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UK academic silenced by MSM reveals how Western news outlets 'amplify and rationalize state-sanctioned war and violence'

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:15 UTC
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RT speaks to propaganda scholar Matt Alford, who in April 2019 had a major study of how the mainstream media systematically distorts, misrepresents, and whitewashes Western foreign policy, canned just prior to publication.

As the article was literally about to go to press, the Conversation - which claims to offer "informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world" - put his groundbreaking work on hold, at the express request of the outlet's executive editor.

After some toing and froing, the Conversation finally backed out completely from publishing it at all, telling Matt to take it elsewhere. It was finally published by Grayzone in May.
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Bullseye

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Ruffalo and anyone else flinging around terms like 'holocaust' and 'genocide' are cheapening tragedy

Micah Curtis
RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 18:09 UTC
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© Getty Images / Steve Granitz; Reuters / ELIJAH NOUVELAGE
Genocides are memorable because they are, mercifully, aberrations in the modern world, yet comparisons to them in political discourse are becoming ever more common. People must stop cheapening tragedies for political gain.

Modern political discussion is turning inhumane for cheap political points. Nowadays, comparisons to past tragedies such as the Holocaust are becoming all too common thanks to the hyper-partisanship and catastrophizing of American politics.


Comment: Godwin's law is unfortunately still a recurring trope for the low-hanging fruit club of liberal activists. The creative brain power to think further beyond Holocaust comparisons just does not exist in them.


Partisanship rots the brain. Supporting a political tribe simply because you belong to it is stifling intelligence and empathy. More and more, we're seeing hyper-partisan individuals make ridiculous, overblown statements that they later have to retract or alter because their basic humanity and sense of perspective were completely lost. The constant wading in hyperbole is emblematic of the choice to put tribalism before free thought and losing a part of your soul in the process.
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Bullseye

Worse than FOX?! Insiders livid as Cuomo family aren't required to follow CNN conduct rules

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:27 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike Segar; Reuters / Mary Altaffer
CNN presenter Chris Cuomo (L) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (R)
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his brother, New York Governor Andrew, have been scolded for using the network's resources to strategize about his sex harassment cases - but insiders fear they're stuck with the pair's odious antics.

The Cuomos apparently had the full run of CNN's remote capabilities, giving Andrew some extra legal strategy from his brother (who was a lawyer before joining CNN) and offering Chris access to the governor's top aides, according to several people familiar with the talks.

The conferences included not only both Cuomos, but Andrew's top aide and communications team, lawyers, and a bevy of outside advisers, according to people who came forward to the Washington Post to speak on their content. Chris' co-workers were apparently deeply upset in having their workplace coopted by a political figure - and one under investigation for sexual harassment, at that - and women's group UltraViolet ultimately came forward to denounce the incestuous situation.

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Beaker

Dr Fauci's Pivot, part II: Lab-originated theory gains ground

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Tue, 25 May 2021 06:57 UTC
Tucker Carlson
Clichés are boring. American political rhetoric is full of them. Sometimes it is really bad where we have three-word statements like "lock her up!" or "God hates fags!" or even slightly longer ones like "keep your laws off my body!" But sometimes things really do seem to become very simple, and such simplistic sayings gain a real place in the movement of the country's thought about issues.

Today's issue is COVID-19 of course, and of particular interest is the growing sense of certainty that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera, an artificially-created virus that escaped from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is bringing up a few possible new short phrases designed to simplistically aggravate people.

Comment: There is a lot of convincing evidence that the virus is man-made and that it was probably created in one of the biggest virus research labs in the USA.

What will happen when the US citizens find out that their corrupt government was involved in this nefarious business?

They used US taxpayer money to create the virus and then they used the virus to proclaim a false pandemic as an excuse to strip the people from their basic rights and ruin the economy.

A genius plan by sick minds to impose totalitarian control over the whole population.

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Biohazard

Connecticut reports at least 18 cases of heart problems in young people after Covid-19 vaccine, CDC issues alert to doctors


NBC Connecticut
Mon, 24 May 2021 12:00 UTC
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© Matthew Hatcher / Stringer/Getty
A teenager who is at extremely low risk of getting coronavirus gets the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Michigan on April 6, 2021.
At least 18 teens and young adults in Connecticut have shown symptoms of heart problems after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, acting health commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford said Monday.

Gifford said all but one of the young adults hospitalized for signs of heart problems have been released. Four of those young residents were hospitalized at Yale New Haven Health and three at Connecticut Children's.


