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Child abuse! Thai schoolchildren sealed in plastic boxes for playtime and lessons

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Thai kindergardeners wear face masks as they play in screened in play areas used for social distancing at the Wat Khlong Toey School
Schools in Thailand are forcing students to learn and play in makeshift plastic cubicles to comply with extreme social distancing measures.

Thai children in kindergarten at the Wat Khlong Toey School in Bangkok, which has been reopened for a month, study behind perspex boxes and play with toys alone in screened-in areas.

The green light was given for schools in the country to reopen at the start of July with a series of strict measures in place.

Authorities recommended class sizes are restricted to 20-25 students while doorknobs, desks and other areas at risk of spreading infection be sanitized frequently throughout the day.

Comment: There is a very strong instinct parents have that drives them to protect their children. It's astonishing and heartbreaking to see how this instinct has been so corrupted that is is being used to abuse children instead.


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Bad optic? MSNBC accused of cropping image of Biden calling Kamala to remove script he was reading

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Presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden
MSNBC has been accused of some comically conspicuous cropping of a photo of Joe Biden, obscuring his notes for the video call in which he told Kamala Harris she would be his 2020 election running mate.

As election season gathers pace ahead of the November vote to decide the US president, every word, photo and soundbite will be pored over endlessly by both the media and the public, which makes it all the more bizarre that MSNBC would attempt to somewhat needlessly obscure the phone script for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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The pharmaceutical narrative is failing and a group of doctors is helping push it over the edge

Hydroxychloroquine
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So now we don't have to listen to what those doctors said in front of the US Supreme Court, because it turns out that one of them has some whacky beliefs about sex with demons causing reproductive disorders. What a relief.

I'm not going to pretend that the things Dr. Stella Immanuel has said don't sound just a little crazy to me. They do. But I've been observing this game long enough to have a pretty good idea of how this works:
Someone says something that contradicts the dominant narrative (in this case, the narrative about medical science), and the machine that supports that narrative goes into overdrive to discredit them, with whatever information they can dig up - as long as it doesn't involve discussing the actual substance of what the person has said.
I understand that for some people, maybe even for a great many, that is the end of the conversation. So for everyone who is satisfied with the "fringe doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine also believe demon sex causes fibroids" narrative - please, stop here. Your ride is over, and you may go on believing that this group of doctors and other professionals has been thoroughly discredited by these statements.

For everyone else, if you are at all interested in why such a coordinated effort has been launched to silence and discredit this group, why-even before the sex demon stuff was uncovered - videos of the group's press conference were quickly yanked from YouTube, and why their own website was taken down without warning by its host, SquareSpace, (their new website can now be found here) then please keep reading.

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Progressive activist Shaun King mocked by all sides for blatant flip-flop on Kamala Harris after Biden makes her running mate

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Social activist and writer Shaun King was ridiculed without mercy for a brazen about-face on his support for Kamala Harris, quickly cosying up to the senator after she became Joe Biden's VP pick, despite criticizing her for years.

King treated his 1.1-million-strong Twitter following to a lengthy defense of Harris soon after she was declared Biden's running mate on Tuesday, dubbing her "the most progressive candidate among the credible finalists for VP." Though a look through some of King's pronouncements on Harris over the years reveals a long string of attacks over her less-than-progressive stances on criminal justice, he took an altogether different tone on Tuesday, saying she had "improved drastically on all justice and policing-related issues" since 2011, when she last served as a district attorney.

The light-speed flip-flop was noticed by King's critics and supporters alike, with the former taking a more direct approach, dubbing him a "fraud" while pointing to a November 2018 tweet in which King claimed "99%" certainty that he would not support Harris or Biden, as they "both helped to build and advance mass incarceration." Quite a difference 22 months can make, given that as of Tuesday, King now ranks Harris "in the top three on justice reform issues" among US senators.


Comment: Progressive politics in a nutshell. "Oceania was always at war with Eastasia."


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Florida sheriff bans deputies from wearing masks after refusing to enforce order

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods
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Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods
A Florida county sheriff has prohibited his officers from wearing masks while on-duty or in the office, despite the fact that the Sunshine State remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

"My order will stand as is when you are on-duty/working as my employee and representing my Office - masks will not be worn," Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods told employees in an Aug. 11 email obtained by the Ocala Star-Banner.

