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Criticize Israel, lose your job: A little light into the murky world of the Guardian

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Nathan Robinson lost his employment as a Guardian columnist on US politics for these tweets:
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They were, according to the editor of Guardian US John Mulholland, "clearly antisemitic". Criticising US military aid to Israel, according to Mulholland, was tantamount to arguing that Israel controls the United States.

This kind of circular reasoning, by which all criticism of Israel is anti-semitic so any criticism of military support to Israel is anti-semitic, is evidently invalid. But this tells you a great deal about how the Guardian now operates, in addition to it being the main media conduit for the UK security services. But actually, the part of Mr Robinson's narrative I found most enlightening about his employment by the Guardian was:

Comment: Mr. Nathan Robinson claimed that his tweets were intended as a joke and apologized to John Mulholland. after which The Guardian decided to fire him:
In a post Wednesday for Current Affairs, the progressive online magazine he founded, Robinson says he lost his job after tweeting what he said was a joke about U.S. military aid to Israel in December 2020, shortly after Congress approved a Covid relief bill and, separately, $500 million in military aid to Israel, pursuant to a 2016 agreement between the U.S. and Israel.

"I am — to my constant shame — moderately active on Twitter, so I relieved my anger with a joke tweet," Robinson says, providing screenshots of the tweets, which have since been deleted.

"Of course, tweet 1 was sarcasm (which is common on Twitter), but to absolutely make sure that nobody thought this was some kind of actual law, I appended a second tweet to make it crystal clear that I was joking, this was 100 percent a joke, let there be no room for misinterpretation about this joke [emphasis in original]," Robinson writes in his Current Affairs post.

Robinson says he wasn't immediately aware of backlash to the tweet, which included some calling him an anti-Semite, an allegation he immediately dismissed.
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Robinson apologized to Mulholland via email, adding that he had deleted the tweet and clarified.

Shortly thereafter, Mulholland thanked Robinson for his reply, and for deleting the tweet, adding: "I greatly appreciate your thoughtful response."

Robinson said that based on his exchange with Mulholland, he felt that the issue had been addressed, and he expected to move forward with his column.
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NPC

Aristotle and Plato must go: After targeting statues, race activists now aim to topple the ancient founders of Western thought

Alexander Adams
RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:01 UTC
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© Getty Images/Ted Spiegel/Contributor
An academic says classics should be cut from university syllabi as it's so "entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it." But depriving future generations of the wisdom of the past leads to ignorance & division.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a black academic, claims that Western civilisation is based on conceptions of 'whiteness' that come from interpretations of the ancient authors. Recently, some classicists have tied their own discipline to white nationalism, wanting to exculpate their discipline from supposed racism.

Padilla goes further and claims that classics departments are hostile to minorities. "If one were intentionally to design a discipline whose institutional organs and gatekeeping protocols were explicitly aimed at disavowing the legitimate status of scholars of color," he told the New York Times, "one could not do better than what classics has done." He added that "classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it... the production of whiteness turns on closer examination to reside in the very marrows of classics."

Padilla overlooked the fact that he is a classics professor at Princeton University, invited to publish and to speak at conferences. Many may wish for de-legitimisation as rewarding as his. He might want to re-read Plato to brush up on inductive logic.

Comment: What some of us still find remarkable is the depth and breadth of the mind-virus that has effectively hystericized and lobotomized so much of academia in Western society. The list of stories, similar to the above, are seemingly endless.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. banned from Instagram days after outlining Bill Gates' global domination efforts

Steve Watson
Summit News
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Robert Kennedy Jr
© John Lamparski/Getty ImagesRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
Lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy, has been banned from Facebook owned Instagram just days after he penned a comprehensive account of Bill Gates' attempt to monopolise and dominate global food production and public health programs. Kennedy had 800,000 subscribers on the platform, which has said that he was banned for "repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the #coronavirus or #vaccines.

It also emerged that just hours before the account was taken down, The Washington Post lobbied Facebook to take action against Kennedy, after he posted a section of a video from the Planet Lockdown movie. The film was made by Catherine Austin Fitts, and seeks to expose connections between Big Tech and the federal government and how they are engineering a system of planetary control. Sections of the movie present arguments that the COVID vaccination push is being controlled by an elite cabal, and that the vaccines are part of a push toward synthetic biology, which can be patented, and has been claimed to cause infertility.

