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'Jingle Bells' gets canceled by a NY school


RT
Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:02 UTC
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A Christmas song has been dropped by a New York public school for its "potential to be controversial or offensive".

A New York primary school has removed the song 'Jingle Bells' from its curriculum because of its connection with the 19th century blackface performing tradition.

Brighton's Council Rock Primary school principal Matthew Tappon, in an email to local news outlet The Rochester Beacon, explained that the Christmas favorite had been replaced with other songs that don't have "the potential to be controversial or offensive."

Comment: These people are insane. Absolutely no one is associating the sleigh bells accompanying 'Jingle Bells' with "bells on slaves' collars" (if that was even a thing), or black-faced minstrels, unless they are explicitly told to make that association. Banning songs in this fashion is nothing but painfully overt virtue signalling.

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Couple sentenced to death in China after father killed his two toddlers by throwing them from 15th floor because new girlfriend did not want to raise another women's children

Sam Baker
Daily Mail
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:52 UTC
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Zhang Bo, 27, (right) threw his two children, aged 2 and 1, from his apartment building in Chongqing, China, because his new girlfriend Ye Chengchen (left)would not marry him while he was the father to someone else's children
A father and his girlfriend have been sentenced to death in China after he threw his two children from his apartment building because his new girlfriend did not want another woman's kids.

The two young children fell from the tower block in the municipality of Chongqing, China, on November 2 last year.

Zhang Bo's daughter Zhang Ruixue, 2, died instantly, while his son Zhang Yangrui, 1, died shortly after from his injuries.

The 27-year-old had met Ye Chengchen, who he wanted to marry, but she refused to accept him while he already had children and so did her parents.

Comment: At a time when China is being vilified by the Western press as a totalitarian and brutal regime, and largely without merit, it's notable that most of the comments on the Daily Mail website say that they agree with the verdict given by the Chinese court, with the vast majority criticizing the lenient sentences criminals receive in the West. Obviously this isn't necessarily fully representative of public opinion, but it does provide some insight into how people feel about the justice system in the West.

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Joshua Slocum: We're Living in a Cluster B World



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Transgender rules are 'assault on women's sport', warns hall of fame swimming coach


RT
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:44 UTC
swimming coach Dave Salo
© Gus Ruelas / ReutersLeading swimming coach Dave Salo.
Dave Salo also said that athletes are afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled transphobic as part of a culture of 'wokeism'.

Transgender policies currently in place in US student swimming are an 'assault on women's sports' according to respected coach Dave Salo, who says that rules which allow the likes of Lia Thomas to compete aren't 'fair at all'.

Salo, who was the long-time head coach at the University of Southern California until he stepped down last year, spoke out on what is becoming an increasingly fractious topic in sport after Thomas, a swimmer who transitioned to female after being born male, recorded some of the best times of the athletic year while representing the University of Pennsylvania.

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Federal judges order release of Jeffrey Epstein civil settlement at issue in lawsuit against Prince Andrew

Adam Klasfeld
Law & Crime
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:56 UTC
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Prince Andrew stands with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist, with Ghislaine Maxwell standing in the background. Giuffre included this photograph in her lawsuit against the British royal.
Federal judges ordered the unsealing of a 2009 settlement agreement that Prince Andrew has claimed insulates him from a civil lawsuit accusing him of having sexually abused a 17-year-old girl.

The more than decade-old deal, signed by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the prince's accuser Virginia Giuffre, is said to have shielded broad categories of Epstein's powerful associates, including "royalty," from civil liability.

"Because Prince Andrew is a senior member of the British royal family, he falls into one of the expressly identified categories of persons, i.e., royalty, released from liability under the Release Agreement, along with politicians, academicians, businessmen, and others allegedly associated with Epstein," the prince's lawyer Andrew B. Brettler wrote in a memo on Oct. 29.

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How 'Defund the Police' backfired

Michael Shellenberger
UnHerd
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:30 UTC
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© Matt York/APProtesters rally in Phoenix, demanding the city council defund the Phoenix police department on 3 June 2020.
After a spike in crime, progressive cities are reversing cuts

Over the last two decades, progressives have established a new consensus on crime. Nonviolent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession should be reclassified as misdemeanours. Cities should defund the police and spend the money on nurses, psychologists and social workers instead. Offenders should have minimal involvement with the justice system — and be kept out of jail wherever possible.

