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All throughout history there have been critical turning points when events have greatly accelerated, and it appears that we have reached one of those turning points.
In fact, this may be turn out to be the biggest turning point of them all.
Millions upon millions of Americans can sense that big trouble is ahead. For many, it is like a "gut feeling" that they just can't shake.
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The school, called Snodroppen ("Snowflake"), reportedly has links to the controversial and secretive group, the School of Science, according to media reports. "If they in principle don't replace the entire board and the principal, they cannot continue to run the business," Amanda Larsson of the Gothenburg preschool board said, as cited by Swedish media.
Local authorities are demanding the school replace its entire board or face being shut down amid fears it has been infiltrated by violent extremists who may pose a national security threat to Sweden or who may attempt to isolate children from the secular state and radicalize them
Comment: See also:
- Swedish school under fire for forcing kids to take part in climate strike
- Half of Sweden's immigrants reportedly 'lack compulsory schooling', 'elementary school skills'
- Swedish police: 3000 violent extremists in Sweden, 2000 Islamists
- Misplaced anger: 3rd refugee shelter torched in Sweden in 6 days
- Swedish Muslim school heavily criticized for segregating students by sex
- Crime wave in Sweden: Government's immigration policy blamed for gang shootings, rapes and no-go zones
- 60 cases of female genital mutilation discovered in Swedish school
- Propaganda? 'Swedish culture under assault from mass Islamic immigration'
Service members selected for promotion to chief petty officer arrive in formation during a promotion ceremony at Naval Station Rota, Spain, Jan. 29, 2021.
"While there still is work to be done, I am confident that this report's recommendations will help make our Navy better, and we will move forward together toward meaningful long-lasting change. Make no mistake, I am personally committed to this effort," Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, said in a statement.
Task Force One Navy was created in July 2020 in reaction to the national uproar over the death of George Floyd and protests against police brutality and institutional racism. The group was asked to explore issues of racism, sexism and bias and how they affected the readiness of the Navy.
Comment: Life in 2021: The US military, notorious for sowing chaos around the world, would have us believe that a more pressing issue is warships named after allegedly racist people:
"Certain Navy ship names have been highlighted by Congress and in the media for connections to confederate or white supremacist ideologies," Task Force One Navy said in its report, published on Wednesday.For insight into just what's going on here, check out SOTT radio's MindMatters: Wokeism: From Ideology to Mask of Sanity
The 141-page report called for a review to "identify assets honoring those associated with the Confederacy and identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language.""This initiative is an opportunity to honor and name Navy assets for Naval heroes from all classes, races, genders and backgrounds."© REUTERS / Mike Blake; US confederate flag (inset) Getty Images / Donald Miralle
John C. Stennis aircraft carrier
The shake-up will likely affect the guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville, which takes its name from the 1863 Civil War battle that was won by the Confederacy.
Also in line for a name change is the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, called after the former senator who campaigned against racial equality.
"Stennis's record championing white supremacy is long," retired Lieutenant Commander Reuben Keith Green argued in an essay last year, as he made the case for the ship to be renamed.
In total, the new report makes some 56 recommendations to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday, who called for the task force to be set up after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in May, 2020, after a Minneapolis Police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes while arresting him.
The report's other recommendations include: service-wide implicit-bias training, better outreach to "underrepresented communities that appeal to Generation Z minorities" and using artificial intelligence (AI) to minimize bias during recruitment.
It also recommends changing the wording for grooming standards by removing subjective language, which may result in the perception of racial bias.
A similar move was taken by the US Army last week, which announced it was relaxing its uniform policy, in the name of "equity, inclusion and diversity."
Its new rules mean that female soldiers will be allowed to sport earrings and lipstick, while service personnel of both genders will be allowed to paint their nails.
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CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker told staffers on Thursday that he will continue to oversee the liberal network for the remainder of the year.
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker told staffers on Thursday that he will continue to oversee the liberal network for the remainder of the year.
"I cannot imagine not being here right now," Zucker said on a morning call with staffers, according to the Times, which cited a CNN employee who was on the call.
"I'm going to stay and finish my current contract, which, as I said, will keep me here until the end of this year. At that point, I do expect to move on."
Comment: See also:
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- CNN's Zucker 'encouraged' invoking 9/11 terror to urge Trump to allow a Biden transition UPDATE: Zucker demands reporters not 'normalize' Trump
- CNN's Zucker gives advice for then-candidate Trump, offer of a weekly show
- Former CNN host Reza Aslan blasts Jeff Zucker for 'making a fortune pretending to oppose Trump'
- CNN left burning, network president Zucker runs to NYT for damage control
- CNN President Zucker pathetically plays the victim card - "Trump is trying to bully us"
- Fake News scandal engulfs CNN - Zucker and his PR teams refuse to comment as company alters "Russia-related" editorial policy
- CNN suffers worst week in TV ratings under Jeff Zucker
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Girdusky broke the news that John Weaver, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, allegedly sought sexual contact with young men in exchange for jobs in politics.
Girdusky began investigating accusations of Weaver's sexual solicitations from young men after being followed by Weaver on Twitter.
Comment: See also:
- MSNBC did not ask Lincoln Project founders about John Weaver allegations despite booking them 17 times after the story first broke
- Anti-Trump Lincoln Project turns on 'predator' co-founder after he's accused of harassing 21 men, offering jobs for sex
- Lincoln Project threatens to 'sue the s***' out of Rudy Giuliani who claims anti-Trump group had ties to Capitol attack
- Convenient glitch: Twitter says 'bug' prevented users from searching Lincoln Project amid sexual misconduct allegations
- Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver accused of 'grooming' young men, offering jobs for sex
- Who funds the Lincoln Project? Exactly whom you expect
The news was apparently welcomed by Elon Musk, who made several tweets about the cryptocurrency, despite a pledge two days ago to stay off Twitter for "a while."
