Society's ChildS


Attention

Israel cracks down on protests under Covid-19 'emergency' pretext as country extends lockdown


RT
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:20 UTC
Israeli police
© Reuters / Ronen ZvulunPolicemen detain a man during a demonstration against the Israeli government before parliament passed legislation restricting protests amid a nationwide lockdown, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 29, 2020.
The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation that will ban citizens from protesting more than one kilometer away from their homes, backed by the government as a measure against Covid-19, but decried as draconian by opposition MKs.

Passed 46 to 38 in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a marathon debate in the Knesset, the bill will place sweeping restrictions on demonstrations of any kind, banning citizens from attending protests held more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) away from their residence. The legislation was approved along with a "special state of emergency," which will last for only a week before the ministerial cabinet will be required to re-approve the measures.

Standing with the opposition factions, two members of the Blue and White Party - part of the ruling coalition - also voted against the bill, MKs Miki Haimovich and Ram Shefa. The duo were cheered by opposition leader Yair Lapid, who asked in a tweet ahead of the vote: "What's the next step? Banning the opposition leader from addressing parliament?"

Lapid returned to head up the Yesh Atid Party after a brief stint as a senior Blue and White official last year. There, he worked closely with Benny Gantz, now Israel's defense chief and "alternative prime minister" under a power-sharing deal reached with PM Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year.

Comment: Apparently the new restrictions didn't go over so well and triggered more mass demonstrations:





Read More...
Blue Pill

Nicaragua - The country that didn't swallow the Covid blue pill

Jorge Capelán
OffGuardian
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
Tree of Life art installation, Managua Nicaragua
Tree of Life art installation, Managua Nicaragua
No curfews, no lockdowns, no "stay at home", no psychosis, no covid-calamities. There has been much talk about the Swedish corona strategy but the strategy of Nicaragua has been by far more successful, with many fewer deaths, no "economic rescue" for big banks and only limited damage to small and medium sized businesses.

In the midst of the worldwide economic debacle caused by covid hysteria, food self-sufficient, small business based, impoverished Nicaragua, has seen its exports grow over 10% the past 8 months because it did not shut down its economy.

Precisely because it sustained its economy, it has not had to take on huge loans in order to face the emergency.

Comment: It's quite likely that the low numbers of Covid mortality in Nicaragua has nothing to do with the disease being less widespread or less virulent. It's because they didn't lock down. Covid mortality statistics are a massive scam that pin deaths on a disease rather than the response to it. Note to self: Time to move to Nicaragua!

See also:

Read More...
Family

BuzzFeed gaslights millennials that living with your parents forever is fine, as US creates a generation of docile perma-children

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:19 UTC
Millenials at home with parents
© Reuters/Nora Savosnick
Young Americans are being encouraged to lower their expectations and ditch their dreams of financial independence as the economy circles the drain. Is this just cushioning the blow of the collapse, or something more sinister?

Sandbagged out of the gate by the 2008 recession, young American adults have had the economic rug pulled out from under them yet again with the coronavirus shutdowns. As of July, the majority of US adults aged 18 to 29 are living with their parents - 52 percent - and they aren't the only ones.

Even 30- and 40-somethings are getting in on the homecoming. Buzzfeed wants you to know that this is not only totally normal, but that young Americans' dreams of financial independence and living on their own are woefully outdated.
Read More...
Clipboard

Survey: President Trump treated most unfairly by media compared to Clinton, Obama & Bush


Study Finds
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:04 UTC
President Trumps
© MIH83/Pixabay
Does the mainstream media treat President Donald Trump unfairly? It's a question that Trump doesn't shy away from himself, often accusing the "fake news media" of unnecessarily coming after him. His insistence of a media bias dates back to the beginning of his term, but does the general public agree? A new StudyFinds poll asking that very question reveals that about 40% of Americans think Trump indeed receives unfair treatment by the press.
Trump Biden chart
© studyfinds.org
The poll of 764 adults over 18 from around the country comes just a few months ahead of the 2020 presidential election. When broken down by party affiliation, 38% of the respondents identify themselves as Democratic, with 30% indicating they're Republican. The remaining 31% did not identify with either.

