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United Airlines says it wants 50% of pilots trained in next decade to be women or people of color

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:52 UTC
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United Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would increase the number of women and people of color who become pilots, setting a goal for 50% of the 5,000 pilots trained in the next decade to fit the demographics.

The airline made the announcement on Twitter, writing, "Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That's why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color."

Twenty minutes after the initial tweet was sent - and after criticism from many on Twitter suggesting hiring people based on race and gender rather than talent would be dangerous - United followed up by saying: "All the highly qualified candidates we accept into the Academy, regardless of race or sex, will have met or exceeded the standards we set for admittance."

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Restaurant owners clash with police in Rome lockdown protest

Frances D'emilio
ABC News
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 06:59 UTC
Demonstrators in Rome
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Demonstrators scuffle with Italian Policemen during a protest by Restaurant and shop owners outside the Lower Chamber in Rome, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Demonstrators demanded to reopen their business and protested against restrictive measures of the Italian Government to cope with the surge of COVID-19 cases.
Italian restaurant owners and others angry at having their businesses shut for weeks due to a virus lockdown clashed with police Tuesday during a protest outside Parliament in Rome, while in the south, hundreds of demonstrators blocked a major highway.

One officer was injured in the scuffling, the Italian news agency LaPresse said. RAI state TV said seven protesters were detained by police.

Many in the crowd of a few hundred protesters outside the Chamber of Deputies lowered their masks to shout "Work!" and "Freedom!" Some hurled smoke flares or other objects.

Dining and drinking at restaurants, bars and cafes is currently banned through at least April. Only takeout or delivery services are permitted.

Officers charged some protesters after they tried to breach a police cordon. Members of a far-right political group joined the business owners at the protest, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.

Comment: Such madness based on lies and propaganda can't last forever. Sooner or later people will see the man behind the curtain. If businesses are closed they can't earn money, people will lose their wages, businesses, and jobs which means that the state will lose the tax income.

And one sunny freezy day when the state won't be able to compensate the citizens for their lost businesses and jobs and when poverty and hunger hit the masses, then it will not be a good time for the PTB. When people are left desperate, with empty stomachs and empty pockets they start to think and behave differently. The PTB are shooting themselves in the foot.

How far will these creatures go in their game of playing gods?

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'Mothership' or 'Anti-Piracy' cargo vessel: Attack on Iranian ship in the Red Sea raises questions

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:33 UTC
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Earlier reports stated that an Iranian cargo ship, the Saviz, had been attacked in the Red Sea by a missile or a mine, with Israel allegedly notifying the United States that its forces had carried out the strike as "retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels", according to The New York Times.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that an Iranian vessel, the MV Saviz, has been targeted in the Red Sea.

"The explosion occurred on Tuesday morning near the Djibouti coast and caused minor damage with no casualties. The vessel was a civilian ship stationed there to secure the region against pirates," Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Wednesday, adding that the issue was "under investigation".

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Extinction Rebellion activists arrested outside Barclays London HQ after breaking windows to protest bank's fossil fuel financing


RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:18 UTC
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An activist from the Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement, damages a window during a direct action at Barclays offices in Canary Wharf, London, Britain, April 7, 2021.
A number of climate activists have been arrested by London police after the Extinction Rebellion group held an early morning protest at the headquarters of Barclays Bank, Europe's largest financier of the fossil fuel industry.

Early on Wednesday morning, seven climate activists from Extinction Rebellion took hammers and chisels, adorned with personal messages including "For My Grandson," to the glass front of Barclays HQ in the Canary Wharf business district, East London.

The activists carried placards reading "Better Broken Windows than Broken Promises" and pasted posters with the message "In Case of Climate Emergency Break Glass" on the building's damaged glass front.

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The 10 radical new rules that are changing American culture

Victor Davis Hanson
Mercury News
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:45 UTC
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There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.

1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.

Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110% of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.

2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.

3) Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality. The explicit exclusion of Whites from college dorms, safe spaces and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of "good" racism.
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Ontario issues stay-at-home order, expands vaccines for essential workers and teachers in Peel and Toronto

Laura Stone and Jeff Gray
The Globe and Mail
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 23:50 UTC
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A movie theatre owned by Famous Players, a subsidiary of Cineplex Entertainment, remains closed due to COVID-19 restrictions in Toronto on April 6, 2021.
The Ontario government has issued a provincewide stay-at-home order while expanding vaccine eligibility in high-risk neighbourhoods, but critics say the province has been too slow to control fast-spreading COVID-19 variants that are threatening the health care system.

