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The real reasons why millions of Americans will defy Covid mandates and vaccines

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I suspect a large portion of the public is at least partially aware when they are being pushed or lured into a specific way of thinking. We have certainly had enough experience with institutions trying to manage our thoughts over the years. Governments and mainstream media outlets in particular have made the manufacture of public consent their top priority. This is what they spend most of their time, money and energy on. All other issues are secondary.

The media does not objectively report facts and evidence, it spins information to plant an engineered narrative in the minds of its viewers. But the public is not as stupid as they seem to think. This is probably why trust in the media has plunged by 46% in the past ten years, hitting an all time low this year of 27%.

Except for pre-election season spikes, mainstream outlets from CNN to Fox to CBS to MSNBC are facing dismal audience numbers, with only around 2 million to 3 million prime time viewers. There are numerous YouTube commentators with bigger audiences than this. And, if you sift through the debris of MSM videos on YouTube, you'll find low hits and a majority of people that are visiting their channels just to make fun of them.

The MSM is now scrambling to explain their crumbling empire, as well as debating on ways to save it from oblivion. The power of the "Fourth Estate" is a facade, an illusion given form by smoke and mirrors. Bottom line: Nobody (except perhaps extreme leftists) likes the corporate media or activist journalists and propagandists.

Sherlock

WHO claims coronavirus 'very likely' to have passed to humans from bats via 'unknown animal'

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© Associated PressMarch 19, 2020, laboratory scientist Andrea Luquette cultures coronavirus to prepare for testing at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick.
Coronavirus is "very likely" to have first passed from bats to humans via another animal, according to a World Health Organisation report on the origins of Covid-19.

A draft version of the study, which was obtained by the Associated Press, also concludes that it is "extremely unlikely" the virus was leaked from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged in late 2019.


Comment: Indeed. Because it didn't appear only in Wuhan. However that doesn't discount a laboratory elsewhere, with the US being at the forefront of such experimentation: Chinese Govt: 'Covid-19 began as multiple separate outbreaks globally, we were just the first to report'


It had been claimed that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were experimenting with a virus genetically similar to Sars-CoV-2 before it was leaked into the community.

Comment: As numerous other researchers have pointed out, the unusual nature of the coronavirus can only really be explained if the virus was constructed in a laboratory. And so the 'unknown animal' responsible for its appearance in humans was likely the persons in the lab who engineered it; even WHO representatives have admitted as much: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made


Bizarro Earth

Michigan restaurant owner jailed after not following pandemic orders

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© John Agar/APMarlena Pavlos-Hackney talks on a cell phone at her Holland restaurant, Marlena's Bistro & Pizzeria, on Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Holland, Mich. Michigan State Police arrested Pavlos-Hackney on Friday, March 19, 2021. State investigators say she ignored caps on restaurant capacity and wasn't enforcing mask rules. Her food license was suspended Jan. 20, but the eatery remained open.
A Michigan restaurant owner will remain in jail for up to three months after she allegedly refused to follow the state's coronavirus restrictions, as restaurants nationally continue to shutter during the pandemic.

Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, the owner of Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria, was arrested early Friday morning because she continued to willfully violate the coronavirus policies, the district attorney claimed. A warrant was issued for her arrest March 11.

She was taken into custody for an outstanding Ingraham County civil warrant for contempt of court.

Bizarro Earth

Philippines locks down economic hub to fight COVID-19 surge

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© AFP/Jam STA ROSAA previous months-long lockdown crippled the Philippine economy, cost millions of jobs and left many households hungry
More than 24 million people in the Philippines' economic hub entered a lockdown on Monday (Mar 29), as officials warned the week-long restrictions could be extended if coronavirus infections do not fall.

People have been ordered to stay home unless they are essential workers as Metro Manila - the national capital region - and four neighbouring provinces struggle to curb a surge that has strained hospitals.

Only hours into the latest lockdown imposed on the region - which accounts for around half of the country's economic activity - the health department's epidemiology chief Alethea de Guzman warned it could be prolonged to bring about a "sustained" drop.

Wedding Rings

Trump crashes Mar-a-Lago wedding reception and gives impromptu speech

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© Mandel Ngan/AFPThe Party Crasher
Former President Donald Trump crashed a wedding reception at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday night. The lucky couple who received the surprise guest were John and Megan Arrigo.

Trump drew big laugher from the crowd as he took jabs at the current administration.

TMZ, who first obtained the video, used it to trash Trump for making it "all about him" โ€” but anyone who is getting married at Mar-a-Lago is not going to be upset about the surprise appearance.

Trump lambasted Biden for his foreign policy/deals with China and Iran, the border crisis, and other shortcomings of the administration's first few months:
"Look, it's a disaster. It's a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint and it's going to destroy the country โ€” and frankly the country can't afford it!"

Comment: Whatever Trump had, he's still got it. In this short stand-up, he likely said more than Biden did all week.


