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Now they want to ban smoking at home in the UK

Josie Appleton
Spiked
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:40 UTC
Cigarette smoke
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Some UK councils restrict smoking in your place of residence. How much further will this go?

As people are once again told to work from home, our freedoms in this realm become more crucial than ever.

One freedom that is being progressively eroded is the choice of whether or not to smoke in your home. The home - or place of residence - was until relatively recently considered immune from any public smoking regulations. The UK's 2006 ban on smoking in enclosed public places restrictions explicitly excluded places of residence.

Yet now, with bans on smoking indoors and outdoors in mental-health institutions, prisons, and other state institutions, the mood is shifting.

When I asked UK councils about their current policy on employees' smoking, Hammersmith and Fulham replied to my Freedom-of-Information request with a document (produced in alliance with Kensington and Chelsea council in 2015) that said council home workers were banned from smoking in their private offices. The document stated that: 'any part of a private dwelling used solely for work purposes will be required to be smoke-free... home workers are expected to have the same set-up at home as they do in the office. Smoking is not allowed in any of the council's offices and home workers should not smoke at their workstation during office hours.' It even said that 'family members should not be allowed to smoke in the home worker's office'.

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Jordan Peterson on why Marxism is attractive despite history's record of failures

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Peterson on Marxism
Jordan Peterson is an extremely astute political scientist. Here he discusses what the attraction of Marxism in the present day is: it is not what you might expect.

In the past, Marxism had primarily economic appeal to those choosing it. A mixture of various tyrannical states, some capitalist, some allegedly power hungry in the same way, could be taken as legitimate points of grievance, where a person could point at the wealth of others and agree with the proposal that Marxism might offer a truly utopian path to some sense of "equality."

Peterson notes a grisly prediction by no less than Friederich Nietzsche - that the process of trying to implement Marxism would be the catalyst of the destruction of hundreds of millions of innocent lives. It has been so.


Comment: The cultural Marxists of today are incapable or unwilling to give their thinking the critical distance required to see and understand what individuals like Jordan Peterson are warning of. Ideological possession, by its very nature, is an emotional state of being that seeks to cut out any rationality from its "discourse," and even worse, seeks to impose this way of being on others by acts of coercion, manipulation and even terror. On top of all that, cultural Marxism is a deeply cynical ploy that has been weaponized, ultimately, by the same interests who are least likely to have a sincere concern about the very issues that the rest of the world is getting propagandized and pounded over the head with.

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Best of the Web: Australian mask crackdown mad, health experts warn

Patrick Durkin and Natasha Boddy
Australian Financial Review
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:31 UTC
Premier Daniel Andrews
© Jason SouthPremier Daniel Andrews says his mandatory mask order is not going anywhere.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' captain's call to maintain a strict mandatory mask order over summer is ridiculous and could badly backfire, health experts warn after the Premier revealed his decision goes further than the health advice.

Mr Andrews announced an indefinite crackdown for mandatory masks on Sunday, including banning face shields, scarfs and bandannas and requiring a "fitted mask that covers nose and mouth" which he expects to remain over the summer.

But health experts said the mandatory order should be directed at higher risk shopping, public transport and workplace settings.

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Disney to lay off 28,000 at its parks in California, Florida

Mike Schneider
Denver Post
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:05 UTC
disney world florida
© Joe Burbank, Orlando Sentinel via APGuests wear masks as required to attend the official reopening day of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Saturday, July 11, 2020.
Disney officials said the company would provide severance packages for the employees, where appropriate, and also offer other services to help workers with job placement.

Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida.

Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers but they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers, Disney officials said.

Comment: As the PTB continue with the pandemic charade, major and minor businesses continue to fall. When major tourist attractions like Disney World/Land are going down the tubes, it's unlikely anything will dissuade the controllers from destroying the economy. It seems clear that this is exactly what they want to do.

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NPC

'Doesn't the word 'woman' exist any more?' Pantone reveals new color to honor 'people who menstruate'


RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:57 UTC
Pantone period color
© Instagram / pantonePantone's new 'period' color
Color-matching company Pantone has launched a new shade of red aimed at emboldening "people who menstruate." But the woke gesture to 'that time of the month' left some women seeing red.

'Period' is a bold shade of red unveiled by Pantone on Tuesday. The company's color palette is already used extensively in the design industry, and this latest addition is a collaboration between the company and Intimina, a Swedish firm that sells menstrual cups.

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Less than half of Americans say they would get covid-19 vaccine if you paid them $100 to take it

Tommy Christopher
Mediaite
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:30 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Mounting skepticism around a potential Covid-19 vaccine was vividly illustrated when far fewer than half of Americans said they'd be likely to get a coronavirus vaccine if they were paid $100 to do so, according to an Axios poll.

Recent polling has consistently shown smaller and smaller numbers of Americans saying they would be willing to take a coronavirus vaccine as soon as one becomes available, as well as rampant concern over the safety and efficacy of a vaccine if it were rushed to meet an election Day deadline.

A new Axios-Ipsos poll bears much of that out, and illustrates that skepticism with an unusual question.

Respondents were asked if they would be "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to take a first-generation vaccine under a variety of circumstances, one of which is being paid a $100 incentive to get the shot.

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About that Trump tax return story . . . .

alexandriabrown
alexandriabrown/Twitter
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:43 UTC
Trump
© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump

Comment: It is ironic, yet apropos to the spirit of the current times, that more accurate political commentary and analysis is to be found coming from ordinary people, in 240-character increments, than from media giants.


So. I finally read the NYT Trump tax story because I wanted to see what line was being reported for taxes owed and I came across this about the $750 in 2016 and 2017. Per the NYT own story, Trump actually paid to the US Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017.

Comment: 'Fake news': New York Times hit piece claims Trump paid no federal taxes

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Bad Guys

US politicians are too old: The short-term philosophy this encourages creates a vicious circle that is dooming the country

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:47 UTC
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© Getty Images/Drew Angerer; Getty Images/Mario Tama(L) Donald Trump (R) Joe Biden
Both US presidential candidates would break the record for oldest age if elected, and many in Congress are pushing 90, with every reason to pursue short-term gain and leave the country holding the bag. How did this happen?

When conservative organization Students for Trump posted a video in which House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler (D-New York) appeared to have soiled himself on live TV, even conservative media hesitated to pick it up, and quite a few Twitter users shamed the organization for mocking the 73-year-old, 15-term congressman. Even in 2020's hyper-partisan climate, some thought it beyond the pale to make fun of an old man for apparently losing control of his bowels. And Nadler is actually youthful and vibrant compared to many of his colleagues.
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Flashback Epstein victim is painting his enablers as murderous lizard people

Kate Briquelet
Daily Beast
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 23:40 UTC
maria farmer art
© RadicalMedia
In Maria Farmer's "FBI diagram," dead sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is in a flying saucer, Ghislaine Maxwell is a bloodthirsty reptile, and a pantsless Alan Dershowitz is shushing victims underneath a tree of poisoned apples.

"I'm going to be working on a series all about the elites," Farmer told The Daily Beast of her whimsical painting, a depiction of heaven and hell that features Les Wexner, the former chairman of Limited Brands and an Epstein associate, as the head of a snake. "As someone who's been hurt by these people, I can translate it in a way that people can see."

Farmer, 50, is believed to be the first victim to report Epstein to police. She says Epstein and Maxwell assaulted her at Wexner's Ohio estate, where she stayed in the summer of 1996 while working on an art project. (Wexner has denied knowing Farmer.) She later learned that Maxwell had allegedly assaulted her underage sister, Annie, at Epstein's New Mexico ranch. In a recent court filing, Maxwell has denied these accusations.
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Ex-OPCW member says Syria 2018 chemical attacks report may not reflect actual events


Sputnik
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:16 UTC
douma
© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy
A former lead investigator from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ian Henderson, said the final report of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) into the alleged use of toxic chemicals in an attack in Douma, Syria, in 2018, may not reflect what happened on the ground.

Henderson was speaking at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council, organised by the Russian Mission, to openly discuss the treatment of the Syrian chemical dossier, in contrast to traditionally closed gatherings of the council on the issue.
"I speak for myself, but I know there are other Douma FFM inspectors who hold the similar concerns that I do about the manner in which the investigation was controlled, locked-down... [as well as] the findings reflected in the final FMM report", Henderson said. "We believe that there is more than sufficient information out there today that has demonstrated our points that the findings of the FFM report on Duma may not reflect the actual situation".
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