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Physicist could be fired over 'All Lives Matter' tweet

David Scullion
The Critic
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
mike mcculloch physicist
© Plymouth University
A PhD Physics lecturer, who has a contract with the US Department of Defence, is being investigated by his University over his Twitter feed.

Mike McCulloch, who has worked at the University of Plymouth for over ten years, has been summoned to a hearing next Wednesday after an anonymous colleague sent his boss a number of tweets he had 'liked'.

The physicist currently works at the School of Biology and Marine Sciences but previously was employed by the Met Office.
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The new (pathologized) totalitarianism

CJ Hopkins
OffGuardian
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:05 UTC
orwell 1984
It was always going to come to this ... mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs, "no mask, no service" signs outside stores, security staff stopping the mask-less from entering, paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers in their midst, goon squads viciously attacking and arresting them...

Welcome to the Brave New Normal.

And it isn't just the Maskenpflicht-Sturmabteilung. The new official narrative is omnipresent. The corporate media are pumping out hysteria about "Covid-19 hospitalizations" (i.e., anyone admitted to a hospital for anything who tested positive for the coronavirus) and "major incidents" (i.e., people at the beach).

Police are manning makeshift social-distancing-monitoring watchtowers in London. There are propaganda posters and billboards everywhere, repeating the same neo-Goebbelsian slogans, reinforcing the manufactured mass hysteria. Dissent and nonconformity are being pathologized, "diagnosed" as psychopathy and paranoia. Mandatory vaccinations are coming.

You didn't think they were kidding, did you, when they started introducing the Brave New Normal official narrative back in March?
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College removes word 'freedom' from ID cards after student demands citing slavery

Maria Copeland
Campus Reform
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:08 UTC
robert morris university freedom
While colleges across the country are removing statues and nixing traditions in the name of "inclusivity," one university is removing the word "freedom" from its student identification cards because it is "has made minority students" feel "dehumanized."

Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania will change its student, faculty, and staff ID cards from "Freedom Cards" to "RMU ID Cards," Campus Reform has learned.

The decision follows the circulation of an online petition initiated by student Melanie Hall, who asked the university to rename its ID cards, arguing that the choice of "Freedom Cards" for minority students (who make up 24 percent of students at RMU, according to the petition) was a "poorly named form of identification."

It "has made minority students (black students in particular) feel like we are being dehumanized. Gifting us with IDs that grant us our 'freedom' is of extremely poor taste. Especially coming from a University that is named after a slave owner," Hall wrote.
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Mississippi to remove state flag, the last to display the Confederate battle emblem

Kate Smith
CBS News
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:15 UTC
The state flag of Mississippi
© ROGELIO V. SOLIS / AP
The state flag of Mississippi
The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem. The removal of the flag marks the latest Confederate symbol to topple in the weeks following George Floyd's death as activists have called for a reexamination of the racism that exists in all corners of society.

The bill passed by a vote of 91-23 in the House and 37-14 in the Senate.

The bill now goes to the desk of Governor Tate Reeves, who on Saturday morning said he would sign the legislation into law, reversing resistance to a legislature-led change to the flag. Mississippians will vote on a replacement flag in the November election. According to the legislation, the current flag design cannot be an option.

"I would guess a lot of you don't even see that flag in the corner right there," said Mississippi state Representative Ed Blackmon, who is black, during public comment on Saturday. "There are some of us who notice it every time we walk in here, and it's not a good feeling."
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Twitch suspends Donald Trump's account as Reddit bans his supporters' biggest community


RT
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:03 UTC
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© Getty Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Rafael Henrique; REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
On the same day streaming platform Twitch suspended Donald Trump's account for violating their hateful conduct policy, social networking site Reddit has shut down its largest group supportive of the president.

The subreddit 'The_Donald' was the most popular community devoted to supporters of the president and included more than 790,000 users, who often used the space to post political memes and videos. Reddit executives have accused the group of targeting and harassing individuals and consistently breaking its conduct rules."Reddit is a place for community and belonging, not for attacking people," the company's Chief Executive Steve Huffman told reporters on Monday.
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WaPo editor deletes tweet claiming 'white women' are lucky 'we are just calling them KARENS and not calling for REVENGE'


RT
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:31 UTC
wapo
© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The Washington Post global opinions editor has sparked outrage with a tweet saying white women are "lucky" protesters are not calling for "revenge" against them, for helping to elect Donald Trump and suppressing black voices.

"The lies & tears of White women hath wrought: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre. Murder of Emmet Till. Exclusion of Black women from feminist movements. 53% of white women voting for Trump," Karen Attiah tweeted.

The Tulsa Massacre was a 1921 racist attack by white Oklahoma residents, in which dozens of black citizens were killed. Emmet Till was 14 when he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store her family owned.

