Ashley Rindsberg on the New York Times’ False Narrative

Ashley Rindsberg on the New York Times’ False Narrative

Ashley Rindsberg, author of The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’ Misreporting, Fabrications and Distortions Radically Alter History, spoke to an April 19 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about “how the New York Times gets the Mideast wrong, and why it matters.”

Rindsberg wrote his new book to explain “how false media narratives are created and how they shape the world around us … generally, not for the better.” By “false media narratives,” a term that he prefers to the “highly politicized” phrase “fake news,” Rindsberg is referring to the “promulgation of facts, storylines, and ideas that are designed to suit an ideological or interest-driven agenda of some kind.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York Times

The Psychology of Unrepentant Terrorists

Hashem Abedi – Muslim terrorist

During recent court hearings in the UK, a pair of Islamic terrorists threw temper tantrums and resorted to asinine name-calling. They are Hashem Abedi, who was found guilty of “22 counts of murder, attempted murder and plotting to cause an explosion likely to endanger life over the terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017”; and Ahmed Hassan, “who planted the Parsons Green Tube bomb in September 2017 that injured 51 passengers.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Whatever Happened to QAnon?

Back in February, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her committee roles, despite her expression of “regret” for some of her more extreme views. One of the charges against Rep. Greene is that she has supported QAnon, whose central claim is that there exists an elite whose members exercise political power and who indulge in promiscuity and other corrupt forms of behavior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Publishing is now a Left-wing bubble – A letter filled with hysterical analogies indicates an industry in crisis

There is an interesting site which breaks down American voting trends by occupation. Some of it is mysterious — why should pediatricians swing so overwhelmingly to the Democrats? Why should urology be so dominated by Republicans? Readers may insert their own jokes here.

But some of the voting patterns are far from surprising. No one would expect yoga teaching to be a hotbed of radical right-wing activity, for instance, and yogis do indeed push heavily to the left.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "TERF Wars"

What critical race theory is really about

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it — and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

To explain critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism.

Originally, the Marxist left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Karl Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: The workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class and usher in a new socialist society.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

The Love Song of Bill and Melinda – Is it the end of the Gates Foundation and its tyranny?

After Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleoptra, and Pepé Le Pew and Penelope, there were Bill and Melinda. The Microsoft technocrat and his spouse were a love story for the ages.

In 1993, Bill proposed to Melinda: an executive at his company. In 1994, they were married. In 1995, Melinda debuted Microsoft Bob. Microsoft Bob treated computer users like idiots who were too stupid to be allowed to use their computers without a lot of handholding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

British Jews Blast Guardian Article Listing Its 1917 Support for Creation of Israel Among ‘Worst Errors of Judgment’ in Paper’s History

Leading Jewish groups and Israeli officials were outraged on Friday at the The Guardian listing its past editorial support for the 1917 Balfour declaration — which announced the British government’s support for the establishment of a Jewish state — as one of the paper’s “worst errors in judgement over 200 years” in a bicentennial feature article.

The ugly truth about the Guardian

This liberal paper, celebrating its 200th birthday today, is a bastion of misanthropy, anti-democracy and imperialism.

Guardian editor Katharine Viner celebrates the bicentennial of her paper today with claims that it is the newspaper of Britain’s liberal conscience. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The origin myth circulated from its King’s Place headquarters is that the Guardian began as a part of the democratic resurgence following the slaughter of suffrage protesters at St Peter’s Fields, in Manchester, in 1819. The Manchester Guardian did begin to take advantage of the changes wrought by what came to be known as the Peterloo Massacre, but not in the way that the current editor claims.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Guardian

David Staples: Disturbing link between Canadian myopia and dictator oil grabbing ever more market share

Canadians are getting it wrong on oil and gas production in one self-defeating way — we’re disturbingly myopic.

We see clearly our own failings but we overlook far greater failings of many of our oil and gas competitors. We’re like the handsome teenager who feels like crap and refuses to go to the school dance just because of one pimple on their chin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites

Acclaimed Swedish Hospital Stops Irreversible Hormone Treatment of Minors

Acclaimed Swedish Hospital Stops Irreversible Hormone Treatment of Minors

Karolinska University Hospital listed a plethora of side effects, including infertility, cancer and thrombosis, and emphasised the low evidence of the hormone treatment achieving the desired effect amid doubts about long-term safety.

Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, one of Sweden’s largest medical institutions, is now terminating its controversial irreversible hormone treatments for minors suffering from ‘gender dysphoria’, that is, being born into the ‘wrong sex’, national broadcaster SVT reported.

In its updated guidelines that came into force at the start of May, the acclaimed hospital called these treatments controversial and suggested that they involve risks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Michelle Obama: Black Lives Matter ‘Taking to the Streets Because They Have To‘

Former first lady Michelle Obama said on Friday’s broadcast of “CBS This Morning” that people take to the street in Black Lives Matter protests because they had to.

When former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, former President Barack and Michelle Obama said in a joint statement, “true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Joe Oliver: Will Liberal failures and lapses never end?

Will the Liberal government’s costly blunders and moral lapses never end? In the past few weeks Canadians have been subjected to assaults on their health, economic wellbeing and fundamental values. Yet by skillfully and cynically exploiting the pandemic, shifting blame to the provinces, claiming undeserved credit, never admitting fault and — especially — doling out hundreds of billions of dollars to those in need but also to many who were not, the Liberals have managed, so far, to avoid harsh condemnation from the public or from a largely forgiving media. It is all very remarkable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Has Censorship Become Our Baseline Expectation?

Has Censorship Become Our Baseline Expectation?

For America’s Journalistic Inquisitors–it’s free speech that’s surprising

Want proof that our norms are shifting? Look no further than our headlines: “Amazon won’t stop selling book questioning transgender youth” noted a surprised New York Daily News on Tuesday. “Amazon overrules employees’ calls to stop selling book questioning mainstream treatment for transgender youth,” declared The Seattle Times. “Amazon Refuses to Stop Selling Anti-Trans Book,” reported an apparently disappointed Edge Media. And yesterday’s NBCNews.com: “Amazon will not remove book advocates say endangers transgender youth.”

For every one of these publications, the baseline assumption is censorship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Diversity Over Discovery: Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk.

Diversity Over Discovery: Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk.

President Joe Biden has now taken the push for “diversity” in STEM to a new level. His candidate to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S., is a soil geologist at the University of California, Merced. She has no background in physics, the science of energy, or the energy sector. She has never held a position as a scientific administrator. The typical head of DOE’s Office of Science in the past has had managerial authority in the nation’s major physics labs and has been a physicist himself, Science reports. The new nominee’s only managerial experience consists of serving since 2020 as an interim associate dean of UC Merced’s graduate division.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity"

Iran’s ‘Drug Terrorism’ Against Arabs

While Israel is seeking to dissuade the Biden administration from rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran — currently the subject of indirect negotiations in Vienna — Tehran’s mullahs and their Lebanese Hezbollah terror proxy are busy drowning the Arab countries with drugs.

Last week, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Al-Bukhari, revealed that Saudi authorities recently foiled an attempt to smuggle large quantities of drugs from Lebanon. The smuggled drugs, he said, were “enough to drown the whole Arab world. The drugs were not meant to be distributed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia only, but also in different parts of the Arab world.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence