
Today’s news behind the news, aggregated and presented through a Red Pill lens, updated throughout the day.
Featuring occasional commentary from our three in-house writers, ‘BrandX’, ‘SkeptiX’ and ‘MrIndeed’
Exposing the latest Woke Supremacy, Big Brother and other Culture War related items:
Forget the doomongers and naysayers - falling Covid cases seem to prove that the UK’s crippling lockdowns don’t work
Neil Ferguson, the Imperial College epidemiologist known as ‘Professor Lockdown’, warned that if Boris Johnson went ahead and eased lockdown restrictions on July 19 cases would increase to 100,000 a day – that was ‘almost inevitable’, he said – and might climb to 200,000.
VIDEO: Vaccination passports: ‘You think discrimination and coercion is fine if it gets you what you want’ (GB News)
‘At least be honest about the fact that you think discrimination and coercion is fine if it gets you what you want’
Dominique Samuels, Benjamin Butterworth and Carole Malone clash over vaccine passports.
3-Time Olympic Star Lolo Jones Sounds Off on ‘Woke’ Protests on Live TV: ‘People Just Want to Watch Sports’
Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones slammed Olympic protests on Fox News.
She said viewers are tuning out because of the politicization of the global event.
“I think sometimes people just want to tune in to watch sports, to just watch sports, and they’re not there for the political side of it,” Jones said.
Sen. Hawley seeks to combat critical race theory, foster patriotism with the ‘Love America Act of 2021’
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is pushing legislation that would bar K-12 educational entities from receiving federal funds if they teach that the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Pledge of Allegiance are the result of white supremacy or racism.
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds shall be provided to an educational agency or school that teaches that the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution of the United States is a product of white supremacy or racism," the bill declares.
China Cracks Down On $120 Billion Private Tutoring Industry
Chinese authorities are introducing new regulations for the nation’s $120 billion private tutoring industry.
In the interest of reducing costs for families, the Chinese Communist Party banned for-profit tutoring. Previously, parents solicited tutoring services throughout a child’s primary and secondary education to prepare them for the National College Entrance Examination — also known as gaokao — which determines whether a Chinese student is eligible for undergraduate education.
UK: You can be stabbed for criticising Islam?
Yesterday’s bloody events in Hyde Park should horrify everyone who believes in liberty and reason.
VIDEO: Brendan O’Neill - ‘Speakers’ Corner attacks demonstrates a growing culture of intolerance.’
Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into a knife attack on a woman at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, the Met said.
But the incident in which a woman suffered a slash injury to her head “is not being treated as terrorism-related at this time” and police are keeping an open mind about possible motives, the force said.
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked Online editor, discusses the story with Colin Brazier.
Wokeness Hits Home: BLM Group Wants Parents to Urge Their Kids Not to Apply to Top Colleges
A Black Lives Matter group has asked parents to hold back their children’s education in the name of equity and racial justice.
USA: Democrats Rapidly Losing Ground In Fight Over Critical Race Theory
Months of pushing critical race theory into classrooms across the country may threaten the Democratic Party’s electoral viability.
4th-graders get told to hide ‘equity survey’ from their parents
A fourth-grade student in Minnesota was told not to tell her parents about an “equity survey” she and her classmates were instructed to take at school, Fox News reported.
VIDEO: The Diversity Mafia
From The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
COMMENTARY ON THE BELOW ARTICLE: I strongly suggest the recently released book ‘Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century’ (by Josh Rogin) on this topic, as listed in our Recommended Reading section here – BrandX.
France Warned The US In 2015 About The Wuhan Lab It Helped Build, Former COVID-19 Investigator Claims
In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
PayPal’s Woke Partnership with ADL Is the Dawn of Mass Financial Censorship of Conservatives
It is no secret that PayPal is and always has been a “woke” company. For years, they have engaged in financial censorship, banning users based solely on ideological differences. Invariably, they have gone after those on the right, particularly those they consider to be “fringe” and therefore dangerous.
Today’s announcement of their partnership with the far-left Anti-Defamation League is not really introducing anything new. It’s simply expanding what they already do. That expansion will reach more conservatives than before, allowing them to cancel accounts based on loose associations.
Two New York Towns To Boycott Ben & Jerry’s - Washington Free Beacon
Local New York officials say their towns will boycott Ben & Jerry’s after the ice cream company announced it would end sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
COMMENTARY ON THE BELOW ARTICLE: The ACLU is getting back into defending freedom of speech? – BrandX.
ACLU defending New Jersey woman fined for ‘F*** Biden’ signs
Two New Jersey residents who were previously ordered to remove anti-Joe Biden signage from their property will be represented by a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to court filings from Saturday.
Woke US army general humiliates himself by losing Twitter war
Major General Patrick Donahoe posted what he called a “Public Service Announcement,” telling people to “Block and report the trolls and the disinformation tinfoil hat team.”
VIDEO: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team is an EMBARRASSMENT
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The anti-American U.S. Women’s Soccer Team gets humiliated by Sweden.
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“To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.” – Excerpt from ‘The Freedom of the Press’, by George Orwell (1945).