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SOTT Focus: Greta Thunberg: False Prophet of the Children's Crusade

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:39 UTC
Greta thunberg mural bristol
A Greta Thunberg mural in Bristol, UK
As SOTT readers may know, I've been in the "prophet business" for over 25 years now. It hasn't been easy, either. Despite a "Hit List" longer than both my arms, I still feel like Cassandra most days.

I haven't written anything for public consumption for quite a few years now, other than posting on our forum, and the reason is mainly the "Cassandra Complex" just mentioned. I came to realize fully that there just isn't anything that can be done to change the mad descent of humanity into near extinction. In addition to that, beginning back in the early days, vigorous efforts were made to suppress my warnings by taking me off the stage, so to say.

Failing that, the global censorship imposed by Google, Facebook, Twitter and the mainstream media has taken its toll. SOTT.net used to have 6 million readers a month - now we are lucky if we get 2 million. Referrals from FB and Twitter used to be our main mode of connection; now they have faded to oblivion.

Anyway, I'm not dead yet and everything is pretty much proceeding as predicted by our prophecy project - The Cassiopaean Experiment - and we have a good idea of where it will end.

But Greta Thunberg has no idea. And the propagation of her ignorance is literally criminal which, since she is a willing participant, though little more than a child, makes her a criminal too. She doesn't realize that, of course, because she has been thoroughly brainwashed - as has a whole generation of children on this planet; but when was that ever not the case? The words change, but the tune is the same: manipulation and control of humanity is the game.
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Pistol

Haiti: Senator opens fire, shoots a photojournalist in the face, security guard injured

Ruaridh Nicoll
The Guardian
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:30 UTC
Chery Dieu-Nalio
© Andrés Martínez Casares/ReutersPhotojournalist Chery Dieu-Nalio holds a healing gauze next to his mouth.
Two men including a photojournalist have been shot and injured by a Haitian senator who opened fire outside the country's parliament, amid chaotic scenes as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of a new prime minister.

Chery Dieu-Nalio, an Associated Press photographer, was wounded in the face and a second man, Leon Leblanc, a security guard and driver, was also injured in the incident in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday.

Although doctors were reported to be removing bullet fragments from Dieu-Nalio's face, the injuries are said not to be life-threatening.

Before leaving the scene, Leblanc told reporters he had seen Jean Marie Ralph Féthière, a senator from the north of the country, draw a handgun as he tried to leave the parliamentary precincts through a crowd of protesters.

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Search launched for missing CIA mole Oleg Smolenkov


RFE/RL
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:25 UTC
Yuri Ushakov
© TASSYury Ushakov - alleged mole was his chief advisor
Russia's Interior Ministry says a former Kremlin official, whom media reports have called a CIA informant, has been officially declared missing. The ministry said on September 23 that it had added Oleg Smolenkov, born in 1969, to its list of missing people and that it has launched a search to locate him.

Earlier this month, U.S. media reports from Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post said a CIA informant in the Russian government had been extracted and brought to the United States in 2017.

Some of the reports said the unidentified Russian had provided intelligence from inside President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The CIA, the State Department, and the White House have said the reports were inaccurate.

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Book

Laura Ingalls Wilder removed from ALSC award over racist language


BBC
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Laura Ingalls Wilder
© Getty ImagesAuthor Laura Ingalls Wilder
The US Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has removed Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from one of its awards over racist views and language.

The association had received complaints for years over the Little House on the Prairie author's "anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments in her work". The ALSC board voted unanimously on Saturday to remove Wilder's name from the children's literature award.

The medal will be renamed as the "Children's Literature Legacy" award.

The ALSC, a division of the American Library Association, said Wilder's novels and "expressions of stereotypical attitudes" were "inconsistent with ALSC's core values". Wilder's children's novels about pioneer life in the American West have been criticised for language that dehumanises indigenous peoples and people of colour.

Notably, one of the opening chapters of the Little House books described a land with "no people. Only Indians lived there".

In 1953, the Harper's publishing company decided to change "people" to "settlers", according to the Washington Post.

But the novels continues to raise concerns due to storylines featuring racist stereotypes and attitudes typical of white Americans of Wilder's era.
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Alarm Clock

500 Scientists Write U.N.: 'There Is No Climate Emergency'

Thomas Williams
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:03 UTC
NYC climate protest
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a "European Climate Declaration" to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

Just as 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York accusing world leaders of robbing her of her future, scientists were begging the United Nations to keep hysteria from obscuring facts.

Comment: And we, the Climate Justice Warriors, urge...no DEMAND that you shut the hell up and get on board our hysteria train. NOW!

