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Papers, please! New York announces 'Excelsior' vaccine passport program

Jordan Schachtel
The Dossier
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:50 UTC
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rolls out New York States' Excelsior Pass
Digitized segregation has arrived.

What was labeled an unhinged conspiracy theory just last year has become a reality today.

Unindicted human rights criminal Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that New York has rolled out the nation's first COVID vaccine passport program with the introduction of the "Excelsior Pass."

According to reports, the COVID-19 vaccine passport is already ready for use at dozens of venues statewide, including at Madison Square Garden. While advertised as a "voluntary" measure, New York State officials are making it clear that not participating in the program will result in an individual being essentially shut out from society.

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'Color of skin... important'? Instagram censors artist's comic as 'dangerous' for verbatim quote of woke 'Sesame Street' episode


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:40 UTC
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An American cartoonist got his latest comic removed from Instagram as violating community guidelines. George Alexopoulos had merely put the words from the latest 'woke' episode of a children's show... in the mouth of Adolf Hitler.

"Today's comic was struck on Instagram," Alexopoulos posted on Friday afternoon, adding, "how strange, as I was quoting Sesame Street verbatim."


'Sesame Street' is a popular children's show broadcast on public television in the US. Its most recent episode featured two new characters - a boy named Wes and his father Elijah - explaining to the red-furred muppet Elmo that "the color of our skin is an important part of who we are."

Comment: Critical race theory is a revolutionary/takeover ideology and social movement, akin to Marxism and Nazism. Its goal is to destroy civilization and replace it with the movement's own new social order - as determined by the movement's chief ideologues. And you don't have go go any further than Sesame Street to get a dose of it. Yet it's far-right ideology that is the real problem today, apparently.

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Minnesota theater scraps 'Cinderella' production after 'too white' cast fails to meet 'diversity, equity & inclusion' criteria


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:17 UTC
Cinderella
© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
A production of 'Cinderella' is seen during the American Theatre Wing's annual Tony Awards in New York, June 9, 2013.
A production of the classic folk tale 'Cinderella' was abruptly canceled by a Minnesota theater, whose director said the play's "98% white" cast did not meet a self-imposed diversity quota, opting to start over from scratch.

Chanhassen Dinner Theaters, located in a suburb of Minneapolis, said the play was called off in a statement earlier this week, noting that the mostly white cast was not in line with the venue's "ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion." Instead, it said it would produce 'The Music Man' in its place, postponing 'Cinderella' until a later date.
"Just to be clear, we believe unapologetically in the changes we are making, and we believe that all of our kind-hearted guests will follow us on this journey," the theater added.

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Egypt train crash: At least 32 people dead as two carriages collide head-on

Jonathan Coles
Mirror
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:09 UTC
Two trains collided north of the city of Sohag
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Two trains collided north of the city of Sohag
Dozens of ambulances have headed to the scene north of the city of Sohag, about 230 miles south of Cairo

At least 32 people have died after two trains collided head-on in Egypt.

More than 80 people are also said to have been injured in the accident north of the city of Sohag, according to reports.

Dozens of ambulances have headed to the scene and are taking people to hospital, with the country's health minister also said to be on the way.

Pictures on social media show people stood around and on top of the wreckages near a body of water.

Clips also shows passengers emerging from the damaged carriages, with emergency service workers trying to clear away debris.

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Nearly HALF of Moscow residents now immune to coronavirus, remaining restrictions to be dropped ahead of WW2 victory over Nazi's parade


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:14 UTC
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© Getty Images / Oleg Elkov
Moscow, Russia - March 2021: People walking on a street in Alexander garden in Moscow.
Almost one in every two people living in Moscow has developed antibodies to Covid-19, the city authorities have announced, with curfew rules, and restrictions on bars and clubs having already been scrapped as the caseload falls.

Speaking as part of an interview with RIA Novosti published on Friday, Anastasia Rakova, the Russian capital's Deputy Mayor for Social Development said, "We are systematically measuring the level of population immunity. Between 43 and 44 percent of Muscovites have antibodies, on average."

"This is a fairly high figure," she added, "and it allows the city to live an almost normal life with minimal restrictions."


Comment: Russian experts predicted herd immunity would be achieved soon enough and that indeed appears to be what is happening. Meanwhile many authorities in Europe are forcing citizens back into lockdown claiming a 'third wave', despite all evidence to the contrary: Angela Merkel BACKTRACKS on Easter lockdown after uproar


Comment: And, as some countries drop the manufactured hysterics and attempt to return to a modicum of normality, the disastrous impact of the lockdown - not the coronavirus - are only just beginning: British Covid modellers predict 'severe flu next winter because lockdowns prevented usual herd immunity'



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Facebook apps used in over half of online child sex crimes, says NSPCC

Martyn Landi
Independent
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:08 UTC
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Facebook has previously revealed it intends to make messages across its apps end-to-end encrypted.
Social media giant has been accused of 'turning back the clock on children's safety'

More than half of online child sex crimes are committed over Facebook-owned apps, data from the NSPCC suggests, as the charity called for more to be done to tackle abuse in private messaging.

Facebook has previously revealed plans to make messaging across its apps, including Instagram and Facebook Messenger, end-to-end encrypted like another of its services - WhatsApp - to boost user privacy.

