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Stephen Colbert grills Brian Stelter on CNN's Chris Cuomo scandal, calls out network's 'odd conflict of rules'

Joseph Wulfsohn
Fox News
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:14 UTC

The Late Show host pressed Stelter about the 'boundaries' CNN set for the Cuomo brothers

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert held CNN's left-wing media guru Brian Stelter's feet to the fire on Tuesday night over his network's "odd conflict of rules" regarding its star anchor Chris Cuomo following the stunning resignation of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"In a small way, your network is involved in this story because, of course, the governor's brother Chris Cuomo has his show," Colbert began the exchange before pointing to the New York Times' recent reporting about the CNN star advising the governor to resign. "How does that create any conflict over at CNN behind closed doors? Are people mad at him? Or is he in trouble?"

Comment: Why the pile-on now, when all of Cuomo's atrocious behavior has been on display for years? Is the spectacle of an impeachment over sexual harassment meant to distract from his murderous Covid nursing home policies? Is the choice of resignation a lesser evil for Cuomo personally than some unspecified consequence?

Panelists on Fox News' The Five weigh in:

Not inclusive enough: Cancel mob goes after Barbie for excluding Asian doll from Tokyo Olympics collection

Alana Mastrangelo
Breitbart
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC

Mattel, the manufacturing company behind the iconic toy Barbie, is facing fire from the social media-driven cancel mob purportedly for not including an Asian Barbie doll in its new line of dolls commemorating the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Mattel collaborated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organizers to release the new collection, according to a report by CNN.

"#Barbie is committed to empowering girls to participate in sports by capturing the fun and friendship of the season, and inspiring kids to find the athlete within," Barbie tweeted, showing off its five new "#tokyo2020" dolls, none of which appear to be Asian.

Governor Kate Brown signs bill ending requirement for reading and math proficiency to graduate high school in Oregon

Hillary Borrud
The Oregonian
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 16:51 UTC

She doesn't want to talk about it.

For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.

Gov. Kate Brown had demurred earlier this summer regarding whether she supported the plan passed by the Legislature to drop the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills. But on July 14, the governor signed Senate Bill 744 into law.

Through a spokesperson, the governor declined again Friday to comment on the law and why she supported suspending the proficiency requirements.

Comment: Speechless . . . .

Rand Paul suspended from Youtube for seven days after allegedly violating COVID-19 'misinformation' rules

Gabrielle Temaat
Daily Caller
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:16 UTC

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was suspended from YouTube for seven days after posting a video arguing that "cloth masks" are not effective against the coronavirus, Forbes reported Tuesday.

Paul's suspension began Monday, almost a week after he posted a video in which he claimed that "cloth masks don't work" and most store-bought masks "don't prevent infection," according to Forbes. The video has since been taken down. YouTube stated that it violated the site's COVID-19 misinformation rules, which prohibit users from arguing that masks don't work, Forbes reported.

"I think this kind of censorship is very dangerous, incredibly anti-free speech, and truly anti-progress of science, which involves skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth," Paul said Tuesday in a press release, according to Forbes.

Comment: The censorship by Big Tech, at this point, has wandered into the realm of the absurd. Not only is Rand Paul a sitting senator, but he was presenting information from peer-reviewed scientific studies. That he would be censored by a silicon valley company would be flabbergasting, if it weren't par for the course.

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Fulton County GA caught in another lie - claim only 5,000 absentee ballots were adjudicated in the 2020 election - previously claimed over 100,000

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 18:45 UTC

Yesterday John Solomon at Just the News reported that Fulton County claims they only processed 5,000 adjudicated absentee ballots after the 2020 Election. Curiously, this doesn't agree with the numbers reported by the County after the Election.

Just the News reported yesterday that 5,000 absentee ballots were adjudicated after the 2020 Election in Fulton County.

Welcome to the arcane process known as adjudication, where human judgment is substituted for machine scanning in cases where voters incorrectly filled out a paper ballot. Election officials and official observers have dealt with it for years, with everyday citizens mostly oblivious to the process.

But in 2020, adjudication played a much larger role in states like Georgia, which allowed hundreds of thousands of additional citizens to vote absentee for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In all, more than 5,000 of the 148,000 absentee ballots cast — or about 3% — in Georgia's largest county required some form of human intervention, according to logs obtained from Fulton County by Just the News under an open records act request.

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Class action lawsuit finds Brown University failed to protect women from sexual misconduct

Philip Marcelo
Associated Press
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:19 UTC

Brown University has systematically and repeatedly failed to protect women from rape and other sexual misconduct, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently by four current and former female students.