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One brave young man takes on 'gender inequality' at the University of Southern California

Barbara Kay
The Post Millennial.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Kursat Christoff Pekgoz
Kursat Christoff Pekgoz
Misandry — the hatred of men — has been a staple of my polemical writing for more than fifteen years. I felt a special obligation to hammer away at gender myths such as intimate partner violence (women are about as likely as men to initiate violence against their partners as men), false sexual allegations (a disturbing percentage of such allegations) and demonstrable bias against fathers in family court, because male journalists who dared to write sympathetically about men and/or critically about women put their careers in jeopardy (no exaggeration), and most had learned to keep shtumm in this domain.

That situation has been changing slowly but steadily. Some men have decided they aren't going to spend their lives in rhetorical purdah on the subject of their own cultural dhimmitude, and have been stepping up to the plate, whatever the personal cost. The university campus is home to the feminist commissariat — and it's a brave man who dares to stick his head above that formidable parapet. Because the cost of doing so can be high.

This is the story of one such activist who paid a price, which only fueled his resistance efforts, and which in turn inspired others, in reversing a decades-long erosion of men's rights on campus.
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Columbine survivor says reporters don't want to hear why he opposes Beto O'Rourke's proposed gun ban

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
former Rep. Beto O’Rourke
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidate former Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks to the media as he visits the outside of a detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Fla., on Jun. 27, 2019.
A survivor of the Columbine mass shooting said that "biased" reporters weren't interested in hearing why he opposes Beto O'Rourke's proposed gun ban.

O'Rourke, a former Texas U.S. representative, is a Democratic presidential contender.

Evan Todd, who was shot during the Columbine massacre in 1999, asked O'Rourke at an event in Colorado last week how far the gun ban would go and was not pleased with the answer.

"I understand that you want to get a mandatory buyback for ARs and AK-47s. None of my classmates were murdered with those weapons. Fifty percent of mass murders don't happen with those weapons. Don't you think it's time we get rid of all semi-auto firearms?"


Comment: There is much to suggest that banning neither automatic or semi-autoamatic guns would be much help however:

O'Rourke responded in part: "I would love to have your help. If you want to sit down and talk to about the kind of weapons that are going to be important to be regulated, I'm here with you and want to listen to you."

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Vader

Thunberg vs Trump: Showdown at UN General Assembly spurs memes and snark about Greta's scowling


RT
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:58 UTC
Greta Thunberg
© REUTERS/Andrew HofstetterSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg watches US President Donald Trump arrive at UNGA in New York, September 23, 2019
Arriving at the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump paid no attention to Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Caught on camera, her stare sparked a thousand tweets and divided the public.

While Thunberg was giving a fiery speech at the UNGA Climate Action Summit, Trump was speaking at an event about religious freedom. Video from the UN headquarters on East River shows Thunberg scowling as Trump enters the building to speak to reporters, not even registering her presence.

Trump's critics were quick to make Thunberg their "shero," describing her stare their new "life goals" and declaring that the 16-year-old climate "became president today."


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Handcuffs

Footage reveals hundreds of blindfolded and shackled Uighur prisoners in China

Lily Kuo
The Guardian
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:56 UTC
hundreds of blindfolded Uighurs
Video shows what appear to be Uighur or other minority prisoners led away by police

Drone footage has emerged showing police leading hundreds of blindfolded and shackled men from a train in what is believed to be a transfer of inmates in Xinjiang.

The video, posted anonymously on YouTube last week, shows what appear to be Uighur or other minorities wearing blue and yellow uniforms, with cleanly shaven heads, their eyes covered, sitting in rows on the ground and later being led away by police. Prisoners in China are often transferred with handcuffs and masks covering their faces.

Nathan Ruser, a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's international cyber policy centre, used clues in the footage, including landmarks and the position of the sun, to verify the video, which he believes was shot at a train station west of Korla in south-east Xinjiang in August last year.


Comment: Before assuming the very worst about the Chinese government, read the following nuanced analysis of what may actually be occurring in this story. A little context goes a long way... The truth about China's Uighur 're-education' facilities

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Orlando officer fired after arresting two 6-year-old children at school


RT
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:47 UTC
Emma Nixon Academy
© Google MapsThe Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy in Orlando, Florida.
An Orlando school resource officer lost his job after he arrested two six-year-old children at a Florida elementary school over trivial misbehavior. All charges against the children were dropped following public backlash.

Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said on Monday that the officer behind the arrests had been fired, apologizing to the two children and their families and adding that the case made him "sick to [his] stomach."

"It was clear today when I came into work that there was no other remedy than to terminate this officer," Rolon said in a statement. "As a grandfather, I can understand how traumatic this was for everyone involved."


The police chief added that he issued a "special notice" to the police force to "ensure this does not occur in the future."

Comment: Police State USA spares no one, not even kids just being kids. See also:

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