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A new must-see documentary eviscerates the mainstream narrative on race in America: 'What Killed Michael Brown?'

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:12 UTC
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© Man of Steel Productions'What Killed Michael Brown?' (2020) Dir: Eli Steele
A new film streaming on Amazon uses the tragedy of Michael Brown's death in 2014 to insightfully reveal the manipulations and machinations that distort modern-day race relations in the US.

What Killed Michael Brown? is the most important documentary of the year. The film, which is exquisitely directed by Eli Steele and gloriously written and narrated by famed conservative black intellectual Shelby Steele, takes a deep dive into the tangled web of race in America through the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.

From the get-go the movie jumps out at you, not with cinematic bombast, but with a subtle brilliance. The opening title sequence uses the same distinct font as Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, and in so doing lets viewers know it is unabashedly challenging popular myths.
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Alarm Clock

NHS Test and Trace whistleblower: "It's a complete s**t show"

Toby Young
Lockdown Skeptics
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:38 UTC
keystone kops
“Is this Humpty Dumpty? We’ve been given your name by someone who tested positive for COVID-19. DO NOT FALL OFF THAT WALL. YOU MUST REMAIN ON THAT WALL FOR 14 DAYS.”
I've been contacted by a track-and-tracer who works for one of Serco's sub-contractors. She's a Tier 3 tracer (nothing to do with lockdown 'Tiers'), which means her job is to call people who've been named as contacts by confirmed cases and advise them to self-isolate for 14 days.

Sounds straightforward, right? Wrong. I'll let her take up the story.
One of the most significant problems is the level of calls people are getting. People regularly say they feel harassed and bullied by us. I often call someone who says that they have just put the phone down on another contract tracer and while I'm on the line more calls are coming in.

I'll give some examples to explain why this happens.

Tier 2 call handlers are tasked with speaking to someone when they test positive to take the details of everyone they've been in contact with two days prior to the onset of their symptoms, up to the time they began their 10-day isolation.

Tier 3 operatives (me) then call all these contacts to tell them to isolate for 14 days.

Comment: On top of all that, ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis has revealed that test and trace companies are immune from penalties for failure: there are no penalty clauses in the contracts. Which in itself is ridiculous, because their target quotas designed to 'stop the spread' are useless, and what numbers they do have are full of duplicates, as the whisteblower above points out.

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Heart

Humanity: Sweden refuses to impose new lockdown measures, 'people have suffered enough'

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:23 UTC
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© ReutersPeople socialise in Stockholm on April 22. The country is one of very few not to have imposed a lockdown
Loneliness, mental health impact of lockdown balanced against COVID threat.

Health authorities in Sweden have refused to follow the rest of Europe by imposing new coronavirus lockdown measures on their population, arguing that those beset by loneliness and misery of being isolated have suffered enough.

Despite Sweden mirroring other countries on the continent with rising coronavirus infections, the government has held firm in refusing to lockdown its population, weighing the untold misery and health impacts of isolation against the threat of COVID-19.

Comment:

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Che Guevara

Nigeria on the brink as police open fire on anti-police brutality protesters and looting becomes widespread


BBC
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
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Crowds looted a warehouse believed to be storing food supplies for distribution during Covid lockdowns
Nigeria's chief of police has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police resources to put an end to days of street violence and looting.

Mohammed Adamu said criminals had hijacked anti-police brutality protests and taken over public spaces.

A new wave of looting was reported on Sunday, a day after Mr Adamu ordered police to end the "violence, killings, looting and destruction of property".

Protests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October.

The demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded.


Comment: SARS. That's pretty ironic, given how The Covid plays into all this mass social unrest.

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2 + 2 = 4

If they won't fully reopen schools, despite what science says, when will they?

Karol Markowicz
New York Post
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:01 UTC
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© Xinhua/Sipa USAA child walks past PS 20, a school closed in the Kew Gardens COVID-19 hot spot.
Last week, some fantastic news from the science world should've given full-time-schooling advocates real hope. Instead, officials are signaling that we may never return to full in-person learning, at least not like pre-COVID.

A New York Times piece, "Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say," concluded that, yes, the science says kids should be in school. "The bulk of evidence now suggests only limited transmission from young children to adults."

That evidence, of course, has existed for months, but the Times piece brought it home for nonbelievers.

Meanwhile, at the Wall Street Journal, David R. Henderson and Ryan Sullivan pointed to new research that shows infection rates in schools to be far lower than in the general population.
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Galaxy

Self-played: Humanity has trolled itself into an awaken-or-die situation

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
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Zen Buddhism is full of stories about practitioners staring death in the face in order to cut through their mental habits and force a direct confrontation with the fundamental matter. Monks doing zazen on a cliff's edge to keep themselves alert, rōshis telling frustrated students to kill themselves if they cannot achieve satori by next sunrise, students taking death vows if they fail to awaken within a given period of time, etc.

