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Harvard drops policy against single-sex clubs after lawsuit

Justine Coleman
The Hill
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:58 UTC
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Harvard University has dropped its policy that penalized students who were members of single-sex clubs, the university president announced.

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow released a letter Monday saying the university would stop enforcing the policy that punished students who were a part of single-sex fraternities or sororities because it could be seen as legally discriminatory based on recent court decisions.

Officials instituted the policy in 2017, which prevented students from holding leadership positions in university-recognized groups and from joining athletic teams if they were a part of single-sex clubs not recognized by Harvard.

They were also not able to receive college-administered fellowships, including the Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarships, The Washington Post reported.

Comment: Again we see an attempt to virtue signal and be more "inclusive" leads to actions which are actually against the law and discriminatory. Progressives will eventually have to realize that their attempts to be more inclusive creates more problems than it solves.

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Health

Epidemiologist states the obvious: Lockdown and social distancing could make our immune system weaker

Steve Bird
The Telegraph
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:00 UTC
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Prolonged periods of lockdown cocooning the public from germs could leave people dangerously vulnerable to new viruses, a leading epidemiologist has warned.

Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford, fears intense social distancing could actually weaken immune systems because people are not exposed to germs and so do not develop defences that could protect them against future pandemics.

The scientist rose to prominence in March after her team's modelling created a best case scenario where coronavirus arrived in the UK in December and spread quickly through the population creating "herd immunity", already partly acquired through exposure to different strains of the virus.

Comment: See also: Readers may also find this interview with Dr. Zach Bush informative. He discusses the importance of building a healthy immune system, the microbiome, viruses, and more.



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Sheeple

Boston Art Commission votes to remove Emancipation Memorial from park square - Frederick Douglass' descendant thinks it should stay

Cristela Guerra
wbur.org
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:54 UTC
Thomas Ball's “Emancipation Memorial” sculpture
© Steven Senne/APThomas Ball's “Emancipation Memorial” sculpture
Members of the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously to remove Boston's copy of Thomas Ball's "Emancipation Memorial" sculpture, which portrays an enslaved man at the feet of Abraham Lincoln.

After nearly two hours of public comment Tuesday night, with people arguing both for and against keeping the statue, the board charged its staff to look at next steps for the sculpture, including where to store it temporarily and what could replace it.

The bronze sculpture currently sits on city property in Park Square. It would cost at least $15,000 to remove, according to Karin Goodfellow, the city's director of public art.

Comment: Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the descendant of Booker T. Washington and great-great-great-grandson to Frederick Douglass, has no issue with the statue, so maybe those easily triggered by the sight of a statue should take it easy. As historian Jane Levey says, "The enslaved man who is depicted in the statue is holding up his fist and he's breaking chains and he's looking strong."

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Airplane

Airbus, Europe's biggest aircraft maker, announces plans to slash nearly 15,000 jobs across global operations - including 1,700 in UK.

Jack Wright
The Daily Mail
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:50 UTC
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© ReutersAerospace giant Airbus is to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK as the coronavirus pandemic causes 'the gravest crisis' the aviation industry has ever faced (Airbus facility near Nantes, France)
Meanwhile EasyJet yesterday said 4,500 jobs were at risk, and Bensons for Beds, Harveys and TM Lewin all announced layoffs and store closures.

Aerospace giant Airbus is to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK as the coronavirus pandemic causes 'the gravest crisis' the aviation industry has ever faced (Airbus facility near Nantes, France)

The news is a huge blow to its site at Broughton in Wales, where wings are manufactured, and its other factory at Filton in Bristol (pictured, British Airways Airbus A380 airplanes)

SSP Chief executive Simon Smith said: 'In the UK the pace of the recovery continues to be slow.
'In response to this, we are now taking further action to protect the business and create the right base from which to rebuild our operations. Regrettably, we are starting a collective consultation which will affect our UK colleagues. These are extremely difficult decisions, and our main priority will be to conduct the process carefully and fairly.'

Comment: The first casualities in a violent societal makeover are the activities that bring pleasure, and even solace to the ordinary citizen.

Cirque de Soleil has announce it has applied for bankruptcy protection:
The Montreal-based company in a press release attributed the decision to the "immense disruption and forced show closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic." It sought protection from creditors in Canada under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act to restructure its balance sheet.

The company also revealed it entered a court-supervised purchase agreement with its shareholders, including Texas-based TPG Capital and China-based Fosun Capital Group. The deal includes a $20 million fund to support the 3,500 employees who have been laid off.

The agreement will also involve $300 million of liquidity injected to help restart the company. It will also give Cirque du Soleil's existing secured creditors $50 million of unsecured, takeback debt, as well as 45 percent equity stake in the restructured company.

David Lamarre, the president and CEO of Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, said in a statement that the action will allow the company to emerge "stronger."

"For the past 36 years, Cirque du Soleil has been a highly successful and profitable organization. However, with zero revenues since the forced closure of all of our shows due to COVID-19, management had to act decisively to protect the company's future," he said.

"I look forward to rebuilding our operations and coming together to once again create the magical spectacle that is Cirque du Soleil for our millions of fans worldwide," he added.

Cirque du Soleil's application will be heard in the Superior Court of Quebec Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

In March, Cirque du Soleil temporarily laid off 4,679 employees who made up 95 percent of its total workforce. The company also suspended 44 shows around the world due to the pandemic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.


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Arrow Down

BLM protesters in New York 'CHAZ' mock cops over college education, call officer 'black Judas'


RT
Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:42 UTC
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© REUTERS/Carlo AllegriA protest to defund the police in the "City Hall Autonomous Zone" in New York on June 30.
Tensions were high in New York's so-called 'City Hall Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) on Tuesday night, with protesters mocking cops over their education. The scenes left the demonstrators facing accusations of snobbery and privilege.

Eyewitness footage shot outside City Hall in Manhattan shows protesters berating the police with a torrent of abuse, suggesting the officers are "getting paid to sit there like f**king idiots."

One man in a skirt even twerked in front of the police before launching a verbal tirade, claiming that hairdressers have to go to school for longer than police do and that cops "can't even read a f**king history book."


The beskirted man then directed his abuse at a black officer. "Traitor, traitor to your f**king people! You're like the f**king black Judas! Selling Christ for f**king 33 cents," he shouted while mincing back and forth before the line of cops.

The incident sparked a flood of criticism of the protesters' actions, with many accusing them of displaying an extraordinary level of arrogance. "Confirms what we already knew. College campuses imbue students with hateful, ahistorical rhetoric and then send them out into the world as smug Marxist clowns," commentator Erielle Davidson said on Twitter.


Comment: That's all that needs to be said about that!

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Bizarro Earth

New York City bows to cancel culture, passes budget with nearly $1 billion in police cuts

Jonathan Allen
Reuters
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:13 UTC
New York City police
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The New York City Council voted to pass the 2021 budget on Tuesday night with cuts to police funding after weeks of fraught negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, but some lawmakers complained it fell short of a $1 billion cut they and protesters demanded.

The austere, coronavirus-era budget tightens spending across city agencies, including a cut of nearly $484 million from the New York Police Department's $6 billion operating budget if the department can adhere to new overtime limits, the council said.

Another $354 million of police funding will be transferred to other city agencies, most prominently in the mayor's agreeing to shift oversight of school safety officers from the NYPD to the Department of Education, the council said.

After many hours of delays, a majority of 32 lawmakers voted via teleconference to pass the budget minutes shy of the midnight deadline, and 17 voted against it. Outside an empty City Hall, more than 1,000 protesters demanding the shrinking of a police department they decry as violent and racist continued a week-old encampment.
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Pistol

Black Lives Matter rioter shoots at driver in Utah, then continues to protest


RT
Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:20 UTC
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© Twitter / @NiasDiadA screenshot shows protesters crowding the victim's SUV in Provo, Utah, June 29, 2020
A Black Lives Matter rally turned violent in the city of Provo, Utah, when a protester fired in the window of a vehicle at point-blank range. The injured driver floored the gas and escaped, as the gunman fired at him again.

Footage captured on Monday night shows the driver of an SUV approaching a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, who swarm the vehicle as the driver attempts to make a right turn at an intersection. After a gunshot rings out, the driver pushes through the crowd and escapes along University Avenue at full speed.

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Bizarro Earth

A picture of patriotism or an image of defiance? How standing for the Star-Spangled Banner has now become a controversial move

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:19 UTC
US women soccer players
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US women soccer players who stood for their national anthem as their league got underway again have been labelled 'dumb white bitches' for not kneeling. How has patriotism now become a cause for offence?

The world has really gone bonkers when it is seemingly an act of defiance to stand for your own country's national anthem. It used to be the least controversial thing in the world, indeed the polite thing to do. Personally, I tend to do it for countries other than my own as well, as a mark of respect, whether that be at an international sports fixture, or just at an event where the anthem is played.

I'm British so we don't play ours a great deal. We do at Royal events obviously (the song is, after all, for Her Majesty), before England plays a football match, and at the FA cup final and so on, but for the most part that's it. But Americans play their national anthem a lot. The Star-Spangled Banner is belted out before virtually every sporting fixture from little league right up to the professional leagues.

I've always quite liked that aspect, it feels like a good unifier before, for example, a bunch of blokes knock seven bells out of each other on an NFL field. Even though the song is literally about the Yanks giving my boys a hell of a beating during the War of 1812; I've always stood up and dutifully removed my hat just before "Oh, say can you see..." rings out around the stadium, or wherever.
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Bizarro Earth

NBA, union plan to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on courts in Orlando

Zach Lowe, Ramona Shelburne
ESPN
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:13 UTC
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The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are planning to paint "Black Lives Matter" on the court inside both sidelines in all three arenas the league will use at the Walt Disney World Resort when it resumes the 2019-20 season late next month in Orlando, Florida, league sources told ESPN.

The WNBA is also discussing painting "Black Lives Matter" on the court when it begins its abbreviated 2020 season at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, sources said.

Sources also said some WNBA players have suggested in talks with league higher-ups that players wear warm-up shirts with "Say Her Name" on them in an attempt to keep attention on female victims of police brutality, including Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in March in her home in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Facebook bans hundreds of 'boogaloo' accounts citing- without examples- 'real-world violence' while ANTIFA linked accounts are left alone


RT
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:03 UTC
Boogaloo boys, Facebook
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Hundreds of Facebook profiles said to be part of a "violent anti-government network" linked to the loose-knit "boogaloo" movement have been permanently deleted, the latest in a wave of mass bans targeting the political right.

Some 220 accounts, 106 groups and 28 pages were scrubbed from Facebook on Tuesday, the company said in a statement, alleging they were tied to a "dangerous organization" that had carried out real acts of violence. Ninety-five accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram also got the boot.

"This violent network is banned from having a presence on our platform and we will remove content praising, supporting or representing it," Facebook said in announcing the decision.
Acts of real-world violence and our investigations into them are what led us to identify and designate this distinct network.
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