After placing the blame for these events and others on "white women," Attiah added that they are lucky "we are just calling them 'Karens.' And not calling for revenge."
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Jewish watchdog slams Black Lives Matter UK over calls to sanction Israel


Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:51 UTC
BLM protest
© REUTERS / TOBY MELVILLE
Created in the US in 2013 as an anti-racism activism and protest movement, Black Lives Matter has enjoyed a surge in support and media coverage in the wake of the George Floyd protests across the US and around the world. Activists have been criticized by conservatives, and by Israel supporters, however, over their attacks on the Jewish State.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a Britain-based NGO tasked with handling anti-Semitic incidents, has gotten into a Twitter spat with #BlackLivesMatterUK over a series of anti-Israel/anti-Zionism tweets.

"#BlackLivesMatter should aspire to be a movement against racism that unifies people and achieves lasting change, not a movement that spreads hatred and achieves lasting division," CAA tweeted, responding to a BLMUK tweet suggesting that Britain's politicians have been "gagged" and prevented from criticizing "Zionism and Israel's settler colonial pursuits," including recent plans to 'apply sovereignty' to large chunks of the West Bank.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #29: What Israeli Lobby? Anti-Semitism Hysteria Hits US, UK, France

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'Covid-19 suddenly turned woke?' Packed Pride & BLM rally in Chicago draws criticism of hypocrisy


RT
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:20 UTC
Pride
© Getty Images via AFP / Natasha Moustache
Thousands gathered in the streets for the Pride march in Boystown in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 2020
Scenes of thousands marching in Chicago in a joint 'Pride' and 'Black Lives Matter' parade have raised questions about double standards in reporting and enforcing social distancing rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even though Chicago's annual Pride Parade was officially canceled due to Covid-19 concerns, massive crowds gathered on Sunday in the Lakeview neighborhood and marched uptown to "reclaim Pride."

Aerial footage of the packed event has drawn much criticism from those opposing the harsh lockdown measures and the apparent double standards in enforcing them. Local authorities and mainstream media were blasted for ignoring or even "encouraging" particular gatherings, while painting the rest as a dangerous breach of social distancing rules.

Comment: 'Safeguarding' against the coronavirus has become the go-to, baseless excuse for the establishment to ban anything it doesn't like all the while allowing that which furthers its agenda:

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Louisville police remove Jefferson Square Park tent city, protesters remain

Lucas Aulbach
Courrier Journal
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 04:54 UTC
Jefferson Square Park
© Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
LMPD blocked off scene of a shooting, Jefferson Square Park, Louisville, KY, June 27, 2020.
Tents will no longer be allowed at Jefferson Square Park at any time, Louisville Metro Police Department officials said Sunday, in the aftermath of Saturday night's chaotic fatal shooting at the site of the ongoing Breonna Taylor protests.

But demonstrators have said they aren't planning to close up shop any time soon.

"The community that was built there is not ending because they decided to throw us out," Shameka Parrish-Wright said at a Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression press conference Sunday morning.

Most protesters in the park over the course of the past month have been "largely peaceful," LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington wrote in an overnight statement, and interim Chief Robert Schroeder echoed that notion in a Sunday afternoon press briefing. But Saturday's shooting, which left one man dead, changed the situation.

"We are now clearing the park, and it will stay cleared," Washington wrote in a 4:05 a.m. statement. "Peaceful gatherings can continue during the day, but we will not allow people to stay overnight. No tents of any kind will be allowed at any time of day."

Comment: It only takes one person, one incident, one adverse vector to turn a peaceful protest into a crime scene.




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Detroit rioters attack and climb on police SUV, cry victim when officer drives through them

Angie Jackson, Evan Petzold and John Wisely
Detroit Free Press
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:06 UTC
Detroit Police Department SUV
© Adam J. Dewey
A protester is shown on the hood of a Detroit Police Department SUV before being thrown from the vehicle on Vernor Highway on Sunday, June 29.
What had been a mostly peaceful protest in Southwest Detroit took a dangerous turn late Sunday when a Detroit police officer drove an SUV through a crowd of protesters after they surrounded the vehicle and began pounding on it.

With the overhead lights flashing, the officer behind the wheel gunned the accelerator, sending protesters flying onto the pavement while others scurried out of the way as the vehicle lurched through the crowd. At one point, the SUV jerked to a stop and then sped away with at least two protesters on the hood, throwing them to the ground a dozen yards later.

One of the men thrown from the hood clutched his leg and limped after he stood up. The other man appeared unharmed. Both men continued to march back to Patton Park.

Jae Bass, 24, of Detroit, who was one of the men thrown from the hood, said police attempted to block the marchers from returning to Patton Park. He tried to lead the protesters through the roadblock and some of the police vehicles began moving.


Comment: The video doesn't show peaceful protesters nor the officer driving the SUV turn toward these rioters to drive through them. They surrounded the vehicle and began pounding on it while the emergency lights were on. These people and those supporting them have lost any ability whatsoever to understand cause and effect.

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