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Leave our kids alone

Suzie Halewood
Off-Guardian
Thu, 20 May 2021 17:36 UTC
Child standing in front of tanks
Softening the electorate up to the prospect of inoculating all children over the age of 12, Secretary of State Control Matt Hancock says he has been 'closely following the results from the clinical studies from Pfizer showing that the vaccine is safe and effective among children between the ages of 12 and 18'.

While, in the US, Joe Biden appealed to schoolchildren directly to reassure them that the 'safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine' which has gone through a 'rigorous' and 'thorough' review, will prevent them from spreading COVID-19 'to their friends, to their siblings, to their parents and to the grandparents' and encouraging parents to make sure their kids get the shot.

Does a degree in PPE qualify Matt Hancock to indefatigably state the rewards of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outweigh the risks for children?

Does a Political Science and History degree qualify Biden to state irrefutably that experimental COVID vaccines with no long-term safety data are safe? Could he name a single vaccine ingredient - even with the aid of an auto-cue? Has he even read the FDA report?
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Ceasefire or not: The threat of expulsion facing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah continues to this day

Jamal Kanj
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Thu, 20 May 2021 18:14 UTC
sheikh jarrah checkpoint jerusalem
© AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli border guards stand at attention in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 14, 2021, during clashes between Israeli far-right extremists and Palestinians.
Palestinian diaspora narratives are broad. Sheikh Jarrah is the story of Palestinian families, in one East Jerusalem neighborhood, under the Israeli occupation. In contrast, my diaspora journey traces a family of sheep herders and farmers in the Galilee pushed to a Northern Lebanese refugee camp in 1948 and denied a return to their homes. By miraculous fate, I ended up living in the United States and became a registered civil engineer in the state of California. Through my own life experience growing up as a stateless refugee, I can appreciate the unfortunate threat of expulsion facing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah.

The fight over the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood is a microcosm of the Palestine question. While war and fear were the main Israeli instruments to drive out my parents and more than 700,000 Palestinians from their towns and villages in 1948, current Israeli policies use legal euphemisms to change the demographic makeup of Palestinian communities as in the case of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

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French court blocks 'ban on filming police' provision in Macron security law


France 24
Thu, 20 May 2021 18:03 UTC
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© Christophe Archambault/AFPFrench protests against the against Macron's new security law turned violent at the end of last year
France's top constitutional authority said on Thursday it had rejected a key article of a new security law that could see prosecutions of people who publish footage of police officers in action.

Sending President Emmanuel Macron's government back to the drawing board, the Constitutional Council said that lawmakers who passed the controversial legislation had not set out clearly enough what would constitute a breach of the law in such situations.

Article 52, which sparked massive street protests at the end of last year, is part of a security law drafted by Macron's ruling party and adopted by parliament on April 15.
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Socrates would've been CANCELED today, Florida lawmaker says - Twitter loses its collective mind


RT
Fri, 21 May 2021 17:56 UTC
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© WikimediaThe Death of Socrates (1787), by Jacques-Louis David
If Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates lived in the US today, he would be "canceled," GOP state representative Anthony Sabatini tweeted, sending "Socrates" trending and prompting Twitter to helpfully explain how he was executed.

One of the greatest thinkers of Athens, Socrates is credited with being one of the founders of Western philosophy. He infamously met his demise due to the cutthroat politics of his time. A critic of his city's policies who commended the ways of rival power Sparta, he was tried for being disrespectful to established gods of his polis and for corrupting the minds of young people. In 399 BC, Socrates was executed by ingestion of a poisonous hemlock brewage.
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Tucker Carlson takes on Lori Lightfoot: Equity is racism, bigotry, prejudice, and hatred

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Fri, 21 May 2021 17:16 UTC
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© Fox News/GettyTucker Carlson and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host reacts to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot prioritizing Black and Brown journalists

For months now, privately, we've been searching for a meaningful definition of the word "equity." We've consulted linguists, dusted off moldering reference books, we scoured the four corners of God's own internet, all in an effort to figure out what it means. We've done this, not for pleasure, but because it's our duty as a news organization. Equity is now the organizing principle of the United States of America.

