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School shows video telling students not to call cops if they see a 'violently racist' attack

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A high school in Denver, Colorado is under fire for showing students a video telling them not to contact the police if they witness a "violently racist or homophobic" incident.

The rationale is that cops will "escalate, rather than reduce" the violence, the New York Post reports.

Originally posted to YouTube in 2017 by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the "Don't be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks" YouTube vid says that given the current political environment, "White supremacists and White nationalists have been emboldened, and as a result, public attacks are on the rise."

Comment: See also: Denver elementary school to hold BLM event teaching kindergarteners, first graders to disrupt the 'nuclear family,' recognize 'trans-antagonistic violence'


Eye 1

Florida man arrested for trying to buy 8-year-old girl for $100,000

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© Port Orange Police Department/Facebook
A Florida sex offender was arrested after he allegedly tried to "purchase" an 8-year-old girl for $100,000 at a grocery store, police said.

Hellmuth Kolb, 85, approached the child's mom at a Winn Dixie in Port Orange Thursday and made the indecent proposal, according to the Port Orange Police Department.

Kolb was on probation and was banned from having contact with children after trying to buy a different child in Walmart in 2018, according to WESH-TV.

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Bullseye

Bill Maher: Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed in 'conspiracy to get rid of' Trump

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© Real Time with Bill Maher /YouTubeBill Mahr accused the media of burying the Post's scoop on Hunter Biden's laptop until after the 2020 presidential election.
The media conspired to keep news about Hunter Biden quiet until after the 2020 election in a bid to help President Biden win, Bill Maher charged.

"Hunter Biden's laptop was buried by the press, even the head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, said that was a mistake. They buried the story," Maher told his guests comedian Rob Reiner and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota).

The host then went on to reference author Sam Harris's recent podcast interview claiming a coordinated effort to suppress Hunter Biden news was "warranted."

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Bizarro Earth

Lack of CO2 threatens Poland's food industry, including beer, meat, vegetables, and dairy

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CO2 is crucial to meat and dairy sectors as well
Danish brewery Carlsberg's subsidiary in Poland could cut or halt beer production due to a lack of carbon dioxide deliveries, that is becoming a problem for the food industry in the country, reported Reuters.

"If deliveries of carbon dioxide (CO2) are not resumed, there will be a high probability of significant production cut or production halt," spokeswoman for Carlsberg Polska Beata Ptaszyńska-Jedynak said on Thursday.

She explained that the beer industry uses carbon dioxide to keep oxygen out of beer, but that the lack of CO2 was hitting many other parts of the food industry which also uses it for refrigeration.

Comment: With fertilizer shortages, drought, soaring energy costs, in addition to the attacks by governments on farmers, unprecedented food shortages are all but inevitable, and this is precisely what numerous officials in governments across the planet have been warning about; less developed nations are already relying on grain deliveries from countries such as Russia and China:


Syringe

Pfizer vaccine whistleblower responds to motion to dismiss false claims suit

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Pfizer cannot use the government as a shield from liability for making false claims about its COVID-19 vaccine, lawyers for a whistleblower argued in response to Pfizer's motion to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit.

"Respondents claim fraudulent certifications, false statements, doctored data, contaminated clinical trials, and firing of whistleblowers can be ignored based on the theory that they contracted their way around the fraud," lawyers for Brook Jackson, who worked as regional director at one of the clinical trials used to develop the Pfizer vaccine, wrote in their Aug. 22 response.

"A drug company cannot induce the taxpayers to pay billions of dollars for a product," they countered, "that honest data would show poses more risks than benefits, and that ignores the actual contract and the law itself."

Jackson's lawsuit alleges that Pfizer and two of its subcontractors violated the False Claims Act by providing bogus clinical trial results to garner the FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Stock Down

How "food shortages" & economic collapse protects the status quo

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In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system" in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.

Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing with supply chains being disrupted and added this is hitting the poorest the hardest and planting the seeds for political instability and unrest around the globe.

According to the International Panel of Experts on SustainableFood Systems, there is currently sufficient food and no risk of global food supply shortages.

We see an abundance of food but skyrocketing prices. The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

The war in Ukraine is a geopolitical trade and energy conflict. It is largely about the US engaging in a proxy war against Russia and Europe by attempting to separate Europe from Russia and imposing sanctions on Russia to harm Europe and make it further dependent on the US.

Arrow Up

Serbia cancels EuroPride event citing 'numerous', more pressing problems to deal with

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The pan-European LGBTQ festival has been postponed until "happier times," President Aleksandar Vucic says
Serbia has decided to "cancel or postpone" a EuroPride event that was due to take place in the Balkan country's capital, Belgrade, in mid-September, President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Saturday.

"This is a violation of minority rights, but at this moment the state is pressured by numerous problems," Vucic said during a press conference.

The president explained that the LGBTQ festival, which is held in different European cities every year and includes a Pride Parade, cannot go ahead due to threats from right-wing extremists and fears of violence.

Cardboard Box

Finnish firm warns of 'substantial' toilet paper shortage as soaring energy costs curtail production

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Soaring energy costs across the EU are causing temporary stoppages at production sites and could lead to product shortages, the Finnish company Metsä Tissue warned on Friday.

"During the recent weeks, Metsä Tissue has had to curtail its production both in its Zilina and Kreuzau mills [Slovakia and Germany] for several days because of the high energy price peaks," the company said in a statement

According to Metsä Tissue, further production freezes are likely as energy costs continue to rise. The company warned that the enforced stoppages are expected to impact consumers, as "substantial amounts of daily production losses will occur."

Comment: And these are the shortages that we're being warned about, because it's likely that numerous and various other companies are quietly reducing production in the hopes that energy prices will fall, despite all evidence to contrary, and, soon enough, people will be confronted with shortages of all kinds, amidst soaring inflation.


Footprints

Texas governor 'bar-coding' migrants, NYC official claims

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© AFP/Yuki IwamuraMigrants wait for assistance outside Port Authority Bus Terminal
The bar-code bracelets that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been using to track and identify newly-arrived illegal immigrants are dehumanizing, New York City Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro complained on Wednesday as bus after bus arrived at the city's Port Authority Bus Terminal bearing hundreds of migrants.

"Gov. Abbott is bar-coding people and treating them as less than human, as if they were cattle," Castro said, claiming he was "incredibly shocked" to see children wearing the bracelets and to see security personnel "treating them as less than human beings."

The guards, allegedly hired by Abbott, cut the migrants' bracelets off as they arrived at the bus station in Manhattan, confirming they had officially been turned over to New York authorities. CBS affiliate WCBS published a clip of migrants arriving wearing barcodes on their wrists on Wednesday.

Comment: Hospital patients have similar requirements.

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City tries to cancel use of the term 'homeless'

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© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesHomeless man selects a box for a sleeping mat • Skid Row of Los Angeles
America's most populous county, Los Angeles, hasn't yet cracked the code on solving homelessness, but local government officials have come up with a way to change conversations about the crisis: canceling the term "homeless."

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) argued in a Twitter post this week that such labels as "the homeless" and "homeless people" need to be replaced by more "inclusive" terms, including "people living outside" and "people who are unhoused." The idea is to get rid of the "negative stigma" around homelessness and "emphasize personhood over housing status," the authority said.
"Our unhoused neighbors are human, and the language we use should reflect that. "Let's abandon outdated, othering and dehumanizing terminology and instead adopt people-centered language."
Part of the idea is to use terminology that "acknowledges a person's individuality," according to the agency, but it's not clear how "people who are unhoused" carries more individuality than "homeless people."

Comment: Circumstances have gotten worse. No 'smiley faced labeling' will change that.