But now, rising crime is rapidly undermining the progressive consensus. Homicides rose 30% in 2020, and over two-thirds of America's largest cities will have had even more homicides in 2021 than in 2020. At least 13 big cities will set all-time records for homicides, including Philadelphia, Austin, and Portland. Meanwhile property crimes in California's four largest cities rose 7% between 2020 and 2021. Car break-ins in San Francisco declined temporarily in 2020, because Covid emptied the city of tourists, but they have since skyrocketed, reaching 3,000 in November. Many residents have stopped bothering to report crime.
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France bans Britons from driving through country under new lockdown rules


The Guardian
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:48 UTC
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© Hale-Sutton Europe/AlamySince 18 December France has only allowed travel from the UK for ‘compelling reasons.
Eurotunnel is warning British citizens who live in the EU that they cannot travel through France by car from the UK due to new coronavirus restrictions imposed by the French government.

Getlink, the operator of the Channel rail link, issued an urgent warning on its website and Twitter page on Wednesday evening that appeared to confirm that the French government had changed its travel rules.

The statement read: "Following a French Government decision, on 28/12/2021, unless they hold French residency, British citizens are now considered 3rd country citizens and can no longer transit France by road to reach their country of residence in the EU."

Comment: It's increasingly looking like there will come a time where these exceptions no longer exist and that these nonsensical and draconian restrictions to travel will become a permanent part of the 'new normal'. As of right now, however, it seems we're going through a period of acclimatization: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever



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Gruesome details about sacked UK police officer revealed


RT
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:19 UTC
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A tribunal has sacked police officer Ryan Connolly from the Merseyside force after it emerged that he'd taken a selfie at a murder scene and sent several racist, homophobic and offensive images, police confirmed to The Guardian.

The tribunal decided that during his six years in the police force, PC Ryan Connolly frequently failed to meet standards, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. Among a litany of misdemeanors, Connolly was found to have taken a selfie at the scene of a teenage murder in 2018, in which the victim had been stabbed multiple times.

"Connolly had taken photographs of vulnerable people on his personal phone whilst on duty ... This breached the duty of confidence; lacked honesty and integrity and through his discreditable conduct he has undermined public confidence," Merseyside police's deputy chief constable, Ian Critchley, told the paper.

Comment: This officer sounds like a psychopath or an extremely disturbed individual at the least. Liverpool World reported that he was convicted of three offenses of possession of extreme pornographic material:
The offences, which date back to 2017, include possession of an extreme pornographic image which was 'grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character and portrayed in an explicit and realistic way a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal'.

He was also in possession of an 'extreme pornographic image which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character and portrayed in an explicit and realistic way an act which resulted, or was likely to result, in serious injury to a person's genitals and/or threatened a person's life'.


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Russians more concerned about lockdowns than coronavirus, study reveals

Layla Guest
RT
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:08 UTC
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© Sputnik / Konstantin MihalchevskiyFILE PHOTO. Simferopol, Crimea, Russia.
Russians are fearful about the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements and new restrictions on those who haven't had a jab - but they're less concerned about the prospect of being infected themselves.

That's according to CROS, which published its National Anxiety Index on Wednesday, revealing the biggest worries and phobias keeping people up at night.

As per the analysis, the rollout of a QR-code system barring those without vaccines or natural antibodies from mass events and public spaces in many areas is the biggest source of concern, coming out on top in 70 of the country's regions.

Comment: Whilst the QR code may pass and force a significant number of Russian's to have to suffer a Covid jab they don't want, it reveals that a significant number of the population haven't fallen for the propaganda in the same way those in the West have. This is likely partly because Russia, having suffered under pathological regimes in living memory, has made them rightly mistrustful of government that claims to have the people's best interest at heart whilst also threatening them with cruel and unusual punishments if they don't comply: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever



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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Breakdown of agriculture and basic services 2022-2024


Adapt 2030
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:02 UTC
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Fertilizer shortages are slated to sweep the globe in 2022, which will reduce global crop output and spike prices as the highest bidder gets the grains. Same time organic yields are 25% less than chemical fertilizer, so can farmers switch? Sri Lanka is a perfect guide to allow us a glimpse into the future with basic services limited and supply capacity shrinking.


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'Get boosted now' message hits Liverpool streets with 'hi-tech' backpack screens

Ellen Kirwin
Liverpool Echo
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:42 UTC
NHS Get Boosted Now message
© Liverpool ECHONHS Get Boosted Now message
People wearing screens encouraging the public to get their covid booster jab have been spotted on Liverpool's Lord Street.

The screens read 'get boosted now' and have official government and NHS branding logos on them.

The messages appear on a monitor that is being carried around on the shoulders of those carrying them.

Comment: We live in a clown world! The government and the NHS are pushing the 'Get boosted now' message hard! On boxing day text messages were sent out to people in the UK strongly urging them to get the booster shot, although the message drew ire and ridicule on social media from some:



Newspapers and advertising stands were also flooded with the message:





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