The Street- by Mish

Colleges and universities are dropping traditional entrance measures such as the SAT and ACT using Covid as the excuse. But that was the Woke trend anyway.
New Admission StandardWant to get into college? Great, forget about grades, they don’t matter anymore as once highly selective schools are now a free for all. Continue reading “Colleges Dump the SAT, the New Admission Standard is Intellectual Curiosity”

National File – by Tom Pappert

The military government in Myanmar, in place after a coup provoked by widespread accusations of voter fraud plagued the country’s recent election, has now seized the bank accounts of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

After taking control of the country in a military coup provoked by allegations of voter fraud earlier this year, the Myanmar military government has seized several bank accounts belonging or affiliated with George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and has announced arrest warrants for 11 members of the organization in the country “on suspicion of giving financial support to the civil disobedience movement against the military junta.” Continue reading “Myanmar Military Seizes George Soros Organization’s Bank Accounts, Announces Arrest Warrants After Coup”

Wikipedia

Crimson Contagion was a joint exercise conducted from January to August 2019, in which numerous national, state and local, private and public organizations in the US participated, in order to test the capacity of the federal government and twelve states to respond to a severe pandemic of influenza originating in China.  Continue reading “A year before they gave us “covid”…”

Young America’s Foundation – by Kara Zupkus

An ecology professor at the University of Georgia banned his students from using Fox News as a source, according to a screenshot obtained exclusively through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Bias Tip Line.

Scott Connelly informed his introductory ecology class that they were only to use “reliable news sources” for an upcoming assignment, citing CNN and the New York Times as examples. Continue reading “UGeorgia Science Prof Bans Students From Using Fox News As Source”

Insight History

At the 2013 Global Health Summit in Beijing, China, 112 key individuals from governments, the private sector, international organizations, and other groups, met to discuss how the next 100 years of global health may look. The summit released a white paper, titled: Dreaming the Future of Health for the Next 100 Years, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

In a section of the report that detailed what the participants were relatively certain of, there is a description of life that has many similarities to what has transpired in response to Covid, including isolation and an increasingly virtual life: Continue reading “2013 Rockefeller Paper Predicted Isolation, the Death of Physical Interaction & Global Health Police”

People

Theme parks in California can reopen next month after a year-long closure, but the roller coaster experience may be very different thanks to an unusual new rule: try not to scream.

The California Attractions and Parks Association (CAPA) advises in the new guidelines for its “Responsible Reopening Plan,” that theme park visitors should avoid activities that increase the spread of COVID-19, such as singing, shouting, heavy breathing and raising one’s voice.

Continue reading “California Theme Park Advisors Ask Guests Not to Scream on Roller Coasters to Limit COVID-19 Spread”

The person who wears the mask is also considered to be in direct association with the mask’s spirit force and is consequently exposed to like personal danger of being affected by it. For the sake of protection, the wearer, like the mask maker, is required to follow certain sanctioned procedures in using the mask.

In some respects he plays the role of an actor in cooperation or collaboration with the mask. Without the dance and posturing routines that the mask wearer performs, often to the accompaniment of music, the mask would remain a representation without a full life-force. The real drama and power of its form is the important contribution of the wearer. Continue reading “From Britannica: The wearing of masks”

Evening Standard

Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer today called for a nationwide debate on the introduction of new laws to punish people who spread anti-vaccination conspiracy theories.

Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said that there should be a discussion about whether it is “the correct thing for society to allow” people to spread “misinformation that could cost people’s lives” as he responded to concern that false claims online could undermine the take up of Covid-19 vaccines. Continue reading “Metropolitan Police counter-terror chief Neil Basu calls for action on coronavirus anti-vaxxers”

Unz Review – by Eric Striker

As American academia finishes transitioning into an even more intellectually repressive nightmare, talented professors are quitting and the value of a college education has plummeted.

Ivy League schools naturally set the tempo for less prestigious colleges. Gender ideology and critical race theory begins to metastasize once the factories churning out tomorrow’s elites institutionally embrace such rubbish.
 Continue reading “Who’s Miseducating America’s Elites?”

New York Post – by Lia Eustachewich

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday said cops should “confront” people accused of “hurtful” behavior — even if the behavior doesn’t rise to the level of a crime.

Asked if the NYPD and city could be doing more to thwart the troubling surge in hate crimes against Asians, Hizzoner suggested the warnings could be a last resort. Continue reading “NYPD should ‘confront’ hateful conduct even if it’s not a crime: de Blasio”

Daily Caller – by David Krayden

A Staten Island nursing home administrator said in an interview airing Thursday that Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order to move COVID-19 infected patients into nursing homes left him “petrified.”

Michael Kraus told Fox News in an interview that he and other state officials opposed the directive but that Cuomo overruled and “shot down” their objections.  Continue reading “Whistleblower Says His Objections To Cuomo’s Order For New York Nursing Homes Ignored, Silenced In Fox News Interview”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

On Wednesday Biden White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki was asked about the endless stream of illegal aliens streaming into the US since Joe Biden opened the southern border. The US is currently facing its biggest migrant surge into the US in 20 years. Continue reading “Smug Jen Psaki Announces Any 10-Year-Old in the World Who Makes It Across the US Southern Border Will Be Allowed to Stay Here”

RT

A statue showing Benjamin Netanyahu crouching and seemingly urinating has been erected in Tel Aviv a week before the Israeli prime minister faces his fourth election in two years.

The sculpture appeared in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Wednesday morning, Israeli media reported. The statue, placed on a metallic-looking pedestal, portrays Netanyahu naked as he takes a leak. Continue reading “Taking the p**s: Statue of Netanyahu relieving himself appears in Tel Aviv as Israelis head to polls”

STAT News – by Lev Facher

WASHINGTON — The White House will soon unveil a wide-reaching public relations campaign aimed at boosting vaccine confidence and uptake across the U.S., Biden administration aides told STAT.

This television, radio, and digital advertising blitz, set to kick off within weeks, will focus on Americans outright skeptical of vaccines’ safety or effectiveness as well as those who are potentially more willing to seek a Covid-19 immunization but don’t yet know where, when, or how. Specifically, the campaign will target three groups in which access, apathy, or outright skepticism may pose a barrier to vaccinations: young people, people of color, and conservatives, according to a Biden aide. Congress and the administration have set aside over $1.5 billion for the effort. Continue reading “The White House is set to unveil a wide-reaching, billion-dollar campaign aimed at convincing every American to get vaccinated”

CNN

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the country’s vice president announced in a televised address on Wednesday. He was 61.

“President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years,” Samia Suluhu Hassan said. She added that the president had been receiving treatment at Mzena hospital since Sunday, and announced 14 days of national mourning. Continue reading “Tanzania’s President John Magufuli dies after weeks unseen”