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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Wokeism: From Ideology to Mask of Sanity

Adam Daniels, Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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Wokeness may appear crazy to its critics, but underneath the surface is something even more sinister than most are willing to admit. As an ideology with wide appeal, critical social justice theory has served its purpose as the lockpick to western civilization, as James Lindsay has put it. It has opened the gates to the highest political power, and every aspect of western culture. But what has entered through the gates?

Today on MindMatters we look at Wokeness through the lens of ponerology (with current examples, e.g., the recent GameStop controversy). For psychopaths, ideologies serve as the perfect trojan horse for taking power, and wielding it. Wokeness - with its cynical views of human nature and explicit authoritarianism - is just another variation on the theme of the twentieth century, which saw the rise of communism and fascism. Once the ideologues have taken power, the ideology ceases to bear any resemblance to its original form. Rather, it becomes a mask for pure pathology. And by that time, it's usually too late to stop it.


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Wall Street

NYPD deploys counter terrorism unit to protect Wall Street in response to Gamestop protests

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
NYPD/Charging Bull
© Twitter/NYPDCTNYPD officers save the Charging Bull
The Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District has become the sight of protests amid a wider financial rebellion happening online. On Friday, a handful of activists were seen in Bowling Green Park, posing with the bull, and holding signs that said "Tax Wall Street Trades." A thin band of tape was also placed on the statue's head and rear end, featuring slogans like "Hold the line" and "WSB" — both allusions to the GameStop insurrection against hedge funds organized by Reddit's "Wall Street Bets" community. A similar fate befell the new Fearless Girl statue, which faces the New York Stock Exchange building. Both the bull and the girl are meant to symbolize the power, bravery and daring of the city's financial traders.

In response, the New York Police Department (NYPD) mobilized its anti-terrorism unit, sending masked, blad clad police officers wearing armor and carrying assault rifles to protect and secure the area. It announced:
"The Stock Market has had an interesting week to say the least. We are happy to report that the Wall Street Charging Bull is secure and continues to preside over Bowling Green for the foreseeable future."
The bull was covered in a blue tarp to prevent further vandalism.

Comment: 'God Save the Queen Bull'!

As historic statues are being torn down all across America for insane reasons, the one being saved represents the inequity and power of the almighty dollar for the savvy and rich. (Notice it was 'blue tape' not 'red tape' as the offender.)

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Ambulance

Homeless man steals council truck in Paris, mows down pedestrians, killing 1

Henry Batyaev
Sputnik
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:04 UTC

Comment: People are losing it...


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© AFP
According to the Nanterre prosecutor's office, the perpetrator was a homeless person and was soon arrested. The police are ruling out a terrorist act at this stage.

One person died and another was injured after an individual drove a stolen van into pedestrians in La Defense, a district of the Paris metropolitan area, a police source told Sputnik.

The driver, a homeless person, stole the vehicle from the Nanterre town hall and deliberately ran into pedestrians, the source says. After injuring two people, one of whom died at the scene and the other was rushed to the hospital, the perpetrator left the vehicle and attempted to flee. In the ensuing chase, the man attempted to take his own life by jumping onto a railway track, but was arrested by law enforcement officers.

Comment: This comes the day after a homeless man's severed head was dropped from an apartment window in the southern French city of Toulon:

Man held in France after throwing box with severed head out of his window

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Handcuffs

Twelve Mexican police arrested over mass killing of migrants near US border


AP
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:57 UTC
Rivaldo Danilo
© Johan Ordóñez/AFP/Getty ImagesGuatemalan migrant Rivaldo Danilo, 16, whose family believe he was one of the migrants killed near the US border in January.
A dozen Mexican police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the US border late in January. The Tamaulipas state attorney-general, Irving Barrios Mojica, said all 12 officers were in custody and face charges of homicide, abuse of authority and making false statements.

The killings revived memories of the gruesome 2010 massacre of 72 migrants near the town of San Fernando in the same gang-ridden state. But those killings were carried by a drug cartel, while it is likely many people will find it more shocking that the 22 January slayings allegedly were carried out by law enforcement.

The attorney-general did not say what motive the officers might have had, though corrupt local and state police in Mexico were often in the pay of drug cartels. Cartels in Mexico often charge migrant smugglers for crossing their territory, and kidnap or kill migrants whose smugglers have not paid or paid a rival gang.

The bodies were found piled in a charred pickup truck in Camargo, across the Rio Grande from Texas, in an area that has been blighted for years by turf battles between the remnants of the Gulf cartel and the old Zetas cartel.
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Yoda

Antifa's true goals and tactics exposed in new book by Andy Ngo

Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:07 UTC
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© Crossroads/The Epoch Times
Antifa is both an ideology and a movement that uses intimidation and violence to oppose capitalism and anybody who disagrees with its far-left, anarchist political agenda, says journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the anarcho-communist group.

