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Penn State passes resolution calling for end to 'male-specific' terms like 'freshman' & 'senior'


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 17:57 UTC
Penn state
© REUTERS/Eric Thayer
Pennsylvania State University is the latest college to make a move towards wokemania, after the faculty passed a resolution getting rid of terms like 'freshman' and 'senior' for not being gender inclusive.

The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs at the school passed the 'Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions' resolution and it was signed by over two dozen professors and administrators, according to a report from Campus Reform.

Under the resolution, terms such as 'freshman,' 'underclassman,' 'senior,' and 'upperclassman' are being retired in the name of inclusivity.

These terms are apparently "decidedly male-specific" while terms such as 'upperclassmen' can be interpreted as being "both sexist and classist," the resolution states, arguing that Penn State "has grown out of a typically male-centered world."

Terms like 'junior' and 'senior' stem from father-son conventions, according to the resolution, making them also non-inclusive.

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Evil Rays

How 'woke' may be leading us to civil war

Roger L. Simon
The Epoch Times
Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola
The other day, I wrote that "woke" was the new conformism.

It is, of course, but I undersold it. It's much more than that and more dangerous.

As Tal Bachman notes at Steynonline, it's now our state religion, a state religion in a country that - constitutionally and for good reason - isn't supposed to have one.

But "Wokism" is yet more than that, too. It's a mass psychosis similar to many that have arisen throughout history when the masses followed leaders who, in their zeal or self-interest, took them to disastrous ends.

A good example was when the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola - in a 1497 version of "cancel culture" - swept up everything secular in Florence from some of the most extraordinary paintings and sculpture of all time to the works of Boccaccio and burned them in the so-called Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack is new but experienced (if its even they who're responsible)

Raphael Satter
Reuters
Mon, 10 May 2021 19:10 UTC
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Comment: See the following story (and note its numerous knock-on effects) to get a sense of why 'cyber attack' has so much coverage at the moment: Cyberattack forces shutdown of largest gasoline pipeline in United States - UPDATES


The ransomware group linked to the extortion attempt that has snared fuel deliveries across the U.S. East Coast may be new, but that doesn't mean its hackers are amateurs.

Who precisely is behind the disruptive intrusion into Colonial Pipeline hasn't been made officially known and digital attribution can be tricky, especially early on in an investigation. A former U.S. official and two industry sources have told Reuters that the group DarkSide is among the suspects.

Cybersecurity experts who have tracked DarkSide said it appears to be composed of veteran cybercriminals who are focused on squeezing out as much money as they can from their targets.

"They're very new but they're very organized," Lior Div, the chief executive of Boston-based security firm Cybereason, said on Sunday.

"It looks like someone who's been there, done that."


Comment: So "new" in the sense of them being a new brand of hacker.


Comment: Much is made about DarkSide here, but nothing said about their denial of participating in the hack:
"Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society," DarkSide wrote on its website.
...or who else might be responsible for it. But this event has gotten the attention of the Feds, and maybe that was the intention all along IF the malicious actors were hired hands of a US government seeking to use such an event to help further along the on-going Totalitarian agenda - and prime the public for a much more concerted and devastating cyberattack Cyber Polygon style.

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Oil Well

Venezuela's decaying oil and gas industry will need $77.6 billion to rebuild itself

Tim Korso
Sputniknews
Tue, 11 May 2021 22:19 UTC
It is unclear, however, how the state oil company plans to raise such a vast sum of money from investors while remaining under sanctions from the US which affect both funding and oil sales.

Venezuelan state-owned oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) believes an investment of $77.6 billion can set the country's oil and gas industry back on its feet, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters. The paper titled "Investment Opportunities", reportedly drafted in February 2021 not long after new US President Joe Biden was inaugurated, envisages a total overhaul of the country's gas and oil infrastructure, oilfields, refineries and other facilities to increase crude output to several million barrels per day instead of the present 578,000.

PDVSA Oil Company
© CC BY-SA 3.0 / THE PHOTOGRAPHER / PDVSAPDVSA

Comment: Here's another example of a wonderful utopia after the US brings Justice and democracy! See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Asians attacked in two separate incidents on San Francisco buses on same day, week after Asian women stabbed at bus stop


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 19:26 UTC
Asians San Francisco
© Reuters / Shannon StapletonA man is shown riding a city bus in San Francisco's Chinatown area. Asians have been victimized in several attacks on the city's bus system in just the past week.
San Francisco's municipal bus system has emerged as a hot spot in an epidemic of unprovoked attacks on Asians, with two separate assaults occurring on the same day just one week after two elderly women were stabbed at a bus stop.

The latest incident happened Sunday morning, when an Asian woman was allegedly hit in the face for no reason by a man as she was boarding a bus in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. The bus driver then intervened, stopping the man from striking the woman again, letting him exit the bus and calling police.

The woman suffered a split lip in the attack. Police gave no indication of whether she required medical treatment or if a suspect was arrested.

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Arrow Up

Goa prescribes effective coronavirus drug Ivermectin for all above 18

Mayura Janwalkar
The Indian Express
Tue, 11 May 2021 17:13 UTC
Ivermectin
Health minister Vishwajit Rane said that Goa would be the first state in the country to administer Ivermectin to its adult citizens as a step towards protecting lives.
The government's decision to administer the anthelmintic drug to the entire population comes at a time its vaccination program for the 18-44 age group is yet to take off and is expected to start only by the third week of May.

