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Argentine pastor turns church into a bar to protest unequal coronavirus restrictions

Uki Goñi
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:23 UTC
Pastor and church/bar
© Facebook/Reuters/Agustin MarcarianWhere there is God's will, there is a Way...
An evangelical church in Argentina has reopened as a bar in protest against the lockdown on religious services that remains in place despite the gradual opening up of other activities around the country.

Bar tables were placed inside the church and pastors dressed as waiters carrying bibles on their trays in a mock service as part of call for religious services to be allowed during Argentina's coronavirus lockdown.

"We are standing here today dressed like this, carrying a tray, because it seems this is the only way we can serve the word of God," pastor Daniel Cattaneo, dressed as a waiter, said as he opened the "worship bar" at the Comunidad Redentor (Redeemer Community) evangelical church in the city of San Lorenzo, in Argentina's central province of Santa Fe. Cattaneo told local media of Wednesday's event:
"So, apart from the breaded veal headed for table four, here goes the word of God from the house of the Lord to all nations. We want to exercise our constitutional right to practice our faith," Cattaneo told local media of Wednesday's event. "Bars can open, shops can open, why are they discriminating against us?"
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Oscar

The Academy bends the knee, will impose 'diversity standards' for Oscars eligibility, sets Best Picture at 10 nominees


USA Today
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:06 UTC
oscars statue
© REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
The Academy is making big changes to itself and the Oscars.

On Friday, amid the national conversation about systemic racism sparked by the death of George Floyd, the Academy announced sweeping plans aimed at swiftly furthering its diversity and inclusion initiatives, including setting the best picture category at 10 nominees, rather than a fluctuating number, starting with the 2021 Oscars ceremony.

The changes are a new phase of the organization's ongoing efforts, known as "Academy Aperture 2025," to tackle issues of equity and diversity within the Academy and its gilded award show. Eligibility for those awards will soon include inclusion standards. The Academy is creating "a task force of industry leaders, appointed by David Rubin" which "will include governor and A2020 Committee chair DeVon Franklin, to develop and implement new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility by July 31, 2020," it said in a news release.

Comment: Given that Hollyweird is one of the epicenters of 'wokeness', the imposition of virtue-signalling policies like 'unconscious bias training' and diversity benchmarks was inevitable.

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Star of David

After several long minutes of pleading — Israeli Border Patrol shot Eyad al-Halaq anyway

Naim Mousa
Mondoweiss
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:53 UTC
Eyad al-Halaq
© Social MediaEyad al-Halaq suffered from autism
On May 30, Israeli Border Patrol - a unit of the Israeli police which usually occupies checkpoints and security posts - shot and killed in broad daylight Eyad al-Halaq, an autistic Palestinian man from East Jerusalem. Official statements by spokespersons of the Israeli police force and officers on the ground indicated that al-Halaq was suspected of wielding a weapon, plotting to carry out a 'terrorist' attack because he was 'wearing gloves,' one of the guidelines put in place by the Ministry of Health in order to combat the coronavirus outbreak. However, eyewitness testimony, evidence on the scene, or lack thereof to support the police's testimony, and accounts about al-Halaq and his personality paint a far, far different picture.

I spoke with one of Eyad's relatives, who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation and harassment by Israeli police (I will simply refer to them as Amir), in order to uncover the truth behind the horrific incident behind al-Halaq's death. We must first explore who Eyad was and how he lived his life whilst under occupation.

Comment: Killing of unarmed, autistic Palestinian in Jerusalem sparks outrage

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NPC

Not woke enough: Kristen Bell children's book preaching tolerance savaged for 'colorblindness' & ignoring real racism


RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:41 UTC
Actress Kristen Bell
© Reuters / Phil McCartenActress Kristen Bell
American actress Kristen Bell's debut into the world of children's literature has gotten off to a rocky start, with her story about a "purple person" widely condemned for trivializing racism - despite having nothing to do with it.

Bell says her first children's story - 'The World Needs More Purple People' - is meant to encourage kids to "look for similarities before differences" and to be inquisitive and open minded toward different viewpoints. Taking 'purple' to be a thinly veiled reference to skin color, however, netizens soon came out in force to denounce the story for brushing racism under the rug, and Bell herself as a "privileged white woman" ignoring the plight of real people of color.

Though the story itself makes no reference to race, containing no discussion of skin color and no purple-skinned characters, critics overwhelmingly interpreted the book as a tone-deaf lesson on 'colorblindness' - apparently not having read it.
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Chess

Twitter restores account of financial market website Zero Hedge


Reuters
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:37 UTC
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Twitter Inc said it had restored the account of financial market website Zero Hedge on its platform on Friday after concluding that suspending it was an error.