In Helen Tworkov's Zen in America for example we are told of "the monk who sat with a stick of incense in one hand and a knife in the other and vowed to kill himself if he didn't get enlightened by the time the incense burned out. As always — at least in the stories that are passed down — he got it just in time, pushed to the breaking point by the pain of the burning stub."

In a very real sense, I think this is kind of what humanity is collectively doing to itself right now.

Comment: For further consideration: MindMatters: Wake Up! Gurdjieff on Sleep, Knowledge and Politics

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Cow

Comedian Chelsea Handler: I had to remind my ex-boyfriend black people can't vote Trump

Tim Graham
NewsBusters
Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:24 UTC
Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler
Self-absorbed leftist comedian Chelsea Handler went viral on Friday night's Tonight Show when she disparaged ex-boyfriend 50 Cent for endorsing the president: "I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can't vote for Donald Trump."

She had been lamenting that she's been very vicious to her assistant, but host Jimmy Fallon asked Handler if she watched the Trump-Biden debate. "I took myself out to dinner instead of watching the debate, because I've heard that idiot talk for four years and I don't need to hear him say another word!" Fallon laughed like she was incredibly funny. She continued: "I mean, seriously. My blood pressure, you could already tell when I get enervated, it's not good for anybody. So I can't watch him talk, no thanks."

Then she brought up 50 Cent (real name: Curtis James Jackson III). MRC's Brent Baker had a very popular tweet with the video of Hander's white-splaining:

Comment: A middle-aged white woman must explain to a black man what he should do because he can't make up his own mind and know what's best for himself. Sounds like Handler has a racist belief system hiding underneath her Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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Airplane

Delta Airlines bans 460 anti-maskers

Pete Muntean
CNN
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:20 UTC
Delta bans anti-maskers
© CNN
In a new memo, Delta Air Lines says it has banned more than 400 people from flying for not following the airline's mask policy.

"As of this week, we've added 460 people to our no-fly list for refusing to comply with our mask requirement," Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a message to employees.

In August, the airline said it had banned roughly 270 passengers since the outset of the pandemic. Delta (DAL) began requiring that passengers wear masks on flights on May 4. All major airlines now mandate that passengers wear masks in the absence of any new regulations from the federal government.

Airlines in June agreed to ban passengers from future flights for refusing to wear masks. But the airlines are not sharing information with one another about the passengers they have banned. So, for example, a passenger banned on Delta can still book a flight on American (AAL) and vice versa.

Comment: See also: Objective:Health - Are Face Masks Ineffective and Dangerous?

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Eye 1

Escape from Wales? Britain's most severe lockdown

Eric Worrall
Watts Up With That
Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
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The card will show which coronavirus vaccine people have received, when they had it and allow them to report side effects
Police checkpoints, supermarkets sealing off shelves of "non-essential" goods, a police state the likes of which nobody in Wales has experienced since the 13th century.
Big Government Bans Supermarkets from Selling 'Non Essentials' in Lockdown Wales

Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that supermarkets will not be able to sell 'non-essential' goods like clothing during a 17-day lockdown.

From 6 pm on Friday to midnight on November 9th, Wales will see many retailers close, apart from shops which sell food like supermarkets, as well as pharmacies and off-licences.

Comment: It may be that Wales is a test by the establishment, in the same way that numerous European countries enforced similar 'local' lockdowns within a few days of each other. However, there is a pushback brewing: Manchester mayor rejects UK govts 'experimental lockdown that own advisors don't think will work'

Just some of the footage of the many protests against the lockdown throughout Europe:

Poland:


Barcelona:


Berlin:


Naples:


Sicily:


Ireland:


Melbourne:



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Oil Well

Winter in Hell: CNN's Daniel Dale admits Trump 'correct' on Biden's anti-fracking stance

Joseph Vazquez
mrcNewsBusters
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:12 UTC
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For CNN's liberal fact-checker Daniel Dale to admit that President Donald Trump was "correct" about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's fracking stance must have been a hard pill to swallow for the network.

During CNN's post-debate analysis, Anderson Cooper 360° anchor Anderson Cooper pointed out that Trump went after "Biden on the issue of fracking to extract oil and gas." Cooper then showed a clip of the Trump-Biden exchange on fracking, where Biden claimed that he "never said 'I oppose fracking.'" Cooper then appeared to try to lead Dale into giving the answer he wanted by saying, "Daniel, he [Biden] then later on added that he had called for an end to fracking on federal land." Dale then dropped a bomb on CNN talking heads: "In this case, Trump is correct. Biden did make anti-fracking comments during the Democratic primary in 2019 and 2020. Trump was not lying." [Emphasis added.]

Comment: See also: Biden claims Trump 'lies' about Biden wanting to ban fracking

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