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Connecticut reports at least 18 cases of heart problems in young people after Covid-19 vaccine, CDC issues alert to doctors


NBC Connecticut
Mon, 24 May 2021 12:00 UTC
Pfizer teenager young vaccinated
© Matthew Hatcher / Stringer/Getty
A teenager who is at extremely low risk of getting coronavirus gets the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Michigan on April 6, 2021.
At least 18 teens and young adults in Connecticut have shown symptoms of heart problems after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, acting health commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford said Monday.

Gifford said all but one of the young adults hospitalized for signs of heart problems have been released. Four of those young residents were hospitalized at Yale New Haven Health and three at Connecticut Children's.


Comment: These are the cases that were severe enough to warrant hospitalization, there are likely more who, for whatever reason, did not seek medical help.


"All of the cases that were reported to us were hospitalized, the vast majority for a couple of days," Gifford said at the governor's regular Monday COVID-19 news conference. "One individual that we're aware of is still hospitalized. The other 17 have been sent home and they're doing fine."

Comment: See also: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19

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William Shakespeare, first man in world to get approved COVID vaccine, dies at 81

Nelson Oliveira
Yahoo! News
Tue, 25 May 2021 19:26 UTC
william shakespeare
The first man in the world to receive a clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine has died of an unrelated illness, British officials said.

The 81-year-old Englishman, named William Shakespeare, was the first man and second person to get a Pfizer jab after the U.K. approved the experimental shots in early December. The first person was 90-year-old British grandmother Margaret Keenan.

Shakespeare died Thursday, but the cause of death was not immediately known, according to the BBC. The Coventry resident had reportedly worked at Rolls Royce and served as a parish councilor for many years in the city's Allesley community.

Comment: His death may not have been vaccine-related, but still...

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Fire

George Floyd's death led to a year of protest and upheaval, but all we got is a country more divided than ever

Lauren Chen
RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:46 UTC
floyd rally atlanta
© Elijah Nouvelage / AFP
People raise their fists and hold a portrait of George Floyd during a rally following the guilty verdict the trial of Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.
One year ago, a man named George Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill at a corner store. A group of officers, including one Derek Chauvin, were called to the scene to make an arrest.

What followed next would lead to international news coverage and would shape the discussion surrounding policing not just in America, but across the entire world.

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Pistol

Drive-by shooting in George Floyd Square caught on live TV on anniversary of his death

Jack Posobiec
Human Events
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:01 UTC
george floyd square
More than a dozen gunshots rang out during a live news broadcast from George Floyd Square in Minneapolis Tuesday, marking the one year anniversary of Floyd's death.

At least one person was injured in the shooting, NBC News reports.

The shooting occurred shortly after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, just one block away from the intersection where Floyd died. According to police, the suspected shooter was last seen driving away from the scene, though no other details were immediately available.

Comment: Oh, the irony!

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NPC

Cambridge University takes down 'micro-aggression' reporting site, after accusations of woke 'police state'


RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:41 UTC
Trinity College
© Wikipedia
An exterior view of Trinity College Great Court at Cambridge University
Cambridge University has taken down a website letting students snitch on staff for "micro-aggressions." Students could report such trivial offenses as "raising an eyebrow," and activists have threatened to sue should it return.

Cambridge's 'Report + Support' website was offline as of Tuesday morning, with the Telegraph reporting that it had been taken down the day before. Viewable in archived form, the site offered students the tools to "report inappropriate behaviour they have experienced from other students and staff," either anonymously or with their contact details.

Cambridge University Report
© Archive.org
A screenshot showing an archived copy of Cambridge University's now-offline 'Report + Support' website, May 25, 2021
Aside from encouraging the reporting of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct, the site included a section on "micro-aggressions." The term is not a legal one, and was defined on the website as encompassing all the "slights, indignities, put-downs and insults" that offend minorities, according to the Telegraph.

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Attention

Grandmother given suspended sentence for refusing to wear mask in shop

Olivia Kelleher
The Irish Times
Mon, 24 May 2021 14:37 UTC
Margaret Buttimer
© Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts.
Margaret Buttimer is pictured leaving Bandon District Court after receiving a suspended sentence for refusing to wear a face covering in a Dunnes outlet. Judge Colm Roberts said she was ‘unrepentant and is likely to reoffend’.
A Co Cork grandmother has received a suspended sentence over her refusal to wear face masks in a shop during the Covid-19 pandemic and a fine for verbally abusing a shop manager.

Margaret Buttimer (66), of The Cottage, St Fintan's Road, Bandon, was jailed for the weekend after she refused to wear a mask during a hearing at Bandon District Court last Friday.

She had appeared before the court for refusing to wear a mask at Dunnes outlet in Clonakilty on February 12th last. She was found guilty of breaching Covid-19 regulations.

Judge Colm Roberts was told that Buttimer abused the store manager when he asked her if there was a medical reason for her not wearing a face covering. Gardaí attended the scene and Buttimer again refused to wear a mask or explain why she would not do so, saying she only answered to God.

