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Greetings from "New Normal" Germany!

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Mon, 24 May 2021 08:41 UTC
Bundesarchiv

Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14468, Georg Pahl, CC-BY-SA 3.0
On April 1, 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis staged a boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Members of the Storm Troopers ("die Sturmabteilung," or the "Storm Department," as I like to think of them) stood around outside of Jewish-owned stores with Gothic-lettered placards reading "Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!" The boycott itself was a total disaster — most Germans ignored it and just went on with their lives — but it was the beginning of the official persecution of the Jews and totalitarianism in Nazi Germany.

Last week, here in "New Normal" Germany, the government (which, it goes without saying, bears no resemblance to the Nazi regime, or any other totalitarian regime) implemented a social-segregation system that bans anyone who refuses to publicly conform to the official "New Normal" ideology from participating in German society. From now on, only those who have an official "vaccination pass" or proof of a negative PCR test are allowed to sit down and eat at restaurants, shop at "non-essential" stores, or go to bars, or the cinema, or wherever.

Here's a notice from the website of Prater, a popular beer garden in Berlin:

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NPC

The latest, disturbing trend amongst gender-bender narcissists? Becoming a 'nullo' by having one's genitals surgically removed


RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:19 UTC
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© Getty Images / Martin Diebel
Might we soon have to add an N to the alphabet soup of LGBTQIA+? The number of 'genital modification enthusiasts' who favour complete 'nullification' is on the rise, as doctors promise to create "relatively smooth genital areas."

Exciting news! Lego, the much-loved purveyor of tiny plastic bricks, is launching a brand new set. The 'Everyone Is Awesome' kit includes the usual array of blocks and figurines. But the brightly coloured pieces are intended to do far more than simply get children's creative juices flowing.

'Everyone Is Awesome' is Lego's first LGBTQIA+ set. The colours of the blocks have been chosen to reflect the rainbow gay pride flag, with the addition of pale blue, white and pink blocks to represent the trans community, and black and brown bricks to "acknowledge the diversity of skin tones and backgrounds within the LGBTQIA+ community."

Comment: See also: Post-nihilism, a template for where we are heading

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Bizarro Earth

Iran reels after grandparents confess to murder and dismemberment of 'morally corrupt' filmmaker son, daughter & son-in-law


RFE/RL'
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:21 UTC
Khorramdin

In a case that has shocked Iran, filmmaker Babak Khorramdin was allegedly killed and dismembered by his parents.
An Iranian couple allegedly confessed to drugging and dismembering the man's adult son and discarding the remains in trash bins west of Tehran, in a chilling case that shocked the country.

The arrest of the 81-year-old Akbar Khorramdin and his wife for the killing of Khorramdin's 47-year-old filmmaker son, Babak, led to admissions that they had also killed a missing daughter and son-in-law.

The tragedies cast light on grave domestic crimes seemingly fueled by perceptions of honor and sexual propriety in Iranian society, as well as on laws eroding protections for potential victims of violence by a legal guardian.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

The death of expertise and the rise of the Internet

John C Dvorak
The Oasis
Tue, 25 May 2021 15:00 UTC
MSM & Internet
© The Oasis
The modern Internet has become a hopeless cesspool of lies, misinformation, malinformation, bad intentions, ignorant good intentions and half-truths, outright hoaxes, slander, cruelty; as well as a refuge for creeps, criminals, thieves, phonies, agent provocateurs, would-be revolutionaries, predators, useless and fake reviews, Satanists, and worse.Linking the entire globe and all the subsystems of corporate archives, personnel records, medical information, electrical grid interactions, and more will turn out to be the dumbest thing humanity has ever done.

The Internet and its World Wide Web has not fulfilled the promise of connecting the world in a positive way while distributing the combined knowledge of thousands of years of civilization. This horrible network has made matters worse. Hate and divisiveness is the theme of the modern era.

And, yes, you associate all sorts of cool things that happened in this era are with the Internet but most of those things are attributable to desktop computers combined with basic networking. It's not the Internet at all.

The major casualties of the Internet are the distinct loss of expertise and clarity of sources. This is because newspapers and magazines, in particular, were changed by the Internet's subversive hyperlinking mechanism that made click-bait the key to profitability.

And while many people do not care about the political bias and agenda-laden slants of today's newspapers, people would like to go on the Internet and find out something other than a definition of a word, which seems to be honest. But even that is ending as "politically correct" definitions creep into the lexicon almost overnight, where it would take years to accomplish in the past.

Even the definition of a vaccine has changed to accommodate what the Pfizer marketing department calls a vaccine and which has no connection to its previous definition. The change happened overnight.
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Attention

Funeral and cremation records casts growing cloud of doubt over Dawn Sturgess's 'novichok' death

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:47 UTC
graphic funeral urns
New evidence has surfaced from interviews with sources at the Salisbury undertaker and crematorium in charge of the obsequies for Dawn Sturgess, whose death at Salisbury District Hospital on July 8, 2018, is the only death officially recorded from the Novichok nerve agent. Their testimony raises fresh doubts that Novichok was the cause of her death, and suspicion that the two state coroners and two state pathologists responsible for the investigation have been concealing material evidence of timing and records in the case.

A report published last week exposed the refusal of the two pathologists, Philip Lumb and Guy Rutty, to discuss the two autopsies they conducted to determine the cause of Sturgess's death. This was despite the public disclosure on March 30, during a hearing of the coroner's inquest directed by secret service advisor, Baroness Heather Hallett. Lumb's identity was revealed for the first time, along with indications that at a first autopsy he conducted on July 9, the cause of death he noted did not identify Novichok poisoning. Lumb's conclusion was that Sturgess had died of "post cardiac arrest hypoxic brain injury and intracerebral haemorrhage".

