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White House dismisses Biden stumble as minor mishap, but some jokingly blame Kremlin


RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:54 UTC
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Critics of Joe Biden had a field day after his awkward boarding of the Air Force One, bringing up his past mockery of Donald Trump's mobility issues. But some say (in jest) Joe should blame the Kremlin rather than strong winds.

The video of Biden's stumbling walk up the steps on Friday provided the inspiration for many jokes, ranging in tone from light-hearted puns and video game mashups, to ableist digs, and partisan attacks gleefully shared by the Trumpworld.

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The US Marines secretly advised on the hit movie 'Avatar', despite its later framing as being anti-war

Tom Secker
RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:27 UTC
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(L) 'Avatar' (2009) Dir: James Cameron (R) Female and male Marine recruits
New documents show the makers of the film - the highest-grossing in history and now re-released - secretly liaised on its plot and dialogue with the Corps. The subsequent attack on it was all about military control over Hollywood.

The 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar was recently re-released in China, and revenues from the People's Republic have seen the movie overtake Avengers: Endgame and reclaim its position as the highest-grossing film of all time.

This tidbit about box office statistics has resulted in a flurry of news coverage, but hidden behind the endless reports from journalists with dollar signs in their eyes is a tale of covert military propaganda, and how the DOD pressures filmmakers to produce more pro-war content.

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Health

UK: Only 0.06% of School Covid Tests Positive Last Week

Michael Curzon
Lockdown Sceptics
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
masked students
In the week that all students returned to school, only 0.06% of rapid Covid tests produced positive results. The TES has the story.
Only 0.06% of the rapid Covid tests carried out in schools in the week that all pupils returned were positive, new statistics reveal.

More than 4.5 million lateral flow tests were taken in schools and colleges in the week between March 4th and March 10th according to Department of Heath statistics.

But they only picked up 2796 positive cases.
The question is, how many of these positive results really were positive? Earlier this month, Will Jones wrote here that "mass testing in schools was always a bad idea - cruel, intrusive, pointless. The high proportion of false positives, with their needless and disruptive requirement to self-isolate, only underlines that fact". A report in the Telegraph also explained that infection levels are now so low that the majority of positive results could be false.

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Children returning to school has not led to surge in Covid infections, figures show

The Department of Health's figures, which cover the period from March 4 - 10, also record results of all tests taken at schools which includers teachers and sixth form college students. The results were similar with 2,039 positives out of 3,725,655 equivalent to 0.06 per cent of cases.

"These figures are much lower than the assumptions that the Government have been using to plan this policy," Prof Deeks told The Telegraph. "Clearly the Government predictions are seriously wrong."

It came as two studies showed that children did not have a major impact in spreading infection in the pandemic.
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Liam Smeeth, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, at LSHTM said: "There is clearly a great deal of interest in kids going back to school, and what the risks are to households.

"We found that overall no increased risk out in the first wave. In the second wave while we did see a small increased risk of infection this didn't translate into increased risk of death and the absolute increased risks, were really, really small."

A similar study from the University of Glasgow and Public Health Scotland (PHS) found adults living with children were at no greater risk of testing positive for coronavirus - even during periods when schools are open and there was active transmission in the community.
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Militants beheading children in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado, report


Africa News
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:45 UTC
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Women and a child rest in a tree in the community of Ntocota, Metuge District in Pemba, Cabo Delgado Province on February 22, 2021.
Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, aid agency Save the Children said in a new report.

Armed groups, known locally as al-Shabab ("young people" in Arabic), have been sowing terror for more than three years in the strategic province of Cabo Delgado, which borders Tanzania and is an area that is rich in natural gas.

More than 2,600 people have died in the conflict and more than 670,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.

Comment: See also: Islamists behead more than 50 people in Mozambique as football pitch is turned into killing field

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Blue Planet

Daughter of late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan accused of nasty anti-China rant

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:12 UTC
Maura Moynihan
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Maura Moynihan was caught on video berating an Asian American couple in the wake of increasing attacks on the Asian community in NYC and across the country.
A woman accused of telling an Asian American couple in Manhattan to "go back to China" has been identified as the daughter of late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a new report said.

Maura Moynihan admitted to WABC that she was the woman captured on camera arguing with Dan Lee, 31, during a confrontation at First Avenue and East 22nd Street last Sunday.