When asked how the media treats the president, 39% feel he's given an unfair reception (18% "very unfairly" and 21% "unfairly). On the other hand, 39% believe Trump is treated "fairly," while 21% say "very fairly."
Read More...
NPC

Brainwashed NYT readers rebel: 'Canceling subs' en masse after unfavorable Biden fact-check tweet


RT
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:02 UTC
new yor times fact check biden debate
© REUTERS/Carlo Allegri, inset: TwitterThe New York Times has upset its subscribers by fact-checking Joe Biden.
The New York Times is under fire from its own readership after sharing a tweet to promote its fact-check coverage of Tuesday night's presidential debate that was unfavourable to Joe Biden.

The tweet contains a screenshot of its fact-checking coverage, which includes a debunked quote from Joe Biden. "We left him a booming economy. And he caused the recession."

The so-called paper of record unceremoniously analysed this claim under the title, "This is false," much to the chagrin of its loyal readers.

Comment: While libtards took the Times to task, right-wingers had CNN in their sights:
On Tuesday night, Trump defended his coronavirus response, which included travel bans on foreign nationals who had been to China, and reminded Biden that he once called the president xenophobic and racist for doing so.

"I closed it, and you said, 'He's xenophobic. He's a racist and he's xenophobic,' because you didn't think I should have closed our country," Trump said.

In its 'fact check' (a generous use of the term), CNN claims it's unclear whether Biden knew about Trump's travel restrictions targeting China at the time he called Trump xenophobic, as he never "explicitly linked the accusation of xenophobia" to any of the president's specific policies.

CNN cites "the campaign" - presumably meaning Biden's PR team - as saying Trump has a record of "hysterical xenophobia" and "fear mongering" but that Biden's January 31 accusation had nothing to do with the travel restrictions, aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus, which were announced that same day.

CNN added that Biden "never took an explicit position on the restrictions until his April declaration of support."

As expected, many online blasted the "most trusted name in news" for its blatant bias and lackluster fact check, which some deemed worthy of conservative satire site the Babylon Bee.



Some also used the opportunity to ridicule Biden's alleged cognitive decline. "In fairness to CNN, Biden may have already forgotten," one commenter quipped. The so-called 'ratio' of replies compared to retweets of CNN's post quickly told its own story, as the message racked up more than 1,200 replies and a mere 165 retweets.


The ratio is even more damning than when the article was published.


CNN fact check biden debate ration
© CNN/Twitter
Trump previously fended off Biden's accusations when speaking to Fox News's Sean Hannity on March 26, saying: "He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in."


Read More...
Stock Down

UN: Africa lost $800B in illegal transfers in recent years


Associated Press
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
african merchants
© Erin JohnsonAfrican countries could reconfigure markets to ensure they can stay open in some form.
The United Nations estimates that illegal outflows of capital from Africa totaled over $830 billion in the first 15 years of this century, much of it linked to movements of high-value commodities like gold, diamonds, and platinum — straining the ability of the continent's governments to provide services like healthcare, education, and infrastructure.

The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development on Monday focused the latest edition of its annual report on economic development in Africa to the issue of illicit financial flows, or illegal movements of money and assets across borders. In Africa, it has often involved theft, corruption, and flawed invoicing of shipments.

From 2013 to 2015 — the last year for which data was available — such outflows rose to nearly $89 billion a year on average. By comparison, the combined total of both official development assistance and foreign direct investment received by Africa during that three-year span averaged $102 billion annually.
Read More...
X

'Everybody dies': Musk says neither he nor his family will take Covid-19 vaccine, blasts Gates as a 'knucklehead'


RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:39 UTC
musk
© Julian Stähle/dpa/Global Look Press/Getty Images/Lal NallathElon Musk
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has said that neither he nor his family will likely take future coronavirus vaccines even when they are readily available, saying the pandemic has "diminished [his] faith in humanity."