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Moving the Overton Window: 'NYT' runs an op-ed justifying violent resistance, and some Zionists abandon their PR duties

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 25 May 2021 17:38 UTC
gaza palestinians tent bombing rubble
© Ramez Haboub/APA Images.
Palestinians sit in a tent that has been set up on top of the ruins of a building destroyed in recent Israeli air strikes, in the northern of in Gaza strip, on May 24. 2021. Gazans tried to piece back their lives after a devastating 11-day conflict with Israel that killed more than 200 people and made thousands homeless in the impoverished Palestinian enclave.
Israel suffered a P.R. disaster in the last Gaza attack — so pro-Israel voices in the media are pushing back by saying sharp criticism of Israel is antisemitism.

We've said repeatedly that Israel suffered a P.R. disaster in the last Gaza attack: western media for once openly questioned the reasoning and morality behind yet another murderous onslaught on an imprisoned population, the fifth in the last 12 years.

Some observers speak of a sea change in the American discourse, and of course point to the Congressional Democrats who are willing to challenge the Israeli narrative, with Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoing Human Rights Watch and charging "apartheid." And though Bernie Sanders hasn't gotten that far, he is demanding a halt on the next $735 million in bombs for Israel. And most Democratic voters support such sanctions.
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Alabama Governor Ivey signs bill prohibiting so-called vaccine passports, following other states

Nicholas Sherman
UnHerd
Mon, 24 May 2021 03:58 UTC
Gov Ivey
© AP/Vasha Hunt
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill Monday banning businesses and public institutions from requiring so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports for entrance.

The bill unanimously passed in the state Senate last month, then in the state House on May 17, in a 76-16 vote, before being signed by the governor, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

The bill states public entities such as public schools "may not issue vaccine or immunization passports, vaccine or immunization passes."

"I am supportive of a voluntary vaccine and by signing this bill into law, I am only further solidifying that conviction," Ivey said after signing the bill. She also encouraged residents to get vaccinated.

Alabama joins other GOP-led states including Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Texas and Wyoming in no demand of vaccine proof to gain entrance into an establishment.

Comment: As in Alabama, the tide for no COVID passports is beginning to rise:
The [Vaccine Passport] bill, sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, passed the Senate 30 to 0 on April 8 and the House 76 to 16 on May 17. Orr's legislation does not include an enforcement mechanism.

The bill says public entities "may not issue vaccine or immunization passports, vaccine or immunization passes, or any other standardized documentation for the purpose of certifying the immunization status of an individual, or otherwise require the publication or sharing of immunization records or similar health information for an individual" outside of already-required school vaccinations.

It also bans public entities and private businesses from requiring proof of vaccination to provide goods or services to individuals, outside of existing school vaccinations. But the bill limits those requirements to vaccines approved as of Jan. 1, 2021. A future legislature may have to revisit that provision to allow the use of vaccines developed in the future.

COVID-19 IN ALABAMA: Alabama House agrees to ban on 'vaccine passports'

Alabama's COVID-19 caseload, like the rest of the country's, has eased in the last few months. According to BamaTracker, which collects data on the outbreak in the state, the 7-day daily average of cases was 200, the lowest number reported since April 8, 2020, near the dawn of the pandemic.

The state still trails the rest of the country in COVID-19 vaccinations, despite pushed by Ivey and other officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 36% of Alabamians 18 and older have received at least one shot, compared to 49% nationwide. About 76% of adults 65 and older have received one shot, compared to 85% nationwide.


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Bad Guys

Weak: Mark Ruffalo apologizes for comments implying Israel committed genocide

Tyler McCarthy
Yahoo! News
Tue, 25 May 2021 14:12 UTC
mark ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo apologized for comments he made that implied Israel committed genocide.

The actor is usually very outspoken on issues like climate change on social media. While he's often steadfast in the political opinions and causes he champions online, he took to Twitter on Monday night to walk back previous posts he shared that he now believes were "inflammatory" and "disrespectful."

"I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing 'genocide,'" he wrote. "It's not accurate, it's inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used to justify antisemitism here & abroad. Now is the time to avoid hyperbole."

Comment: Ruffalo knows which side his bread is buttered on. Either he apologizes or he finds a new job.

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Bomb

Tribal elders broker local Taliban, Afghan government ceasefire


Reuters
Thu, 20 May 2021 15:52 UTC
Afghanistan
© Reuters / Mohammad Ismail
Afghan officials inspect a damaged minibus after a blast in Kabul.
Tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan have achieved something that has long eluded world leaders - a ceasefire between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

The month-long stoppage in hostilities in the Alingar district of Laghman province, one of the hardest hit by violence, was called to allow local farmers to harvest their wheat crop and students to sit annual examinations.

"A ceasefire has been something the world's most powerful countries were trying to establish in Afghanistan, but unfortunately, couldn't," Jaber Alkozai, resident of Alingar, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Tribal elders drafted a demand letter, known locally as an "Ariza", which was then signed by two local officials of each the Taliban and the government.
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Attention

12 mass shootings over weekend as USA enters chaotic summer


Zerohedge
Mon, 24 May 2021 17:30 UTC
mass shootings
There's a lot of noise from the Biden administration, who claim to be addressing gun violence as an epidemic, but their efforts have only been for optics, as very little action has been taken so far. This past weekend, a dozen mass shootings were recorded across the country, according to CNN.


Comment: Not to worry - we're sure that the Biden administration will continue to roll out draconian gun legislation soon enough!


Nonprofit research group Gun Violence Archive (GVA) reported that at least 12 mass shootings were observed in eight states, including Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota.

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