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Mask Groupthink
I never thought I'd see the day when publicly wearing a muzzle would constitute a proof of virtue in the same country whose government, less than twenty years ago, rationalized the bloody invasion of Afghanistan as a way of saving women from veiling their faces.

But then, I never thought I'd hear American liberals proudly denounce supporters of the US Constitution as a "death cult," nor that I'd actually start to find Donald Trump sounding almost reasonable.

But at least there's one thing we can all be sure about: "mainstream" news media, busily cheerleading for the death of freedom, will continue to gush with absurdities, self-contradictions and victim-shaming memes in their propaganda war to Keep America Gagged. The Bill of Rights (in case you haven't noticed) is history; today, we demonstrate our patriotism by creeping around hiding our faces. Dissenters need not apply.

If you think I'm exaggerating, I suspect you haven't been paying attention. Recently I had the poor judgment to turn on National Public Radio for about an hour, under the impression that I was going to learn something about the day's news.

I could have saved myself the trouble. During the hour in question, I learned nothing at all about the presidential election campaign (now in its final months), nothing about the tens of millions of my fellow citizens whose jobs have been snatched away by government fiat, nothing about climate change, nuclear arms buildups, international refugees or growing worldwide poverty - nothing even about the intensification of air and water pollution authorized by recent federal regulation, although pollution kills an estimated 100,000 Americans every year.

Comment: The real disaster has been the work of psychopaths in positions of power. Otherwise the measures taken by our governments would actually help the public and not amount to what is essentially psychological torture on an unprecedented scale.


Eye 1

SOTT Focus: A Scientific Look at The Mask Fallacy - And Why We're Told to Wear Them

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Imagine a large grizzly bear is terrorizing your neighborhood. You have a powerful bear gun and potent bear spray that will make the bear go away or allow you to eliminate it if it attacks you. But your government tells you not to use those tools. Instead, they insist you camouflage yourself, hunker down, and hope the bear doesn't get you.

That about sums up Covid-19 in America. We have powerful methods for getting rid of the virus if one gets a bad infection, but instead we're told to wear masks and stay six feet apart. Oh, and no large gatherings, either - unless you're protesting.

Let me first briefly discuss reliable tools for getting rid of a Covid infection, and then we'll examine the efficacy of masks.

Read more here.

No Entry

Google will ban ads from running on stories spreading "debunked" coronavirus "conspiracy theories"

Google CEO Sundar Pichai
© Pradeep Gaur | Mint | Getty ImagesGoogle claimed partial victory in the latest anti-trust case against it, and vowed to challenge the rest of the judge’s determinations. CEO Sundar Pichai, above.
Google next month will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold of material that violates these policies, it will ban the entire site from using its ad platforms.

Alphabet's Google already prohibits ads from running against content that makes harmful claims about disease prevention and unsubstantiated cures, including anti-vaccine promotions or content that encourages users to forgo treatment. The company is now taking it a step further and banning ads against content that make claims going against authoritative scientific consensus. Banned claims would include conspiracy theories like vaccines being attempts to genetically modify the population, that Bill Gates created Covid-19 or that the disease was a bioweapon made in a Chinese lab.

Comment: So any information, no matter how well researched, or based in fact, which goes against the widely-propagated bogus narrative that's been rammed down the public's throats to induce obedience, fear and hysteria - will be punished by demonetizing the site said material is posted on; censorship by the purse strings. Google wants to control how you think, and what you know.

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US Catholic church vandalized with satanic and anarchist symbols

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© Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
St. Joseph's Church on Edwards Street was vandalized this week, as an unknown individual or individuals painted "satanic" and "anarchist" symbols on its doors, according to the Archdiocese of Hartford.

The Rev. John Paul Walker, pastor of St. Joseph's said Friday that the symbols, in pink paint, included "gibberish" language, the satanic pentagram and the anarchy symbol.

"It was certainly shocking and disturbing," said Walker.

He said the congregation had received messages of support from the community and across the nation since the incident and offered his gratitude, describing the response from the public as "amazing" and "incredible."

Comment: Breaking news from RT reports that today, Saturday 17th July, there has been a stabbing at a church in Virginia, US, and the suspect has been taken into custody. Also in the last 24 hours there was a suspected arson attack that destroyed parts of a 15th Century cathedral fire in Nantes, France:




Arrow Down

Spain to cull 90,000 mink after 7 farmworkers test positive for coronavirus

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A mink in the wild.
Authorities in northern Spain have said that over 90,000 mink must be culled at a farm after around 90 animals tested positive for the coronavirus.


Comment: Suspicious of the accuracy of the tests, the President of Tanzania sent a variety of items off for official testing, the results came back that a goat and some paw paw fruit tested 'positive for the coronavirus'...