With a ten-fold rise in Covid-19 infections over the last month, the Goa government on Monday announced that it will be starting prophylaxis treatment by administering Ivermectin to all above the age of 18 years in the state, irrespective of Covid-19 symptoms. The government's decision to administer the anthelmintic drug to the entire population comes at a time its vaccination program for the 18-44 age group is yet to take off and is expected to start only by the third week of May.


Comment: For the vast majority of people the coronavirus is relatively harmless so the vaccination program is not only pointless, it could actually prove to be many times more harmful: Pfizer vaccine in Israel: Mortality rate 'hundreds of times greater in vaccinated young people'


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UK to ban LGBT conversion therapy and provide more support


Reuters
Tue, 11 May 2021 08:21 UTC
Wattsville LGBT flags
© Getty ImagesWattsville, a village in the Gwent valleys, UK
Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBT community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic government agenda.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government said measures would be brought forward to prevent these "abhorrent practices which can cause mental and physical harm", starting with a consultation on how best to protect people and how to eliminate coercive practices.

Johnson's party has come under increasing pressure on the issue after former leader Theresa May vowed in 2018 to eradicate a procedure that aims to change or suppress someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. However some faith leaders had argued that a wide ban could implicate those who offer pastoral support including prayer.

Setting out the new parliamentary agenda in a briefing document alongside the Queen's Speech, the government said:
"We will ensure medical professionals, religious leaders, teachers and parents can continue to be able to have open and honest conversations with people."

Comment: Are unnatural acts of physical mutilation and castration a faith issue? It may become a legal one for the clergy.

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Chart Pie

Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history


Independent
Tue, 11 May 2021 12:00 UTC
Xinjiang
Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank.

The report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, obtained exclusively ahead of publication by The Associated Press, showed the 48.74% decline was concentrated in areas with many Uyghurs Kazakhs and other largely Muslim ethnic minorities, based on Chinese government statistics over nearly a decade.


Comment: The article appears to be omitting data in order to promote a propaganda narrative; for example, have these families gone from having 4 children to having 2? Could that explain the drop? And would that be such a bad thing? Without more and specific data, we're none the wiser.


Birthrates in largely minority counties fell 43.7% between 2017 and 2018 alone, with over 160,000 fewer babies born. That compares to a slight increase in births in counties populated mostly by China's Han majority.
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Red Pill

Tucker Carlson asks the question: Anthony Fauci let the coronavirus pandemic happen, why isn't there a criminal investigation?

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Wed, 12 May 2021 19:46 UTC
Tucker Carlson Jeffrey Zients
© Fox NewsTucker Carlson (inset) Jeffrey Zients, Biden's "Covid Coordinator"
This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the May 10, 2021, edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

How do we assess the Biden administration's response to COVID? Well, here's one marker: it tells you pretty much everything that the White House that is supposedly so committed to science chose as its head COVID coordinator a man with no background at all in science or medicine. His name is Jeffrey Zients. Zients ran Joe Biden's presidential transition team, that's his qualification. He's a former management consultant from Bain, who sat on the board of Facebook. Jeffrey Zients is a political operative. That's who's overseeing COVID response for Joe Biden. The good news is because Zients isn't even close to being an actual scientist, he doesn't talk like one. Occasionally he says things whose significance the rest of us can clearly understand. Read what Zients said on CNN yesterday, and it becomes very clear how the White House understands this pandemic.

Comment: The Duran comments:
Dr. Anthony Fauci is propped up as the national "Expert" on all things coronavirus. It seems that he would indeed be the expert.

After all, he helped create it.

Let that sink in a bit. Dr Fauci, the "mask until Eternity" guy is in a perpetual and highly paid game of "Cover My A**".

Apocryphal information? Tinfoil hattery here? Not so much. Most of my readers on The Duran may remember this piece from about one year ago, where Next News Network, a YouTube channel dedicated to real conservative news, featured an extensive interview with Dr. Rashid Buttar, who detailed, very specifically, Dr. Anthony Fauci's ties to the very creation of SARS-CoV-2 itself. We present that video below:


[...]

Senator Rand Paul actually questioned Dr Fauci on this connection today in DC. Here is the video:


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To think that this simply consummate liar ran the COVID response program under President Trump raises very serious questions:
  1. How is it that President Trump was taken in by this man?
  2. How is it that despite President Trump's gradual distancing of policy from Dr Fauci's insanity, that he did not at some point directly call Dr Fauci out as the liar he is?
  3. How is the Imposter Regime using Dr Fauci to carry out its own tyrannical dreams for America and for the world?
One might speculate that Trump didn't have much wiggle room to replace such an entrenched swamp creature. Voice-of-sanity Scott Atlas didn't last long under the Swamp's onslaught. Fauci's run his sinécure, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Two excellent articles by Nicholas Wade, the reporter mentioned by Carlson. They are damning.

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NPC

Vaccinated Americans MORE SCARED of socializing than those without the jab - poll


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 19:58 UTC
movie theater
© Reuters / Eduardo Munoz
Vaccination against Covid-19 has been sold to the public as a ticket back to normality, but a new poll has found that those who've taken the jab are even more scared of socializing than the unvaccinated.

Nearly half of all American adults have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 35% are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. President Joe Biden has urged the remainder to "get the shot," and in a speech last week, Biden described the ongoing vaccination drive as "a serious step toward a return to normal."

But vaccinated Americans aren't rushing to return to normal. Glancing through comments on social media reveals a whole host of people - usually political liberals - who proudly proclaim that they'll continue to mask up outdoors even after receiving their two vaccine shots.

It's not just internet crazies either. A Morning Consult poll published on Wednesday shows that vaccinated Americans are less comfortable about returning to public activities than their unvaccinated counterparts.
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