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Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs law banning transgender women, girls from female sports teams

Rachel Herzog
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:09 UTC
Gov. Asa Hutchinson
© Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe
Gov. Asa Hutchinson answers a question during the weekly Covid-19 update on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at the state Capitol in Little Rock.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed into law a bill that would ban transgender women athletes from participating on girls' and women's sports teams, he announced Thursday evening.

Similar bills have been filed in more than 20 states, and Arkansas is the second to sign one into law, following Mississippi.

Proponents of Senate Bill 354 by Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, and other efforts say their aim is to create a fair playing field in sports, arguing that athletes assigned the male gender at birth have inherent physiological advantages over cisgender girls and women, though they have acknowledged there are no verified instances of transgender girls or women participating in K-12 or college sports in the Natural State.

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City of Oakland Mayor is branded racist for giving families of color $500 a month but offering poor white families nothing

Bevan Hurley
Daily Mail
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:06 UTC
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announces a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it.
A program to give $500 monthly checks to low-income families of color in Oakland, California, has been criticized for explicitly excluding the 10,000 white residents living in poverty in the city.

The lottery system, funded by private philanthropists, will see the no-strings-attached checks go to households with an annual income of less than $59,000 if they have at least one child. The other half of the $500 checks will go to those earning under $30,000.

According to data from an Oakland Equity Indicators Report, cited by officials to justify favoring people of color, white households earn about three times that of African-American ones.

Comment: As with any government initiative, it's all about trying to make the numbers look better. If Mayor Libby Schaaf really cared about poor people, she's make the program available to all families in poverty, regardless of skin color. But she doesn't; she only wants to get the statistics on poor black families up into the red.

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Substack stands strong: Shoots down activists' 'pressure campaign' looking to silence non-PC journalists


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:22 UTC
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© substack
Independent publishing website Substack has faced recent criticism from mostly liberal critics looking for more policing of views and speech on the platform, but the company has shot these wishes down.

In a Thursday statement titled 'How we approach moderation decisions,' Substack did not leave much room for hope for its recent vocal critics who have attacked users such as Glenn Greenwald and claimed the platform tolerates harassment.

As Substack points out in their statement, they already have a harassment policy in place, but their definition of "harassment" and "hate" may not be as loose as those of their critics.

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Craig Murray found guilty of contempt of court

Joe Lauria
Consortium News
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Craig Murray
© Mohamed Elmaazi
Craig Murray
Craig Murray, an ex-British ambassador and blogger, was found in contempt of court by a tribunal in Scotland on Thursday for articles he had written that the court says helped identify accusers of former First Minister Alex Salmond of sexual abuse.

Murray faces up to two years in jail as well as a fine. The sentencing is set for May 7.

Murray was charged with contempt of court for allegedly revealing the identity of four anonymous accusers indirectly; of writing about the exclusion of two jurors in violation of a court order and of allegedly prejudicing the case in Salmond's favor. There was no pronouncement of guilt on the latter two charges. Salmond was acquitted at trial of 13 sex charges in March 2020.

The judgement against Murray was leaked to the Scottish newspaper, The National, on Monday. On the same day Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared by a cross-party inquiry of lying to Parliament about the Salmond affair. The inquiry looked into whether SNP officials, including possibly Sturgeon, conspired to arrange anonymous civil servants to level the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against Sturgeon's political rival Salmond.

Comment: It seems the court is bent on judging 'the cart before the horse' in its prejudice against Craig Murray:
The former British diplomat argued that the contempt of court charges against him undermine the right to free speech, are unduly broad in their scope, and are a form of politically motivated retaliation.

The High Court in Edinburgh has confirmed the conviction of former British diplomat-turned-whistleblower Craig Murray on one of the contempt of court charges filed against him by the Crown.
"The court has concluded that, having regard to the context in which the articles appeared, including the terms of the article of 18th January and the tweet referring thereto on the 19th of January, that the articles of 11th, 18th, 19th March, 3rd April and the tweet of 2nd April, must be considered to constitute contempt of court relating to material capable of identifying four different complainers. We therefore make a finding of contempt of court. The reasons will be issued in full, in due course. Those reasons have been shared in draft with Mr Scott and the Advocate Depute."
The hearing only lasted a few minutes and adjourned until 7 May, 10AM, so that the parties may file their respective submissions in relation to sentencing. Murray faces up to two years in prison and an unlimited fine.

John Scott QC, speaking for Murray, prepared the court for the kind of evidence that would be submitted in mitigation, for the purposes of what's known as a Criminal Justice Social Work Report.

Scott noted that:
"there has been a change in the Respondent's family circumstances recently, in that his partner gave birth on the 18th of February to his son, Oscar", adding that Murray, "is also keen to communicate his anxiety and stress over these proceedings, especially the uncertainty of outcome, and also the possibility of very serious penalty, which clearly still exists".
The defence, for its part, noted that the prosecution could have brought the articles to the attention of the presiding judge in order to get her to issue an order that they be taken down, a position which the Advocate Depute admitted his office had considered and ultimately rejected. Murray was not found guilty on this charge.

The government also suggested that Murray was responsible for "improper moderation" of comments made underneath those two articles on his website. A position that was objected to by the defence as creating too much of a burden and legal obligation on their client for remarks made by others. There was no reference to this argument in Lady Dorrian's brief statement, and as such, it appears that this charge was rejected.
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