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Opinion polls suggest Russia's pro-Putin party still strong but fading in popularity

Paul Robinson
RT
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:01 UTC
Vladimir Putin Russian presidential elections
© Sputnik / Sergey Guneev
Vladimir Putin votes at Russian presidential elections
Russians will head to the polls next month for parliamentary elections. Despite the importance of the vote, the campaign has received little international coverage - probably because everybody already thinks they know the outcome.

The United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin and holds 334 of the State Duma's 450 seats, is likely to come out on top. That said, there is still a lot to play for at the margins and the possibility of some major upsets remains.

In the last parliamentary elections in 2016, the ruling bloc took almost 54% of the vote. This year, opinion polls have it running much lower, with only 27% of respondents saying that they definitely intend to vote for the party. This second figure is slightly misleading as a large percentage of people declare themselves to be undecided or as not intending to vote. Counting only those who are decided, definite voters, then United Russia's total goes up to something around 36%. This is substantially better than the headline figure, but still way below its share in 2016 when it was basking in popular support after the 2014 reabsorption of Crimea.
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China launches campaign to censor online content that 'bad-mouths' its economy


RT
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:11 UTC
China
© AP Photo / Andy Wong
Beijing has launched a two-month campaign to probe commercial platforms and social media accounts that post economic information, in an attempt to cleanse the media of content that criticizes China's economic policies.

The National Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday launched a "special rectification" action targeting illegal procurement and misinterpretation of financial information. The agency called on social media platforms to carry out checks to cleanse finance-related content that "violates China's regulations."

China's major regulatory agencies will supervise and guide the moves, focusing on eight types of violations. These include "bad-mouthing" China's financial markets and "misinterpreting" domestic economic policies, spreading finance-related rumors and "hyping negative information to threaten, intimidate, blackmail relevant stakeholders and seek illegal benefits." Those who repost foreign media articles or commentaries that are deemed to falsely interpret China's financial policy "without taking a stance or making a judgment" will also be considered violators under the regulation.
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Health

'It's all for your own good'

TE Creus
Off-Guardian
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:21 UTC
For your Health
© Off-Guardian
One of the most annoying aspects of the current measures supposedly created "against the pandemic" that we have been subjected for almost two years now is the insistence that everything is done "for our own good", as if governments and big companies were strict but caring parents, and we were just unruly or disobedient children who don't really know what they need.

It brings to mind CS Lewis' warning about that most oppressive of tyrannies, "a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims."

Now, I cannot tell for sure if the vaccines, the lockdowns, the travel restrictions and the masks work or not. My feeling is that they don't, or at least, not in the way we are being told, but that's not the issue. The question is why are we being treated like stupid children who cannot simply choose, but have to take a "jab" and then get "green passes" to travel or work or enter any establishment.

Apparently, governments and big corporations worldwide are worried about our "health".

But are they, really?

Like monomaniacs, they seem to be worried exclusively about Covid.

Not about the incredible amount of mental health issues and the alarming increase of teenage suicides during the various "lockdowns".

Not about people, like my elderly neighbours, who could not see their family (who live in another country) for over two years and are suffering with solitude.

Not for the people who, afraid of contracting Covid, didn't go to the hospital to treat other conditions and died.

Not for the people who died or got sick because of side effects of the vaccines.

No, it's just "Covid". And even that doesn't seem to be their main worry. As long as they get their "vaccine passports" and their "tracking apps" and their "cashless society", they don't really care if you get the disease or not.
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Twitter permanently bans science journalist Alex Berenson after viral COVID Tweets


Zerohedge
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 07:35 UTC
Alex Berenson
It was never a matter of if, but when.

Science journalist Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter, just one day after a viral series of tweets spotlighting an Israeli preprint study which showed that natural immunity from a prior Covid-19 infection is 13 times more effective than vaccines against the delta variant.

"The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules," a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News.

The last tweet he posted, meanwhile, accurately noted that the vaccine "doesn't stop infection. Or transmission."

"Don't think of it as a vaccine," he added. "Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS."

"And we want to mandate it? Insanity."
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NPC

CDC goes woke, demands Americans use 'inclusive language' for their 'health'

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:27 UTC
CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky
The CDC has released new, inclusive language that they want the American public to use in place of lots of already extant words that we typically use to describe individuals or groups. Essentially, in place of single words that are used, the CDC wants us to put the word "person" first, before the descriptor, except in the areas where they believe that group identity supersedes individual identity, as in race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.

There are many examples of this, in many categories, such as "Corrections & Detentions," where words for "prisoner," "criminal," and others are to be replaced with "People/persons who are incarcerated or detained," or "Persons in pre-trial or with charge." In the category of "Disability," terms like "Differently abled" should be replaced with "People with disabilities/a disability." "Drug-users/addicts/drug abusers," etc., should be instead "Persons who use drugs/people who inject drugs."

The idea behind this is clear even without reading the CDC's preamble: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want Americans to see and think about each other as people first, before they consider the person's condition. The CDC's intention is to humanize us, and seem to believe that their function is to tell us how to speak, and how to think, in order to do that. However, it is poorly designed, and will only be replaced by new missives in very short time.