Buttimer arrived in court on Monday without wearing a mask and Judge Roberts asked her solicitor, Plunkett Taafe, to speak to her about the situation.
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Stormtrooper

Greetings from "New Normal" Germany!

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Mon, 24 May 2021 08:41 UTC
Bundesarchiv

Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14468, Georg Pahl, CC-BY-SA 3.0
On April 1, 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis staged a boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Members of the Storm Troopers ("die Sturmabteilung," or the "Storm Department," as I like to think of them) stood around outside of Jewish-owned stores with Gothic-lettered placards reading "Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!" The boycott itself was a total disaster — most Germans ignored it and just went on with their lives — but it was the beginning of the official persecution of the Jews and totalitarianism in Nazi Germany.

Last week, here in "New Normal" Germany, the government (which, it goes without saying, bears no resemblance to the Nazi regime, or any other totalitarian regime) implemented a social-segregation system that bans anyone who refuses to publicly conform to the official "New Normal" ideology from participating in German society. From now on, only those who have an official "vaccination pass" or proof of a negative PCR test are allowed to sit down and eat at restaurants, shop at "non-essential" stores, or go to bars, or the cinema, or wherever.

Here's a notice from the website of Prater, a popular beer garden in Berlin:

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NPC

The latest, disturbing trend amongst gender-bender narcissists? Becoming a 'nullo' by having one's genitals surgically removed


RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:19 UTC
mannequin
© Getty Images / Martin Diebel
Might we soon have to add an N to the alphabet soup of LGBTQIA+? The number of 'genital modification enthusiasts' who favour complete 'nullification' is on the rise, as doctors promise to create "relatively smooth genital areas."

Exciting news! Lego, the much-loved purveyor of tiny plastic bricks, is launching a brand new set. The 'Everyone Is Awesome' kit includes the usual array of blocks and figurines. But the brightly coloured pieces are intended to do far more than simply get children's creative juices flowing.

'Everyone Is Awesome' is Lego's first LGBTQIA+ set. The colours of the blocks have been chosen to reflect the rainbow gay pride flag, with the addition of pale blue, white and pink blocks to represent the trans community, and black and brown bricks to "acknowledge the diversity of skin tones and backgrounds within the LGBTQIA+ community."

Comment: See also: Post-nihilism, a template for where we are heading

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Bizarro Earth

Iran reels after grandparents confess to murder and dismemberment of 'morally corrupt' filmmaker son, daughter & son-in-law


RFE/RL'
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:21 UTC
Khorramdin

In a case that has shocked Iran, filmmaker Babak Khorramdin was allegedly killed and dismembered by his parents.
An Iranian couple allegedly confessed to drugging and dismembering the man's adult son and discarding the remains in trash bins west of Tehran, in a chilling case that shocked the country.

The arrest of the 81-year-old Akbar Khorramdin and his wife for the killing of Khorramdin's 47-year-old filmmaker son, Babak, led to admissions that they had also killed a missing daughter and son-in-law.

The tragedies cast light on grave domestic crimes seemingly fueled by perceptions of honor and sexual propriety in Iranian society, as well as on laws eroding protections for potential victims of violence by a legal guardian.

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Attention

The death of expertise and the rise of the Internet

John C Dvorak
The Oasis
Tue, 25 May 2021 15:00 UTC
MSM & Internet
© The Oasis
The modern Internet has become a hopeless cesspool of lies, misinformation, malinformation, bad intentions, ignorant good intentions and half-truths, outright hoaxes, slander, cruelty; as well as a refuge for creeps, criminals, thieves, phonies, agent provocateurs, would-be revolutionaries, predators, useless and fake reviews, Satanists, and worse.Linking the entire globe and all the subsystems of corporate archives, personnel records, medical information, electrical grid interactions, and more will turn out to be the dumbest thing humanity has ever done.

The Internet and its World Wide Web has not fulfilled the promise of connecting the world in a positive way while distributing the combined knowledge of thousands of years of civilization. This horrible network has made matters worse. Hate and divisiveness is the theme of the modern era.

And, yes, you associate all sorts of cool things that happened in this era are with the Internet but most of those things are attributable to desktop computers combined with basic networking. It's not the Internet at all.

The major casualties of the Internet are the distinct loss of expertise and clarity of sources. This is because newspapers and magazines, in particular, were changed by the Internet's subversive hyperlinking mechanism that made click-bait the key to profitability.

And while many people do not care about the political bias and agenda-laden slants of today's newspapers, people would like to go on the Internet and find out something other than a definition of a word, which seems to be honest. But even that is ending as "politically correct" definitions creep into the lexicon almost overnight, where it would take years to accomplish in the past.

Even the definition of a vaccine has changed to accommodate what the Pfizer marketing department calls a vaccine and which has no connection to its previous definition. The change happened overnight.
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