Society's Child
The entire field of broadcast media is shaped to its core by the gold standard that he established, and the debt owed him by all practitioners of his craft can never be repaid in full.
Larry attained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, taking calls from listeners across the country and giving every last caller a fair hearing; he challenged them, he consoled them, and by making the space everyone's perspective, he enlightened his whole audience.
"The mandatory wearing of masks on public transport, where social distancing is not possible, should by accompanied by one very simple precaution: avoid talking and making phone calls," the academy said in a statement.
Academy member Patrick Berche said on BFM TV on Saturday that if there were only three people in a subway car there was no problem, but if you were only two centimetres away from the next person it made sense not to converse or talk on the phone.
"It is not an obligation, it is a recommendation," he said.
The academy is not an official advisory body. It can respond to government questions but also issues recommendations, which sometimes go against official policy.
Comment: Obsessive-compulsive behavior (constant hand-washing, mask-wearing). Paranoia. Hysteria. Antisocial behavior. And, as this article suggests, asociality. Covid regulations are designed to induce mental illness in the general public. And it's working.
The Ministry of Education in Moscow posted the stark warning to its page on the VKontakte social network on Thursday. Responsible for the protection of young people, the authorities noted that "in the last few days, calls for children to go on so-called 'marches' [on Saturday] have begun to appear in droves in various forums."
"We are all aware of children's curiosity, love of harmless pranks and showing off, but in the hands of unscrupulous adults, all this can involve a young person in illegal actions and drag them into a very bad situation," the officials said. "Be as vigilant as possible, take an interest in your children's plans and protect them from the dangers of these 'outings.' Spend the day together!"
Comment: Tweets below reveal some of the planning behind the protests, as well as from the event itself:
"Oleg Stepanov, coordinator of Navalny's Moscow headquarters, detained"

A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020.
Google's threat escalates a battle with publishers such as News Corp that is being closely watched around the world. The search giant had warned that its 19 million Australian users would face degraded search and YouTube experiences if the new code were enforced.
Australia is on course to pass laws that would make tech giants negotiate payments with local publishers and broadcasters for content included in search results or news feeds. If they cannot strike a deal, a government-appointed arbitrator will decide the price.
Comment: See also:
- Google and Facebook made a 'secret deal' to dominate online advertising
- Google admits to running 'experiments' which remove some media sites from its search results
- Missed opportunity: House Judiciary says Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have "monopoly power," should be split
- Facebook and Google 'complicit' in censorship and repression in Vietnam, Amnesty International says
- Behavioral research and technology expert: Google shifted a 'minimum' of 6 million votes in 2020 election
Comment: That's RT's choice of headline, not ours. You don't 'hack' a court hearing. You publish it. 'Illegally' perhaps, but it's publishing information, not hacking it. The very fact that the two terms are synonymous (thanks to the highly publicized trial of Julian Assange, which amounts to a public torture session) whenever people in power feel threatened by public exposure sums up the absolute state of 'journalism' these days.

(L) Ghislaine Maxwell; (R) A QAnon sign
The hearing to unseal documents from a bombshell 2015 civil lawsuit against accused sex trafficker Maxwell ground to a halt on Tuesday when the presiding judge was informed that the proceedings were being broadcast on YouTube.
"Judge, I need to interrupt. I was just informed that apparently somebody is broadcasting this on to YouTube, so I don't know if you want to give a reminder that that is illegal to do," the deputy clerk told Judge Loretta Preska.
Comment: See also:
- Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's $28.5M bail package
- Ghislaine Maxwell to make new bail request in closed-door hearing
- Ghislaine Maxwell 'constantly' snapped photos of topless girls at pedo Epstein's mansion, kept pictures in album
- Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition about sordid child sex business with Jeffrey Epstein 'unsealed'
- Ghislaine Maxwell loses court fight: Deposition about sex life will be made public
- Ghislaine Maxwell wants to keep secret 'damaging deposition' from 2016
- Big guns: Accused Epstein sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell hires lawyer who defended Osama bin Laden henchman
- Two of Ghislaine Maxwell's nephews worked for Obama-Biden and Clinton
On Tuesday, conservative activist Michelle Malkin took to Telegram to announce Twitter had locked her account without following typical protocol, which would require an explanation of the suspension and opportunity to delete posts violating Twitter policy.
The political commentator asserted her profile's 24-hour suspension was politically motivated and pointed to her account's final tweet. In her last post, she warned Americans about censorship on mass media platforms. She noted these restrictions go against the spirit of the Constitution.
Comment: See also:
- First they came for MAGA... Twitter now suspending popular Antifa accounts
- Twitter embroiled in new child porn scandal: Lawsuit claims Twitter defends sick content, says it doesn't 'violate policies'
- Twitter temporarily suspends GOP Rep. Taylor Greene
- Convenient glitch: Twitter says 'bug' prevented users from searching Lincoln Project amid sexual misconduct allegations
- 'I do not celebrate or feel pride': Twitter CEO defends Trump's permaban, but admits speech crackdown can 'destroy' open internet
- Project Veritas strikes again: Twitter CEO Dorsey caught talking Trump and outlining roadmap for future political censorship
In its chart of the day, BofA showed that the US is now clearly over the hump, with 142,000 COVID cases in the US on Monday, down 32% from the prior Monday with the seven day average also dropping to 209,000, down 16% from the peak on January 8th.
In another good sign, the bank said that "testing is increasing and the share of tests that come back positive is falling" and cheerfully adds that "It seems clear that an end to the holiday season, a modest increase in restrictions and a small increase in herd immunity is bending the COVID curve."
Just after Biden was sworn in as the 46th president, Amazon announced that the company was "ready to assist" with the new administration's goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Amazon's worldwide consumer business CEO Dave Clark penned the letter to Biden on Wednesday, promising that the company is "prepared to leverage our operations, information technology and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts."
Comment: Just another example of partisan politics standing in the way of a (supposedly) lifesaving intervention for the people. They either know the 'pandemic' is a NothingBurger™ and that the vaccine isn't as vital as they're letting on and are deliberately lying about it, or they're true believers who don't care about saving lives and would rather leverage an important vaccine for political points, ending lives in the meantime. Either way, they're scum.
See also:
- Amazon offers to help Biden administration with vaccine effort after sitting on the sidelines for a month
- 'Operation Warp Speed': Trump says he's mobilizing military to distribute potential coronavirus vaccine
- Pelosi keeps dodging reporter's pointed COVID relief bill questions, and he finally calls her out
- Activist group hustling people into taking COVID vaccine with free cannabis
- Hacked emails allegedly detail how EU drug regulator was pressured to approve Pfizer jab despite 'problems' with the vaccine
"'Shadowban' means the act of social media providers secretly, for political purposes, restricting the visibility and access of our user profile without our knowledge about it," explained Judit Varga, the Minister of Justice in Viktor Orbán's national conservative government, in a statement shared on social media, claiming that she has herself had "personal experience" of such treatment at the hands of "Big Tech".
"Tech companies thus violate all those fundamental democratic legal norms that form the basis of Western-type culture," she accused, adding that "we could... only learn about the system-wide practice of shadow banning from a now-leaked voice recording of the Twitter CEO [Jack Dorsey]."
Comment: See also:
- Hungary amends Constitution to recognize parents as male and female
- Hungary amends constitution to redefine family, limits gay adoption
- Hungary and Poland resist EU diktats and push 'Great Reset' agenda further afar
- Hungary and Poland are right to put traditional values first and resist the EU's dictatorial plan to push trans rights
- Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
- Poland threatens hefty fines for social media companies that censor legal speech, users everywhere celebrate
- Poland delays implementing abortion ruling amid nationwide protests
Speaking on Friday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said the government wants to be "straight" with people, adding that the current lockdown measures won't be reduced until case numbers start to fall and all vulnerable groups have received a vaccine.
Eustice was asked whether there was any truth to reports that police could be given access to health data to crack down on quarantine breaches.
"Generally, with this whole pandemic, we've had to take some quite extraordinary steps, very draconian steps, that are a big infringement on people's liberty," the minister responded.
"And yes, that does mean that we have to intervene in quite a draconian way and issue penalties, and we make no apology for doing that."
Comment: As if they weren't already draconian enough!
UK partygoers to be fined up to £6,400
In a bid to stem the ongoing spread of coronavirus, revellers will be slapped with £800 fines if they attend house parties with more than 15 people present during lockdown, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announced on Thursday.
The fines will double for repeat offences, up to a maximum of £6,400, and the organisers of events will continue to be fined £10,000, as per the current restrictions, in what Patel called a "crackdown on those most serious cases of rule-breaking".
The home secretary was joined by the Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, who said that, from late August to January 17, some 250 fixed penalty notices had been issued in England for people organising large gatherings.
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Wedding with 400 guests busted in London Jewish neighborhood
The Metropolitan Police busted a wedding celebration in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in London. Around 400 guests had convened behind covered windows in violation of the UK's strict social distancing rules.
The party was dispersed on Thursday night after police received a tip about a large gathering in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill. According to the BBC, the raid targeted the Yesoday Hatorah Girls Senior School. Stamford Hill is home to a large community of Orthodox Haredi Jews.
Police said an estimated 400 guests were taking part in the event, though many left when the officers arrived. A group of five attendees were issued £200 ($275) fixed penalty notices. The organizers of the event are facing a far heftier fine of £10,000 for the rule-breaking gathering.
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Orthodox Jewish communities throughout the world have been reluctant to observe bans on mass gatherings, saying their spiritual obligations are more important than the mitigation of infection risks. This has opened them to criticism, including by members of other branches of Judaism who question the rationale.
Religious people are not the only ones defying lockdowns in Britain, even as the government imposes increasingly "draconian" measures, saying they are absolutely crucial to contain the infection. Rave parties appear to be the prime target for the Home Office's plan to increase fines for lockdown violators, which was announced earlier this week. With the screws tightening by the week, Britons are left to wonder and joke about the lengths that authorities will go to enforce the rules.
Comment: Tributes have flowed in for the legendary host: