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Hong Kong's new bill will allow censors to retroactively ban movies

Candice Chau
Hong Kong Free Press
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:06 UTC
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© Louise Delmotte/HKFP.
FILE PHOTO: Violators will face up to three years behind bars and a HK$1 million fine, in a move filmmakers fear will stifle creativity.
Hong Kong's chief secretary will be able to retroactively revoke the certification of films based on national security grounds, according to amendments to the Film Censorship Ordinance proposed by the government on Tuesday.

Under the planned update, the maximum punishment for anyone who shows an unlicensed movie would be raised to three years of imprisonment and a HK$1 million fine. The bill will be handed to the Legislative Council for its first and second reading next Wednesday.

The amendments would also "set out explicitly that a censor should consider whether the exhibition of a film would be contrary to the interests of national security."

Comment: It remains to be seen what kind of movies will be targeted under the ban, but it's likely that part of the concern is that entertainment has and will be used as part of a hybrid warfare campaign, in the same way that the protests in Hong Kong were weaponised by the West to destabilise the region:

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Australia on the brink of total fascism

John Goss
Global Research
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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Right now the Australian people are being cruelly subjugated due to the fake pandemic. The police there have been given extraordinary powers beyond what would be considered rational. These measures can be implemented without police officers having to reveal their identity.

When the police are given total freedom to impose injustices on a compliant population for a pandemic that never was it reeks of totalitarianism, and is the modern-day equivalent of Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany.

Powers the Australian police have been given include:
  • forcible entry into buildings
  • preventing people from moving about
  • quarantining people
  • making people take tests and undergo medical treatment
  • compelling people to give information
While the Australian government releases death statistics (allegedly from Covid) on a day-to-day basis it only releases vaccine-related deaths that are at least 90 days old. Thus we know that from the 6 days 18-23 August there were 17 so-called Covid deaths, those dying after having tested positive for Covid-19. It could be that every one of those 17 deaths were vaccine victims.
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The dangers of going back to school after a year of COVID-19 lockdowns

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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Return to School
"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning." — Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer's hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm's way and out of trouble.

Those were the good old days, before the COVID-19 pandemic introduced a whole new level of Nanny State authoritarianism to our daily lives, locking down communities, forcing kids out of the schoolroom and into virtual classrooms, leaving vast swaths of the work force dependent on government welfare, while pushing other segments into a work-from-home model, and generally subjecting us to an increasingly obnoxious level of intrusion by the government into our private lives.

Now, after almost 18 months away from a physical classroom, students are heading back to school.

Here's what they can expect:
From the moment a child enters one of the nation's 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:
  • draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior,
  • overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech,
  • school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called "disorderly" students,
  • standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking,
  • politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them, and
  • extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.
Young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.
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BBC accused of 'omitting facts' about Muslim culprit seen in video of shocking anti-Semitic attack in London


RT
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:41 UTC
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The BBC has once-again drawn the ire of the British public after it reported a shocking assault that left a man in "Orthodox Jewish dress" unconscious, but failed to describe his attacker's Islamic clothing.

Over the weekend, reports emerged of a horrific and unprovoked attack on a 64-year-old Jewish man as he walked down a street in Stamford Hill, London, last Wednesday. Videos show the moment he was knocked unconscious by his attacker. He was also left with a broken ankle.

Comment: BBC journalists are masters at omitting facts. In this particular instance, it's unclear whether they are obfuscating facts for a nefarious purpose, or whether they are cowing to the anti-racist mob, we wouldn't put either past the BBC. See also:

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July's age-standardised mortality rate in UK was equal to the five-year average

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:35 UTC
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Ambulances stationed at an emergency department
The ONS announced on Monday that there were 40,467 deaths registered in England in July, which is 4.8% more than in June, and 7.6% more than the five-year average. In fact, the number of deaths registered in England was above the five-year average in all four weeks of last month.

These increases make sense, given that there has been a small uptick in COVID-19 deaths associated with the 'Delta wave'. Although COVID-19 was only the ninth leading cause of death in July, deaths from the first eight causes were all below their five-year averages.
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California cops arrest man in car with 300 unopened Newsom recall ballots

Paul Bois
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:21 UTC
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Unopened ballots found in suspect's car
Last week, police in Torrance, California, arrested a man sleeping in his car, uncovering a gun, narcotics, and 300 unopened recall ballots in his possession.

"Authorities are investigating why 300 unopened vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming recall election were found - along with a gun and drugs - in a car parked at a Torrance convenience store," reported ABC7.
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The face mask folly: 10 examples of faulty reasoning


Swiss Policy Research
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:49 UTC
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© K. Birb/Twitter
“It’s just a mask”: Global impact of the face mask folly
It has been known for decades that face masks don't work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly? Ten reasons.

1) The droplet model

Many 'health authorities' have relied on the obsolete 'droplet model' of virus transmission. If this model were correct, face masks would indeed work. But in reality, respiratory droplets - which by definition cannot be inhaled - play almost no role in virus transmission. Instead, respiratory viruses are transmitted via much smaller aerosols, as well as, possibly, some object surfaces. Face masks don't work against either of these transmission routes.

2) The Asian paradox

During the first year of the pandemic, several East Asian countries had a very low coronavirus infection rate, and many 'health experts' falsely assumed that this was due to face masks. In reality, it was due to very rapid border controls in some countries neighboring China as well as a combination of metabolic and immunologic factors reducing transmission rates. Nevertheless, many East Asian countries eventually got overwhelmed by the coronavirus, too (see charts below).
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Canadian women face sexual abuse & violence from 'trans' biological males in prison, former inmate tells RT


RT
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:53 UTC
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REUTERS/Fred Thornhill
Female inmates in Canadian prisons are at risk of violence from biologically male convicts who identify as women, but no one is willing to discuss the issue out of fear of being labeled transphobic, an activist has told RT.

Heather Mason, who served time in Canada's prison system, said that she experienced firsthand the dangers that come with placing biological men in female jails.

Canada allows men to choose to serve their sentence in a female prison if they say they identify as women - regardless of whether or not they have undergone surgery or hormone therapy.

Speaking to RT, Mason recounted an incident in which a sex offender had attempted to "peek" into her cell while officers were strip-searching her. Mason claimed that the biological male was "fully intact" and hadn't had any procedures done. She said that the sexual harassment from trans inmates continued after she was transferred to a federal facility.

Other women have reported being groped and sexually assaulted by trans inmates, according to Mason. There have also been instances of serious physical altercations, prompting female inmates to "carry weapons around" to defend themselves.
They're putting soup cans in socks because they know that they're fighting males and not women... There's a really big power difference between them.

Comment: Making it easy for those looking to exploit the prison system to do so was bound to lead to the types of abuses Heather Mason describes. Putting "fully intact", biologically male sex offenders in prison with women is probably one of the stupidest things ever done. But we simply can't let common sense or sound judgment get in the way of ideological adherence. No matter who it hurts.

Bonkers NHS Trusts are admitting trans women sex offenders onto female-only hospital wards - this really is a bridge too far

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Caesar

How to mentally prepare yourself for the EPIC economic SHTF that's coming

Fabian Ommar
The Organic Prepper
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
prepping mentally
In my last article, I tried to establish the relationship between the economy and SHTF and provide some insights on some implications that institutions and other factors have in determining the outcome of collapses (economic or otherwise). Now let's talk about the practical matters of the looming economic SHTF.

It's time to see more about what's coming and how to prepare for it.

Nothing has happened yet. Why should I worry?

I know many people are tired of hearing the economy will crash, and we'll suffer the consequences for years to come. I get mocked all the time for continually talking about a reckoning of epic proportions. "For more than a decade, yet nothing has happened," I keep hearing.

And my reply to that? "Wrong!"

First, a lot has happened: the 2008 GFC was the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions got wiped. We can still feel reflexes of it today. Second (and perhaps the most important): the situation of the worldwide economy has deteriorated significantly since then.
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Cambridge University 'unhinged' as museum to 'explain whiteness' of statues

Paul Withers
Express
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:29 UTC
Cambridge University plaster casts
© Twitter
The archaeology museum is to add signs to detail the whiteness of sculpture plaster casts
Cambridge University's Museum of Classical Archaeology is currently displaying plaster casts of Roman and Greek sculptures. They are also on show around lecture rooms but give a "misleading impression" of the whiteness and "absence of diversity" of the ancient world. The Classics Faculty has insisted it will "turn the problem into an opportunity" through drawing attention to the diversity of those figured in the casts.

It will do this by looking at the ways in which colour has been lost and can be restored, and to the "role of classical sculpture in the history of racism".

The faculty has said the new information panels around the "whiteness" of plaster cast sculptures are due to go on display later this year.

But Cambridge dons have lashed out at the plans, who have branded the move "unhinged" and "extraordinary".

An academic told The Telegraph: "You might just about understand this coming from a student but the idea that this has been approved by the Faculty is as terrifying as it is comical.

Comment: Critical Race Theory claims yet another victim.

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