The suit, which was filed last Friday in Providence federal court, alleges the Ivy League school in Rhode Island actively prevented the reporting of incidents of sexual violence and perpetuated a culture of silence on campus.

One of the women said she was advised against making a formal complaint after being sexually assaulted at a party hosted by rugby team members because it happened off-campus, where officials said it would be more difficult to hold someone accountable.

Another said the university found her alleged assailant responsible for her sexual assault, but then named him a speaker at the school's commencement ceremony while he was appealing the case. The woman said the university overturned his assault finding and sanctioned her after she went public with her concerns about his role in commencement. The male student ultimately didn't speak at graduation.

Israel begins construction corridors, elevator at Ibrahimi Mosque

MEMO
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:23 UTC

The Israeli occupation authorities have begun renovating the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron today, implementing the Judaisation project that includes building corridors and the installation of an elevator to facilitate access for Jewish settlers.

The Israeli soldiers aim to seize approximately 300 square metres of the mosque's courtyards and facilities, with two million shekels ($0.62 million) having been allocated to fund the project so far, reported Arab48.

Last May, then Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett issued an expropriation order for a portion of the Ibrahimi Mosque as part of a project to build an elevator to facilitate settlers' access to the Muslim house of worship.

The municipality has been demanding that the project be stopped because the construction will be on land it owns together with the Palestinian Waqf (Religious Endowment) Islamic Trust. However, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by the Hebron Municipality earlier this year in March.

Israel's plan to seize the Ibrahimi Mosque goes against international laws. In 2017, UNESCO included the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Old City of Hebron as a Palestinian heritage site.

EuroMOMO analysis indicates that Europe's third wave was a blip

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:12 UTC

Has Europe seen two mortality peaks or three? According to many news outlets, the continent experienced a deadly third wave of COVID-19 during the spring of 2021.

"Europe is enduring a grim spring", says an FT article dated 4th April. "Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths are rising in many countries", it goes on to claim. The article presents data suggesting that March saw elevated COVID-19 death rates in a number of European countries.

This characterisation is borne out by Our World in Data's chart of the daily number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths for the European Union - which is shown below. (The chart for Europe as a whole is highly similar.)

Hong Kong's largest teachers' union to disband following pressure from gov't and Chinese state media

Candice Chau
Hong Kong Free Press
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:37 UTC

The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU) announced their disbandment on Tuesday.

The HKPTU, with over 95,000 members, was the city's largest teachers' union, representing over 90 per cent of the profession. It comes after the Education Bureau announced its decision to scrap all links with the union on July 31 - hours after the group came under fire in Chinese state media.

The state-run People's Daily and news wire Xinhua slammed the union as a "poisonous tumour" that must be "eradicated." A Hong Kong government spokesperson then accused it of "dragging schools into politics," making reference to their organisation of a teacher's strike during the city's 2014 Umbrella Movement and the publication of teaching materials promoting civil disobedience.

Covid fascism: Sydney police to step up enforcement of its draconian policies

Renju Jose and Byron Kaye
Reuters
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:40 UTC

Personnel from the Australian Defence Force and New South Wales patrol the streets looking for people daring to breathe

Australian authorities on Tuesday vowed to crank up policing of anti-COVID lockdown rules in Sydney, but dismissed suggestions that tougher measures, including a curfew, were needed after the city reported its biggest single-day new case number yet.

With more than five million residents of Australia's biggest city now in lockdown for more than six weeks, Sydney reported 343 new infections in an outbreak stoked by the spread of the highly transmissible Delta strain of COVID-19, up 66 from the day before and topping the last one-day peak set on Saturday.

Tougher policing in the most-affected areas has divided Sydney and stoked resentment in some of Australia's most migrant-heavy neighbourhoods.

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Society's Child

Stephen Colbert grills Brian Stelter on CNN's Chris Cuomo scandal, calls out network's 'odd conflict of rules'

Not inclusive enough: Cancel mob goes after Barbie for excluding Asian doll from Tokyo Olympics collection

Governor Kate Brown signs bill ending requirement for reading and math proficiency to graduate high school in Oregon

Rand Paul suspended from Youtube for seven days after allegedly violating COVID-19 'misinformation' rules

Fulton County GA caught in another lie - claim only 5,000 absentee ballots were adjudicated in the 2020 election - previously claimed over 100,000

Class action lawsuit finds Brown University failed to protect women from sexual misconduct

Israel begins construction corridors, elevator at Ibrahimi Mosque

EuroMOMO analysis indicates that Europe's third wave was a blip

Hong Kong's largest teachers' union to disband following pressure from gov't and Chinese state media

Covid fascism: Sydney police to step up enforcement of its draconian policies

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