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Brain

Pandemic's teen mental health crisis in Victoria worse than feared

Damon Johnston
The Australian
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:31 UTC
Victorian Mental Health Minister James Merlino
© Getty Images
Victorian Mental Health Minister James Merlino.
More than 340 teenagers a week have been admitted to hospital suffering mental health emergencies, according to a confidential Andrews government report that reveals Victoria's pandemic and lockdown-fuelled youth crisis is worse than previously feared.

The tragic case load - recorded every week in the six weeks leading up to May 30 - is a 57 per cent increase on the same period last year, prompting calls from mental health experts for an immediate boost to services.

The Victorian Agency for Health Information (child and adolescent edition) reveals an average 342 children, aged up to 17, presented to emergency departments each week.

Comment: The elephant in the room here is that this is, in all likelihood, completely attributable to lockdowns, social distancing and mask wearing. The government's hysterical overreaction to a rather mundane virus is arguably worse than the disease itself, especially for children and teens who are, for all intents and purposes, immune to the virus.

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Info

Trudeau campaign rally cancelled over safety concerns from angry anti-vaccine protesters

Jim Bronskill and Jordan Press
National Post
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
trudeau election bus protesters
© Carlos Osorio/Reuters
Protestors react as the media bus following Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau leaves after the cancellation of a campaign event in Bolton, Ontario, August 27, 2021.
Dozens of protesters, some with children, used expletives in chants, waved their middle fingers, and made references to the Nazis over megaphones

The Liberal campaign cancelled an early evening rally Friday after an unruly group of demonstrators denouncing Justin Trudeau and pandemic policies set off security concerns, with Trudeau himself saying that going ahead with the event would have put people at risk.

Dozens of local Liberal supporters, some with young children and dogs, gathered in a hotel parking lot in Bolton, Ont., northwest of Toronto, to hear Trudeau speak.

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Syringe

mRNA "Vaccines", Eugenics & the Push for Transhumanism

Ryan Matters
NewBraveWorld.org
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:07 UTC
The worldwide rollout of mRNA "vaccines" is part of a much larger agenda that encompasses eugenics and transhumanism. This agenda is being funded and promoted by a network of global institutions, politicians, and billionaire technocrats.

transhumanism
In 1989, researchers from the Salk Institute in California published a paper detailing how they developed an RNA transfection system that could "directly introduce RNA into whole tissues and embryos". The concept of using RNA as a drug is first described in this paper, making it the seminal work that formed the foundation for decades of further research in this area. The "Discussion" section of the paper states that:
"The RNA/lipofectin method can be used to directly introduce RNA into whole tissues and embryos (R.W.M., C. Holt, and I.M.V., unpublished results), raising the possibility that liposome-mediated mRNA transfection might offer yet another option in the growing technology of eukaryotic gene delivery, one based on the concept of using RNA as a drug."
One of the Salk Institute researchers listed on the paper is Dr. Robert W. Malone, a scientist who has recently been censored on social media for warning about the possible dangers of the covid-19 vaccines. It could be argued that there's no expert more qualified to warn us about the dangers of mRNA injections than the man who helped pioneer the technology, nevertheless, Big Tech decided he was expounding "misinformation", because, well, they know better apparently.
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Control Panel

A tool of control: How health officials weaponize language to manage public perception of COVID vaccines


Children's Health Defense
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
1984 novel
The deployment of clever linguistic tricks has created a hostile upside-down universe, where even the vaccine-injured are tarnished as "anti-vaxxers" or liars rather than acknowledged as ex-vaxxers who took risks that turned out to be life-changing.

Psychological and linguistic manipulation are, for those in power, proven tools for building, consolidating and maintaining dominance — a reality keenly depicted in George Orwell's never-more-relevant novel, "1984."

As phrased by master propagandist Edward Bernays, an approximate contemporary of Orwell's, the mind of the people "is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion."

Recent events surrounding COVID vaccines have shown that medicine and public health — with the help of a complicit media — are particularly skilled at "pull[ing] the wires which control the public mind."

The clever bag of linguistic tricks deployed by the medical cartel includes seeding evocative terms such as "vaccine hesitancy" and "lockdowns" (which is prison terminology) into popular and scientific discourse, forging slippery new definitions of words with formerly fixed meanings (such as "pandemic," "herd immunity" and "vaccine"), and circling failed products back around by giving them the positive spin of "boosters."
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Stop

Amazon disables ISIS propaganda website using AWS to host content

M. Moon
Engadget
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
isis
© AAMIR QURESHI via Getty Images
It's been around since April, at least.

The Islamic State's propaganda arm used Amazon Web Services to host content promoting extremism, according to The Washington Post. Nida-e-Haqq, the group's media arm, posted messages on the website in the Urdu language, including ones celebrating the recent suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 170 people. Since Amazon's policy bars clients from using its services to incite violence and terror, the company pulled the website after The Post alerted it to its existence.

The website Amazon disabled provided content for the Nida-e-Haqq app, which recently showed an image of the Kabul bomber wrapped in a suicide vest. It's currently password-protected and not viewable, but it's been active since at least April, based on the online domain records The Post saw. Amazon spokesperson Casey McGee told the publication in a statement: "(F)ollowing an investigation, we have disabled a website that was linked to this app as it was in violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy."
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