In February Twitter banned Zero Hedge after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the coronavirus outbreak.

"We made an error in our enforcement action in this case. Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account," Twitter said in a statement. It gave no further detail and did not say what additional context it had received.
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Star of David

'You'll have a great time': IDF detain RT's Redfish stringer while covering rally against Jordan Valley annexation in West Bank


RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:33 UTC
RT Redfish
© Twitter / Redfish
Israeli military detained a stringer working for RT's Redfish project as he was filming a Palestinian protest against the annexation of the Jordan Valley and released him only after taking his camera's memory card.

It was the last shooting day for a small Redfish crew working on a documentary about Israel's plans to annex some parts of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. Producer Ahmad Al-Bazz and a cameramen stringer, Ameen Nayfeh, set out to the small village of Zubaidat to cover a small protest staged by locals opposing the annexation.

At first, it seemed that it was going to be a regular filming day. "When we arrived the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] were surrounding the village. We managed to enter and nobody stopped us," Al-Bazz told RT. The soldiers took the journalists' IDs and press cards but quickly returned the documents.
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Pumpkin 2

Irony overload: Will Autonomous Zone 'warlord' be canceled after old homophobic tweets surface?

Sister Toldjah
Red State
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:24 UTC
Chaz dumpster fire seattle autonomous
© Townhall Media/Julio RosasCosmic commentary: Dumpster fire near the CHAZ in Seattle, Washington.
As we've previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to "cancel" anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the "warlord" of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit, based on various web archive websites (language warning):

Comment: Meanwhile, CHAZ is devolving at light-speed into the very dystopia their sheeple were trying to abolish:
A video surfaced online purportedly showing a machete-wielding man scaring people inside the 'autonomous' CHAZ enclave set up by activists in the middle of Seattle, Washington. Police have warned of lawlessness in the area.

The short clip that has been circulating on social media shows a man in dark clothes holding what appears to be a machete while strolling near tents set up on a sports field. At one point, the man starts waving his weapon as several bystanders seem to become concerned about his behavior.






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Bizarro Earth

Merriam-Webster redefining 'racism' to fit BLM narrative turns the dictionary into an instrument of Orwellian thought control

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC
black lives matter
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
A dictionary publisher is redefining "racism" and related words after a black college grad complained the existing definition didn't fit her experience. But sacrificing shared understanding to performative virtue helps no one.

Publisher Merriam-Webster has proudly waded into the culture wars, bending the knee to 22-year-old Drake University grad Kennedy Mitchum with a pledge not merely to redefine "racism" to reflect systemic oppression, but to "revise the entries of other words that are related to racism or have racial connotations."

Promising the newly-updated dictionary would be rolled out "in the coming months," editor Alex Chambers apologized for the "harm and offense we have caused in failing to address the issue sooner."
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Bizarro Earth

'Mostly peaceful riots'? Mainstream media has given up any shred of objectivity over BLM violence. How thick do they think we are?

Guy Birchall
RT
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:20 UTC
london police
© AFP / Daniel Leal-Olivas
Media outlets in the US and UK have been conducting mental gymnastics worthy of Cirque du Soleil to portray rioters as virtuous, non-violent freedom fighters even as they film them starting fires and ripping down statues.

You may have noticed the word "peaceful" being bandied about on your TV screens and appearing in headlines all over the internet a lot recently. "Peaceful" is an interesting adjective, because in most cases if something is peaceful, it is self-evident. For example, you'd only have to look at a photograph of a yoga retreat or a calm lake on a warm summer's day and your brain would instantly think, "peaceful". Likewise, with its opposite "violent"; normally if something is violent it is perfectly obvious: baying mobs, cage fighting, Quentin Tarantino movies - they're violent and you don't need to be told they are.

Which is why it is rather interesting that "peaceful" has crept into the headlines of countless stories about the recent protests following the tragic death of George Floyd. Virtually every news outlet, from CNN to MSNBC to the BBC and Sky News, even the Daily Mail, have insisted that all the demonstrations in his name have been mainly placid, well-mannered affairs. They seem to have forgotten, however, that the cameras are rolling.
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Attention

Lockdown catastrophe points up the need for resilient local food supply systems

Colin Todhunter
Off Guardian
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:06 UTC
Gaza crops
© Unknown
There is no doubt that, contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence.

It's a sector which demands the entrenchment of capitalist agriculture via deregulation and the corporate control of seeds, land, fertilisers, water, pesticides, food processing and retail - domination of the entire chain from seed to plate.

These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive social, environmental and health costs picked up by taxpayers. As if to pour oil on the fire, the food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns may serve to further strengthen the prevailing system.

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