New cover-up fears as Chinese officials delete critical data about the Wuhan lab with details of 300 studies vanishing – including all those carried out by virologist dubbed Batwoman

It comes after President Xi Jinping last week blocked investigators from the World Health Organization entering the country in a move that drew international condemnation. Meanwhile, state media outlets have published hundreds of stories claiming that the virus did not even originate in the city of Wuhan.

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Survive The Purge, A List Of Popular Uncensored Alternative Media Options

The great news is, there are many amazing options to stay connected to each other and to the news. They aren’t all as evolved as the multi-billion dollar corporations you are used to, but most are competent technically and already have many users. Also, you may find that some of the platforms provide better functionality than the legacy media you are leaving.

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It really does say that…

Thank you all for the kindness you have shown Kathy.

I will not be on the blog for a few more days but Sarcasticat, Osumashi and the rest have kindly answered the call to fill in. There remains a lot to be tended to at home as arrangements are made and loose ends tied.

Kathy will not have an immediate service as currently Covid only allows 10 people to attend an event. I am hoping that one day soon restrictions will be lifted and she can be given a send off that all who wish may attend. Provided you can make it to Hamilton.

I found some photos of Kathy on a CD and have posted a random selection and yes it really does say “Get off my Lawn” on her marker, that’s a mock-up of the finished product below. Oh, that’s supposed to be a cat too.

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We must ‘prosecute’ him: Pelosi given time on ‘60 Minutes’ to kick Trump some more. Big surprise.

In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” set to air Sunday, newly reelected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the prosecution of President Donald Trump once he leaves office.

“Sadly, the person who’s running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States, and only a number of days [remain] until we can be protected from him. But he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him,” she told CBS’s Leslie Stahl.

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Feds looking at declaring Proud Boys a terrorist organization in wake of U.S. rioting

“We’re very mindful of ideologically-motivated violent extremists, including groups like the Proud Boys. They are white supremacists, anti-Semitics, Islamophobic, misogynist groups. They’re all hateful, they’re all dangerous,” Blair said. “We’re working very diligently to ensure that where the evidence is available, where we have the intelligence, that we’ll deal appropriately with those organizations.”

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Column: “The storming of the U.S. Capitol wasn’t about white supremacy, whatever Canadian pundits say”

I know that it’s Jonathan Kay but just read the whole thing:

Canadian political neuroses are never more evident than when some political cataclysm unfolds in the United States, such as Wednesday’s mob assault on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. When news first breaks, the initial response on social media typically presents Canada as the respectable teetotaller living upstairs from a pair of boozy rageaholics having their nightly punch-up. But then, like clockwork, there comes a second wave of commentary, this one insisting that we are, in fact, fully complicit in America’s sins. “As Canadians, we shouldn’t be smug,” read one viral Tweet on Wednesday. “What’s happening in the (United States) could easily happen in Ottawa. White supremacy and white supremacists call Canada home, too.” …

Racism is a real problem in all countries — including Canada and the United States. And it will never be completely eradicated because human brains are wired for tribalism. But as anyone who’s actually bothered to look at U.S. voting data knows, the 2020 election actually featured a welcome narrowing of racial voting differences: Despite his often genuinely racist rhetoric, Trump picked up voter share among non-white voters, as compared with 2016, while losing a large portion of his white base. Moreover, as numerous experts have argued convincingly (including Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who I don’t think has yet been cancelled for white supremacy), the Trump phenomenon maps pretty well onto the areas of the United States that have been decimated by outsourcing, automation, income inequality and downward mobility. These root causes don’t excuse racism or mob violence. But it’s worth noting that they’re exactly the sort of issues that leftists (including those at the Star) once used to care about, before they realized they could earn more hand-clap emojis by tracing every spasm of political discontent to this or that Protocol inscribed by the Elders of Whiteness.

 

What Mr. Kay fails to realise is that Donald Trump is not and never has been a racist in any form sensible people would recognise. Such a slur was used as a cudgel to make him less palatable and we all know it.

Black Americans are not children who need coddling. They voted for Trump for the same reasons any other American would: he was a populist who promised and delivered employment, an issue I’m sure not even Big Tech could de-platform from recent memory.

 

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