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Fire rips through flat in Canary Wharf tower block which reportedly has same cladding as Grenfell

Tom Pyman
Daily Mail
Fri, 07 May 2021 10:20 UTC
London fire
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Residents trapped in a tower block this morning screamed for help from balconies as a blaze ripped through their building - with many only becoming aware of the fire via WhatsApp messages.

More than 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles spent hours battling the inferno and rescuing a host of people - including a small toddler - at New Providence Wharf, near Canary Wharf, in east London today.

Two men were taken to hospital after being exposed to toxic fumes, while a further 38 adults and four children were treated at the scene for shock and breathing in smoke.

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Trans weightlifter set to make history at the Olympics: Elite women athletes are right to feel cheated, insulted

Damian Wilson
RT
Sat, 08 May 2021 16:48 UTC
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Laurel Hubbard will represent New Zealand at the Tokyo 2022 Olympics
New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard is set to compete in Tokyo after the introduction of new rules letting transgender women enter female events. This is an affront to top athletes who spend their lives training to be the world's best.

The decision to allow transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard to compete in women's weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics is unlikely to affect the medal hopes of the world's top-ranked athletes. But it does leave one question unanswered - what the hell is going on in sport?

The 43-year-old will be the oldest weightlifter at Tokyo and first openly transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics.

Comment: Pre-transition, Hubbard was a mediocre lifter at best, and left the sport because of it. Now his/her competitors have little to no chance of success, no matter how hard they train. From Breitbart in 2017:
The 39-year-old Hubbard won a gold medal quickly in the female categories. Competing at the heaviest 90 kg+ category, Hubbard won the gold medal with a 123 kg snatch and 145 kg clean & jerk, for a total of 268 kg at a bodyweight of 131.83 kg at the 2017 Australian International & Australian Open in Melbourne.

The greater-than-200-pound, or "+90kg category," is considered the heaviest weights that female athletes can lift. On the other hand, it is only the upper middle class of weights for male competitors. Due to a natural male frame, musculature and skeletal configuration, Hubbard easily beat all female competitors at the Australian Open.


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Biden's April job numbers are so dismal, CNBC's Steve Liesman stutters, thought it was a typo

Tristan Justice
The Federalist
Fri, 07 May 2021 16:33 UTC
CNBC Steve Liesman
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CNBC’s Steve Liesman
The economy still remains 8.2 million jobs short of pre-lockdown levels after the April jobs report published Friday signaled a slow, long road to recovery.

Only 266,000 jobs were added last month, far below the estimated million forecasters predicted. Unemployment was expecting to go down, not up, as it did to 6.1 percent while the government continues to dole out generous benefits to incentivize Netflix and couch surfing over a paycheck.

The April jobs numbers were so low, CNBC's Steve Liesman appeared to believe there may have been a typo on air.

Comment: Wonder how many of those jobless people are missing Trump?

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Oklahoma Governor Stitt signs bill banning teaching Critical Race Theory

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Sat, 08 May 2021 16:22 UTC
Kevin Stitt
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Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a bill Friday that will ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the state's public schools.

CRT is a Marxist-based philosophy that embraces the concept that all social and cultural issues should be viewed through the lens of race and racial identity.

Critics of CRT say its emphasis on identity politics creates greater division, rather than unity.

Comment: Stitt is listening to his constituency. A few others are paying attention. Trump did his best.

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Cyber attack shuts down largest US gasoline pipeline - 45% of east coast and southern regions

Ryan Morgan
American Military News
Sat, 08 May 2021 16:14 UTC
Gas pipeline facility
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Gas pipeline facility
On Friday night, the largest U.S. gas pipeline announced it had halted its operations after it discovered it was targeted in a cyber attack. The pipeline provides about 45 percent of the fuel supply along the east coast and southern United States.

In a company statement Friday night, Colonial Pipeline said, "On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline Company learned it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack. In response, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems."

According to Bloomberg, Colonial Pipeline operates the largest gasoline and diesel pipeline system in the U.S.
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Records show BLM grifter Patrisse Cullors funneled business to company run by father of her only child

Andrew Kerr
The Daily Caller
Sat, 08 May 2021 15:25 UTC
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Damon Turner and Patrisse Cullors speak at Patrisse Cullors' Thesis Solo Show on April 18, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder and executive director of Black Lives Matter's national arm, has funneled business to a company led by a man she identified as the father of her only child, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of business records, interviews and social media posts found.

The company, Trap Heals, was formed just days before partnering with Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and later became the charity's "lead developer of the art & cultural efforts," according to business records, interviews and an archived version of Trap Heals' website. Two other activist groups Cullors led paid Trap Heals a collective $238,000 to produce an election night livestream and for consulting services, campaign finance records show.

