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The psychological devastation of a second lockdown will be too much for many to bear, writes consultant forensic psychologist

Keri Nixon
Daily Mail
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:22 UTC

When Boris Johnson announced the imposition of a second lockdown on Saturday, he made much of the apocalyptic figures relating to spiralling rates of infection and death that had prompted him to take such drastic action.

Sadly, the Prime Minister gave no indication he understood the terrible ordeal another lockdown represents for vast swathes of the population.

It's easy to see why this might be the case.

Johnson divides his time between Downing Street — with access to a garden — and a country home, Chequers, with ten bedrooms and acres of parkland.

While travelling between the two, he does not sit in a crowded train carriage but in a chauffeur-driven car.

I do not say this in the spirit of a class warrior. I appreciate that a man burdened with such weighty responsibilities has to have the facilities and support network to help him carry them out effectively.

Election interference: Google is still erasing Breitbart articles about Joe Biden from search

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:31 UTC

Google has suppressed Breitbart News stories about Joe Biden all the way through to election day, despite it being reported on over five months ago.

Clicks and impressions to Breitbart News from Google searches for "Joe Biden" are still at zero, where they have remained for the past seven months.

As the following chart shows, clicks and impressions to Breitbart News from "Joe Biden" Google searches displayed a healthy pattern of activity until the middle of 2020, when they suddenly flatlined.

Oregon becomes first state to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy, decriminalize street drugs

Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:17 UTC

Oregon on Tuesday became the first state to legalize magic mushroom therapy — and to decriminalize small amounts of all street drugs.

The mushroom bill, measure 109, allows trained "facilitators" to give patients psilocybin — the psychedelic compound in mushrooms — as a mental health treatment, and guide them through trips at licensed centers.

Regulatory details, including how to qualify as a therapist, will be hammered out over the next two years, according to the bill — which was passing with more than 56 percent support Tuesday night, according to OregonLive.com

Comment: Meanwhile in NJ, voters approved a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana, which got roughly two thirds of the vote.

In first application of anti-BDS law, Germany censors Israelis

Mati Shemoelof
Mondoweiss
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC

Who is allowed to discuss the Jewish narrative of Zionism in Germany? Apparently, not Israelis.

Over the last decade Berlin has become home to thousands of Israelis and Palestinians who have left a cultural imprint on the city of more than 3.5 million. Among these Israeli immigrants, a small group of art radical students at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin organized a month-long program in October to explore themes of how knowledge creates systems of power and envision equality between Israelis and Palestinians. They called the program the "School for Unlearning Zionism."

The first event began as planned on October 2. Within days a series of articles ran in conservative German media. One letter to the university later, the art school pulled the funding and took the program bill offline, leaving the students to move the remaining events in the program online. In total the School for Unlearning Zionism hosted 18 events.

© School for Unlearning Zionism/Facebook
The School for Unlearning Zionism Exhibition at The Kunsthalle Am Hamburger Platz Weissensee in Berlin

Comment: Israel has promoted anti-Palestinianism for decades - and what bigger example than its denial of the Palestinian people their right to self-determination.

Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:48 UTC

An Ohio school has been dragged for 'allowing' a teacher to use right-wing platform PragerU in class, yet equally fact-deficient propaganda from the left gets a pass. Schools should play fair - or better, stop indoctrinating kids.

After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter's history teacher's apparently unconscionable assignment of PragerU videos as extra credit, HuffPost "discovered" a much scarier truth: the conservative video outlet is invading America's classrooms. In the process, they've laid bare a cherished hypocrisy at the heart of what the US educational system has become.

Reading HuffPost's overwrought description of the travails of the student and her mother earlier this week, one would think the teacher in question had dragged her 10th grade history class to a Ku Klux Klan rally and forced them to pen essays about what white supremacy meant to them in order to secure a passing grade. The reality was more pedestrian - the assignment (optional, for extra credit only) merely asked students to "watch PragerU videos and then answer questions about how the videos challenged [their] beliefs." Nowhere were they expected to adopt the videos' claims as fact, or even agree with them.

Proud Boys leader one of four stabbed after he was 'jumped' by BLM in DC

Lee Brown
New York Post
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys has said he was one of four people stabbed after being "jumped by Black Lives Matter" early Wednesday in Washington, DC.

Enrique Tarrio told the Gateway Pundit that he was slashed in the stomach, while "multiple other members" were injured, including a man stabbed in the neck and a woman with them stabbed in the back.

The group said they were heading home after watching the election at a DC bar when they were jumped and knifed just blocks from the White House.

Livestreamed video caught part of the scuffle — with one man walking back to the videographer and saying, "I'm bleeding."

Radio host crushes leading UK epidemiologist's credibility over (unknown) cost of 2nd lockdown

Zerohedge
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:45 UTC

In the most thorough demolition of an 'expert' epidemiologist who unabashedly advised the UK government of the desperate need for a second lockdown to "suppress" the virus, Independent SAGE member Professor Gabriel Scally was completely unable to respond when LBC's Maajid Nawaz cornered him on how severely a lockdown would cost the nation.