On the very day he was inaugurated, Joe Biden signed Executive Order 13985. That order makes equity mandatory across the federal government. Yet strangely, neither Joe Biden nor anyone else in the administration ever defined the word. So what is equity? Tonight, finally, we know what it is.

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Best of the Web: Use of fear to control behavior in Covid crisis was 'totalitarian', admit scientists

Gordon Rayner
The Telegraph
Fri, 14 May 2021 21:00 UTC
people wouldn’t want to be locked down
© Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesOne scientist said the Government ‘was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down’
Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about 'unethical' methods

Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour have expressed regret about 'unethical' methods used to control behaviour in Covid crisis and admitted they should be considered 'totalitarian'.

Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people's behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was "unethical" and "totalitarian".

Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government's Covid-19 response.

The group warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase "the perceived level of personal threat" from Covid-19 because "a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened".

Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: "Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It's not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature, I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people."

Comment: This is only what we've been saying here for many months - and is now being admitted to by an all-too-timid few.

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Eric Clapton after COVID vaccination: 'I should never have gone near the needle'

Mordechai Sones
America's frontline doctors
Wed, 12 May 2021 06:48 UTC
Injection
Monotti Protocol Producer Robin Monotti Graziadei today forwarded a message he received from singer Eric Clapton in which Clapton reports adverse reactions he suffered after submitting to the shot, regrets having undergone the procedure, and asks, "where have all the rebels gone?"

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Death rate in England is lowest since records began 20 years ago

Sarah Knapton
Telegraph
Fri, 21 May 2021 11:55 UTC
mask london bridge
© REUTERS / Henry NichollsJust 851.2 people per 100,000 died last month - the lowest figure since the ONS started recording mortality rates in 2001
The proportion of people dying in England fell in April to its lowest level since records began, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

Just 851.2 people per 100,000 died last month - the lowest figure since the ONS started recording mortality rates in 2001. At the height of the first wave of the Covid pandemic last April, death rates were 1,859 per 100,000.


Comment: Note that above the 'first wave' and the increase in mortality also coincides with the first lockdown that actually began a few weeks before. This seems to confirm what SOTT cautioned against back in March 2020: that it is the lack of access to primary healthcare - not the coronavirus - will result in a surge in mortality.


The latest figures show that 38,899 people died in April - 6.1 per cent fewer than the five-year average.

Comment: As we can see above, the area of Bolton has seen a surge in vaccination rates in the the under-50s and in turn the area is experiencing an outbreak. This may confirm what Nobel Prize winner Professor Luc Montagnier warned about; that there is likely a direct correlation between vaccination, variants and outbreaks:

See also: Pfizer vaccine in Israel: Mortality rate 'hundreds of times greater in vaccinated young people'

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #34: Covid By Numbers

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CNN host celebrates Antifa violence, says those who oppose them are on the same side as Hitler

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 19 May 2021 20:34 UTC
W. Kamau Bell
Host of CNN's "United Shades of America," W. Kamau Bell, praised far-left extremist group Antifa in his latest segment and said those that are against the violent group are on the same side as Hitler and Mussolini.

"In 2020, many white Americans dealt with complicated feelings about the police for the first time," Bell asserted. "The right-wing saw that, and they [sic] did what they do: They pulled a bait-and-switch, and returned to an old boogeyman: Antifa."

Bell went on to slam conservatives for supporting the police instead of supporting left-wing extremist groups that he implied are fighting for "justice."

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High school teacher busted in sting after sending nude photos to 14-year-old

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 21 May 2021 06:23 UTC
Anthony Michael Peace
Anthony Michael Peace, 37 years old, was arrested on Wednesday after an almost month-long interaction online with an undercover detective he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.

Peace has now been charged with unlawful use of a communications device, use of computer services or devices to solicit illegal acts, and five further counts of transmission of illegal materials to a minor. He was arrested at Strawberry Crest High School, where he has been working as a history teacher.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the online interactions started on Mar. 29 2021, when Peace sent the first message on social media to the detective posing as a minor. The detective was part of an undercover sting operation specifically set up to catch adults seeking sex with minors.

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