In one, Musk shared a "Lion King"-inspired Meme featuring a photoshopped image of himself raising the iconic DOGE Shiba Inu symbol to the sky.
Comment: Musk's self-imposed Twitter absence apparently didn't last too long. From RT:
'I am become meme, destroyer of shorts': Musk fires off market-wrecking omens & random thoughts, ending brief Twitter absenceBut Musk says that the memes and comments are only meant to be jokes. Again from RT:
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The temptations of Twitter were apparently too great for Elon Musk, who ended his short-lived hiatus on the platform with a series of characteristically zany messages.
The world's richest man returned to his virtual soap box around 48 hours after he announced on Tuesday that he would be practicing Twitter abstinence.
The social media relapse began innocently enough, with Musk retweeting a video of a SpaceX satellite launch - but he soon began flooding Twitter with memes and off-the-cuff remarks.
The businessman began the binge with a photograph of a rocket accelerating into outer space, tagging the picture with "Doge," the 'meme' cryptocoin that he has joked about repeatedly.
That comment led to even more outlandish posts. Dogecoin is the "people's crypto" and you don't need to be a "gigachad" to own some, Musk wrote, adding: "No highs, no lows, only Doge."
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"I am become meme, Destroyer of shorts," he joked, in what seems to be a less-apocalyptic rendition of Robert Oppenheimer's musings about the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945.
Musk's comments about Dogecoin and other financial assets have been attributed to huge market fluctuations. For example, after he added "#bitcoin" to his Twitter bio, the crypto shot up in value, reportedly liquidating $57 million in short positions in just ten minutes. Dogecoin, widely regarded as a 'joke' coin, also shot up in price after Musk began sharing memes about it.
But with great power comes great responsibility, and the billionaire has acknowledged that he should show more restraint. In a widely discussed talk that he gave on the invitation-only social media app Clubhouse on Sunday night, Musk conceded that he had to be "careful" about what he says, because his remarks can "affect the market." There was speculation that his market-shaking tweets may have played a role in his decision to take a break from the platform. Judging by his latest remarks, it appears he is no longer particularly concerned about sending markets into orbit - or about crushing short sellers.
The tweets were "just meant to be jokes," Musk said in an interview on the social media app Clubhouse, as cited by Newsweek.See also:
"Arguably the most entertaining outcome and the most ironic outcome would be dogecoin becomes the currency of earth in the future," he said, stressing that "fate loves irony".
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Ghislaine Maxwell at her bail hearing
In the first motion filed on Jan. 25, lawyers for Maxwell argue that counts one through four — which charges the British socialite with conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts — should be dropped because the alleged crimes happened more than two decades ago.
"Because Counts One through Four charge Ms. Maxwell with offenses that were completed no later than 1997, and because the indictment was not returned until July 2020, these counts are time-barred unless 'otherwise expressly provided by law,'" the filing states.
In a separate filing, her team moved to dismiss the other two counts that charge Maxwell with perjury for allegedly lying she knew nothing about Epstein having sex with underage girls in a civil defamation suit accuser Virginia Giuffre filed against her.
Comment: See also:
- Ghislaine Maxwell forced girls into lurid performances for Jeffrey Epstein, court docs reveal
- Ghislaine Maxwell's Epstein court hearing 'hacked' by 14,000 QAnon followers
- Poor dear: Lawyer says Epstein's ex Maxwell faces 'onerous' jail conditions
- Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition about sordid child sex business with Jeffrey Epstein 'unsealed'
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We can quibble about the reliability of industrial-scale PCR testing, whether the "second wave" in Europe and America has been ameliorated by naturally acquired immunity and whether deaths due to other diseases have being wrongly classified as deaths due to novel coronavirus. But that is largely beside the point. Sceptics could concede all of Snowdon's points — acknowledge that the threat posed by SARS-CoV-2 is every bit as grave as the most hard-line lockdowners say it is — without endangering the central limb of our argument. Our contention is that the whole panoply of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) that governments around the world have used to try and control the pandemic — closing schools and gyms, shutting non-essential shops, banning household mixing, restricting travel, telling people they can't leave their homes without a reasonable excuse, etc. — have been largely ineffective.
Sure, there are some peer-reviewed studies published in reputable journals seeming to show that these measures reduce COVID-19 infections, hospital admissions, and deaths. (See here, for instance.) But most of these rely on epidemiological models that make unfalsifiable claims about how many people wouldhave died if governments had just sat on their hands — and some of these models have been widely criticised. The evidence that lockdowns don't work, by contrast, is not based on conjecture but on observing the effects of lockdowns in different countries. (You can review 30 of these studies here.) What these data seem to show is that the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in each country rises and falls — and then rises and falls again, although less steeply as the virus moves towards endemic equilibrium — according to a similar pattern regardless of what NPIs governments impose.
GameStop stock, which closed at $17.69 a share on Jan. 8, shot up to $347.51 by the close last Wednesday. With combined losses of almost $20 billion, hedge funds were on the ropes and close to bleeding out, selling their longs in an increasingly futile effort to cover their shorts. One fund, Melvin Capital, lost over half its value and had to be bailed out by hedge fund sugar daddies Ken Griffin (Citadel) and Steve Cohen (Point 72). Another fund, Citron, was teetering on the brink of collapse. All this outsider army needed to win was the continued ability to communicate with each other online, and their collective ability to keep piling into the "Buy" side of the trade. Within hours, they would be hobbled on the first front and crippled on the second.
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