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‘Nature’ magazine has lost its way

The journal’s embrace of social justice activism is shredding its reputation

Nature is a revered name in academic publishing. The journal was founded in London in 1869, and has since become one of the two main titles (the other being Science) that every academic wants to publish in. Having just one “Nature paper” on your CV can be enough to land a tenure-track job at a top department.

It’s all the more concerning then, that in the last few years, Nature has handed over an increasing amount of editorial space to social justice activism. In February of 2019, Jordan Peterson remarked that a once-great publication was going “farther down the social constructionist rabbit hole”.

by Blazingcatfur•August 17, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

Chris Cuomo’s ethical troubles at CNN highlight rise of ‘info-tainment’

The New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan put it succinctly: “One down. One to go.”

After New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, finally agreed to step down this week over sexual harassment allegations, attention in American media swiftly turned to his brother Chris.

The 51-year-old CNN presenter, who allegedly earns $6m with his top-rated Cuomo Prime Time show and who despite promising to maintain journalistic distance from his brother’s travails, has been accused of serious ethical violations.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Bad Optics"

Rex Murphy: Trudeau fiddles with flippant election as Afghanistan burns

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s opportunistic election call during a still-raging pandemic was shameful enough. Calling a needless election at almost the exact moment when Afghanistan’s nearly 40 million people succumbed to the Taliban’s vengeance pushes cynicism to atmospheric heights it has never before penetrated.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Suspected terrorists crossing border ‘at a level we have never seen before,’ outgoing Border Patrol chief says

Unprecedented numbers of known or suspected terrorists have crossed the southern border in recent months, the outgoing Border Patrol chief said.

The head of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, told his 19,000 agents before retiring on Aug. 14 that their national security mission is paramount right now despite the Biden administration’s focus on migrant families and children who are coming across the United States-Mexico boundary at record rates.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

This Is All Your Fault, Joe

You have sold out American lives and honor.

It is not so much that you are a bad president; you are more like a danger to the West. Everything you touch, you set ablaze. You remind me of me when I’m asked to help out in the kitchen. And, of course, you’re oblivious. It stands to reason that someone who can’t remember what flavor ice cream he just had should also be the only person in the world who was unaware that the Taliban would do exactly what they are doing. For the Left, it seems hard to believe that Islamists have this strange habit of doing wildly Islamist things whenever they get the chance.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Afghanistan

MALCOLM: Let’s talk about who could be harmed by domestic vax passports

Vaccine passports are all the rage these days. As Sun editor and columnist Anthony Furey put it, there is a “current urgent, manic energy around domestic vax passports.”

Quebec was the first to take the plunge, announcing last week that it would ban all non-vaccinated people from “non-essential public spaces” – including bars, restaurants, gyms and festivals – as of Sept. 1.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

This is worse than Saigon

America’s humiliation in Afghanistan confirms that the woke West is utterly incapable of standing up for itself.

Everyone is saying it’s like Saigon in 1975. Helicopters evacuating an American embassy. Chaotic, distressing scenes at the local airport as American allies, or just plain fearful people, desperately try to flee the country. American officials convincing absolutely nobody with their unhinged claims that the ‘mission has been successful’ (in Anthony Blinken’s words). It’s clear for all to see, commentators insist: Kabul in 2021 is a replay of Saigon in 1975. America humiliated, its enemies ascendant.

Yet here’s the brutal truth: what is happening right now is worse than Saigon.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•Afghanistan

John Ivison: Even Trudeau’s overblown rhetoric can’t justify September election

Justin Trudeau has always veered towards grandiosity but his claim that the election he triggered by visiting the Governor General on Sunday morning is the “most important since 1945” is self-serving nonsense.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Another Damn Election"

Taliban parade two men through streets with blackened faces and nooses around necks

Sickening images show two men being paraded through an Afghanistan street with their faces tarred black — and being pulled by nooses around their necks.

“Taliban accused these men of theft, their faces were colored with black color — to embarrass them,” tweeted Bilal Sarwary, one of Afghanistan’s leading journalists, who said he was sent the images late last week.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•Afghanistan

JACOBSON: ‘We are witnessing an attempt to create two different sectors in society’

On this week’s episode of the Campus Countdown, Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson discusses the University of Hawaii’s recent decision to ban unvaccinated student athletes from playing sports at the school.

The decision was made by UH’s athletic department after consulting with a university medical committee. A university press release stated that “in addition to health and safety reasons, we want to avoid cancellations of games and practices due to exposures, isolation and quarantine.”

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Education, Fearmongering

China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic

In early 2020, the world missed its chance to stop Covid-19. Insight exposes how Beijing’s ten-year takeover of the global health watchdog sowed the seeds of disaster

After being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation for its response to Sars in 2003, China decided it would not accept such public humiliation again. What followed was a concerted campaign over many years to seize power within the organisation.

A Sunday Times investigation raises serious concerns that the independence and leadership of the WHO were severely compromised by the time the first cases of a mysterious new coronavirus appeared in Wuhan in 2019 — with profound consequences for the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and the world.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?

Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them.

The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost unrecognizable.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•USA

Islamic Religious Authority Anjem Choudary is using encrypted phone app Telegram – favoured by ISIS terrorists – to spread poison online

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary is secretly posting vile messages to his followers on an encrypted smartphone app favoured by Islamic State terrorists, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The extremist imam, who called the 9/11 hijackers ‘magnificent martyrs’ and radicalised the killers of soldier Lee Rigby, is sending messages on the Telegram app after he was banned by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for violating hate-speech rules.

Choudary told his Telegram followers last week that Britain is a ‘police state’ and preached that Muslims are having their freedoms taken away ‘under the guise of counter-terrorism’.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Anjem Choudary, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

China’s Xenophobic Plan to Shut Out the World

On August 11, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and the central government’s State Council issued what the official Xinhua News Agency called “an outline on promoting the building of a rule of law government from 2021 to 2025, on the basis of the successful implementation of a previous 5-year plan.”

The Chinese party-state’s announcement included a promise to enact a series of laws on, among other things, national security, tech innovation, monopolies, education, health and quarantines, food and drugs, and foreigners.

“The announcement,” Reuters stated, “signals that a crackdown on industry with regard to privacy, data management, antitrust, and other issues will persist on through the year.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Feds open formal investigation following Tesla ‘Autopilot’ crashes

The United States government said Monday it’s opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s “Autopilot,” or partially automated driving system, after a series of crashes with parked emergency vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has identified 11 crashes since 2018 in which Teslas on Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control have hit vehicles with flashing lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board or cones warning of hazards.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2021August 16, 2021•0•WTF?