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Mao's Red Guards and America's Justice Warriors

Wenyuan Wu
Minding the Campus
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:27 UTC
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On a warm day in the early fall of 1966, a 17-year-old former high school student led a group of local Red Guards in a struggle session to publicly shame members of the "Five Black Categories (landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and right-wingers)" in a small town near Shanghai. The teenager, who came from an affluent landlord family, herded over a dozen "Five Blacks," who were ordered to stand in a row on a makeshift stage in the town center and wear signs showing their names and alleged crimes. The Red Guard leader read out each person's crime against the revolutionary regime, demanded confessions, and encouraged the crowd to join the struggle. He chanted: "The revolution is just and the rebellion is justified!"

This event was part of a student-led paramilitary movement that debuted the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Many, including the generation born after the Cultural Revolution, view the chaos and destruction caused by Mao's Red Guards as a mere historical hiccup, rather than a formative series of events that would set a pattern for the future. Few draw parallels between what happened in China half a century ago and what could happen in an open society engulfed by an orthodoxy of group think, racial identity politics, and dichotomous social relations.

To start, this radical orthodoxy preys on impressionable and unsuspicious young minds, filling them with romanticized "revolutionary" ideas, such that many are willing to forego formal education for political ambitions. Chinese Red Guards, mostly high school and middle school students, helped effectively shut down their schools by subjugating school principals and teachers in endless struggle sessions and substituting field trips with free train rides to Beijing to meet with Chairman Mao.
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Biohazard

Massive oil spill along Southern California coast, 'possible pipeline leak from oil rig'

John Bacon
USA Today
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:51 UTC
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Crews in the water and along the Southern California coastline worked feverishly Sunday to stunt the growing environmental disaster from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history after a possible underwater pipeline leak sent more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the ocean.

Booms, a temporary floating barrier that is used to contain marine spills, were deployed on the ocean surface to try to contain the oil while divers sought to determine where and why the leak occurred. On land, there was a race to find animals harmed by the oil and to keep the spill from harming any more sensitive marshland in Orange County.

Crews were able to remove more than 3,000 gallons of oil from the ocean off the coastline Sunday, according to Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley.

Comment: It remains to be seen what the source and cause of the spill was:

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Stock Down

Big Biz has found that Critical Race Theory is bad for business

Charles Gasparino
New York Post
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:15 UTC
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© Sipa via AP ImagesSeveral large financial institutions are now staying away from Critical Race Theory-based training.
I've noticed something lately covering the woke culture that's threatening to turn corporate offices into university-style safe spaces: There are apparently limits to how far left big companies are willing to veer to gain progressive brownie points.

Case in point: the much-celebrated diversity hustle that companies had begun to embrace during our summer of "largely peaceful protests." Of course, we all want a diverse workforce, but after the tragic murder of George Floyd, some firms thought it would be smart to indoctrinate office workers in that noxious fad known as Critical Race Theory.

CRT is an amalgam of left-wing talking points spewed out by the growing diversity-consulting business. The stated purpose by its practitioners sounds noble enough: Use CRT to root out racism and make the world a better place.

How CRT gets there is the problem. Racism gets rooted out mainly by brainwashing white people into believing they are inherently evil racists. They are inherently evil racists because America is systemically racist, no matter how much it has strived during its history to be better.

Thus to be good corporate citizens, they need to be re-educated and reprogrammed from their ­inherently racist past.
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Footprints

Del Rio, Texas residents sound off on Biden's mishandling of migrant surge

Lisa Bennatan
Fox News
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 19:23 UTC
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© CNBCMigrants gathered under a bridge near Del Rio, Texas on September 24, 2021
Del Rio, Texas, residents who spoke with Fox News were frustrated with how President Biden handled the recent migrant surge at the southern border.

"I feel that it's the fault of the president," one local told Fox News. Immigrants "felt they had been promised by the president that they would become United States citizens," they said.

As many as 15,000 migrants recently crossed the U.S.'s southern border and gathered under the Del Rio International Bridge.

Comment:

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Cult

Creepy video of teacher singing pro-mask song to face-covered toddlers sparks fury


RT
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:29 UTC
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A video of a preschool teacher singing a pro-face mask song to a group of unenthusiastic, masked toddlers went viral on Sunday, angering many Americans, who likened the scene to a hostage situation or child abuse.

In the video, a female teacher behind the camera encourages a group of uncomfortable and agitated-looking children, who are all wearing Covid-19 face masks, to join in with the song about the necessity of covering your face.

The song includes such lyrics as "I wear a mask to school," "It helps to keep me safe," and "It keeps my friends safe."

Comment: Kids should not be wearing masks. Period. Firstly, masks don't protect people from the dreaded 'Rona, see here and here to find out why. Secondly, it is extremely unlikely that children will get sick from coronavirus and before people say "it's not to protect them it's to protect others" a review has shown that there has not been one single case of a child passing on covid to an adult. If that wasn't enough, masks are HARMFUL both physically and psychologically for a whole host of reasons, maybe even more so for children whose brains and immune systems are still developing.

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Yoda

Best of the Web: Rand Paul rightfully eviscerates Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra: 'You're a lawyer with no scientific background'

Christopher Tremoglie
Washington Examiner
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:43 UTC
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Sen. Rand Paul confronts HHS Xavier Bercerra at a Senate hearing September 30, 2021
Sen. Rand Paul rebuked Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra yesterday over vaccine mandates ordered by the Biden administration at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing yesterday. Paul attacked Becerra on two crucial issues. First, he criticized Becerra's description of those advocating natural immunity as "flat earthers." Second, he emphatically challenged Becerra on the idea of natural immunity from COVID-19 for people who already contracted it.

As much as the Biden administration has publicly touted "trust the science," Paul emphasized how the science disagrees with Becerra. And quite frankly, Paul was justified in taking Becerra to task.

Comment: Let it be noted that Sen. Paul IS a medical doctor, specializing in ophthalmology.

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Bizarro Earth

Calls to re-vet all UK police after murder of Sarah Everard by superintendent who was PROMOTED to Met despite indecency offenses


Sky News
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:18 UTC
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick delivers a statement outside the Old Bailey
Ex-police chief superintendent Parm Sandhu told Sky News she had "real concerns" more people "with questionable backgrounds" had been missed under current procedures, adding a culture within the force allowed Wayne Couzens "to flourish".

Every police officer in the UK should be re-vetted following the sentencing of Wayne Couzens, a former senior Metropolitan Police chief superintendent has said.

Parm Sandhu told Sky News she had "real concerns" more people "with questionable backgrounds" had been missed under current vetting procedures.

She spoke after Couzens was given a whole life order for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard.

Comment: There are significant problems with this kind of reactionary response because, at best it will become a resource draining PR exercise, amidst already stretched staffing, at worst it will be hijacked by the ponerized establishment to make examples of a few officers whilst the real predators remain undiscovered; after all, the murderer was promoted all the way to superintendent by officers that, one would assume, should have a superior ability to spot criminals:

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Eye 1

Twitter accused of 'censoring obituaries' over fact-check of young mother who died from vaccine-related illness

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:02 UTC
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Twitter faced sharp criticism Sunday after the social media platform fact-checked the obituary of a Washington mother who died from a reaction directly related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

What happened?

On Friday, a Twitter user shared the obituary of Jessica Berg Wilson, who died last month from COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia. The obituary described Wilson as "an exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old young mother with no underlying health conditions."

The obituary explained that Wilson was opposed to the vaccine and blamed "heavy-handed vaccine mandates" — she lived in Seattle — for causing her untimely death.

Comment: The pressure on Twitter appeared to (mostly) work:

But not for everyone. Anti-woke gadfly Gina Carano is still in modified twitter-lockdown:
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Star of David

Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign

Asa Winstanley
The Electric Intifada
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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© CAFE/YouTubeProfessor David Miller
The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby. After a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby, the university said on Friday that, "Professor David Miller is no longer employed by the University of Bristol."

The statement said only that Miller "did not meet the standards of behavior we expect from our staff," though it did not elaborate. Miller told The Electronic Intifada he would be appealing and "fighting it all the way."

Yet the statement appeared to exonerate Miller from the Israel's lobby's deliberately false allegations of anti-Semitism. An "independent report" by an unnamed lawyer had found that "Professor Miller's comments did not constitute unlawful speech," the statement acknowledged.


Comment: Unlawful speech?


Miller said the report had actually gone further and that the lawyer's report had "explicitly determined" his remarks "were not anti-Semitic."
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Arrow Up

Hospitals should hire, not fire, nurses with natural immunity

Martin Kulldorff
Brownstone Institute
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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© shutterstockNurse on break
Among many surprising developments during this pandemic, the most stunning has been the questioning of naturally acquired immunity after a person has had the Covid disease.

We have understood natural immunity since at least the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Here is Thucydides:
'Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and the dying found most compassion. These knew what it was from experience and had no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice — never at least fatally.' - Thucydides
We have lived with endemic coronaviruses for at least a hundred years, for which we have long-lasting natural immunity. As expected, we also have natural immunity after Covid-19 disease, as there have been exceedingly few reinfections with serious illness or death, despite a widely circulating virus.

For most viruses, natural immunity is better than vaccine-induced immunity, and that is also true for Covid. In the best study to date, the vaccinated were around 27 times more likely to have symptomatic disease than those with natural immunity, with an estimated range between 13 and 57. With no Covid deaths in either group, both natural and vaccine immunity protect well against death.
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