The order was unveiled by Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, less than a week after his government announced what it called a "shutdown" that closed restaurant dining but allowed non-essential retailers to stay open - and left pandemic rules in hotspots such as Toronto and Peel Region virtually untouched.

After public pushback from medical officers of health in Toronto, Peel and Ottawa, Mr. Ford's cabinet made an abrupt turnaround, declaring a third state of emergency and ordering more closings. The stay-at-home order takes effect Thursday at 12:01 a.m. and is to last four weeks.

Comment: Meanwhile, in Germany:
Chancellor Angela Merkel is backing a short, sharp lockdown across Germany to stem a sudden rise in Covid cases, her spokeswoman confirmed, saying the nation's health system was under growing pressure.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said Merkel favored "a short, national lockdown," adding that "every call for a short, uniform lockdown is right."

Earlier, Markus Söder, the premier of Bavaria, told German broadcaster ARD he favored a "short, consistent lockdown," adding such a move "only makes sense if everyone joins in."

"The less consistent we are, the longer it will take," he warned.


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Russia's Lavrov warns of surging anti-white racism in US

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:01 UTC
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Asserts that forces within U.S. are trying to impose a "cultural revolution."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is surging "aggression against white people" in the United States and that it is harming efforts to fight racism.

Lavrov made the comments during an interview with political scientists that was broadcast on national television.

"We were pioneers of the movement promoting equal rights of people of any skin color," said Lavrov, adding that "everyone wants to get rid of racism."

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World Economic Forum promotes 'smart mask' that alerts you if you forget to wear it

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:45 UTC
wef smart mask
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The World Economic Forum is promoting a 'smart mask' that tracks your breathing and alerts you via an app if you wear it improperly or forget to wear it at all.

Yes, really.

A video clip posted to the WEF's official Twitter account this morning hypes the "the mask of the future," designed by Chinese firm CirQ Technologies.

The smart mask tells you when to wash it, whether you're wearing it properly, and alerts you via a sensor linked to a cellphone app when you've left it at home.

The environmental benefits of the mask are also touted as it would cut down on the number of disposable face masks that end up in land fills.
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Gaslighting: How leftist psychopaths demonize and demoralize their opposition

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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We have all heard this time honored cautionary mantra: "All governments lie". It's not a theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time. I would only expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all corporations, all corporate media, all think tanks, and all corporate funded activist groups lie. There is a reason why public trust is at all time lows for the majority of these organizations, and it's not because they are managed by good and honest people.

If you operate on the assumption that these groups are lying to you most of the time then you will find yourself on the right side of history. That said, there are questions we need to ask ourselves if we ever hope to change the world for the better and remove these liars from power: Why do they lie? Why has this become a rule to live by? And, how are they able to lie and get away with it so often?

Well, it's not because power corrupts. That cliché might be true to a point, but I think it's a way for people to dismiss the bigger problem because they are afraid to address the ugly truth. The reality is, power does not necessarily corrupt; it's that the corrupt seek out power.
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Fail Hydra! Captain America is now so woke he's fighting a Jordan Peterson parody rather than Nazis hell-bent on world domination

Zachary Leeman
RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:44 UTC
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(L) 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) Dir: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (R) Jordan Peterson
The author and clinical psychologist was surprised to learn that Steve Rogers' nemesis Red Skull now appears to be modeled after him, but this painfully obvious liberal pandering has been infecting mainstream art for years now.

When the character of Captain America was at the height of his popularity in the comic book world, he was best known for punching Nazis in the face and extolling the virtues of patriotism.

Today, however, Captain America is as woke as just about every other character being pushed through the dying comics industry. With more and more agenda-driven writers landing gigs with big wigs like Marvel, his duty has now become to drop the overt patriotism and take on the loosely defined Nazis of today - aka anyone with a slightly conservative perspective.

Comment: Happily, the satirists are right on Ta-Nehisi Coates uber-woke heels:

In new Captain America, Steve Rogers is swayed by Red Skull videos - takes responsibility, cleans room

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