Kennedy has been outspoken on his opinions regarding vaccines for some time. While Kennedy still remains on Facebook and Twitter, both have pledged to crack down on information relating to claims about vaccines that do not align with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other governmental health authorities'.

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NPC

'Canceling' The Mandalorian's Gina Carano for Republican-Jewish analogy just makes her case for her

Kyle Becker
RedState
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:55 UTC
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© Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia CommonsActress Gina Carano
Disney, one of the "Wokest" companies on the planet, continues to pander to insufferable, intolerant leftists who feel the inconsolable need to fire, muzzle, silence, ban, deplatform, dehumanize and ultimately, "cancel" anyone who politically dissents with them.

Actress Gina Carano recently incurred the wrath of the leftist mob that runs Hollywood, the universities, and the arts by daring to make a historical analogy with the intention of giving them pause in their relentless crusade to ostracize non-leftists from society.
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It's time for the West to halt Beijing blame game as WHO says Chinese lab leak didn't cause Covid

Tom Fowdy
RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:10 UTC
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© REUTERS/Aly Song
The World Health Organization's latest report into the coronavirus outbreak has backed China's version of events in a number of key areas. So why are some in the West apparently so reluctant to accept the findings?

On Tuesday, the WHO held a press conference to reveal the findings of its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The outbreak, which first became apparent in the city a year ago, has been subject to much controversy. Western politicians and the media aggressively accused Beijing of a cover-up that subsequently led to the worldwide pandemic. The WHO itself was then subject to severe criticism for perceived subservience to China, to the extent that former president Donald Trump withdrew the US from the organization entirely.

Not surprisingly, the WHO's findings on China are not what people want to hear. For Beijing, they have been described as a "public relations win" but critics have rejected the conclusions.
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UK vintage movie channel 'Talking Pictures TV' hit with BLACKFACE complaint, refuses to censor 'racist' content


RT
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:18 UTC
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© YouTube / Paul's Classic British Films and TV ProgrammesA scene from the British '70s tv series 'Rogue's Rock'
UK media regulator Ofcom is investigating a classic movies channel for broadcasting a 1970s series featuring blackface. The channel has fallen foul of censors before, but refuses to scrub outdated language from its programming.

The media watchdog opened its investigation after Talking Pictures TV aired an episode of Rogue's Rock on Boxing Day, the Times reported on Thursday. An adventure series aimed at teenagers in the 1970s, Rogue's Rock doesn't quite fit in with modern woke sensibilities, and the episode in question featured two characters in blackface, in a plot involving a deposed African princess' efforts to reclaim her throne.

Comment: Here's a link to their YT channel, where they show clips of what they air on TV.

Where does the lunacy end? Is an entire canon of television and film to be denied to the public because of a infinitesimal shrieking minority? Yet the same shrieking minority approves a garbage production like Cuties.

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Best of the Web: Mandalorian actress Gina Carano, hated by Woke Left for her political views, fired from Star Wars franchise... for making anti-Nazi comment

Hayley Williams
gamespot.com
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:27 UTC
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After months of controversy, Lucasfilm has confirmed that Mandalorian actress Gina Carano is not currently employed at the company, and that there are no plans for her to return in the future. The statement comes after Carano made an Instagram post comparing the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany to "hating someone for their political views."


Comment: By firing her, they have of course just proved her point, on every level: they hate her for her political views, are persecuting her accordingly, are today's fascists, and their behavior will likely worsen on a similar trajectory to the Nazis'.


A statement by Lucasfilm was obtained by io9, reading: "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."


Comment: That's utter BS, as we'll see from her actual post below.


Carano's post about Nazi Germany caused the hashtag #FireGinaCarano to trend widely on Twitter. She later deleted the post, but screenshots of it continued to be shared online. The actress' controversies go back months, however, to before the premiere of The Mandalorian's second season, in which she featured prominently.

Comment: If Carano had suggested that anyone pro-Trump, pro-freedom of speech and anti-lockdown was behaving like Nazis, she'd have been promoted. Instead, the media is flat-out lying to everyone's face, telling them her post was anti-Semitic!!!

Here is the 'offending' post:

carano nazis
As you can see, a correct reading of her brief comment - which is only the first two lines - is that, far from "denigrating," Carano was in fact underscoring the extent to which Jews were abused under the Nazi regime, and hinting at how it happened. She then quoted something which fleshed out her point.

The Woke Left apparently found this offensive because they inferred from her comment that she was placing them in the role of the Nazis today. Carano herself never actually made this comparison, but the Woke Left is highly sensitive to the truth being exposed: the racialist and genocidal motives they project onto others... actually emanate from them.

They are so exquisitely tuned to 'detecting and deleting WrongThink' that the reason Carano first came on their radar back in the summer of 2020 was because - like sentinels for The Borg - they had noticed that the actress had not been actively voicing support for the BLM riots street parties.

Carano's response to all this?

Priceless:


And this from the day before she was fired for WrongThink:




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Mark Cuban ban on national anthem during NBA games will deepen US divide. But it's only the start of a new un-American trend

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:49 UTC
Mark Cuban
© Reuters/Jerome Miron-USA TODAY SportsDallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban before the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Golden State Warriors at the American Airlines Center
Singing 'The Star Spangled Banner' at sporting events may seem a bit cheesy, but it helped forge a bond between Americans that is rapidly fraying. So why did the NBA owner ban the tradition at the worst possible time?

Mark Cuban, billionaire software designer-cum owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, welcomed fans back to American Airlines Center this week for the first game of the season when humans (remember that two-legged species?) were allowed to stand-in for cardboard-cutout spectators ever since the Covid-19 pandemic swept the nation last year.

Mavericks fans were undoubtedly excited to experience some semblance of the 'old normal' - sitting in the stands, downing some beers, and feeling like the 'Year 2020' had all been a bad dream. Of course it would have been swell not to have to wear a mask between hotdog bites and and sips of Budweiser, but beggars can't be choosers, right? And then something inexplicable happened, or, rather, didn't happen. The giddy fans were never invited - as they had been hundreds of times before in the past - to rise and join in singing the famous 'Star Spangled Banner.'
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Thugs Attacking, Robbing Elderly Victims Amid Bay Area Crime Wave

Dan Lyman
newswars.com
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:36 UTC
asian attacks
© Screenshots / Twitter
Elderly victims have been the targets of a slew of brutal robberies and unprovoked attacks in California's Bay Area amid an explosion of crime.

Oakland Police say they are increasing patrols in Chinatown after over 20 robberies and assaults in the neighborhood in recent days.

WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEOS BELOW

A 91-year-old man was viciously shoved from behind on a street in Chinatown by a suspect identified as Yahya Muslim.


Muslim, who had two prior assault convictions, was arrested and charged with assault and great bodily injury.

Police believe Muslim, 28, carried out similar ambush attacks on at least two more victims over the age of 55.

All three victims reportedly required medical attention after the assaults.

Comment: This is "social justice." Get used to it. It's only going to get worse as long as people fail to see through the psychopathic ideology behind it all.





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Academics bash draft plan to SWAP biological sex for gender identity in upcoming Scottish census


RT
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:32 UTC
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© REUTERS/Russell CheynePedestrians walk in Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain March 4, 2020.
A group of academics has protested against a draft proposal by the Scottish authorities to replace biological sex with gender identity when collecting census data, arguing the change would spell disaster for researchers.

In a letter published by the Times, several professors from across the UK said they had deep concerns about how data will be collected for the nation's upcoming census.

When the UK census kicks off in March, the Office for National Statistics will ask if a person's gender identity is the same as their legal sex, and, if not, will invite them to clarify what it is. Scotland, however, has postponed its own census until 2022, due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Although hailed as a victory for the trans community, the group of academics, from the universities of Edinburgh, Essex and Manchester, sees things rather differently. The voluntary questionnaire is "conflating two distinct variables, of biological sex and gender identity", they wrote, adding that information about gender identities is welcome, but can only be "properly understood" in combination with data on sex.

Even more troubling, according to the professors, is that Scotland plans to do away with collecting data on biological sex altogether.
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