Lee's wife, 25-year-old Maria Ha, told the news station that the heated exchanged kicked off when Moynihan randomly told her to "go back to China."
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Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief resigns after old allegations of social media racism resurface

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:06 UTC
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Alexi McCammond, the editor of Teen Vogue, has decided to resign from her position on Thursday amid the resurfacing of an old racism scandal.


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Vive la lockdown révolution! Growing rebellion against draconian Covid restrictions by easygoing Canadians shows the world the way

Eva Bartlett
RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:08 UTC
Toronto Eaton Centre
© Geoff Robins / AFP
A man arrives at the entrance to the Toronto Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto, Ontario on November 23, 2020, the first day of a new lockdown in the city.
Increasing numbers of Canadians, including doctors, scientists, lawyers and business owners, are pushing back hard at their country's increasingly oppressive Covid-19 restrictions, using the law as their weapon.

Since being told one year ago that the curve-flattening would be a two-week process, many Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses have instead been forced to close for much of the year (while big-box superstores have remained open).

Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, recently tweeted against the enforced closures, asking Ontario Premier Doug Ford for "a new plan."

In a separate tweet, Ford, pretending that his policies hadn't destroyed businesses and impoverished the working class, wrote of firing up the economy, creating more jobs, and getting people back on their feet.

Tell that to the small businesses barely operating, or those unlikely to ever reopen again.
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Passport

Vaccine passports and medical martial law

Jesse Smith
Truth Unmuted
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:36 UTC
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The Setup

Almost one year ago, former President Trump declared a national emergency and the White House announced a 15-day plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Governments around the world either preceded the U.S. or soon followed with similar pronouncements. The upsurge in totalitarianism since these edicts were installed is mind-boggling.

Staying home, social distancing, and hand washing were the first steps in the slippery slope towards medical martial law. Then came the lockdowns and mandatory face mask policies. These were soon followed by pressure to take a COVID-19 test, contact tracing, and quarantines. Next were vaccines that were rushed to production, given only "emergency use authorization" by the FDA and still deemed experimental, having completely skipped long-term safety studies. Now, the threat of vaccine passports/certificates represents the next step towards complete tyranny and subjugation of the people.

All of these draconian measures have served as social engineering tools to get people used to having "experts" and government officials tell them what to do. In fact, you could argue that all of humanity (outside those in authority) has been slowly tortured over the past year. With staggering numbers of suicides and rising rates of substance abuse, many decided to just check out. The remaining masses have been subjected to classical conditioning like Pavlov's dogs. During this "plandemic", most people have been retrained to depend on authorities to tell them when they can go to work, visit loved ones, travel, go to church, hug someone or even shake their hand.

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Cardboard Box

'Zero Covid' is utopian, authoritarian nonsense - is that why so many lefties love it?

Rob Lyons
RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:04 UTC
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© Reuters
A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre
The movement wants to eradicate the virus entirely - and favours whatever it takes to achieve it, and however long it takes. But after more than a year of imprisonment, and with vaccines working, Britons won't buy that.

Governments should adopt a strategy of eliminating Covid-19. Who could argue with that? After five months of lockdowns over the past year in the UK, everyone is mightily sick of living with restrictions. If there is a way of driving the virus out altogether, perhaps we should take it. But the demands of the 'Zero Covid' movement seem to be an odd mix of uncontroversial policies and extending authoritarian measures indefinitely.

The campaign group was set up last summer, predominantly by left wingers such as trade unionists, local councillors and academics, and seeks to entirely eradicate the virus from our shores.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Pseudo-realities, Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism

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TV

Xinjiang residents to sue BBC over its fake news claims of 'Uygur forced labor camps'


GlobalTimes.cn
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:12 UTC
Kashgar
© Xinhua
Local residents walk in a street at a scenic spot in the ancient city of Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 16, 2020.
A number of individuals in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region plan to sue BBC for producing fake news, spreading rumors about Xinjiang and slandering China's policy in its Xinjiang region, a senior official from the region announced on Thursday.

Xu Guixiang, deputy director of the publicity department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, revealed the information at a Xinjiang-related press conference held by the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing.

Under the banner of so-called "freedom of the press" and without investigation and verification, the BBC followed the trend and quoted the so-called Xinjiang-related "research report" of pseudo-scholar Adrian Zenz, producing and broadcasting fake news, making irresponsible remarks on Xinjiang-related policies, and spreading rumors and slander, Xu said, noting that the British media outlet has become a platform for the dissemination of Zenz's lies about Xinjiang.

Comment: Even amongst a significant number of British citizens the BBC is considered to be the propaganda arm of the ruling government:

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