Woods also says in the email that any residents that visit the sheriff's office will also be asked to remove their mask, or leave.

"We can debate and argue all day of why and why not. The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldn't," Woods said in the email.

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Shooting at Louisiana hospital prompts manhunt

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center
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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center
A man was shot and wounded at a Louisiana hospital Wednesday morning in what police called an active shooter situation.

Shreveport police said SWAT and hostage negotiation teams made their way to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

One man was shot in the leg, police spokeswoman Sgt. Angie Willhite told news outlets. She said the wound is not believed to be life-threatening.

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QAnon backer Marjorie Taylor Greene wins Georgia GOP runoff


Comment: And that's despite the major crackdown on all things 'QAnon'-related!


Marjorie Taylor Greene
Businesswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday won the Republican primary runoff in Georgia's 14th District to replace outgoing Rep. Tom Graves (R), overcoming concerns about her past bigoted rhetoric and embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Greene and her opponent, neurosurgeon John Cowan, had both advanced to the runoff after neither candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the June 9 primary. Greene won with 60 percent of the vote on Tuesday, while Cowan trailed at 40 percent, according to The Associated Press.

Greene celebrated her victory, saying she would work to "Save America," "Stop Socialism" and "Defeat the Democrats."

The race was thrust into the national spotlight in June after a number of videos showing Greene making bigoted remarks were unearthed by Politico.

The comments included Greene comparing Democratic donor George Soros to a Nazi, saying the 2018 midterms were like an "Islamic invasion of our government" and asserting that African Americans "are held slaves to the Democratic Party."

Comment: Well, she might be wrong about there being a grand plan to boot the evil cabal out of government, but at least she sees that many of the US and global elites are pedophiles who deserve to be revealed and ousted.

Elsewhere, 'conspiracy theorist' Laura Loomer won the Republican nomination to contest a Florida seat in the US House of Representatives this November. The Establishment is gonna have its hands full this Fall rigging multiple election results!


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Maxwell lawyers complain about prison conditions as prison officials seek to keep her alive

Ghislaine Maxwell
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Ghislaine Maxwell
Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell complained that she is being "treated worse" than her fellow inmates as prison officials attempt to prevent her untimely death.

The British socialite and heiress is being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, pending her July 12, 2021, trial, according to Forbes. Epstein was formerly held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he is said to have been subjected to rodents, bad food, little natural lighting and cramped conditions, Forbes reported.

Maxwell's lawyers sent a letter Monday to a New York judge saying that Maxwell is being subjected to conditions unequal to her fellow prisoners. The lawyers emphasized in the letter that Maxwell's treatment stems from fears over Epstein's apparent suicide last summer in a New York City jail.

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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has 'lost the confidence' of the city - Democratic alderman

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to reporters Sunday, March 15, 2020, at O'Hare International Airport.
A Democratic alderman in Chicago said Mayor Lori Lightfoot has "lost the confidence" of the city.

Anthony Beale, alderman of the 9th Ward of Chicago, joined Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning and discussed the violence that has plagued the city in recent months, and most notably, the looting and destruction that took place early Monday morning.

"I think the mayor has lost the confidence and the control of this city. She's listening to the wrong people, and the wrong people are the ones that's really leading this unrest in the city of Chicago," he said of Lightfoot.

"The aldermen are the ones elected by their constituency, and there is a total disregard of listening to the aldermen who knows the post of this city, knows the post of their ward," he added.

Comment: Small wonder Lightfoot's position becomes shakier by the day. Will a movement for her recall gain momentum?


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Bra shades are racist: BLM has become the con artist's secret weapon while the poor of all colors get shafted

BLM bra shades racist
© Getty Images/ Elijah Nouvelage; marksandspencer.com
UK retailer Marks & Spencer is the latest company targeted by grifters using the Black Lives Matter moment to sell their con. It's a feeding frenzy for corporate panderers and scammers, but leaves behind those it claims to help.

The chain has issued a groveling apology over the "covert racism" supposedly implicit in the color options offered for a padded bra sold on its website, reversing course after initially defending the palette as an industry standard unrelated to race or skin tone.

What changed? The complainer, a 29-year-old black customer named Kusi Kimani, went to the media to accuse the chain of deliberately naming its dark brown shade "tobacco" to evoke negative connotations, while lighter shades such as "cinnamon" and "fudge" carried more pleasant associations.