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Texas COVID numbers decrease 17 days after mask, other restrictions lifted

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© UnknownTexas Governor Greg Abbott
Just over two weeks after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted coronavirus mandates allowing businesses to operate at 100 percent capacity and made masks optional, the red state is still reporting decreases in cases and hospitalizations.

The governor championed his state's success in a Friday night tweet saying:
"Today Texas recorded the lowest 7-day COVID positivity rate since that data began being calculated: 5.43%. We also recorded the largest daily number of vaccines administered to Texans: 342,849. More Texans getting vaccines will keep down the positivity rate. Receiving the vaccine was 'always voluntary.'"
Texas reported 2,239 new infections Saturday, roughly 500 fewer cases on average from the previous week, according to data from the state's health department.

Biden slammed Abbott's decision -- which was shortly followed by similar mandate removals by Mississippi -- as "Neanderthal thinking." Biden told reporters from the White House earlier this month:
"We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough [vaccines] for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot. The last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking."

Comment: We shall see if this encouraging outcome is duplicated in other states. It would be helpful for statistical information to be separately factored on each component - especially the efficacy and rationale for a vaccine (given this flu is unremarkable and there are sudden deaths attributable). While masks are virally ineffective, they compromise the wearer. Losing the mask appears to have positive effects.



Pistol

At least 30 shot over weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago

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© AP/Nam Y. Huh1 Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot
At least 30 people were shot, three fatally, over another deadly weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's (D) Chicago.

Yesterday, Breitbart News noted some 20 people were shot in Chicago from Friday into Sunday morning alone. Those shooting victims included two fatalities.

On Monday morning ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the number of individuals shot over the entire weekend had climbed to at least 30. And there was an additional fatality, which occurred late Sunday afternoon "in Logan Square on the Northwest Side." The fatality occurred just after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, when a 32-year-old man was shot multiple times. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The Chicago Tribune observes 620 people were shot in Chicago January 1, 2021, through March 22, 2021, and that represents 159 more people than were shot during the same time last year as numbers show no sign of abatement.

Moreover, shootings on Chicago expressways are surging in 2021. WGNTV explained there were already 42 such shootings by March 5, 2021, and ABC 7 points out there was another expressway shooting Sunday night.

Sunday night's shooting occurred "on I-57 near 127th Street," and left four people injured.
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NPC

'Shocking' & 'racist': Politician in hot water over telling whites to 'be silent' when people of color discuss racism

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© AFP / Patrick KovarikAudrey Pulvar
A black deputy mayor of Paris, Audrey Pulvar, has sparked controversy online after she said white people should remain "silent spectators" if they attend meetings where people of color discuss racism.

A former TV host and journalist, Pulvar, told the French BFM TV on Saturday that she was "not shocked" to hear that people of color hold meetings closed to the whites. The politician, who now serves as a deputy to the Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, referred to a high-profile incident earlier this month, which saw the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) organizing meetings on racism that were off-limits to the whites.

Pulvar, herself a black person, said that "people who are discriminated against for the same reasons and who feel the same way need to meet together to discuss it." Still, she believes it would not be quite right to outright ban the white people from attending such meetings altogether.

Star of David

The ongoing Nakbah in Jerusalem

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© Heather Sharona Weiss/ActiveStillsPalestinians and Israelis protest against forcible evictions in Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel is committing an ongoing Nakba in occupied East Jerusalem. Settler organizations are threatening to forcibly evict 15 Palestinian families from their Jerusalem homes in the next few months. This amounts to 37 households and around 195 individuals, according to Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq. The families reside in the Karm al-Jaouni area of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Batan al-Hawa area of the Silwan neighborhood.

In November, Israeli courts ruled in favor of settler groups to evict the Palestinian families. The two groups are Nahalat Shimon International - a company registered in the United States, and Ateret Cohanim - a right-wing settlement organization.

Both organizations help implement the Israeli government's colonization of Palestinian properties in Jerusalem.

After seven decades

In February, a Jerusalem district court ruled against an appeal by six families living in Sheikh Jarrah against their eviction. Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said the families were given "one paragraph" each to make their case to remain in the four houses they've lived in for nearly 70 years.

Briefcase

Lawyers for Afghans claim Dutch troops failed to spare civilians

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© AFPDutch soldiers on patrol in The Chora Valley, Uruzgan, Afghanistan
Lawyers acting for Afghans wounded by bombardment by Dutch troops in 2007 on Monday told a Dutch district court that the soldiers had failed to distinguish between military and civilian targets and used disproportionate force.

The four Afghans and relatives of a fifth who has since died are suing the Dutch state in civil court for compensation for what they say are war crimes in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld told Dutch judges in the first hearing of the case:
"The (Dutch) state has failed in upholding the fundamental distinction between military and civilian targets. [The attacks] "fit the picture that the life of an Afghan is not worth much to us."
Lawyers for the Dutch state dismissed the plaintiffs complaints that civilians were not properly warned that an attack was imminent, and that the soldiers were using outdated intelligence. "The serious reproaches plaintiffs make towards the Dutch state are unfounded," Karlijn Teuben, a lawyer for the Dutch state, told judges.