Speaking during a podcast interview with Kara Swisher, 49-year-old Musk stated that neither he nor his children are at risk for Covid-19 and therefore would be unlikely to need the vaccine.

"This is a no-win situation. It has diminished my faith in humanity, this whole thing... The irrationality of people in general," Musk said. He also decried lockdowns across the globe and in the US in particular, having previously referred to them as "unethical" and "de facto house arrest."

Musk said widespread lockdowns were a mistake and only at-risk people should quarantine "until the storm passes."

When pressed about the risk to his own employees and their families, with Swisher asking what if someone dies, Musk pithily responded: "Everybody dies."
Read More...
X

Now cancelled by Trinity College: Richard Dawkins

John McGuirk
GRIPT
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Dawkins
© UnknownProfessor Richard Dawkins
Credit to the Trinity News, the college's student newspaper, for an immensely entertaining report about the thought process which has led to the College Historical Society to un-invite Professor Richard Dawkins, who was scheduled to give an address to students next year:
The College Historical Society (the Hist) has tonight rescinded its invitation to Richard Dawkins to address the society next year....

Auditor of the Hist Bríd O'Donnell announced the cancellation in a statement on her Instagram page, saying that she had been "unaware of Richard Dawkins' opinions on Islam and sexual assault until this evening", adding that the society "will not be moving ahead with his address as we value our members comfort above all else".

"The invitation to Richard Dawkins to speak at the society was made by my predecessor and I followed up the invitation with limited knowledge of Mr. Dawkins. I had read his Wikipedia page and researched him briefly. Regretfully I didn't look further into him before moving forward with the invitation. I want to thank everyone who pointed out this valuable information to me", O'Donnell added. "I truthfully hope we didn't cause too much discomfort and if so, I apologise and will rectify it."
She had "read his Wikipedia page", the third paragraph of which begins with the phrase "Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist." But she was surprised, apparently, to learn that he's not a huge fan of Islam, as well as not being a huge fan of Christianity.
Read More...
Footprints

French police clear migrant camp at launch point for Britain

Diane Taylor
The Guardian
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:06 UTC
PoliceMigrants
© Bernard Barron/AFP/GettyThe police operation to move about 700 migrants from their camp in Calais, northern France.
French police have dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of Calais from where thousands of people have sought to cross the Channel to reach British shores.

The operation to clear the makeshift camp, which was home to about 700 people, began shortly before sunrise on Tuesday. It was the biggest such operation since the sprawling camp known as the "Jungle" was broken up four years ago.

Several thousand people have attempted the perilous crossing this year, often paying people-smugglers to help them traverse one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in overloaded rubber dinghies.

Britain has repeatedly pressed Emmanuel Macron's government to do more to prevent people leaving France. The British government has called the high numbers who made the illegal crossing this summer unacceptable. France says it has stepped up patrols.
Read More...
Stop

Wales bans smoking on sidelines of children's football

Fraser Watson
Western Telegraph
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:33 UTC
Smoking man
© Western Telegraph
Wales is to become the first country in the UK to see smoking banned on the sidelines of children's football games in a historic move by the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and FAW Trust.

The decision by the FAW to introduce a no smoking policy on the side-lines of its small-sided, children's football games has been welcomed by Health Minister Vaughan Gething and follows a campaign by ASH Wales aimed at de-normalising smoking and preventing children from ever taking up the habit, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and increased risks faced by smokers.

It launched the policy on Monday to mark World Heart Day which is run by the World Heart Federation and supported by UEFA and Healthy Stadia.

In the first grass-roots country-wide initiative of its kind in the UK, FAW and FAW Trust will ask all small-sided football teams to apply the policy during games and training sessions for 522 junior clubs, 3,159 teams and 42,232 players across Wales.

Comment: See also: Let's All Light Up!

Read More...