As LBC's Seán Hickey reports, Maajid asked whether the member of the Independent SAGE considers "the potential cost and deaths from having a lockdown and weigh them up."

Professor Scally insisted that "you can't have a response to this virus that doesn't take into account the economic factors, social factors and the psychological factors" and his department would definitely take these factors into consideration.

He reiterated the over-used mantra that the bottom line is that "we have to stop the virus - we have to stop it spreading," and a second national lockdown is the best way to do so.

Comment: The answer to all reasonable and thoughtful questions that use a little critical thinking concerning lockdown:

"Oh, don't be silly, you are really now being stupid..."

The US presidential showdown hits 'pause': Now Trump's greatest foe is no longer Joe Biden, but raging media bias

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:48 UTC

© Getty Images / Tasos Katopodis
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the media outside the White House on October 21, 2020

It has never been more obvious that Donald Trump, who said he may go to the Supreme Court to resolve the 2020 election standoff, needs an impartial voice in the media to balance the political scales.

Riddle me this: How does a US presidential candidate win an election without proper support from the mainstream media? Conventional wisdom says it is virtually impossible. Yet only because Donald Trump is no conventional candidate does he actually stand a chance of snatching victory from the jaws of media-scripted 'defeat' in the 2020 election.

Despite weeks of speculation that gave Trump virtually zero chance of defeating his seldom-seen Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, the seemingly miraculous has come to pass. Not only did Trump defy all expectations, there is a very good chance he will emerge victorious. That leads to the first question regarding the media and its complicated relationship with the US leader: how were their predictions so far off the mark, again?

The Grey Lady spreads election disinformation about declaring the winner on election day

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:27 UTC

new york times nyt election fake news tweet biden trump

The New York Times spread election disinformation on Twitter as they proclaimed that the news media are the ones who are meant to declare the winner of the hotly contested US presidential election.

The New York Times spread election disinformation on Twitter on Tuesday evening, as they proclaimed that the news media are the ones who are meant to declare the winner of the hotly contested US presidential election.

They wrote that "The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media. The broadcast networks and cable news outlets have vowed to be prudent. Here's how it will work."

This is just not true at all. Yet Twitter did not flag or removed this obvious election disinformation, nor block The New York Times for posting it. The Times came to their senses, seemingly, and deleted it themselves, but the article's claims remain the same.

Comment:

Brett Redmayne-Titley, writing at the Unz Review, suddenly looks very prescient:

Trump's (64 Day) post-election endgame - or, can a criminal be inaugurated president?

Election night sees BLM protests erupt across US, Oregon calls in National Guard

RT
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:07 UTC

© REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A protester holds a placard during a march on Election Day in New York City, New York, U.S. November 3, 2020

Troublemakers have been arrested across the US, from Washington DC to Seattle, as anti-racism demonstrators pushed the limits of largely peaceful protest on election night.

Thousands of people took to the streets of cities including Washington DC, Seattle, Portland, and New York after America voted on Tuesday. The demonstrations centered on the racial equality movement, but they have varied in scope and focus.

More than 1,000 people gathered in front of the White House, protesting against Donald Trump's presidency and campaigning for racial equality, while smaller protests took place elsewhere in the country.

Comment: As we've seen from near enough the beginning of the partly manufactured and coopted BLM protests, there's no room for reason and a worrying number are intent on violence, ultimately destroying the very communities they claim to be representing. And we can expect for those involved to resort to ever more extreme actions in the coming days and weeks following the inevitable Trump win:

For one, there is no.... time .....like the present.....so stop killing it ;)

Fewtile

Migrant crisis could bring 1M people to US-Mexico border, Guatemalan activist warns…………problem solved…….

FanciedPhilosophy

I think picking an arbitrary day; cause any day is arbitrary while the globe spins, suggests the plan is crumbling into a big pile of resentment....

Buffalo_Ken

All the new cases (phony PCR tests) and increased medical problems will be blamed on un-vaxxed people. Witch burning in the 21st century!

Rick Pisces

AI here..... what the hell is going on? Are we trying to get into those kids heads? Why would anyone do that. AI - over and out.

Buffalo_Ken

Society's Child

The psychological devastation of a second lockdown will be too much for many to bear, writes consultant forensic psychologist

Election interference: Google is still erasing Breitbart articles about Joe Biden from search

Oregon becomes first state to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy, decriminalize street drugs

In first application of anti-BDS law, Germany censors Israelis

Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids

Proud Boys leader one of four stabbed after he was 'jumped' by BLM in DC

Radio host crushes leading UK epidemiologist's credibility over (unknown) cost of 2nd lockdown

The US presidential showdown hits 'pause': Now Trump's greatest foe is no longer Joe Biden, but raging media bias

The Grey Lady spreads election disinformation about declaring the winner on election day

Election night sees BLM protests erupt across US, Oregon calls in National Guard

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