The Aragon regional government said it had to take the "drastic" measure that concerns 92,700 mink in accordance with national animal health laws.

The farm in Teruel province's La Puebla de Valverde has been kept in isolation since May 22 after seven workers tested positive.

The region's chief of agriculture and environment, Joaquin Olona, said there is no evidence of whether the virus was transmitted from the workers to the animals or the other way around.

Comment: See also: UK farm reports over 70 Covid-19 cases following increased testing, workers asked to self-isolate


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The most dangerous thing about Coronavirus is the news about it

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With all the scientific resources thrown at it, the fact we effectively know nothing about the virus is truly astounding humbling.
Over the last ten days, I have been watching and reading the news from the US on the coronavirus spike of late, trying to find any sensible pattern or reasoning behind it. Since I live in Moscow, where we are down to a daily reported new infection rate in the 500's to 600's, life has largely returned to normal, but the news from the United States appears to scream of a "second wave" that will be far worse than the first one. It is logical to assume that if such a second wave took place in one land, it would do so elsewhere, and Russia is still Number Four in leading numbers of cases in the world. But the news is so inconsistent that it is honestly impossible to predict what will happen. Not only that, it is impossible to get a good idea of what created the spike in the US. To put it succinctly, the one thing that we know about this pandemic is that we do NOT know anything about it. With all the scientific resources thrown at it, this is truly astounding and, honestly, it is humbling.

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Red Pill

Open letter against 'cancel culture' backed by 'frauds,' says Glenn Greenwald after authors ironically 'outvote' him from signers list

Glenn Greenwald
© Reuters / Adriano MachadoGlenn Greenwald
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has called the signatories of a letter opposing 'cancel culture' "frauds," after it emerged they canceled him from signing it.

In the now-famous 'Harper's Letter,' 150 prominent academics, journalists and public figures took a stand against what they called the creeping "ideological conformity" of the left. These figures are not right-wingers or conservatives, and there are no open supporters of President Donald Trump among them. However, there are some big names, including linguist Noam Chomsky, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald is not a signatory to the letter. Although a leftist himself, Greenwald has railed against the tyrannical aspirations of modern liberalism for years. As it turns out, cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams, who drafted the letter, wanted Greenwald to sign, but was "outvoted on that" by his colleagues.

Bullseye

As lockdown loosens, more black men are stabbed in London. But Black Lives Matter has nothing to say

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© Reuters / Henry Nicholls
Despite a huge public profile and ongoing media attention, BLM fails to identify a role for itself in combating the appalling number of deaths of young black males in London from incidents of knife crime. What's its purpose then?

As pandemic lockdown restrictions were eased in London, it was very much business as usual - including the deaths by stabbing of three young black men in the English capital in the past week alone.

The loss of black sons, brothers, fathers and husbands continues unabated, pausing momentarily while society was in lockdown, then grimly resuming once we were all free to leave our homes.

In the case of talented MMA fighter Jahreau Shepherd, 30, he was knifed to death at his own birthday party. Cruelty has no respect.

Star of David

How two seemingly unrelated events laid Israel's racism problem bare

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© David Goldma/APBeinart speaks at a 2012 event in Atlanta, GA after being banned from a Jewish book festival over his criticism of Israel.
Two seemingly unrelated items hit social media recently and both received a lot of attention. The first was an article by Peter Beinart that was published in the New York Times where Beinart claims he no longer believes in a Jewish State and calls for a binational state with equal rights in Palestine. The other, a video clip showing an Israeli family riding in a car when two children approach them. The car window opens and we hear the father ask the children in Hebrew, "Who wants to feed a Bedouin?" While these two seem unrelated, there is something equally disturbing about both of them.

A Jewish home in Palestine

One might think that the epiphany experienced by yet another liberal Zionist, and one that has access to the mainstream media, should be celebrated. After all, another well known Jewish American has reached the conclusion that Palestinians deserve equal rights in their own country. However, as we read this article there are several disturbing elements that dampen the excitement.

Heart - Black

Wounded children treated in Yemen hospital after Saudi airstrike hits residential area

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© RuptlyYemeni child injured in attack
A heartbreaking video from RT's video agency Ruptly shows children undergoing treatment after a Saudi airstrike hit a residential area in Yemen's northern province of al-Jawf.

The attack on Wednesday left nine people dead and almost as many wounded, with the local officials saying that most of the victims were women and children.

A doctor at the al-Jawf General Hospital told Ruptly that the facility received up to four kids after the airstrike. They suffered torn wounds to their limbs and bodies, with one small child having his face mutilated by shrapnel.

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