Comment: These are the cases that were severe enough to warrant hospitalization, there are likely more who, for whatever reason, did not seek medical help.


"All of the cases that were reported to us were hospitalized, the vast majority for a couple of days," Gifford said at the governor's regular Monday COVID-19 news conference. "One individual that we're aware of is still hospitalized. The other 17 have been sent home and they're doing fine."

Comment: See also: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19

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Roses

William Shakespeare, first man in world to get approved COVID vaccine, dies at 81

Nelson Oliveira
Yahoo! News
Tue, 25 May 2021 19:26 UTC
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The first man in the world to receive a clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine has died of an unrelated illness, British officials said.

The 81-year-old Englishman, named William Shakespeare, was the first man and second person to get a Pfizer jab after the U.K. approved the experimental shots in early December. The first person was 90-year-old British grandmother Margaret Keenan.

Shakespeare died Thursday, but the cause of death was not immediately known, according to the BBC. The Coventry resident had reportedly worked at Rolls Royce and served as a parish councilor for many years in the city's Allesley community.

Comment: His death may not have been vaccine-related, but still...

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Fire

George Floyd's death led to a year of protest and upheaval, but all we got is a country more divided than ever

Lauren Chen
RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:46 UTC
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© Elijah Nouvelage / AFP
People raise their fists and hold a portrait of George Floyd during a rally following the guilty verdict the trial of Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.
One year ago, a man named George Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill at a corner store. A group of officers, including one Derek Chauvin, were called to the scene to make an arrest.

What followed next would lead to international news coverage and would shape the discussion surrounding policing not just in America, but across the entire world.

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Pistol

Drive-by shooting in George Floyd Square caught on live TV on anniversary of his death

Jack Posobiec
Human Events
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:01 UTC
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More than a dozen gunshots rang out during a live news broadcast from George Floyd Square in Minneapolis Tuesday, marking the one year anniversary of Floyd's death.

At least one person was injured in the shooting, NBC News reports.

The shooting occurred shortly after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, just one block away from the intersection where Floyd died. According to police, the suspected shooter was last seen driving away from the scene, though no other details were immediately available.

Comment: Oh, the irony!

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NPC

Cambridge University takes down 'micro-aggression' reporting site, after accusations of woke 'police state'


RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:41 UTC
Trinity College
© Wikipedia
An exterior view of Trinity College Great Court at Cambridge University
Cambridge University has taken down a website letting students snitch on staff for "micro-aggressions." Students could report such trivial offenses as "raising an eyebrow," and activists have threatened to sue should it return.

Cambridge's 'Report + Support' website was offline as of Tuesday morning, with the Telegraph reporting that it had been taken down the day before. Viewable in archived form, the site offered students the tools to "report inappropriate behaviour they have experienced from other students and staff," either anonymously or with their contact details.

Cambridge University Report
© Archive.org
A screenshot showing an archived copy of Cambridge University's now-offline 'Report + Support' website, May 25, 2021
Aside from encouraging the reporting of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct, the site included a section on "micro-aggressions." The term is not a legal one, and was defined on the website as encompassing all the "slights, indignities, put-downs and insults" that offend minorities, according to the Telegraph.

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Attention

Grandmother given suspended sentence for refusing to wear mask in shop

Olivia Kelleher
The Irish Times
Mon, 24 May 2021 14:37 UTC
Margaret Buttimer
© Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts.
Margaret Buttimer is pictured leaving Bandon District Court after receiving a suspended sentence for refusing to wear a face covering in a Dunnes outlet. Judge Colm Roberts said she was ‘unrepentant and is likely to reoffend’.
A Co Cork grandmother has received a suspended sentence over her refusal to wear face masks in a shop during the Covid-19 pandemic and a fine for verbally abusing a shop manager.

Margaret Buttimer (66), of The Cottage, St Fintan's Road, Bandon, was jailed for the weekend after she refused to wear a mask during a hearing at Bandon District Court last Friday.

She had appeared before the court for refusing to wear a mask at Dunnes outlet in Clonakilty on February 12th last. She was found guilty of breaching Covid-19 regulations.

Judge Colm Roberts was told that Buttimer abused the store manager when he asked her if there was a medical reason for her not wearing a face covering. Gardaí attended the scene and Buttimer again refused to wear a mask or explain why she would not do so, saying she only answered to God.

Buttimer arrived in court on Monday without wearing a mask and Judge Roberts asked her solicitor, Plunkett Taafe, to speak to her about the situation.
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