In numerous public mentions of their work, Cullors and Trap Heals chief Damon Turner did not disclose that they had a child together. But in at least one instance, Turner said Cullors was directly involved in Trap Heals' partnership with BLM Global Network.

Comment: The National Pulse provides more insight into Patrisse Cullors' true political beliefs:
During her speech, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder recounts how a young person insisted her book was "like Mao's Red Book," a comparison which Cullors embraces:

"I was speaking to this young person from Arizona who's trying to fight SB 1070, and he grabbed a book and he said, "It's like Mao's Red Book." [Laughter] And I was like man, that's what I was thinking, and it was just really cool to hear him make that connection, and I was like how about you buy 10 to 15 of these books and you all have like a youth organizing group where you talk about it and you really try to engage this."


"I think I have a really important role in speaking to youth. Maybe it's because I came in the movement at 17-and-a-half, so I have just a knack for knowing how to organize young people into this organization," Cullors adds.

Originally published at the advent of China's Cultural Revolution, the Little Red Book contains hundreds of quotes from then-Chairman Mao. Beyond representing the archetype of communist propaganda, the work was widely used by young revolutionaries to justify "purges" of anyone short of completely devoted to the Chinese Communist Party.

And history appears to be repeating itself: BLM has embedded its messages within public school curricula alongside ideological counterparts including the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory.
Poke a "progressive" organization, and sure enough, George Soros turns up:

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Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian teenager

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Thu, 06 May 2021 09:01 UTC
Saeed Odeh
© Dcip
Saeed Odeh, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the town of Odala in Nablus, in the Northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, May 5th, 2021.
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday night in the Nablus district in the northern occupied West Bank, making him the second child to be killed by Israeli forces in 2021.

The teen, identified as Saeed Odeh, 16, a resident of the village of Odala, was shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition around 9:00 p.m., according to Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP).

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4 ex-Minneapolis police officers, including Chauvin, federally indicted in George Floyd's death

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Fri, 07 May 2021 14:26 UTC
george floyd officers
© Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP
This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, shows Derek Chauvin, from left, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.
A federal grand jury in Minnesota has voted to indict the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the May 25, 2020, arrest of George Floyd, according to indictments unsealed Friday.

The three-count indictment names Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao. Specifically, Chauvin, Thao and Kueng are charged with violating Floyd's right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force. All four officers are charged for their failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Chauvin was also charged in a second indictment, stemming from the arrest and neck restraint of a 14-year-old boy in 2017.

Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Kueng appeared via videoconference in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. Chauvin was not part of the court appearance.

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Is this the Handmaid's Tale? First-year congresswoman details her woes as 'BIRTHING PERSON' to much bemusement


RT
Fri, 07 May 2021 02:59 UTC
handmaid's tale protest
© REUTERS/Carla Carniel
Activists dressed in Handmaid's Tale costumes walk as they take part in a demonstration to mark International Women's Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 8, 2021.
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush shocked co-workers on both sides of the aisle after sharing her horror stories of mistreatment during two pregnancies. But it was her call-out to fellow 'birthing people' that put moms on edge.

The Missouri Rep. addressed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committees on Thursday, sharing her experiences "as a single mom, nurse, activist, and Congresswoman...[committed] to protecting Black mothers, Black birthing people, Black babies, and to save Black lives."

While her pitch sounded innocuous enough at first - protecting women and children in a country that despite its first world status nevertheless is afflicted with one of the highest maternal death rates in the West, would seem to be a rather uncontroversial issue - a closer look at the tweet raised some alarms. Not only were her choices of who to protect limited to black children and parents, but there was that phrase in the middle of her conclusion: "Black birthing people."

Comment: People who use this kind of newspeak language should rightly be mocked and derided. As Matt Walsh said, "It makes everything ugly and dull and weird."

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California's 'equity' math rejects existence of naturally gifted students: 'All children capable at highest levels'

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Wed, 05 May 2021 00:01 UTC
grade school students classroom
© AMELIE-BENOIST / BSIP/AFP
California's proposed "equity"-focused K-12 mathematics framework aims to underscore the message that there are no students who are intellectually gifted in the subject area, and that providing tracks for higher-level math students is discriminatory.

"All students are capable of making these contributions and achieving these abilities at the highest levels," the introductory chapter of the framework draft from January states, addressing the "problem" that "many competitive colleges and universities ... hold calculus as an unstated requirement."

According to the framework, when school districts place students who show high ability in math in advanced classes, or in the "mathematics pathway system," they act in opposition to what the document states is "evidence that shows all fifth graders are capable of eventually learning calculus, or other high-level courses, when provided appropriate messaging, teaching, and support (sic)."

Comment: One thing that is readily apparent in all this racist math nonsense is that those hellbent on changing what is taught and how are also hellbent on making children less intelligent and capable.

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