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Hotel collapses in eastern China, 1 dead & 10 missing


South China Morning Post
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:21 UTC
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A rescue operation is under way after a hotel collapsed in Suzhou, China.
A hotel collapsed in eastern China on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and 10 others missing, the local government said.

Rescuers had pulled seven survivors from the rubble of the budget Siji Kaiyuan hotel in the popular tourist city of Suzhou, according to a statement on the city government's official social media account.

The Suzhou government said it was "sparing no effort to treat the injured", adding that authorities were investigating the cause of the disaster.

Comment: Whilst corruption surely is a significant factor in some of these incidents, one can't help but wonder whether at least some of them haven't also been hastened by the extreme weather and similarly related changes that are clearly on the rise:

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Larry Sanger is right, Wikipedia is now the establishment thought police - just look at my entry on there

Eva Bartlett
RT
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC
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© Getty Images / NurPhoto; Wikipedia
(Inset) Larry Sanger
For some years now, Wikipedia has had a libellous smear entry on me that cannot be edited to be less of a smear. So, imagine my surprise to learn a co-founder of the site accuses it of not being neutral.

In February 2021, Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the online encyclopedia, said, "The days of Wikipedia's robust commitment to neutrality are long gone." This was not his first time speaking out against Wikipedia. Personally, I was surprised to learn that Wikipedia was ever neutral.

In his more recent post, 'Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever', Sanger wrote:
"Wikipedia, like many other deeply biased institutions of our brave new digital world, has made itself into a kind of thought police that has de facto shackled conservative viewpoints with which they disagree. Democracy cannot thrive under such conditions: I maintain that Wikipedia has become an opponent of vigorous democracy."

Comment: Former UK ambassador Craig Murray has come to the same conclusion about Wikipedia "editor" Philip Cross: And let's not forget the premiere source of propaganda has not neglected this outlet either:

Manipulating Wikipedia content: Israeli program to train editors to ensure that "what is written" is "Zionist in nature"

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Eric Adams supports shielding cops from lawsuits, but not in 'reckless' case, wants focus on handgun control

Sam Raskin
New York Post
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 17:31 UTC
Eric Adams
© Gabriella Bass for New York Post
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams
Eric Adams, New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee and a heavy favorite to win November's election, said Sunday that cops who follow their department's rules should be shielded from lawsuits for actions on the job — except for "reckless" conduct like in the death of George Floyd.

"I support it with an asterisk," Adams, a former cop, said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked about his stance on a potential federal measure on qualified immunity, which Democrats in Congress are mulling repealing as part of their police reform legislation.

Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields government officials such as police officers from being personally liable in civil suits if they did not violate the law.

Comment: Adams appear to be a threat to the traditional NYC political machine. He's been targeted with some of some election shenanigans as Donald Trump was. Despite his seemingly measured law enforcement stance, Adams has made some concerning policy statements:

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Fired by bot at Amazon: 'It's you against the machine'

Spencer Soper
Bloomberg
Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:09 UTC
Normandin
© Courtney Pedroza/Bloomberg
Normandin, an “old-school kind of guy” who say he gives every job 110%.
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email — even when they have done nothing wrong.

Stephen Normandin spent almost four years racing around Phoenix delivering packages as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc. Then one day, he received an automated email. The algorithms tracking him had decided he wasn't doing his job properly.

The 63-year-old Army veteran was stunned. He'd been fired by a machine.

Normandin says Amazon punished him for things beyond his control that prevented him from completing his deliveries, such as locked apartment complexes. He said he took the termination hard and, priding himself on a strong work ethic, recalled that during his military career he helped cook for 250,000 Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas.
"I'm an old-school kind of guy, and I give every job 110%," he said. "This really upset me because we're talking about my reputation. They say I didn't do the job when I know damn well I did."
Normandin's experience is a twist on the decades-old prediction that robots will replace workers. At Amazon, machines are often the boss — hiring, rating, and firing millions of people with little or no human oversight.

Comment: Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world. They got that way by treating their workers like disposable machines or tools. And as with machines, they use technology to manage performance without taking into consideration that they are human beings, not robots.

When a human factor disrupts an employee's routine, how is it that he/she just loses their job? It's spooky, and telling, that they use the terms "terminate" or " disconnect" to describe firing an employee.

Technology and psychopaths have one thing in common. They both can't have or understand normal human emotions. That is why they like to use technology to oppress and control humanity. They are the same. Soulless and emotionless designs.
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Moderna rep admits everyone is part of huge experiment

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:36 UTC
moderna rep on tape
In the featured video, which aired June 22, 2021, independent reporter Stew Peters plays an audio recording1 made by a young woman who suddenly developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after her Moderna injection. Her neurologist believes her condition is the direct result of the COVID shot.

While the neurologist filed an adverse event report with the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the woman decided to report it to Moderna as well. The Moderna rep does not appear the least surprised by the injury, and appears to admit he's received similar reports before.


Everyone Who Gets the Jab Is Part of the Safety Trial

During that call, the Moderna representative reads her the following disclaimer:
"The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, but it has been authorized for emergency use by the FDA under an emergency use authorization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The EUA for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 EUA declaration, justifying emergency use of the product unless that declaration is terminated or the authorization is revoked sooner."
The rep also points out that all clinical trial phases are still ongoing, and that long-term protective efficacy against COVID-19 is unknown. When the patient asks whether everyone who gets the COVID shot — even if they did not specifically sign up to be a trial participant — is in fact part of the clinical trial, he replies, with a chuckle, "pretty much, yeah."

