Today’s news behind the news, with occasional commentary from our three in-house writers, ‘BrandX’, ‘SkeptiX’ and ‘MrIndeed’ – Updated throughout the day.
Exposing the latest woke supremacy, Big Brother and other culture war related items:
Antifa Rioters’ Response to the Latest Police Shooting Shows Just How Racist They Are
Portland Police rushed to clarify the race of the victim in a police shooting, seemingly knowing that antifa would not riot when the victim was white.
Cruz: Big Tech’s ‘accumulation of power’ is ‘greatest threat to free speech and democracy’
The Texas Republican called for “much more serious action to protect our liberties” from Big Tech censorship, which he said is “right out of George Orwell’s ’1984.’”
Tens of Thousands Demand Their “Freedom to Dance” in London Protest – Lockdown Sceptics
Tens of thousands of people have marched in London today to demonstrate against the Government’s disregard for the live music industry, with sign holders demanding that ministers “let the music play”.
USA: White Progressives Shocked To Learn Black And Latino Voters Don’t Share Their Radical ‘Defund The Police’ Views
White progressive social justice warriors are in shock.
They are going all out promoting the defunding of police while Blacks and Latinos do not want that to happen.
The progressive elected Democrats in Congress, except for The Squad are treading lightly on the subject or they don’t approve at all.
COMMENTARY ON THE BELOW VIDEO: GB News seems to be slowly shaping up nicely. To anyone in the UK that still has a TV licence, you can watch the new channel on Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin Media 626, YouView 236 and Freesat 216 – BrandX
VIDEO: Andrew Doyle - Sexual identity flags create division, not unity.
'I say we get rid of all the flags and we just be who we want to be...'
On Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle takes on pride month, suggesting it may be creating more problems than it solves.
Bearing Witness to the End of Hong Kong’s Free Press
My conversation with an intrepid Apple Daily reporter.
Ocasio-Cortez Doubles Down On Defunding The Police, Claims Concerns Over Crime Wave Are ‘Hysteria’
Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on her support for defunding the police during a video event this week, and claimed that concern over exploding crime rates across the U.S. are “hysteria.”
“The F.B.I. does not release full statistics until September, but homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year,” The New York Times reported, later adding that “in the aftermath [of George Floyd’s death], some criminologists attributed the spike in homicides to hesitancy among residents to turn to the police for help.”
Woman Blasts Virginia School Board For Sneaking CRT Into Teacher Training
A mother blasted the Fairfax County school board for including critical race theory in training for teachers and staff during a June 24 meeting.
UK: Time for more TV tears, Mr Hancock? | The Conservative Woman
IT would take a heart of stone not to laugh. Having promised to jab the nation, it appears Matt Hancock has been dispensing personal services to a married member of staff, one he hired. She is paid £15,000 for the role apparently. Perhaps other perks of the job were discussed beforehand. Or perhaps it just one more string to his chumocracy bow, flagrant new examples of which surface daily.
There may be other explanations why the Sun caught Hancock in a clinch with his aide. We await official clarification. At present, however, it appears to be in gross violation of social distancing rules, though disappointingly not the ‘Rule of Six’.
Bill Maher Blasts ‘Outrageous’ Censorship From Google, Facebook On COVID Origins, Ivermectin
The latest in a recent series of truth bombs dropped by comedian Bill Maher on his Saturday night HBO show was a well-deserved punch at Facebook and Google for their "outrageous" attempts to censor discussion about whether or not COVID-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
COMMENTARY ON THE BELOW ARTICLE: Nobody (on any kind of noteworthy scale) cares whether or not a character in a movie or a TV show is gay. Diamonds Are Forever in 1971 had a couple of homosexual blokes in a well loved villain role and made Bond movie history in doing so.
What people are sick of is the repeated tokenisation and tired repurposing of established characters for the sake of disingenuously woke virtue-signalling.
It stinks of partisan politics and other toxic ideologies, which is not prominently something that people visit the Marvel movies (or cash grabbing TV spin off shows) for. It is supposed to be about fun escapism, not blatant social conditioning – BrandX.
Loki ratings drop after director makes Marvel character ‘bisexual’
Marvel Studios television series Loki’s ratings have dropped after a progressive shift in the show’s marketing approach, in which the eponymous main character’s “bisexuality” is promoted, according to statistics.
TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data
Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company.
VIDEO: The Great Reset - SDRs, Deflation & Gold’s Coming Catch Up Phase
The ‘Great Reset’ is coming - but what is it? What role will the ‘SDR’ play? What does it entail for holders of precious metals?
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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).
