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With sunshine forecast, Paris deploys 4,000 police officers to enforce strict lockdown curfew


RT
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:20 UTC
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© AFP / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELTPolice officers talk to a woman as they ensure the mask compliance in a street of Paris
The French government has announced it will strengthen its police patrols ahead of predicted warm weather this weekend in a bid to make sure the rise in temperatures isn't matched by a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Officials in numerous parts of the country fear a combination of pleasant spring weather and the break-up of some schools for holidays could encourage people to gather in groups, thus risking the increased spread of the virus.

Police chiefs in the capital will launch a "large-scale" operation involving 4,000 officers from Saturday to enforce the country's strict 6pm to 6am curfews, imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Comment: See also: 'Dystopian nightmare': UK Home Office ridiculed for bizarre lockdown ad with rave soundtrack

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Disturbing video shows cop punching alleged attacker in the head as assaults on transit police TRIPLE in NYC


RT
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:10 UTC
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The NYPD have been accused of using excessive force after a video showed a cop repeatedly punching a man in the subway. But police claim the officer was acting in self-defense after the suspect allegedly nearly ripped his ear off.

Graphic footage surfaced on Thursday showing three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers restraining a man on the floor of a subway station, while a fourth cop took swings at him, striking him numerous times in the head, face and upper body. The man is seen struggling to break free as the officers eventually turn him on his back and cuff him.

The person filming the video can be heard saying "oh my God" as more police arrived to keep people away from the scuffle. The clip sparked outrage on social media, with many accusing the NYPD of police brutality.

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Stock Down

How the Big-Tech monopolies are hurting their own value

David James
OffGuardian
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:39 UTC
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The increasing censorship by the tech monopolies is rightly prompting protests from those who see it as an attack on free speech. What has been less noticed, however, is that the social media companies are adopting one of the strangest, and potentially most self-defeating, business strategies ever devised.

They are telling a large slice of their customer base - possibly as many as 100 million in the US and tens of millions elsewhere - to get lost. It represents a massive opportunity for new players and it seems a near certainty that citizen Donald Trump - who is very much a business person and not so much a politician - will be looking closely at it, as will many others.

[David's prediction was actually right on the money - this was published just the day after he submitted his article - ed.]

It is common for monopolies or oligopolies to treat their customers with disdain, although they usually spend some of their marketing budget pretending otherwise. What never happens, though, is for monopolies to tell a large number of their customers to go away.

It is the equivalent of JD Rockefeller, owner of the infamous monopoly Standard Oil, refusing to sell petrol to anyone who voted for the Democratic party. What it confirms is that these companies have become political entities rather than businesses, a change of direction that will inevitably weaken them.

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2 + 2 = 4

Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'

Sam Dorman
Fox News
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
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World’s first ethnomathematics program offered at University of Hawai'i
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.

Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

Comment: The idea that things like objectivity, right answers or delayed gratification are inherently white, or more specifically, the tools of white supremacy, is an astoundingly racist sentiment. Ask these ideologues whether they'd like an engineer using traditional math or woke math to build their house and we'll probably see where their true sentiments lie.

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Burka

Coca-Cola leak exposes employees' training course on 'how to be less White', peddled by critical race ideologue Robin DiAngelo


RT
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:18 UTC
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Coca-Cola is facing a major backlash for allegedly joining a series of American corporations that indoctrinate their white employees with critical race theory - including demands that they "try to be less white."

Organizational psychologist Karlyn Borysenko, an activist against so-called critical race theory indoctrination, said on Friday that she obtained copies of the training materials from a whistleblower at Coca-Cola who received an email from management announcing the course. The class is administered online, through the LinkedIn Learning platform, and is entitled "Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo," a top proponent of critical race theory who offers high-dollar corporate seminars on "whiteness, white fragility" and "racial justice." She is known to charge up to $40,000 for a half-day talk.


Comment: 'White Fragility' is an exhausting, dull, racially obsessed book that only serves to deepen divisions



A spokesperson from Coca-Cola responded to the images later on Friday, all but confirming they were from a company-endorsed seminar to Blaze journalist Chris Pandolfo, though said it was not the main "focus" of its educational program.

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Ambulance

Columbia professor: I snort heroin regularly for 'work-life balance'

Michael Kaplan
New York Post
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:49 UTC
Carl Hart
© Getty Images for The New YorkerCarl Hart, a professor at Columbia University, is open about his drug use, saying substances such as heroin help him in his daily life.
Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin - not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use.

At 54, the married father of three has snorted small amounts of heroin for as many as 10 days in a row and enjoyed it mightily - even if, as he recalls in his new book "Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear" (Penguin Press), he's experienced mild withdrawal symptoms "12 to 16 hours after the last dose."

But, as Hart sees it, the discomfort is a worthwhile trade-off.

Comment: It sounds like the good professor is playing with fire, and not so subtly encouraging others to do the same. Remember that, in the phase before full-blown addiction, the addict is always under the impression that they've got their habit under control.

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USA

'Amend: The Fight for America', Netflix's new painfully woke docuseries, is only interested in indoctrinating, not educating

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:58 UTC
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© Netflix'Amend: The Fight for America' (2020)
The Will Smith-hosted series aims to spotlight the history of rights in the US. But what transpires is a ludicrous exercise in politically correct performance art that is allergic to intellectual seriousness or nuance.

'Amend: The Fight for America' is a new Netflix docuseries hosted by Will Smith that examines the history and impact of the 14th Amendment, which addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law.

The series is broken down into six episodes. The first three episodes cover the 14th Amendment in relation to the black struggle for equality from slavery to Black Lives Matter, while episodes four, five and six focus on the women's movement, marriage equality/gay rights and immigrant rights, respectively.

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BLM activist working at library fired after allegedly burning library books by Trump, Coulter - now he's claiming racial discrimination

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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A Black Lives Matter activist who worked as a library staffer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, allegedly posted an Instagram video showing him burning books he'd taken home authored by former President Trump and columnist Ann Coulter. The library ultimately fired him. According to the former employee, he was a victim of racial discrimination.

Cameron "C-Grimey" Williams, 35, "started as a part-time library specialist at the downtown branch more than two years ago, helping to manage a computer room and maker space and conducting outreach campaigns encouraging residents to take advantage of the resources," The Washington Post reported. A rapper, according to the Post, he "helped organize demonstrations against police brutality last year." The Post added, "he and other activists were arrested for allegedly blocking an emergency vehicle, among other charges."
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Bizarro Earth

Sudanese refugee kills French immigration official after asylum request rejected


Reuters
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:50 UTC
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A Sudanese migrant, 38, stabbed to death the chief of a refugee welcome centre in the French city of Pau (pictured) today after learning his asylum application had been rejected
A Sudanese refugee stabbed and killed an employee at a centre for asylum seekers in the southern French city of Pau on Friday after his request for political asylum was rejected, authorities said.

A police source said the Sudanese asylum seeker killed the director of the centre by stabbing him repeatedly in the throat. The assailant had arrived in France five years ago and had committed acts of violence with a knife in 2017, the source said.

"This is a terrible drama, all the more so because the victim spent his entire professional life helping migrants and asylum seekers," Pau mayor Francois Bayrou said on France Bleu radio.

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Bullseye

While howling outrage mob tries to cancel Tucker Carlson, Fox gives him SECOND SHOW


RT
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:20 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTucker Carlson
Leftist Twitter laments, 'There has got to be something we can do'

Cancel culture had its second major defeat in less than a week, as efforts to force Fox News star Tucker Carlson off the air failed so spectacularly that the guy called 'TV's most hated host' has been given another show.

Carlson signed a multi-year deal with Fox Nation, the network's subscription-based streaming service, under which he will produce at least three video podcasts each week and long-form monthly specials. The new programs will be done in addition to Carlson's top-rated primetime show on Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, which is broadcast every weeknight.
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