and a tradition of trusting the people.

Comment: See also:

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Society's Child

Once the statues are all dethroned, should we tear down the BBC, the Mail & the Guardian with their Nazi & slavery links?

Leftist cognitive dissonance: Self-styled CHAZ leader filmed handing out AR-15s to followers

GitHub gives in to the woke mob, will replace the term 'master' with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Bizarro world: Southern California gym to reopen with pods for clients to exercise inside

Big Brother is Watching! Facial recognition camera system named 'Orwell' to be installed in all 43,000 schools in Russia for 'safety purposes'

Elderly man's survival of COVID-19 comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page bill

Russian jets intercept US strategic bombers over Baltic Sea

Seven Minneapolis police officers quit after George Floyd protests due to 'lack of support from city leaders'

NYPD says 'no criminality' after officers fall ill after drinking milkshakes at Shake Shack in Manhattan

The modelers thought of everything except reality

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