Comment: See also: What Moderna isn't telling us about their new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine

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Wikipedia admin unilaterally broadens sourcing ban policy

T.D. Adler
Breitbart
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:21 UTC
wikipedia
© AFP/Lionel Bonaventure
Conservative media have been subject to an ongoing purge on Wikipedia since Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. Originally, this only banned their use for factual claims with continued use permitted for citing opinions, but a policy change early last year significantly curtailed even this exemption without any discussion supporting the change, in defiance of normal practice. The change was made by Guy Chapman, a Wikipedia administrator notorious for political bias who has played a pivotal role in the sourcing purge.

Prior to unilaterally changing Wikipedia policy, Chapman had been pushing this restrictive standard by systematically removing citations to banned sources. This included Breitbart News, which Chapman added to the site's "spam" list to block all links to the outlet.

After Trump won the 2016 Presidential election, Wikipedia editors began gradually purging conservative media from the site through a process called "deprecation" with the first outlet being the Daily Mail. In the initial discussion and many subsequent discussions, including the one on banning Breitbart News, the official rulings issued by site administrators stated deprecated sources could still be cited as sources about the outlets themselves and for opinions expressed by the outlet's writers. These rulings only barred using the outlets to make factual claims about other subjects.

Comment: See also:

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'Sickening': Viral video shows boy ripping American flag from yard, flinging it to the ground as mom watches

Paul Sacca
The Blaze
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:07 UTC
kid desecrate flag
© Twitter | @TheMarieOakes
A video of a young boy ripping an American flag out of someone's yard and then flinging it to the ground as his mother watches has ignited a firestorm of strong reactions on the internet.

Writer Marie Oakes shared the controversial video on Twitter with the caption: "Children are being raised to desecrate the flag." The purported security camera footage shows a child riding on a scooter along with an adult female, likely to be his mother. While traveling down the sidewalk on his scooter, the boy attempts to rip up a small American flag standing in a yard. He misses on the first attempt to uproot the flag, but comes back to tear up the flag. He then throws the flag onto the ground.

"He and the woman then resume riding down the street," Fox News reported. "It appears the woman gives no pushback on the boy for pulling the flag."
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Hate crime charges brought against man accused of stabbing rabbi nine times

Joseph Guzman
The Hill
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Khaled Awad, 24, was arrested July 1 in connection to a violent attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski.
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© istock
A man who allegedly stabbed a rabbi in Boston nine times last week is now facing several hate crime charges, according to authorities.

Khaled Awad, 24, was arrested July 1 in connection to a violent attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish day school in the Brighton neighborhood.

Prosecutors say Awad pulled a gun on Noginski and demanded keys to a school van. The rabbi handed over the keys and Awad motioned for the rabbi to enter the van, while at the same time putting away the gun and pulling out a knife.
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In Sickness We Trust

Eric Peters
Eric Peters Auto
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:48 UTC
In Sickness We Trust
© Eric Peters Auto
The possibility that anyone might get sick is now an intolerable prospect to the pathologically sick - the useful idiot hypochondriacs - and the Sickness Lenins who are using these weaponized hypochondriacs to further their interests.

In New South Wales, Australia, police state measures are being reimposed because one 90-year-old woman died. Because the death of one 90-year-old is now regarded as something aberrant and terrifying that can and must be prevented by whatever it takes. Or rather, whatever it takes from those not 90-years-old, whose deaths are not likely to happen for decades because people who are decades away from their 90s tend to live for decades, whereas people in their 90s tend to die, regularly.

Normally.

Because they're in their 90s.

'Rona or no 'Rona. It tends to happen to people that age..

No one wants granny to die - but if she's in her 90s, she's probably going to die. Soon. Because she is very old. Whether you isolate her in a hyperbaric chamber or not. Whether you "lock down" the rest of the population or not. Whether you "vaccinate" them or not.

The fact - one of many, if they mattered - is that the majority of people who died "from COVID" actually died of old age. Most had already lived a normal life expectancy, which is about 70-something years, depending on the country. Most of the deaths attributed to COVID were of people over the age of 75.

They lived longer than the average life expectancy.
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Fauci says, based on current data from CDC, FDA, there's no need for booster shot

Caroline Vakil
The Hill
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:50 UTC
Fauci
© Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that there is no need for Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, according to current data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

On CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper asked the nation's leading infectious diseases expert if booster shots could theoretically help vulnerable people, referring to a Reuters report that said Israel would start offering a third Pfizer shot to adults it considered vulnerable. Fauci said:
"Well, certainly they theoretically could. What the CDC and the FDA were saying, Jake, is that right now, given the data and the information we have, we do not need to give people a third shot, a boost superimposed upon the two doses you get with the mRNA and the one dose you get with [Johnson & Johnson]."
However, Fauci said that research is currently being conducted to determine if this guidance will change. He cautioned that the current guidance did not imply it would not be changed later. Fauci begins at 1:18.


Comment: It is more likely there is institutional panic over the devastating results of the quick-fix vaccines. Back-peddling may serve to downplay these implications.

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