In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described Antifa as more of an ideological movement than an organization.

"Antifa is a real thing. It's not a group or an organization. It's a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it," Wray said, acknowledging that Antifa does have "small groups," or "nodes."

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Bizarro Earth

Man held in France after throwing box with severed head out of his window


Court House News
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:59 UTC
Toulon
© Ben LescureSailboats in the French port city of Toulon.
French police were holding a man under arrest on Tuesday after discovering a severed head in a box that had been thrown out of a window in the center of the southern port city of Toulon.

Local police said there appeared to be no indication of a terror motive, with France still on edge after the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, by an Islamist extremist in October.

Passers-by alerted police Monday afternoon when they saw a box fall from a window of a building in the city center, a police spokesman told AFP.

Comment: It seems that there's been an uptick in grim and gory stories recently: Blood-soaked naked man spotted 'wrapped in intestines carrying his father's severed head' while walking the streets is arrested in Ukraine

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Question

Tara Reade says she believes AOC when she says she is a survivor of sexual assault: 'Why could she not say the same about me?'

Tara Reade
RT
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:50 UTC
Tara Reade Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
© Getty Images / Taylor Hill / Contributor(L) Tara Reade; (R) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The congresswoman's revelations about her trauma have been unquestioningly believed by the media, yet I could barely get anyone to listen to me when I spoke out. Once again it seems #MeToo only applies when politically convenient.

As I watched AOC's online discussions about trauma and being afraid for her life at the Capitol building in Washington, DC, I felt compassion and the pain of recognition. I had something dark and life-altering happen to me there. Something that shattered my future until I finally spoke out. In 1993, I thought my career had just really started. I did not know it was the beginning of the end. Joe Biden was my boss and a powerful senator in 1993 when he pushed me against that wall and violated me without my consent.

Last night, I listened to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and felt her pain at the prospect of her life being threatened and the description of her being a survivor of sexual assault. MeToo trended, clunking back to life, sputtering its support after it waved its hypocritical white flag when I stepped up to tell the world what happened to me in 1993.
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Arrow Down

Missing Trump already? CNN ratings plunge during Biden's first full week in office

Alex Nitzberg
Just the News
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:41 UTC
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CNN's ratings took a nosedive during the first full week of President Biden's administration, which ran from Jan. 25-29.

"Variety Intelligence Platform's analysis of the viewership data across two key metrics — the target news demographic for people ages 25-54, and the total audience watching — shows that CNN ended the final week of January with ratings dropping roughly 44% for total audience versus the prior week across all three hours of primetime," according to Variety.

Comment: The flight to alternate news sources continues.

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Stop

YouTube removes U.S. Senate committee hearing videos discussing ivermectin as early COVID-19 treatment

Ron Johnson
Wall Street Journal
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:58 UTC
Dr. Pierre Kory
© TOM WILLIAMS/ZUMA PRESSDr. Pierre Kory testifies at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Dec. 8, 2020.
Google's YouTube has ratcheted up censorship to a new level by removing two videos from a U.S. Senate committee. They were from a Dec. 8 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on early treatment of Covid-19. One was a 30-minute summary; the other was the opening statement of critical-care specialist Pierre Kory.

Dr. Kory is part of a world-renowned group of physicians who developed a groundbreaking use of corticosteroids to treat hospitalized Covid patients. His testimony at a May Senate hearing helped doctors rethink treatment protocols and saved lives.

At the December hearing, he presented evidence regarding the use of ivermectin, a cheap and widely available drug that treats tropical diseases caused by parasites, for prevention and early treatment of Covid-19. He described a just-published study from Argentina in which about 800 health-care workers received ivermectin and 400 didn't. Not one of the 800 contracted Covid-19; 58% of the 400 did.
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House

NYC apartment landlords getting burned in gentrification crash

Prashant Gopal, John Gittelsohn and Oshrat Carmiel
Bloomberg
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:03 UTC
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New York's apartment investors are suddenly waist-deep in distress.

By December, they were behind on $395 million of debt backed by mortgage bonds, almost 150 times the level a year earlier, according to Trepp data on commercial mortgage-backed securities. Tenants in rent-stabilized units owe at least $1 billion in rent and wealthier ones are fleeing the city, leaving behind vacancies and pushing newly-built luxury towers into foreclosure.

For years, as crime dwindled and rent climbed in New York, investors gobbled up apartment buildings. But with the city's economy and culture crushed by Covid-19, mounting job losses have derailed the gentrification boom and put financial pressure on landlords.

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